On a tangent, I really like Temple of the Dog.I've always wanted more Mother Love Bone. Apple is one of my favourite albums.
RIP Andrew Wood.
Pearl Jam
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Great band. There one band I haven't listened to in a long while.
On a tangent, I really like Temple of the Dog.I've always wanted more Mother Love Bone. Apple is one of my favourite albums.
I do too. Unfortunately, I was listening to them when I got hit by another car, so I have conflicting memories.
I love Pearl Jam. Absolutely adore them, in fact. After Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam is my all-time favorite band. Their songs are great, and I love the grunge feel to them. Ten is the best album, I think...but they have had alot of great songs since then as well.
And Eddie Vedder is by far the best grunge singer out there. He is perfect (not to mention being exceedingly hot). I would have Eddie Vedder's love child in a hearbeat.
BABY! 
And Eddie Vedder is by far the best grunge singer out there. He is perfect (not to mention being exceedingly hot). I would have Eddie Vedder's love child in a hearbeat.
BABY!
This is frakkin' AWESOME!!!!
Is that a real song? Who does that? Weird Al or somebody like that?In any case, best laugh I've had today.
And yes...you guys can have Alanis. She's cool too!
This is frakkin' AWESOME!!!!
In any case, best laugh I've had today.
Yep, Weird Al. Glad you liked it
^ Yeah...I'm going to look it up on YouTube right now. 
My favorite part:
Now, every time I see him, well, he looks so grim
I guess it really must suck to be a rock star like him
What a pain in the butt to have so much success
Spending all his time moping and avoiding the press
But my girl can't get enough of his sullen demeanor
Like he's some big tortured genius and I'm some kinda wiener
I mean, because what guy wouldn't look like a wiener next to *sigh* Eddie Vedder???
All that brooding artistic angst in one place (and in one voice!) is impossible to resist!
The guy is a Grade A chick magnet!
My favorite part:
Now, every time I see him, well, he looks so grim
I guess it really must suck to be a rock star like him
What a pain in the butt to have so much success
Spending all his time moping and avoiding the press
But my girl can't get enough of his sullen demeanor
Like he's some big tortured genius and I'm some kinda wiener
I mean, because what guy wouldn't look like a wiener next to *sigh* Eddie Vedder???
All that brooding artistic angst in one place (and in one voice!) is impossible to resist!
The guy is a Grade A chick magnet!
"Alive" is one of my favorite songs.
I think it was on VH1's Behind The Music, that Eddie Vedder said something really remarkable about that song. He said (and I'm clearly paraphrasing because I saw this at least a year ago) that when he wrote it, he wrote the verse "I'm still alive" as a if it were a sort of curse. But as he toured the country and sang it to crowds, he heard them singing the verse like a triumph, and slowly that changed the way he himself saw it. It was a really touching thing to watch -- almost made me cry.
That's cool.
God...it's been 17 years, and still that curse is raised.
Pearl Jam is a rock n' roll band, straight and simple. Anyone who raises the term "grunge" should have a pox put on them.
Wow, that's a great story.
T'Baio, I agree that Pearl Jam didn't play grunge music (although it's hard to say what grunge music is, since Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, etc, all had different sounds to them). But they did personify grunge in their reluctance to be mainstream stars (and, yeah, flannel shirts and stuff like that
).
If you can find the video it's worth watching. He puts it more passionately and eloquently than I paraphrased.
I'd have to respectfully disagree and say that Pearl Jam are definitely a grunge band. I did a report on grunge music for 6th grade, including diagrams, ticket stubs, and specimens!T'Baio, I agree that Pearl Jam didn't play grunge music (although it's hard to say what grunge music is, since Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, etc, all had different sounds to them). But they did personify grunge in their reluctance to be mainstream stars (and, yeah, flannel shirts and stuff like that
Taking the Seattle grunge bands active from '84 to the early '90's you get (therefor active in the development of the sound and scene):
The Melvins
The Green River Band
Mudhoney
Mother Love Bone
Fecal Matter
Temple of the Dog
Nirvana
Soundgarden
The Screaming Trees
and
Pearl Jam
All these bands were part of the development of the grunge sound and movement (and at least in Seattle it was definitely a movement), and they all shared members with one another at different points in their pasts. Pearl Jam, having evolved from The Green River Band, Mother Love Bone, and Temple of the Dog, most certainly falls within the grunge genre and history.
I'll definitely agree with Green River being grunge. Honestly, I love Pearl Jam and I love the history of the Seattle scene in that time period, so I'm not really going to argue. They had the most commercial sound of any band to be called grunge, so I can understand the argument that their musical style wasn't grunge. But I think it's possible to be a grunge band without sounding exactly like other grunge bands. They were definitely part of the grunge movement (I was trying to distinguish between being a grunge band and having a grunge sound, but maybe I'm just trying to split hairs and somewhat agree with everyone ).
).
^I can see where you're coming from. After all, a lot of post-grunge bands did have the grunge sound but were not part of the movement or scene.
A lot of them shamelessly ripped off grunge bands (Gavin Rossdale couldn't have ripped off Kurt Cobain more if he had tried). Personally, I'd rather have a band part of a certain music scene that to sound like a great band from that scene (plus, it's always great when that band is as kickass as Pearl Jam).
This thread has inspired me to listen to Ten again. I can't remember the last time I've listened to it all the way through.
This thread has inspired me to listen to Ten again. I can't remember the last time I've listened to it all the way through.
Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? First of all, grunge was a term Mark Arm from Mudhoney first used in the early 80's to describe how shitty his band at the time sounded, and he has cursed himself ever since for coining the term. Secondly, you're telling me that Mudhoney and Pearl Jam, or Temple of the Dog and Nirvana or The Melvins and The Screaming Trees sound anything even remotely alike!?! That's like saying The Rolling Stones and The Ramones are in the same genre of music.
It was true then and it is true now...grunge was a word that was co-opted to make a new genre of music that would sound cool and sell to the stupid kids.
As if Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam are even remotely similar. Oh, wait...they're both from Seattle!
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