Pearl Jam Apprecication

[Atelier]

Which of you forumites love Pearl Jam?

[Atelier]

Moi

[Retro Wolf]

3 o clock in the morning?! Random thread?! You've been drink AGSing again!!

[dactylopus]

I absolutely do.

[Eric]

14 year old me thought they were the absolute best.

[Stupot]

Good band, but I was never that into them really. Somehow there was always just something else I'd rather have listened to.

[Adeel]

I love it when you create threads like these.

[Babar]

I liked Black and I Am Mine?

[Gurok]

I love Alive. That is my favourite jam blasted out when I walk past a construction site.

[Atelier]

Always nice to stumble across posts you have a vague recollection of writing.

Notwithstanding, Pearl Jam is the bomb. Has anybody ever seen them live? I hear they're great live, deffo on my to-see list.

[Darth Mandarb]

Gonna really show my age here... but in early 1991, when I was 15, I got a bootleg copy of Ten before it was available to the public (I don't know how my friend, who gave it me, got it but I didn't ask. I was a pirate way back then too!!).  I had no idea they'd become so popular, I just loved the music/lyrics/style.  It was a new type of music at the time.

I had it on **cough cough** cassette tape **cough**.  I listened to it so much that the tape actually broke.  My parents thought my Walkman (yes, walkman) headphones had become a part of my ears because I seriously listened to this album around the clock (even while sleeping).

It was the first time the music "spoke" to me and actually changed my life (at that influential age).

I didn't love most of their stuff after that album (didn't hate it) but I think I was so in love with Ten that any follow-up just felt like an imitation.  Don't know.

[Haggis]

Next month... Milton Keynes Bowl... can't wait. Seeing as Soundgarden are touring at the same time hoping for a Temple of the Dog reunion but expect it may be too much to ask.

Managed to see Soundgarden 2 years ago, decided it was best to see as many of my favourite bands as I could if the opportunity arose before they disband (in Soundgarden's case again).

[Ponch]

"Even Flow" is still in my morning workout music mix to this very day.

[kaput]

Do the evolution, baby.

[Ryan Timothy B]

You can't appreciate Pearl Jam until you learn to have apprecication for them.

[Fitz]

Do the evolution, baby.

This! One of the best, craziest, most intelligent songs of the era, and quite possibly the best animated video ever.

[Anian]

Meh, they're okay, songs are a bit samey though. There's a greatest hits album to be made of their stuff, but other than that not much love from me. I was a bit too young when they were in their "prime" and I missed the whole grunge movement almost all together so they didn't really affect me much.

This! One of the best, craziest, most intelligent songs of the era, and quite possibly the best animated video ever.

I loved the whole Heavy Metal vibe it had mixed with Warner animation style and Mignola atmosphere. I think McFarlane (Spawn creator) had something with it.

[miguel]

I was a teen as well when Ten came out. Back then you were a Nirvana guy or a Pearl Jam dude and I had to chose the first for social reasons. But always followed Pearl Jam in secret.
Can't say they are on my top 20 favourite bands but I do like when they go Americana. It's their habitat if you ask me.

[Grim]

Pearl Jam changed my life. I started playing rock music because of them with a band called... Harvester;) We even made a cover of Nothing As It Seems!

[bgordebak]

I was a huge fan of them when I was a teenager. I loved Ten, Vs and Vitalogy. But after Vitalogy I lost interest in them, or simply started listening to music less. I listened to No Code and Yield too, but somehow couldn't find the same old taste.

I should give it another go some of these days.