re: Thoughts on Pearl Jam

Black is good. Didn't he botch a couple of lines though?

The last thee lines of Black are just crushing...


I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be mine...

Yep, it was the summer after graduating high school when I bought that album and heard the song. I had just found out that my best friend(girl) had feelings for me more than friendship but never told me. I had those same feelings, but was scared to tell her in fear of losing a friend. When I found out, it was a week before she was leaving for college in another state. Saw her that Thanksgiving and she already had a damn boyfriend, while I had spent my entire semester obsessing over her.

Black is AMAZING.

And all for a song that never really got airtime. It did after alternative music became a thing, but it was never a single or a charted song to my knowledge.

It is a cliche song now. So sometimes I turn the channel, but if I'm in the right mood I listen. And I am instantly 20 again and the girl I wanted at that time is just out of reach.

We Pearl Jam fans are so lucky (and it was just luck) that this band was the one to come out of the 90's and hold it together and not die. Literally and figuratively. I'm not from Seattle so we were never really there from the beginning, but we got in on the ground floor of something that is huge. Like Zepplin if Bonham doesn't die and they just go away for a little while and came back. Perfect storm. Like the Beatles if Lennon doesn't get shot and they put aside differences and toured again. It would have been huge.

We get to see it. My old assed favorite band of my life still tours, and it's not casino circuit either. Which is good and bad. Love to see PJ at a Coushatta sized venue.

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Nah, we're still in touch on Facebook, though I haven't seen her 10 or 15 years. She definitely never thinks of me. She was always way out of my league

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I am just messing with you. I know the feeling of what might have been?.

Some spot on analysis in this thread. All of these questions were ones I talked about a lot and I really appreciate the insight that has been talked about.

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I think Pearl Jam was better than Nirvana obviously in a musical sense

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Here's the deal that I don't think a lot of people get - they were fundamentally totally different bands - the general public just thinks of them as of the same genre (grunge) because they got heaped under that popular label by virtue of being from the same place at the same time.

Pearl Jam is (or was originally, when they became mega-famous) a ROCK band. They would have been successful in any era where a really good rock band could have shined.

Nirvana was a punk band from a scene made up of unsuccessful punk bands that I, and most people, find to be basically unlistenable garbage, but (like Rancid, another punk band (from a different scene with a different sound)) Nirvana was able to infuse musicality into the otherwise discordant sound of their scene and wrote hooks that were catchy as hell.