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Pearl Jam songs make me nauseous

#21
edgewise said:
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I wanna leave Bennigan’s.

I think we all have bands that get under our skin. I hate a lot of bands that influenced bands I love. I also like a lot of bands that annoy others.

I had to record a cover of a song I hated for an album an old band was working on. Honestly, I think it might be one of my favorite tracks on that album when I listen back.
 
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I love most anything 90’s alt/grunge including PJ. IMHO those guys are some of the best musicians of any genre in that time frame, especially Jeff Ament and whoever the drummer du jour was. But my favorite 90’s jam is all of the alt rock one hit wonders- man that’s some awesomeness!
 
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salmon256 said:
I can't stand and dislike LZ... but at the same time I don't like to insult anyone's taste. A lot of users on here obv love and praise LZ - me eh I rather some old true Blues.

I also can't stand new country/suburban country basically fake farm music... again I don't wanna insult it if people enjoy power to them as long as they are not being jerks about it.

I will say - Grunge was one of my favs but honestly it has lost its flare for me because at the end of the day it isn't "obscure" anymore. My generation will discover Nirvana at 17 and act like they are some kind of musical genius and it hurts my head. Grunge was a marketing strategy at the end of the day.
Though I have learnt to enjoy music and separate the fans, the ideas, the vocal minority etc.

If you feel it - I would not be afraid to go to your group and tell them you aren't a fan of the song. I want to tell you I took a class I hated. Not because of the content but because of the students it was the worse, braindead morons living in an echo-chamber. To this day I wish I just went into History a topic I was passionate about - so go to your members respectfully and if y'all disagree maybe tried to prove it isn't a success and have a laugh about it.

Either way friend - things are hard for us to believe until we see it at least for me - probably my OCD/GAD but there is technique that helps me which is just challenging and using basic ideas. A lot of people heard of Pearl Jam, a lot of people are on this planet - I'm sure many feel like you.
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why you poopin’ on L7?
 
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Calexia13 said:
why you poopin’ on L7?
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Led Zeppelin

Not L7 - I kind of like them for the most part, one of their songs was on GTA 4.

But also kind of proves my point - if that is what I think who cares. You can like who you want - I'm not gonna insult your musical choice. You can dislike my - I like my stuff Rockabilly, old blues, hill country blues, old country, Chinese Pop, etc most people probably won't dig that at a glance but that is me.
 
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As someone who lived in Seattle through all of that, and knew some of those people (not naming anyone here), I found most of it pretty lame after a while. This was not relieved by the self-referential irony of it's promoters (e.g. "Lamefest").
I think that each of those bands had a few good songs, some in fact very good, but the phenomenon got old almost immediately.
People flooding in from suburbs all across the country, wearing flannel shirts wrapped around their waists and wearing Doc Martens.
It was like an invasion of clones.
I knew the guy who invented the term grunge, I kept wanting to say to them "Don't you guys get it, this all a marketing strategy?"
There was a whole lot of music around at that time that was a lot better.
All that said, Cobain's work still stands up. HE was a great songwriter and artist.
And Gary Lee Conner, the surviving member of Screaming Trees is doing some pretty good psych-garage, if you like that kind of thing.

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To the actual question: I did like some of the Pearl Jam songs, and some by most of the bands that fall into that Seattle music phenomenon at that time. And some those songs, initially, quite a lot. I think I just got sick of all the stuff around it.
But the decade before that, in Olympia and Seattle was actually a lot more interesting, very wide-ranging and open, the 80s in general had a lot more ferment. And I always compared the 90s stuff to what it supplanted.
-But tastes are just that, tastes.
 
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My musical taste runs a wide range, I like anything that is played well. Most grunge is not "played well." That said, PJ's original rendition of "Black" is a classic that still gets me going, even though I cannot understand half the lyrics without a lyric sheet in front of me. Rest of their stuff does nothing for me.

I do not think of grunge as alternative rock. It's grunge. 3 or 4 chords, played badly, in many cases. There are of course always exceptions.

Gin Blossoms knew how to play their instruments, and I guess some considered them grunge? And then there was Sponge, which wasn't overly complex but could lay it out pretty well. "Plowed" still one of my favorites. Singer knew what he was doing.

So whatever floats your boat, have at it. If it sounds good to you, I guess it's good for you?
 
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Pearl Jam doesn't make me nauseous, and I've played a few of their songs, and one of Eddie Vedder's solo songs, with a band that I'm currently in.
In general, I find their music kind of whiny and monotonous. Two bands from that era who I prefer are Stone Temple Pilots and Collective Soul, because the songcraft is tighter. But I know that real grunge purists would probably call them "hard rock" or even "pop" instead of "grunge."
Kurt Cobain was a brilliant writer, however, and a genuine artist.
Just my opinions, of course!
 
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I feel like this is a troll-bait thread, but heck I'll bite...

Hell yeah I LOVE Pearl Jam! Iconic band! Ten (their debut album with "Alive," "Evenflow," "Black," "Jeremy") is an absolute classic album that rocks from beginning to end!

And outside of the music, they had the guts to try and take on TicketMaster and those monopolies. So mad respect!

Oh, and they always put on a really good live show.

So, yeah, viva la Pearl Jam! 90s rock was amazing! And Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament is a damn good bassist with some really fun parts to play. "Evenflow" is super fun to play on bass. Especially during that break when that bass groove takes front and center, you can REALLY have fun with that adding your own stank to it! Definitely a fantastic song for the bassist to shine on because they get a little spotlight.

Enjoy playing Pearl Jam! Great band, great songs, fun bass parts, band has excellent taste wanting to put Pearl Jam on the setlist! One could argue that there are "better" bands of that era, but Pearl Jam is such an iconic band, people know their songs, so songs like "Evenflow" are definite crowd-pleasers.

I say embrace "Evenflow" on the setlist, play the daylights out of that song, and own the stage like a rock star during that break section with the bass groove up front! Get that crowd going, yeah!
 
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