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Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $12.98
Audio CD - 02 May, 2006
J-Records
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Number of Media: 1
CD Tracks:
Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Parachutes
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Wasted Reprise
Army Reserve
Come Back
Inside Job
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| Audio CD Description If its debut album 15 years ago made Pearl Jam apprehensive with success, the Seattle quintet better buckle in for a return to eminence. On its eighth studio release--and first since 2000--the band socks away the adventurous experimentation that dogged some of its most recent records to investigate a post-September 11, war-ravaged world overflowing with urgency and significance. "It's the same everyday in a hell manmade/What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?" lead singer Eddie Vedder wonders in "World Wide Suicide," one of several contemptuous rants on the Bush administration. Yet the album's spark is more than political. Songs like "Life Wasted," "Comatose" and "Big Wave" embrace the garage-rock past, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard play off each other with the primal lucidity of a decade ago and drummer Matt Cameron, one of rock's best, adds raw backing vocals to Vedder's polished craft. But Pearl Jam also turns up some of its most harmonious works since "Daughter," including "Marker in the Sand," with its radio-ready chorus, the tuneful "Parachutes" paced by Gossard's divine strumming, and the burning narrative and Urge Overkill punch of "Umemployable." Finally Vedder pleads for a lover's return in "Come Back," a keyboard-soaked love song complete with a chilling Gossard solo. It's got a soulfulness that begs for Sam Cooke to sing it and an originality that shows that a vibrant and cocksure Pearl Jam is back in town--and ready to retake the world. |
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Sucked in once again I own every Pearl Jam album. I was always blown away by the passion of their earlier work, but the CDs in later years were passionless. Each time a new CD was released, reviewers would praise the latest CD, but each work became weaker and weaker, although each had a few bright spots. Although, Riot Act was dismissal from beginning to end. I read reviews of the latest work which said the old Pearl Jam is back. They said the band had the passion and hooks from the earlier days. They are wrong. Although Pearl Jam is still better than most "mainstream" bands on the radio, this work is still very disappointing. They have tried to regain their passion, but it sounds and feels forced. It is evident that they are angry about the state of America and the world, but they no longer know how to express that anger in their music.
IT ROCKS .. It's That Simple Sometimes you do not need big long explanations to advise people on the greatness of a new album, sometimes it is as simple as saying "it ROCKS!" Pearl Jam's new self-titled record, ROCKS!
Nice return to form Pearl Jam has been my favorite back since high school, but admittedly I started losing interest with their two consecutive mediocre albums (Riot Act, Binuaral). I wasn't sure that they had a good album in them anymore, but luckily this new CD has provem me wrong. My favorites so far are Unemployable, Big Waive, Inside Job, and Marker in the Sand. The only negative I can think of is the album doesn't have a "classic" PJ song (there is no Rearview Mirror, Alive, Jeremy, Better Man, Corduroy, etc), but either way, after all this time, it is great to see PJ relevant again and I can't wait to catch them live this year. |
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