Thanks to everyone for your feedback on my 1st blog via facebook, blogger, verbally and text (preferably if you kept to the format of the former couplet as I have the memory of a goldfish). It’s all greatly appreciated and I will strive to make SOSNSBSB a weekly feature after positive comments!
Anyway, enough of the praise and more of the songs (see what I did there?)...
Pearl Jam Celebrate 20 years since the release of there debut album with a year long celebration and have announced a spring repackaged rereleases of both Vitalogy and Vs. aswell (for more details check out their official website http://pearljam.com/news/happy-pj20-ten-club) and a strong fan forum rumour/ US radio leak that they are to headline there own Californian based festival to mark the year...and I say why not?
Over the years the Seattle based PJ sound has evolved from pioneers of the grunge movement through to a more melodic heavily lyric driven acoustic sound, I was lucky enough to see them myself four years ago and I was blown away that they can still rock out even into their 40s! As one my personal favourite bands of all time I thought I would take the opportunity to refresh the memory with five ‘stand out’ pearl jam related tracks
Temple of the Dog...
Pre Pearl Jam a band was formed as a tribute to the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone. The line-up included Stone Goasard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ament on bass guitar (both ex-members of Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready on lead guitar, Matt Cameron on drums and Eddie Vedder providing lead and backing vocals. Who later went on to form Pearl Jam with Dave Krusen on drums for the debut album. Also and most obviousy Chris Cornell, lead singer of the simply amazing Soundgarden and later a collaborative project with the members of Rage Against the machine Tom, Timmy C and Brad minus vocalist Zach known Audioslave (who after an awesome self titled debut album, inevitably faded out into an average 2nd and lame 3rd album with only a few decent tracks on either). Anyway, Enjoy...
Ten...
There isnt much than needs to be said about Pearl Jam's debut album other than it is and always will my personal favourite album and single handedly set alight to the grunge scene on a global scale. To pick a track would be impossible as it is it perfect as a piece of music...Once, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, Porch, Garden, Deep and Release all breathtaking displaying both passion and heart. It was however this song that first made me fall in love with the band so I will always hold it in highest esteem...
Vs...
Again, this is personal preference but rearviewmirror is my favourite Pearl Jam track has to be Rearviewmirror taken fromVs. This album was a rawer and more aggressive sound compared to Ten. The band decided to scale back its commercial efforts to include declining to produce music videos for any of the album’s singles. Upon its release, Vs. set the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week, a record it held for five years and held US number one for five weeks
Upon hearing Hard Sun for first time I was absolutely blown away. A cover of a 1989 song by Gordon Peterson it forms the stand out track from the 2007 movie ‘Into the Wild’ soundtrack. The movies Director, Sean Penn hand-picked Pearl Jam lead singer Vedder to provide the music for the entire film. The song emcompases everything about the movie's plotline following a graduate rejecting the materialist, conventional life and its trappings of traditional lifestyle, utterly brilliant. A must watch and a must listen...
It would be impossible to ignore the other Pearl Jam albums inbetween noteably Vitalogy, Yield, Binaurel and Riot Act as they are all amazing in their own right. However, for me, the bands 9th studio album, Backspacer is a return to the utterly brilliant PJ sound. The track I have chosen 'gonna see my friend' is the first track on the album and sets the bar from the off...
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