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  4. PEARL JAM

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    the lyrics aren't why I like Pearl Jam. It's the way its presented, through the music. I love that feeling of ascendency when listening to songs such as Porch, In My Tree and Given to Fly.

    And I love Stevie Wonder. He is an absolute musical GOD to which very few can compare (admitedly after 76 he wasn't the same). Popularly and critical acclaimed, right across the board. The song 'I Was Made to Love Her' could probably bring me back to life, but he's never been hailed as a lyricist. Most of his words are very cheesy and cliche but you'd have to be seriously f*cked up for that alone to put you off the music.

  5. PEARL JAM

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    I'm afraid Eddie Vedder is one hell of an instinctive lyricist mate.

    He wrote the lyrics to the first four Pearl Jam tracks overnight and came up with the lyrics to the rest of 'Ten' in under a week.

    And what is so wrong with precision anyway?

    Cobain isn't a patch on Vedder at the end of the day either...

  7. PEARL JAM

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    yeah i agree some of vedder's lyrics seem contrived. Overall I'd say he's a good lyricist though, with flashes of brilliance. But I'm not too fussed about lyrics.

    Two words.

    'Yellow Ledbetter'

    pinback - sorry for calling you a bumnugget. I was drunk and it was insensitive of me.

  11. PEARL JAM

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    Johnny Cash is up there with Dylan. Trent Reznor???? Avin a bubble aint ya? Downward Spiral is ok for a while...and the songs The Fragile > Just Like You Imagined are decent, but apart from that he's just an average composer. f**k his words and singing are atrocious. Continuously writes about stuff that is on NO ONE'S mind and in the most souless manner imaginable. Juat f**k off now. Crappidy crap crap crap.

    Cash though.

    Big up the Cash-monster. Respect.

    P.S. Just saw Roger Waters and The Who, so maybe my judgement's clouded :-/

  15. PEARL JAM

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    man, cant stand the foos. Lowest common demoninator music, like Coldplay. That 'Best of You' song is in the same league as Franz Ferdinand's 'Michael' as one of the worst songs of all time. Id take most crappy manufactured pop you can to mention over that song, any day of the week. Their first couple of albums have the odd moment though...and Everlong's good. But the rest *shudder*.

    This is the sort of setlist I'd like the almighty Pearl Jam to play at Reading -

    Wasted Reprise

    Life Wasted

    Worldwide Suicide

    Evenflow

    Animal

    Given to Fly

    Grievance

    Do The Evolution

    In My Tree

    MFC

    Low Light

    In Hiding

    Corduroy

    Better Man

    Alone

    Black

    Immortality

    Rearviewmirror

    Baba O'Riley

    Yellow Ledbetter

    Mainly greatest hits, for the benefit of those not too familiar. I'm hoping for the likes of Leash, Undone and Parting Ways in Dublin though :-)

  16. PEARL JAM

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    By original version of In My Tree do you mean the album version or the version with less singing during the chorus? Or is there another version?

    Low Light>In Hiding would be AWESOME. They played Low Light during sunset at the Gorge apparently, so maybe they'll pull it out at the same time for Reading.

    I'd like:

    RVM

    Porch (Slow intro version)

    Indifference

    Insignificance (Best song at the Astoria by far)

    Nothingman!

    In My Tree

    Army Reserve

    Low Light

    In Hiding

    Hopefully between the Dublin show and Reading they'll play most of those. Anyone else going to the Dublin show?

  17. PEARL JAM

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    Yep. Open with Release or Long Road for me. End it with Ledbetter. I want F*ckin Up in there. I want some TOTD coverage, I want lots of Vitalogy and lots of Yield. I want Undone. I want Alone. I want MFC>Low Light>In Hiding. I want the Save it for Later tag, on Betterman is it? I want the Its Ok tag on Daughter. I want In My Tree (original version thanks), I want the almighty Grievance...and of course, I want Black. And I want him to mean it more than he ever has...maybe break down in tears and have to stop the song because of it.

    Here's hopin!

  19. PEARL JAM

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    Funeral is a masterpiece. It'll be regularly referred back to as such in 20-30 years time.

    I really like My Bloody Valentine. Loveless is a beautiful piece of work.

    TOOL, meh. I liked them when I was about 17. And Snow Patrol have the odd decent tune, (Run, especially for a festival). I like his voice, but I wouldn't dream of buying an album.

  21. PEARL JAM

    in Reading & Leeds Festivals

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    what about those mexicans? 60,000 lighters flicking on and off to the beat.

    05.06.06 Fleamail May 6, 2006

    Date: Saturday, May 6

    Subject:

    From: "Michael Balzary"

    To: members@redhotchilipeppers.com

    so we have been here in new york for a few days

    i have been lying pretty low

    just tooling around a little bit

    i went to see pearl jam last night

    and they were great

    it makes me so happy to see our contemporaries

    after several years have rolled by

    rocking better than ever

    they continue to write good songs

    they hit it hard and raw

    and the sound of eddie vedder's voice fills me up with hope .........

    Never been a massive Chili Peppers fan but muchos respect to Flea :-)

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