PEARL JAM

[pee2pee]

Well, may as well go from one notorious character to another...

[thomasowen]

Pete Doherty is the best British lyricist of the last 20 years.

[Ølivavu]

Pete Doherty is the best British lyricist of the last 20 years.

[ilovemaiden]

Pete Doherty is the best British lyricist of the last 20 years.

[Ølivavu]

Lol, that is gash to be fair.. It is a good question as to who is though...

[ilovemaiden]

I'll throw Steve Harris in there, but I am biased as f**k..

[thomasowen]

I'd say that's absolute bollocks. But you already knew that

[dakyras]

I seriously believe he is, well his libertine stuff, his babyshambles / solo stuff is pretty rubbish because hes so wasted and only ever writes about himself, but when he was younger he was easily the best this country has seens since the early 90's. When he was a teenager he was mainly a poet and was considered to be Britain most talented young poet, he represented Britain at world competitions. Unfortunatley drugs ruined it for him.

Just look at these lyrics from ONE song...

'did you see the stylish kids on the riot'

'Tell me what can you want now you've got it all

The whole scene is obscene

Time will strip it away'

'Well the stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down

It's these ignorant faces that bring this town down

And I sighed and sunken with pride

I passed myself down on my knees'

'There are fewer more distressing sights than that

Of an Englishman in a baseball cap

And we'll die in the class we were born

But that's a class of our own my love'

[Ølivavu]

He's no Frank Turner, is he?

[thomasowen]

He's no Frank Turner, is he?

[Ølivavu]

Seriously? Hes a world above Turner.

Even if his lyrics aren't your cup of tea, you can't say he is void of talen, otherwise he wouldn't have got all A's at a level, he wouldn't have represented Britain for poetry in competitions, he wouldn't have got into a top university to study English Lit and he wouldn't have such a huge following of fans.

[thomasowen]

It depends on where your threshold is for the beginning of talent and the end of ability.

[Ølivavu]

Dont get me wrong, hes shot away his talents, but the first two libertines albums features some brilliant lines.

[pete76]

Oasis really are finished now...they've run out of ideas (not that they had many in the first place) and just sound completely void.

If you dig, then enjoy...I don't have to go with you (fortunately)!

[dakyras]

Seriously? Hes a world above Turner.

[thomasowen]

You get the sense that Doherty's lyrics were written to fit into a catchy melody. They're pathetic sound-bites.

Edited January 31, 2009 by thomasowen

[worm]

Pearl Jam are great though, eh?

[thomasowen]

Pearl Jam are great though, eh?

[pete76]

pj are without any doubts one of top5 bands in the world at the moment

[worm]

pj are without any doubts one of top5 bands in the world at the moment

[fantomas]

New album in the works...

Pearl Jam is about to hit the studio for a two-week session in Los Angeles with producer Brendan O'Brien as it continues work on its ninth studio album, which the band plans to self-release in the United States.

After laying down some instrumental beds last summer, additional demos were put to tape in December, and the band's non-singing members formulated another batch of material during a recent trip to Montana.

Frontman Eddie Vedder "put rough vocals on about half the stuff we worked on in December," bassist Jeff Ament tells Billboard.com. "There's a handful of really great lyrics. Lyrically, that stuff is in the embryonic stage, but there's a handful of lines and a couple of choruses that are just really great. He keeps getting better."

"I saw [guitarist] Mike [McCready] last night and we were both talking about this song and that song," he continues. "One of the songs we decided would go down a whole step and he was asking me about a chord progression."

This will be the first time Pearl Jam has spent significant time recording outside Seattle since 1996's "No Code," some of which was tracked with O'Brien in Chicago and New Orleans between touring. The band is confident the new album will be out in 2009.

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"There's certainly been groups of songs that we've recorded very quickly," Ament says. "When we went to Atlanta and New Orleans, we could knock out two, three, four songs in the same amount of days. We did the same thing in Chicago. I'm kind of approaching it with the idea that it'll work out like those sessions did."

Ament says the band is very excited about the return of O'Brien, who hasn't worked on a full Pearl Jam album since 1998's "Yield" but has recently overseen a complete remixing of the band's 1991 debut, "Ten," which will be reissued March 24 on Epic/Legacy.

"He brings a brutally honest approach to what he thinks is working and what isn't, and it really moves things along," he says. We don't get waded down with ideas that maybe aren't even that good. He's one of the few people outside of the band that we trust with our music, and we're really, really looking forward to making this record."

The new album will be the follow-up to Pearl Jam's self-titled 2006 release for J Records, which has sold 704,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

[worm]

New album in the works...

[eFestivals]

pj are without any doubts one of top5 bands in the world at the moment

yep, and even better with Duncan.

* gets coat.

[pinback]

pj are without any doubts one of top5 bands in the world at the moment

[fantomas]

Aye, cool.

Fancy getting the re-issue of Ten. The American releases look classy.