🖤 🎸 Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (New Single 2024) : "Dark Matter‘s lead single and title track does indeed feel like a return to Pearl Jam’s classic ’90s grungy hard rock vibes."

atzanteol, 4 months ago

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think that sounds very “90s grunge”.

stbc, 4 months ago

@atzanteol @caos I like the song. But I have to listen to it more often. I always find the comparison with the 90s PJ inappropriate, it's a band with an incredible evolution since then. I'd hate it if it still sounded the same. It wouldn't work, considering everything #PearlJam have experienced and lived since then.

Johannab, 4 months ago

@stbc thank you for saying that!

I’ve avoided PJ fans online for years because of all the insistence on everything equating to Ten, or nothing measuring up. I don’t fit the factions.

Ten was awesome and I still love it. Also love how evolved and relevant Gigaton was. Everything in between - They’ve never put out a record I didn’t like as a whole record, though I might find one track or another reaches me a bit more (and which tracks can be a mood thing). Very few artists like that, for me.

atzanteol, 4 months ago

I’ve avoided PJ fans online for years because of all the insistence on everything equating to Ten, or nothing measuring up. I don’t fit the factions.

In my defense I was not criticizing the song. I was responding to the quote in the title about this sounding like a return to their “90s grungy” sound.

Johannab, 4 months ago

@atzanteol Oh, sorry - I DID understand that! Was just continuing the dialogue.

I’m an “invisible” fan who’s been nuts for the music since … uh, well, since Temple of the Dog? Which would have been when when (most of) PJ was first heard on alt-rock radio in my University town. Ten was the soundtrack to my 2nd year.

I’ve only paid attention to “fan” stuff since the pandemic, though and find it kinda funny to read a 30 year old “music journalist” either crowing or complaining about “grunge”.

stbc, 4 months ago

@Johannab True.

They have not only transformed themselves from a role model for the misunderstood youth of the 90s, but have also created their own hype and survived it as individuals and as a band. I don't even want to talk about tragic events like the one in Roskilde.

@caos

atzanteol, 4 months ago

Oh I’m not saying it’s bad because it doesn’t sound like their old stuff. I’m just disageeing with the article’s description. I’d expect them to have changed over the years.

Dkarma, 4 months ago

Neil young ruined Eddy vedder. The way he sings now just sucks.