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Narr:
Pearl Jam is one of my favorite bands, as well.  I was an accidental grunge child, sitting in my room trying to listen to Beethoven and Bach while my brother listened to Soundgarden and Pearl Jam at incredibly high volumes.  Then I developed a sense for, you know, contemporary music, and found out that I really liked those bands after all.  Weird how that works.

As for their new album, I hadn't even heard about it.  I never listen to the radio, and even if I did, the only station I get out here is some crappy country station.

I have to nominate "rearviewmirror" as possibly the best "Best Of" compliation of any band, ever made.  I like pretty much every song on both CDs.

Gryff:
I dig No Code best of all. 'Smile' is a great song, so ragged and harmonica'd. Pearl Jam are a band that I used to love, and who will always have a place in my heart, but who I don't listen to that much anymore. Maybe I've heard their songs too much on "classic rock" radio.

I haven't heard the new album but my expectations are low.

tetsuotheironboy:
gotta love pearl jam, not as huge over here in the UK though or at least thats how it seems. Unluckily i got into them around the age of 16 shortly after they'd toured the UK to promote Binaural. I did alot of that sort of thing at the time, becoming obsessed with the smashing pumpkins a couple of weeks after their farewell tour, missing out on Leeds Festival 2000 when rage against the machine were my favourite band and that gig turning out to be their last ever UK live performance. D'oh! Still hoping to see pearl jam live someday, favourite album has to be vs. Dissident, Go, Rearviewmirror and Daughter kick serious anthemic-rock ass.

dancarter:
Misty watercoloured memories, ah...Pearl Jam.  I was, and this is seriously dating me, fifteen when Ten was released.  That whole "scene" was ridiculously important at the time.  
Of course, these things don't last....  Plaids and docks gave way to more sensible boots and blacks.  Given that, Pearl Jam are a good rock band and a great live band.  The got me offa the Bon Jovi, which would in turn, lead in a round about way to the NIN and Skinny Puppy thing to now, with more all over the place tastes.
I've heard most of the new album.  It's allright.  It's Pearl Jam.  They stay the course for the most part and do it very well.

Outshined:
My general opinion is that Pearl Jam started out really great, and then somewhere along the line lost that passon and energy.  The modern albums, to me at least, sound like hollow, apathetic echoes of their previous efforts.

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