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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: pilsner on 20 Aug 2007, 10:40
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Have you heard Eddie Vedder and Corin Tucker harmonizing on the Into the Wild soundtrack? If you haven't, you should probably give it a whirl (http://www.intothewild.com/itw_music/itw_song_7.mp3). The song is pretty unremarkable and Corin doesn't get any solo parts, but it's still nice to hear her voice.
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Theres a big post about this on a Pearl Jam board that I am on. Everybody is all orgasmic over it.
Also, my mom(who is a big Peal Jam freak) says that Corin is pretty cute, and she thinks she and Eddie should hook up.
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Why Eddie Vedder is/was in love with Sleater-Kinney. I think they are even on parts of one of the dvds.
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I saw S-K on their tour supporting PJ, they were great! Can't comment on Pearl Jam because i left, but i guess i can't blame eddie vedder for liking a great band.
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The Corporate and Independent worlds are seperated for many reasons. When they start to intermingle, the results are generally nauseating.
Wha? TVOTR signed to Interscope, The Decemberists signed to Capitol, Madeleine Peyroux signed to Atlantic, Modest Mouse signed to Epic, and all their latest albums have been among their strongest. The Corporate and Independent worlds are not separate. The two separate worlds are Music I Like and Music I Don't.
Incidentally, I only hate two things about Pearl Jam. Their music and Mike McCready.
Brilliant.
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By the same token, once Corin Tucker harmonized with Eddie Vedder on a movie soundtrack, she became part of the Corporate world. Which seems somewhat arbitrary to me, especially since she will in all likelihood go back to a non-big-label project in the near future.
So Corin's doing soundtracks, Janet Weiss is drumming for the Jicks -- anyone know what Carrie is up to?
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The Corporate and Independent worlds are seperated for many reasons. When they start to intermingle, the results are generally nauseating.
With the exception of their choice in label Pearl Jam are not a band particularly enamoured with corporations. They boycotted Ticketmaster and even launched an admittedly failed anti-trust lawsuit against the company. They refused to make videos for a six year span, quite a length of time for a corporate band. If you read up on their history the band has never seemed fully comfortable with its success, as it means dealing with either scummy corporations like Ticketmaster or risking tragedy like what happened during their 2000 set at Roskilde. As well they spent the bulk of their time on Epic arguing with the label. They're on J right now, which is also a Sony BMG imprint, but I love Wilco and they're on Nonesuch, a Warner imprint, so it'd be unfair of me to criticise them for that choice.
I'm not a big fan of their music but they haven't exactly proven themselves to be anything resembling the classic notion of a "corporate" band or a "sellout" band.
P.S. New Modest Mouse isn't that great and The Crane Wife is nowhere near as good as their previous two records.
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P.S. New Modest Mouse isn't that great and The Crane Wife is nowhere near as good as their previous two records.
Personally I find We Were Dead at least as good as Good News, but it's irrelevant to my point since almost everything after The Fruit That Ate Iteself was released on Epic. As for Crane Wife, I definitely preferred Picaresque but I havent' heard anyone seriously claim that it is a "sell-out" album or that they have gone "corporate." Except Chris Ott, but seriously, fuck Chris Ott.
Janet is still in Quasi (the album they released last year was really amazing), the Jicks and Bright Eyes.
Can't wait to listen to this.
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I dunno about the idea of cloying for credibility as far as the Ticketmaster thing is concerned - they fired a member around that time at least partially because he disagreed with the idea. I mean, that is a move you want to be able to justify.
I said "not fully comfortable" because I recognise that Pearl Jam seemed to always want to be that sort of stadium-filling band. I mean, fair enough. I want to be a band that fills up clubs on a regular basis, and if I accomplished that I'd feel pretty damn comfortable. They just seem like the sort of dudes, based solely on their actions as a band, who achieved huge success and realised that means dealing with some of the absolute dregs of the record industry as far as scruples are concerned. As a result, their biography reads like an admittedly futile attempt to reject the system which gives the complete psychopaths who are involved in a business-related capacity with major labels such extraordinary clout.
So that's what I meant to say. I don't think they're neccessarily whining about "Oh dang we're big now we didn't want this," more "Oh dang we're big and these are problems we didn't expect and these are things that no human person should have to deal with really, why don't we try and change it." Not a huge difference but still an important one.