The worst part about this song is seeing it live. Supposedly Vedder wrote this song when he was only a teenager while sitting on his bed, and that makes sense. :: The Five Most Overrated Pearl Jam Songs Here are the five most overrated and the five most underrated works from the last band standing from the ’90s Seattle grunge explosion.
Now the guys seem to spend most of their time surfing, skateboarding or with their families and working with various charities, but they’re still at it: Pearl Jam’s latest, Backspacer, hit Target and iTunes this week.
At one point, this was the biggest band in the world, but then the group decided to make a conscious effort to cut back on the videos and press and take the ride at a pace it could digest. Pearl Jam’s debut album was 1991’s Ten, and it was the first CD I ever owned. Sure, Pearl Jam has inspired whole, terrible sections of the radio dial, and I cringe to imagine who will give its Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech (Eddie Vedder has done it for R.E.M., the Ramones, Neil Young and the Doors), but these guys were almost the only thing I listened to for several formative, angst-filled years growing up, and there’s something to be said for being such a major influence on mainstream modern-rock radio, just like there’s something to be said for having sold more than 50 million albums. groups are not part of, much as we may not want to admit it) fits.With nine studio albums and more officially released bootlegs than any band in history, Pearl Jam has managed to not only escape the grunge pigeonhole and the shadow of Nirvana but also cement itself in rock history as one of the most uncompromising and captivating live bands of all time. And the fact that many people here and people commenting on the blog had no clue who many of the artists were confirms that, and the inclusion of many of the non-mainstream stuff (which the aforementioned PJ/STP/etc. but I think that's what he was going for. Did the writer seem to take a "Indie Rock-er Than Thou" approach? Definitely. I think Tom Waits might be the most overrated artist of my lifetime. Do I disagree with some of the selections on it? Absolutely. The "list" accomplished what any list really, IMO, sets out to do: gets people talking about it and arguing and commenting on it.
You'd be hard-pressed to hear Sebadoh or the Afghan Whigs on anything but a college station. Let's be honest with ourselves here: just how "alternative" were Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Alice in Chains/Foo Fighters/STP in the '90s? I can turn on any rock station in the country and hear them.
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