Thursday, January 29, 2004
January 28: Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs (disc 2)
OK, disc 2 gives you "Last Kiss," aka PJ's last hit, some more Vs. and Ten outtakes, three Xmas fan club singles, a song from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack, a song about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (wait, really?), an instrumental from Ten and a song about the Bee Girl from the Blind Melon "No rain" video that Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament made up on the spot during a rockline interview in '93. Oh, and a hidden track that is apparently about Layne Staley of Alice in Chains' death. But really, only two or three decent songs.
The liner notes give you a lot of information on when the songs were written, and what happened to them, and here's the interesting part: there are no outtakes from Vitalogy, and only two from Vs., but there are SIX songs that didn't make it on Binaural, which is their worst album. Seriously, six? And four from No Code, which isn't a great album either. Yield? That's a good album, probably their last really good album, right? Only one song from that era, and it's the highlight of Disc 1.
The Vs. and Ten outtakes and B-sides, strangely enough, sound a lot like Creed, Three Doors Down and other bands that are still making money ripping off classic Pearl Jam. Wonder if Scott Stapp got an advance copy of some of this?
Grunge is definitely dead, and Lost Dogs is a little like digging up the coffin to stare at the decomposition process. I shoulda bought Stone Temple Pilots' greatest hits instead.
The liner notes give you a lot of information on when the songs were written, and what happened to them, and here's the interesting part: there are no outtakes from Vitalogy, and only two from Vs., but there are SIX songs that didn't make it on Binaural, which is their worst album. Seriously, six? And four from No Code, which isn't a great album either. Yield? That's a good album, probably their last really good album, right? Only one song from that era, and it's the highlight of Disc 1.
The Vs. and Ten outtakes and B-sides, strangely enough, sound a lot like Creed, Three Doors Down and other bands that are still making money ripping off classic Pearl Jam. Wonder if Scott Stapp got an advance copy of some of this?
Grunge is definitely dead, and Lost Dogs is a little like digging up the coffin to stare at the decomposition process. I shoulda bought Stone Temple Pilots' greatest hits instead.
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