Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:59 pm**

we need to figure out who the bozos on this site are

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:00 pm**

Pearl Jam blows...

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:01 pm**

@FreeCandy44

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:01 pm**

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Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:25 pm**

I think they are neither good nor bad.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:39 pm**

Is there anyone that doesn't like Pearl Jam, but likes other grunge rock bands or you just don't like grunge rock?

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:43 pm**

Not sure how a group of 30-55 year old white guys is only 50/50 so far on liking pearl jam

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:45 pm**

Apathy.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:45 pm**

I didn't care for grunge, but I also do not think of Soundgarden or Alice In Chains as grunge bands.

Outside of a couple songs, PJ is just somewhat organized noise to me.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:55 pm**

I feel like everyone can do an impersonation of Eddie Vedder.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:57 pm**

Happens for me after too much cheese.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:57 pm**

In the sense of good vs bad I would have to go on the good side of things. Buy I don't think they'd make the next tier if there was one

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:13 pm**

If soundgarden wasn’t grunge, neither was Pearl Jam.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:18 pm**

Soundgarden was pre-peak-grunge, but they were grunge. Still in a tier above PJ, would even go so far as to say the best grunge band.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:19 pm**

I always looked as the more hardcore/punk side of grunge as true grunge. Nirvana exploded in 1991; Pearl Jam were from Seattle so grunge.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:21 pm**

As for the best grunge song of all time…

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:21 pm**

SG are grunge in the same way as my last deuce was. They're much closer, stylistically, to metal than grunge.

They're really their own thing, not really categorical.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:35 pm**

Birth Ritual is classic grunge, they did evolve their sound. Badmotorfinger is a grunge album.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:37 pm**

Honestly I don’t consider PJ grunge. I don’t think they’re heavy enough; not compared to Nirvana, Alice, Soundgerden etc

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:38 pm**

Pearl Jam sucks.

Alice in Chains is grunge, but damn good grunge. Soundgarden started off pretty grunge like I guess but evolved and are basically a rock band. Both miles better than Pearl Jam ever hopes to be.

Both Cornell and Stayley are/were better vocalists than Vedder as well.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:40 pm**

Alice is one of my top 10 musical artists ever too so I don’t mean to say PJ is better

Nirvana defined the genre but their b-side stuff doesn’t hold up compared to Alice imo

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:42 pm**

Put up a Temple of the Dog poll next.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:44 pm**

I also think Nirvana sucks for the most part too.. I get their place in history and why they were important, but meh.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:50 pm**

They have a few standout tracks, but the majority just runs together not moving the needle.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:54 pm**

Nirvana’s best stuff is legendarily great (Smells like a teen Spirit, MTV Unplugged album) and they have some bonafide hits but AiC was much more rounded as a band