All these years, and songs, and concerts, and memories: This is where it all began. I did however stumble upon a video earlier today that made me feel as if I glimpsed a hint of the truth.It doesn’t quite seem possible, and yet here we are in 2021 and Pearl Jam’s “Ten” is hitting a huge milestone. That maybe I’ll never be able to put words to it.

I’ve started to think that maybe I’ll never know. It makes me doubly sad that I can’t put my finger on exactly why it is that Pearl Jam’s actual music doesn’t work for me. God knows I fuc*king love Alice In Chains. It’s like if someone grabbed all the ingredients of your favourite dish, but then they mixed ‘em up and cooked them in some strange, backwards way that meant the final result came out … strange.

But when they’re put together in the way they are, I’m just not into it. I don’t know why! I don’t know what it is. In real life, I don’t think I’ve ever been able to finish listening to a single Pearl Jam song and certainly not to an album. In fact, I really love it-though, again, just in theory. Well, their actual music as it turns out.ĭon’t get me wrong: I don’t hate it. I’ve never been able to come down on one side of the fence or the other on this one).īut I mean, slight uncertainty over name aside, what’s not to love?! A heavily classic rock-influenced, riffy, progressive, socially conscious, anti-Ticketmaster grunge group-with a bloke named Eddie in it (always a bonus!)- and a good band name to boot (I think. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the band that we now sometimes think of as the last remaining grunge band.īecause you see, I love the idea of Pearl Jam.

Good songs by pearl jam