The "what album are you listening to now" thread...

#177
#177
CountVolcula said:
Well, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, former members of MLB, created PJ. Along with Chris Cornell, they also comprised the band Temple of the Dog. The song " Say Hello to Heaven" was a tribute to Andrew Wood, which was written by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden. Him and Andrew were roommates. They got Temple of the Dog from the MLB song "Man of Golden Words".
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Yeah, Temple of the Dog was the bridge between MLB and PJ. Ament and Gossard brought in Cornell to sing on this tribute album to Wood. But they had also somehow stumbled across a demo tape of this unknown kid from Sand Diego named Eddie Vedder. They liked his voice, and so they invited him up to Seattle to sing a verse on "Hunger Strike". He sang on Hunger Strike (both Vedder and Cornell sing in that song, I believe), Ament and Gossard loved his voice, and so they brought him on to be the lead singer on a new band called Mookie Blaylock.

Vedder accepted the invitation, and the new group was formed. They decided to call the band Pearl Jam instead of Mookie Blaylock, but they named their first album "Ten" because that was Blaylock's number.

I am making none of this up. It is all true.

Also, Alice in Chains did a tribute song to Andrew Wood called "Would", which was on the "Singles" Soundtrack. Great soundtrack by the way.
 
#178
#178
rpvol said:
that's a bold statement. that album is good, but most of pj's are better. hard to base one song on what could have been. imo there a ton of pj songs better than chloe dancer/crown of thorns.

as far as wood being a better front man than arguably one of the top 15-20 front men ever is laughable.
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1. MLB had the one and only album. PJ has put out a lot of albums. Is it now readily apparent how silly and ineffectual your statement was, or should I come back and explain?

2. It isn't laughable at all. Your "top 15-20 front men" statement is obviously based on quantity of work, which makes it totally meaningless vis a vis Andrew Wood. And makes your "argument" kinda silly.
 
#181
#181
kidbourbon said:
"The Adventures of Bobby Ray" by B.o.b (aka Bobby Ray)

Silly good.
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I was kind of mixed on it. Don't Let Me Fall and Airplanes pt 1 and 2 are awesome. Not everybody I've talked to likes Bet I Bust, but it's a favorite of mine.

I gave it a 3/5.
 
#182
#182
kidbourbon said:
1. MLB had the one and only album. PJ has put out a lot of albums. Is it now readily apparent how silly and ineffectual your statement was, or should I come back and explain?
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you are the one that said he would have been so much better. you kind of proved my point. they had one album. you assume he would have been better. take any PJ album and there are at least 2 songs comparable if not much better than CD/COT.

kidbourbon said:
2. It isn't laughable at all. Your "top 15-20 front men" statement is obviously based on quantity of work, which makes it totally meaningless vis a vis Andrew Wood. And makes your "argument" kinda silly.
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what is silly is that you take a band that 2 members of PJ actually started and had hardly any success at all at the time and try to say that they would have been better if their front man not been an idiot and od'd. MLB got most of their attention mainly because PJ became so big.
 
#187
#187
braths said:
I haven't heard that one yet. How is it?
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It's AC/DC. :rock:

...It's almost a greatest hits deal with the War Machine song from Black Ice thrown in as a tie in to the movie. It comes with a DVD of videos and live performances as well.
 
#188
#188
nickknx865 said:
I was kind of mixed on it. Don't Let Me Fall and Airplanes pt 1 and 2 are awesome. Not everybody I've talked to likes Bet I Bust, but it's a favorite of mine.

I gave it a 3/5.
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Here are my top 3 tracks:
1. The Kids
2. Airplanes pt. 2
3. Magic

But I think the album is solid as a whole -- I'll give it a 4/5 -- and it is one that I would definitely recommend to anyone. The only song I find myself skipping over consistently is "Fame".
 
#189
#189
rpvol said:
what is silly is that you take a band that 2 members of PJ actually started and had hardly any success at all at the time and try to say that they would have been better if their front man not been an idiot and od'd. MLB got most of their attention mainly because PJ became so big.
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Hardly any success at all at the time? MLB laid the groundwork for an entire genre. There is no refuting that statement.

MLB got most of their attention because PJ became so big? Alternatively, you could say that PJ wouldn't have existed had Andrew Wood not died and Eddie Vedder not been asked to come in and sing on a tribute album to Andrew Wood. Alternatively, you could say that none of the Seattle bands would have had the kind of success they had if MLB hadn't ushered in the entire genre.
 
#190
#190
kidbourbon said:
Hardly any success at all at the time? MLB laid the groundwork for an entire genre. There is no refuting that statement.

MLB got most of their attention because PJ became so big? Alternatively, you could say that PJ wouldn't have existed had Andrew Wood not died and Eddie Vedder not been asked to come in and sing on a tribute album to Andrew Wood. Alternatively, you could say that none of the Seattle bands would have had the kind of success they had if MLB hadn't ushered in the entire genre.
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green river and mudhoney strongly disagree with that statement.
 
#191
#191
rpvol said:
green river and mudhoney strongly disagree with that statement.
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Seriously? Did you think you were gonna trip me up on this one? My oldest brother is like a grunge rock historian...I've been well-schooled.

Green River had both Gossard and Ament. When they split up, Gossard and Ament formed Mother Love Bone with Andrew Wood. The other members of GR formed Mudhoney.

I'm not saying Mudhoney is bad...they aren't...but nobody can say with a straight face that they had anything remotely approaching an MLB-esque influence. At the very least, they made it onto the "Singles" soundtrack, so I'll give them credit for that.
 
#192
#192
kidbourbon said:
Hardly any success at all at the time? MLB laid the groundwork for an entire genre. There is no refuting that statement.

MLB got most of their attention because PJ became so big? Alternatively, you could say that PJ wouldn't have existed had Andrew Wood not died and Eddie Vedder not been asked to come in and sing on a tribute album to Andrew Wood. Alternatively, you could say that none of the Seattle bands would have had the kind of success they had if MLB hadn't ushered in the entire genre.
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Well had Jimi Hendrix not died the entire landscape of music would be different...you can play this game all you want with a number of different artists.

Who knows how good MLB could have been, I think you are giving them way too much credit for ushering in the so called grunge era.
 
#193
#193
kidbourbon said:
Seriously? Did you think you were gonna trip me up on this one? My oldest brother is like a grunge rock historian...I've been well-schooled.

Green River had both Gossard and Ament. When they split up, Gossard and Ament formed Mother Love Bone with Andrew Wood. The other members of GR formed Mudhoney.

I'm not saying Mudhoney is bad...they aren't...but nobody can say with a straight face that they had anything remotely approaching an MLB-esque influence. At the very least, they made it onto the "Singles" soundtrack, so I'll give them credit for that.
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i am not trying to trip you up on anything. i am just stating the obvious. i'd give soundgarden or nirvana more credit than MLB, but i get it. you love you some MLB. it's all good...
 
#194
#194
rpvol said:
i am not trying to trip you up on anything. i am just stating the obvious. i'd give soundgarden or nirvana more credit than MLB, but i get it. you love you some MLB. it's all good...
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I would give Nirvana credit for taking the ball and running with it...
 
#196
#196
GahLee said:
I would give Nirvana credit for taking the ball and running with it...
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I agree with this.

(I'm now responding to the poster that thinks I am obsessed with MLB)

I'm not overly into MLB -- indeed, it's tough to be overly into MLB because, like Sublime, they were dead pretty much as soon as they were alive -- but I just don't think you're giving them enough credit. I think they could have been great, and I think Andrew Wood had a great voice, but we'll just never know.

All that being said, if the subject is "bands that ushered in the grunge era", I don't see how MLB isn't the centerpiece of the syllabus.
 
#197
#197
kidbourbon said:
I agree with this.

(I'm now responding to the poster that thinks I am obsessed with MLB)

I'm not overly into MLB -- indeed, it's tough to be overly into MLB because, like Sublime, they were dead pretty much as soon as they were alive -- but I just don't think you're giving them enough credit. I think they could have been great, and I think Andrew Wood had a great voice, but we'll just never know.

All that being said, if the subject is "bands that ushered in the grunge era", I don't see how MLB isn't the centerpiece of the syllabus.
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The whole argument is irrelevant, Wood died and Pearl Jam was formed.
 
#199
#199
kidbourbon said:
There is a difference between hypothetical and irrelevant.
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Well, hypothetically speaking...Jeff Buckley would have been the greatest artist of all-time...and Sublime would have been the biggest thing since sliced bread.
 
#200
#200
GahLee said:
Well, hypothetically speaking...Jeff Buckley would have been the greatest artist of all-time...and Sublime would have been the biggest thing since sliced bread.
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See, maybe we can get along after all (unless you were being sarcastic). I do think Sublime would have been huge.
 
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