I didn't understand a goddamn word Vedder had said.

Back in the 90s I was regularly buying newly released Pearl Jam albums and loving them. I couldn't tell you any of the lyrics, even the radio hits. Whatever the hell Eddie Vedder wanted to say will be a secret he takes to his grave.

i dont even have a strong opinion on pearl jam, they are that band with that marble mouth baratone singer.

it's cool they fought ticketmaster tho.

Layla, you're gonna have to tell me if I'm confusing you for someone else or not, but didn't we at some time in the past year or two share some music with each other where you showed me that your choice of favorite songs were very intense to me and that my choice of favorite songs were too slow and boring for you?

I feel exactly the same and I thought I was weird for not liking them. I found this video and now i know im not alone!

https://youtu.be/R8ZX4O-Efao

I never liked Pearl Jam. This doesn't seem like a hot take to me

Grunge in general kinda just sucks

If you want to give it another shot, in addition to some of the more iconic songs (black, even flow, daughter, alive) there are a few just below that level that you might like (go, corduroy, dissident, given to fly, yellow Ledbetter). But the real way to give them a shot is to watch their full concerts from the first couple years when they were together. Specifically, watch the pink pop performance from the Netherlands in the early 90s. That will give you a better idea of what the actual experience was like for people that had been, at that time, given nothing but boomer rock and other things that denied the reality of the shit sandwich Gen X was being served. If that doesn’t at least pique your interest a bit more, then they really aren’t for you and that’s ok.

The people in here saying they are a bad copy of nirvana or that can’t forgive them because of the shitty imitators that tried to ride their coattails are off base in my opinion. On the former, it’s like they heard that one clip of Kurt Cobain trashing Eddie Vedder and decided to run with it (and apparently ignored Kurt’s later retractions and apologies about that, admitting that he was essentially being an edge lord shithead, which he had a really bad tendency to be). On the latter, Creed sucked but that’s has nothing to do with Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam other than the fact that they basically cribbed off of their sound and image sort of but badly. That would be like not liking The Simpsons because you think Family Guy is bad.

Boomer music

In the mid 2000s I was buying a bunch of CDs from bands I thought I liked just because I had some money since I was working for the first time. And I bought a pearl jam live album and it was easily my most hated album. Never played it, when I ripped the songs into an mp3 player I skipped all of them.

I think the only song I enjoy from them is "do the evolution", because it has a pretty dope animation music video.

if you don't like it, why are you trying to like it?

people have different tastes