Honestly, Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots?

[xenon]

Pearl Jam.

Though I've not listened to them for a while. Verses and Ten were on regular rotation back then. I kinda lost interest after Vitology.

STP I only heard a bit and didn't like it much. Have not knowingly heard them in the intervening 25 years. So they're probably shit.

 

[xenon]

Which was the one that did that song that went "du-nuh-nuh-nuh, du-nuh-nuh-nuh"?

Bush.

 

[skyscraper101]

Pearl Jam by like one hit. They had Alive, Jeremy and Even Flow, and a few more okish ones but largely forgettable. Consistent though.

Stone Temple Pilots had Plush and Interstate Love Song which are both mint. The rest was mostly dirge.

Also yer man from STP seemed to be a bit of a knobber whereas I rather like Vedder.

 

[rubbershoes]

JFC

 

[xenon]

The bootleg album with Vedder singing with the Doors band was quite fun.

 

[Petcha]

Pearl Jam by like one hit. They had Alive, Jeremy and Even Flow, and a few more okish ones but largely forgettable. Consistent though.

Stone Temple Pilots had Plush and Interstate Love Song which are both mint. The rest was mostly dirge.

Also yer man from STP seemed to be a bit of a knobber whereas I rather like Vedder.

Those are off Ten. Which was a good album. With some beautiful songs but they did a lot better after.

They did an unplugged around that time, with all songs off Ten really as they had only just started. This one got the right wingers' backs up I seem to recall. He was/is a huge champion of womens rights. Leaving aside his little political gesture there it's a pretty good jam.

 

[smmudge]

I wasn't obsessed but Daniel Johns was an incredible vocalist/songwriter considering he was only 15 (literally) and was just trying to copy Eddie Vedder when he won that song contest which launched them. As far as I remember he then developed anorexia and it all went tits up.

Yeah I think it was more the crippling arthritis that did it for him rather than the anorexia, which he seemed recovered from

 

[krtek a houby]

Neither, really. Some of their tunes were decent, but from that era, it would be the likes of Nirvana, Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Sound Garden, Mudhoney, Living Colour, Faith No More that appealed. Maybe one or two Red Hot Chili Peppers albums.

 

[Knotted]

Bored moment. My top twenty favourite 90's rock bands

1) Ground Zero
2) Kampec Dolores
3) Hail
4) Melt Banana
5) Acid Mothers Temple
6) Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
7) Dunaj
8) Tortoise
9) Änglagård
10) Stereolab
11) Ruins
12) Tipographica
13) Nirvana
14) Fugazi
15) Másfél
16) Optical*8
17) Doctor Nerve
18) Vágtázó Halottkémek
19) Zeni Geva
20) Boredoms

 

[CNT36]

2) Kampec Dolores

How dare you.

 

[klang]

Dolores

Means 'sorrows'. Some find it awful. Apparently she's amazing.

 

[savoloysam]

Stiltskin

Funny you should say that. I've had that on my playlist recently.

People may laugh but while too many people wasted their money on the single I went the whole hog and bought the album. Glad I did there's some great tunes on there. "Rest In Peace" and "Sunshine and Butterfiles" are my personal picks.

As for the thread itself. Pearl Jam are/were just a better all round unit. Beyond the blast of their debut there are some real gems that stand the test of time. Rear View Mirror, Not For You, Courdroy, Save You, Faithful, No Way, Worldwide Suicde. State of Love and Trust (The unplugged version somehow rocking more than the original)

As for STP no slouches but patchy. Wicked Garden though. Never tire of hearing that one.

 

[cybershot]

Both are under rated (IMO) but Pearl jam are just brilliant. Back in the day I wondered how that voice came from that body bit of course now he’s grown up it all makes sense.

saw them in Milton Keynes a few years back and they must have been on stage for 4 hours. Think they were also the first band that ‘bootlegged’ all of their own concerts and sold them on. Literally every live performance you can get hold of.

 

[Petcha]

Both are under rated (IMO) but Pearl jam are just brilliant. Back in the day I wondered how that voice came from that body bit of course now he’s grown up it all makes sense.

saw them in Milton Keynes a few years back and they must have been on stage for 4 hours. Think they were also the first band that ‘bootlegged’ all of their own concerts and sold them on. Literally every live performance you can get hold of.

Yeh. They took a stand against their own label, Sony, back in the 90s about allowing their fans to bootleg their gigs. Around the same time they also took TicketMaster right up to Congress on anti-trust with a couple of them quite hilariously appearing themselves. Ticketmaster had a monopoly and ticket prices were through the roof, and it backfired massively. They tried to prove you could tour without them, and it turned all a bit wrong. It seems you couldn't, in those days. I think it almost broke up the band as Eddie wouldn't leave it alone.

Eddie Vedder and company weren't just paying lip service: They hired the Manhattan-based law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, and on May 6, 1994, filed an official complaint with the Justice Department, leading to testimony from bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard before Congress.
Ticketmaster's CEO, Fred Rosen, shot back: "If Pearl Jam wants to play for free, we'll be happy to distribute their tickets for free." Time magazine referred to the anti-trust-focused legal battle as "Rock 'n' Roll's Holy War."
Pearl Jam ended up skipping a summer tour as the battle raged. That was no small thing, considering the huge reception the group's two most recent albums (1991's Ten and 1993's Vs.) had received. They tried, mostly for naught, to book into venues that weren't associated with Ticketmaster.


Read More: Why Pearl Jam Decided to Take on Ticketmaster | Why Pearl Jam Decided to Take on Ticketmaster

 

[cybershot]

I forgot about the ticketmaster thing. They are cunts though. To this day I hate it when ticket master is the only option. I avoid whenever possible.

 

[savoloysam]

Like echoes that nobody hears....ecohes echoes echoes

it goes like this......

 

[savoloysam]

PS Yup saw them at wembery circa 2000 and each night was released on CD and I boutght that one. They dd a cover of the excellent unchanined melody by the LA;s that night. EV kinda came off like a tit with a speach about English bands. Allowed he is EV.

 

[Winot]

The only thing I know about STP is that they feature in a Pavement lyric.

 

[Petcha]

Slightly unrelated, but this just popped up on my social feed. Eddie's daughter doing a tune for Sean Penn's new film. She's got a lovely voice