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Song themes

BLUF - Are these song themes messed up in the head?

As kids we knew about Jeremy, and then columbine happened my senior year. But Alive is about incest, Daughter is about a girl with a learning disability, Better Man is about an abusive relationship. Is this normal?

Pearl Jam is still my favorite band over nirvana, RHCP, and STP but I don’t keep up with rock music as much. Eddie Vedder has the best voice, and the stuff he did with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan made me a fan for life.

I grew up in the 90’s and I remember Pearl Jam Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots having their run. I always liked Pearl Jam the most, but I started falling in love with underground hiphop around this time. After the early 90s, it’s been the music I associate most with.

Not saying hiphop hasn’t turned into a clown show, but as a kid who was the child of immigrants it made me proud of my Islamic upbringing and gave me confidence as a grew up. Hiphop started being big in 97, it became “the” music as we got out of school. My class and the class before walked out to Green Day Time Of Your Life. Ironically the kids from the city only listened to go-go and said rap is for bammas. Now the whole area primarily listens to hiphop.

90’s music had some gems, but the song themes are hard to listen too.

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u/cyberwizkid15 — 12 hours ago
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1990s poster

Does anyone recognize this poster?

pearl jam poster fom early 1990s. in concert, blurry photo, white block letters spelling pearl jam, horizontal rectangle, color, whole band pictured on stage straight on. Probably blue coloring?

We can't find it by chat or Google. Maybe the memory is wrong.

Thanks for any help.

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u/BraverSinceThen — 1 day ago
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I Got Id & Yellow Ledbetter (radio)

Anyone else miss hearing these /songs in the radio (FM). Back in the day, Philly radio would play these 2 all the time. I remember YL being that special song since it was a B-side. Heading in the radio was amazing because the song was incredible. Something about those rare songs heard so often while driving. Sure some stations may play them and we can queue them up whenever. Simpler times that’s all.

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u/Serious-Discipline35 — 1 day ago
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Anyone have a list of fonts, or close alternatives, used on each album?

In particular I'm looking for the old typewriter like font used on Lost Dogs. I had a copy a long time ago - hell it might still be on my computer but I have like 4000 fonts on my machine (I work in web production with graphic designers - they pile up over the years).

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u/Positive-Ring-5172 — 1 day ago
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Pearl Jam Cancelled Concert

It would have been dope!!! Anybody know why it got canceled??

u/wise_goat_11 — 2 days ago
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Peale Jam Soccer Jersey - Yield Era

I’ve been trying to find this jersey. It was a long long time ago obviously and Google isn’t giving me the goods. As far as I remember it was largely blue with a large portion of orange highlights and mayyyybe some grey, though I could be wrong 30 years after the fact of course.

Anywa I’m moderately sure it was during the Yield tour when I [my parents] bought it at a merch table inside the venue at one of their concerts, which would have been in Detroit. I’m pretty sure it was the yield tour but it may have been No Code or even Binaural as I saw them in those eras too.

Does anybody out there have any idea what I’m talking about or where I can find it or at least a picture of it?

Thanks!

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u/gretschocaster — 2 days ago
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Is this signature authentic?

Bought a signature from Etsy, and I don’t mind if it’s fake I just wanted something cool in my room. But it would also be cool if it’s actually authentic.

u/Lucidremz — 2 days ago
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Touring Band 2000

Rip the audio, burn it on CDs, upload the files onto iTunes.. oh yeah 😁 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

u/PS-10423-S — 2 days ago
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Indifference

Wow what an incredible song. The emotions are unmatched. For the fans from the 1900s, how did this song hit when released?

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u/VomitingDuck — 3 days ago
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No Code Australian Tee (CD Pre-Order) RARE

Hi all. Interesting one here. Here’s what I know so far. Quite the rare one. Trying to see if any Aussies on here can weigh in also. Never seen another one of these.

In the mid-1990s, the Australian music retail market was highly restricted. Major department stores and dominant music chains kept the price of new release CDs artificially inflated—often charging $30 AUD or more (equivalent to over $65 today).JB Hi-Fi, which was a much smaller, independent, and rebellious discount chain back then, teamed up with Sony Music Australia to disrupt this. For the August 1996 pre-release of Pearl Jam's No Code, they decided to deeply undercut the market, selling the CD at a radical discount and sweetening the deal by tossing in this exclusive, limited-edition promotional t-shirt.

When competing corporate music chains and major department stores found out about JB Hi-Fi's heavily discounted pre-order campaign—and the high-value promotional t-shirt being given away with it—they furious.Accusations of Predatory Pricing: Competitors claimed that giving away a high-quality screenprinted shirt alongside a heavily discounted CD amounted to unfair competition and "dumping" stock to kill off rival stores.The Boycott & Legal Action: Rival retailers threatened massive legal action against Sony Music Australia for favoring an independent discount chain. They also threatened to completely boycott and refuse to stock the entire No Code album in their stores across the country if the promotional campaign went ahead.

Faced with the threat of their album being locked out of major retail chains across Australia, pressure was placed on Sony to cancel the promotion and pull the shirts.However, Pearl Jam’s management intervened. Given the band's famous, real-world war against corporate monopolies like Ticketmaster and their deep anti-commercial philosophy, the band refused to back down. They demanded that the independent record stores and discount chains like JB Hi-Fi be allowed to distribute the album and the shirt as promised. Sony compromised, the release proceeded in limited numbers, and the shirts were handed out to the lucky fans who had secured their pre-orders.Because of this intense corporate showdown, very few of these shirts were ever printed and distributed, making yours an incredible piece of Australian music retail history!

The addition of the unique silver code 3 82576 9 directly on top of the "No Code" symbol serves a highly intentional dual purpose: it grounds the design as a literal anti-product statement while functioning as a secret, authentic identifier for the album release itself.

In a brilliant bit of irony, the silver code is not a random sequence of numbers. While Pearl Jam famously fought to keep standard commercial bar codes off the physical packaging of the No Code album artwork, the record labels still required internal system identifiers. The number 3 82576 directly matches the Epic Records / Sony Music internal production and master tape catalog matrix sequences designated for the No Code manufacturing era in 1996. Printing the label's corporate internal tracking number, only to stamp a massive "No" symbol over it, was the band's ultimate Easter egg mocking the record industry's obsession with tracking numbers.

u/Cautious_Courage9670 — 3 days ago
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Am i the only one who really likes the rearviewmirror greatest hits collection?

I bought the collection on CD a few months ago, and i've listened to it back and forth countless times, still do. It's where i found my favourite song State of Love and Trust.

But when seeing discussions about SOLAT i see a lot of people, actually most people talk about how they really dislike the rearview version. And then i found out people generally seemed to dislike all of the remixes and the whole rearview greatest hits collection as well.

I don't give a fuck. I'll listen to what i like, the Greatest Hits collection is my favourite pair of CDs i own. But i wanna know what you think? Am i the only one enjoying the sound of this collection?

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u/Lompehovelen — 4 days ago