CNN's Larry King Live features a West Memphis 3 special Wednesday September 1st featuring Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines and more
30% Off Pearl Jam Posters
Written by Brandon Rector
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 17:30
If you're a current Ten Club member, head on over to the Goods section and use the code "POSTER" to get 30% your poster purchase.
COUPON IS VALID FOR POSTERS ONLY. YOU MUST ENTER THE COUPON CODE "POSTER" AT CHECKOUT TO RECEIVE THE DISCOUNT. COUPON WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT 9/17/10. COUPON IS VALID FOR POSTERS CURRENTLY IN THE GOODS SECTION. POSTER QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED TO STOCK ON HAND. COUPON IS VALID FOR TEN CLUB MEMBERS ONLY. POSTERS ARE SOLD AND SHIPPED SEPARATELY, WE WILL NOT COMBINE POSTER SALES.
The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your entrance back...can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...
I'll take the varmint's path...oh, and I must refuse your test
Push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
I'm already cut up and half dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...
Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed
There's a bevy of talk over this item for sale on the British website What Records.
Pearl Jam has no official announcement, but according to a spokesman for What Records, that announcement is coming.
I'm sending this E mail in an attempt to answer many of the questions I've been asked on the phone today and on Email.
On November 1st Pearl Jam release a Super Deluxe Box Set called Death on Two Legs. I have limited information on this as yet but I've put it on our site.
It is an Official release pressed for Island Records by Universal Music. It is being manufactured to order. A version will be available through the Pearl Jam web site but it is unclear at the moment whether it will be the same or slighly different.
I appreciate it is quite an expensive item so I've just added the option to pay a £10 deposit now and the rest will be charged when we ship the box set. The deposit is non refundable as we have had to call the quantity we want already and we may well sell out before release date. Shipping costs will be added when the deposit is left.
To order your copy, either paying in full or leaving a deposit please click the link below.
Thank you for your time, interest and support.
Cheers
Tim
Is "The Vault" about to be reopened? I don't know. What Records has sold official Pearl Jam items unavailable in the US, so maybe they know something. Better keep your Ten Club account up to date just in case.
It's ballad vs. bitchin' rocker! I'm sorry, but I just can't work Corduroy into a basketball pun. Nonetheless, Red Mosquito's Best of the Nineties Tournament has reached the Final Four!
Well, someone is. Anna Knowlden has uploaded some rehearsal pictures to the Pearl Jam Official Flickr Page. If you're not attending the Hootenanny for a Healthy Gulf, you can still support clean up efforts at http://pearljam.com/oceans/.
Rival is another example of the brilliant job so much of Binaural does in establishing atmosphere. From the first moments of the song with the growling dog there is a pervading, ominous sense that something has gone very wrong, that the world is not the way it should be. The music almost has a demonic carnival quality to it—celebratory if not for the sharp, discordant notes that drive the song (especially the bridge and outro). Eddie’s double tracked vocals (especially his higher/strained notes) add to the sense of insanity running through the song. The music also does an excellent job inverting a fairly standard Pearl Jam formula that we see in songs like Unthought Known—where we see piano noodling, the high notes bursting with intensity, and brief inspirational solos designed to carry us someplace new and help us transcend the forces that hold us back. This is what Pearl Jam does best, and so it’s particularly striking to see this demented fun house mirror reflection of that aspect of the band. This is probably the most menacing song in their catalog.
Lyrically I think this is the strongest of all the songs penned by someone other than Ed (and it is better than a few of Ed’s lyrics). Not every line here is a slam dunk—and the call back parts are noticeably weaker than the main lyric (and some, like the well hung part, make me cringe a little bit) but there are enough provocative moments here (in particular I like the imagery in ‘I’ve been harboring fleets in this reservoir’, the clever shot at moral self-righteousness and small town piety ‘how will the man who made chemicals difficult’ and the bridge lyrics ) Although this song is ostensibly about the Littleton, CO school shootings it’s no more about that then Whipping is about abortion. There’s nothing in the lyrics to make that apparent and you’d never guess it if not for the liner notes. Instead, like Whipping, we have a series of individual snapshots of a person’s mood—their rebellion against a diseased society, although in Whipping we have a call for action and an attempt at restoration. Despite the presence of lyrics like ‘we all’ve got scars they should have em to’ or ‘don’t mean to push but I’m being shoved’ there’s still a sense of angry optimism in that song, or failing that, at least solidarity. Rival is not a passive song (there are too many intimations of violence), and so in some respects it makes sense that it follows a number like Grievance, but there is no optimism here. There’s no hope. Instead it’s largely defined by the song’s nihilism, its loss of faith that any of the problems that affect us so deeply can actually be addressed. The singer has seen the sticks raised and brought down one time too many, and he is far more pessimistic about discovering within American culture and American character any serious desire to really try and address the things that matter. We’d much rather lie to each other than confront it (how’s our father supposed to be told?) This nation may be about to explode, but no one seems to care. We’re fiddling while America burns (hence the festive undertones to the music)with no real hope of us coming together to fix it. The plea at the end of Grievance has largely fallen on deaf ears. There’s no solidarity here. We’re all rivals to each other, and divided there is no way for us to move forward. Rival makes clear that Grievance, at least in terms of the album (not the overall arc of the band) is an outlier--a temporary resurgence of principles no longer dominant.
To be fair, I don't have cable, so this is the first I've seen of the Larry King Live video. If this is incomplete, and anyone finds a more complete video, let me know. Otherwise, enjoy your four-minute clip!
