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...Pearl Jam hosted its own radio show on December 9th, playing disc jockey for stations across the country. Before the motley of live and canned music, spoken-word recordings and commentary got under way, Eddie Vedder, the group's front man opened the underground broadcast on a mysteriously political note. "We've noticed that our society here in America is opening up their homes to some folks...with...potentially dangerous attitudes...Blatant untruths [are] treated like the gospel. We're just doing our little bit...to remind a few of you out there that you are not alone in your...
After Day 1, scrap your carefully drafted and jam-packed shopping list. Don't set goals you can't meet--you have the rest of the semester to do that. Instead, go have coffee with the long-lost friends you haven't seen since last shopping period...
Music: Pearl Jam's expert mix of power and melody...
...difficulties that come with living in the public eye. The album has its share of stinkers -- the accordion-driven Bugs, for example, sounds like something circus clowns might perform before a Greenwich Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable, and you can't forget...
...this is not for you/ Never was for you." As it is, the world is already full of too many people who want to keep only with their own kind. Do hipper-than-thou Seattle rock bands now share the sentiment? When a group is as good as Pearl Jam, it's too bad everyone isn't invited to listen...