The songs are sharper, the production is layered, and the performances are as compassionate as ever, resulting in their finest album since Vitalogy. Instead, the difference is focus - though Pearl Jam is trying a lot of different styles, certainly more so than on Yield, they pull it all off better. Maybe the addition of a new drummer, former Soundgarden member Matt Cameron, has kicked the band to life, but that unfairly dismisses Jack Irons' worthy contributions. This should come as no surprise, since that's what they've done since No Code and, perhaps, Vitalogy, but the real surprise about their sixth studio album Binaural is that it finds the group roaring back to life without dramatically changing the direction they followed on No Code and Yield. Not surprisingly, they chose to persevere, ignoring trends, completely in favor of being a classicist rock band. Pearl Jam covered American in Me, Keep on Rockin in the Free World, Driven to Tears, Love, Reign oer Me and other songs. PEARL JAM BINAURAL EPIC GLORIA ESTEFAN ALMA CARIBENA EPIC GIGI D'ALESSIO QUANDO LA MIA VITA CAMBIERA RCA. No peers, and too sincere to even consider fitting into a pop scene dominated by 'N Sync on one side and Limp Bizkit on the other. They were the only one of their old grunge colleagues still standing intact, and they were genuinely alone. My new Pearl Jam tattoo - I love riot act and wanted to make something of the skeletons on the album cover. Even with "Last Kiss," their first big hit single since Ten, under their belts, they were an anomaly on the pop and rock scenes. Edved82 Posts: 1,212 December 2008 edited December 2008 in The Porch I dont post here much anymore (Im more of a watcher than a poster these days) but i just wanted to say how much I am digging Binaural at the moment, especially Light Years through to Sleight of Hand. If anything, Pearl Jam was even more in the wilderness - at least as far as the mainstream was concerned - at the beginning of 2000 than they were in the second half of the '90s.
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