Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs
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Free Music Review: Lost Dogs; a fitting title.
Hit: 5 Stars
At the peak of the 90s alt-rock scene, Pearl Jam was the biggest band in the world. Nirvana may have kick-started their fame, but "Ten" climbed the charts quicker and higher than "Nevermind" ever has, selling over 12 million copies (as of 2003). Pearl Jam wasn't about to compromise their music for fame and glamour, which is clear when examining their career. Although Pearl Jam had created the sound of an entire decade, they continued to duck the spotlight, by making very few videos, giving very few interviews, then enduring a long battle against Ticketmaster, that lowered their popularity a few more notches. After releasing "Vs." in 1993, each Pearl Jam album that followed played to a smaller audience. Ultimately, Pearl Jam went from being the biggest band in the world, to being the biggest cult band in the world, by choice.
Due to the way Pearl Jam has gone about making albums in the past, their are several "Lost Dogs" included here. Since each album plays to a small audience, and includes an underlying theme, several songs that were officially released were shelved if they did not fit in with the rest of the material, and never made it to a proper Pearl Jam album. This is why "Lost Dogs" is necessary, a compilation of their best B-sides, stray singles, and compilation tracks, laid out in non-chronological sequence.
The variety of material is very desirable. This is Pearl Jam at their most experimental, their hardest rocking, most relaxed and most intimate in their career. "Lost Dogs" captures what the band sounded like at their peak, capturing their true passion. This proves that they had what it took to release another "Ten" album, but wisely chose not to.
Some standouts on the first disc include "All Night," "Sad," "Down," "Undone," and the concert favorite "Yellow Ledbetter". In my opinion, the second disc is much better. It's more relaxed and chilled out. They experiment with harmonica, and other sorts of production. Standouts include "Fatal," "Other Side," "Footsteps," "Dead Man Walking," my personal favorite "Drifting," "Sweet Lew," and the concert favorite "Last Kiss".
All in all, B-side and rarities compilations aren't supposed to be this good. B-sides by definition, are good and familiar, but not as good as what made the album. Pearl Jam shatters this definition, leaving the common listener in awe. I personally believe that this album is better than most of their studio albums; how refreshing.
Free Music Review: Lost Dogs from Seattle
Hit: 5 Stars
This collection has some of the greatest b-sides and rarities available. I had heard a great deal of it as I spent a fortune in the early 90's buying the European Maxi-singles that harbored many of the great b-sides. It surprises me that some of these songs never made it to any of the records themselves. . . Pearl Jam does not have notoriously long albums, so there is room for more, and much of this would have been worthy of being included. In my opinion there really was not anything missing that I had heard and loved. (except "Crazy Mary" but I have it on a dozen of the "Official Bootlegs")
Highlights are many in this ragtag group of 30 tracks that span more than a decade's body of work. Staples like "Yellow Ledbetter" and "Footsteps"(which has been altered to include a harmonica, very nice!) are present and sound as good as they ever have. It is interesting that a great deal of the B-sides have aged a better than the records. The first two Pearl Jam records while classic, have a distinct "fuzzy grunge" style in their instrumentation. This makes them sound time specific as many artists of the time used similar effects. It is nice that some of said effects have been removed from the album tracks in the live performance and they no longer sound dated. The early B-sides are less "finished" than the albums were, so they lack some of the slight overproduction of the early albums.
The inclusion of some of the tracks from the annual fanclub Christmas singles was a great choice. I am really happy that I now have a copy of "Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)" that doesn't sound like it was recorded in a tin can under water. Several others from the Christmas Singles include "Last Kiss," "Strangest Tribe," and "Drifting." All great songs. I was not all that impressed with the version of "wash" that was used. The one from the single was better, but it is always nice to hear something different. "Alone" was a solid version but again, different from the "Go" b-side.
I would have to say that "Fatal" is the gem of the records. It is one of the finest songs in Pearl Jam's history. Simple and melodic, it has an amazing amount of feeling. There are songs on Lost Dogs that I do not care all that much for, but there are so many that are great that I could not imagine giving this less than five stars. It is a definitive collection of Pearl Jam's unreleased material.
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Free Music Review: Excellent.
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all I should mention that this was the first pj studio album I had ever purchased(my first pj purchase was live in japan '03). So maybe I am a bit biased towords the greatness of this collection of b-sides and fan favorites. You have to wonder how most of these songs did not make the album they were intended for. It's hard to imagine that these song's even ended up as b-sides as most of them are every bit as good as the song's that did make the album cut. But enough about that, I would rate this release as the best pearl jam album available ( i do own all of them and they are all excellent). This release shouldn't be looked at like "Rearviewmirror; The Best Of Pearl Jam", but instead as another studio album.
The highlights of this release are endless but some of the best song's in my opinion are "Down", a song that didn't make it on the riot act album but is arguably as good or better than any song on that album.
Hitchhiker and Dont' Gimme No Lip are both fast punk tinged songs.
black and red and yellow, another punkish one that's done really well.
Leaving Here, a song the who also used to cover..not half bad job done here.
Yellowledbetter...considered by most to be one of, if not the best pearl jam song's. I would have to agree..nearly perfect in every aspect.
The second disc is nearly flawless. Slower paced than the first one but still engrossing. Highlights are:
Fatal..powerful lyrics and interesting music
Footsteps...most pearl jam fans know this one well. Such a powerful song.
Let Me Sleep...interesting music and good christmas time lyrics.
Driftin'...one of my favorite songs off this release for sure. Just love the music and singing along.
Last Kiss..thankfully I didn't hear this song on the radio as many times as the people that hate this cover song because I still love it. Not exactly a song you would have expected PJ to cover at the time which makes it all the better.
Brother, an instrumental rock song..really good.
Bee Girl, I love this song. enough said.
Buy this album for some of the best pj music available. Don't wait to buy this if you are new to pearl jam and if you're not then you should already own it.
Free Music Review: PJ's Double Rarities Album will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
As if 6.5 awesome albums (Vitalogy's their only WEAK link) wasn't enough for crazed fans, the MIGHTY Pearl Jam gives us a gift for Christmas '03: "Lost Dogs"! What a TREAT!! I am in complete AWE of this UNBELIEVABLE collection of both old and new Pearl Jam B-sides. And yes, just one CD would make me happy, but they gave us a DOUBLE dose of awesome material, 90% of which should've made all their studio albums!! If you are a TRUE Pearl Jam fan, this is a MUST HAVE, HANDS DOWN! Your PJ collection, no matter how awesome you may think it is, IS NOT COMPLETE without "Lost Dogs", PERIOD! There are simply too many awesome songs on here to go over, so I'll just randomly pick a few. "Sad" has got an intense feel to it, from noneother than "Binaural", "Down" is a real up-beat song, one that almost made "Riot Act", "Alone" is a track that says "Ten" all over it, "You" has got a real beautiful sound from the "Yield" sessions, "Whale Song" is TRUELY unique and unlike anything else they've ever done, "Hold On" is one of my favorites from the "Vs" sessions because it gives me a chill every time, "Yellow Ledbetter" is a CLASSIC from noneother than "Ten" that seems to close alot of concerts, "Other Side" is just touching, "Footseps" is another classic from the "Ten" era, "Strangest Tribe" is plain BEAUTIFUL, "Last Kiss" is one of the band's most well known covers, and "Brother" is an AWESOME instrumental. To top all that off, there is also a hidden track at the very end (give it a minute or two) entitled "4/20/02" (I think) that is a tribute to Layne Stayley. So, that's just a little of what's in store with "Lost Dogs". Only a FEW are actually songs that you have no problem understanding why they didn't make an album, but that just makes the whole experience interesting. This classic compilation comes with a booklet that has a small story behind each song. And OFCOURSE, you will find that there are ZERO songs from the "Vitalogy" era (what a RELIEF!). What does that tell you about "Vitalogy"?? But despite putting out a mediocre album back in '94, the world's GREATEST rock group continues putting out one fantasic album after another, and now we have a double-rarities album to top it all off. "Lost Dogs" is ESSENTIAL to any serious fan, and I highly recommend it! Some new-comers may not get it at first, but die-hard fans will cherish it forever.Free Music Review: pearl jam golden nugget collection
Hit: 5 Stars
pearl jam have always been known to make really great songs and never put them on offical albums and then they decide to put them on b.sides...which is an shame because some times their singles are hard to get hold of.. well now we've got this to droul over and it's a superb album and the five merits just go to disc 1 alone as i haven't listened to disc two yet and i'll will tonight..as i hear that the song "dirty frank" is an awesome song from the opipions of previous reviewers so if disc two is as good as disc one then i have no other opipion that to state that this is an superb rarities album with all the song writing merits you get from their offical albums maybe even more and some of the "ten" session songs should of featured because they would of fitted perfectly..
disc two review
as stated above i got round to listen to disc two last night at 111.pm and it really was a magical journey and i know it's an clinched saying but it truly was an beautiful grungy journey through the different evolutions of pearl jam
the disc started off well with the first three songs fatal other side and hard to imagine.. but it was just as "footsteps" started i was incarcerated by the music..this song was an stone gossard song that was left of the ten album..for what reason i don't know
then "wash" "as stated above from the cutting room floor of the ten album..
"dead man" "dead man walking soundtrack" this is an fantastic song.. with eddie vedder playing guitar on his own.
and the song didn't even make the dead man walking soundtrack
the next four songs are from the 1991 fan club christmas single and are all superb.
sweet lew left off the binaural album is an warped sophicated song..one of my favorites
"dirty frank" from the ten peroid it's increbily, in your face and it acts as it protrays
brother[ten era] another song that could of been a major smash hit!!!
now comes to the end and my favorite song of both albums
"bee girl" from the radio broadcast rockline
it's a beautiful intimicy, between jeff ament and eddie vedder
this is one of their all time classics!!!
get the album if you love PJ and what more of the diversity of post ten era