Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs
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Free Music Notes for Lost Dogs
Free Music Review: A must have.
Hit: 5 Stars
Lost Dogs has 2 disks. Not in chrono order. The 1st disk contains "the rockers" and the 2nd disk is more mellow. Lost Dogs contains songs that were never released on albums, or were b-sides of singles, or were on the Fan Club annual Christmas Singles, or were on movie soundtracks, or were on benefit albums.After the album "Vs.", the band tried to become less popular for self preservation/sanity preservation purposes. As said in interviews, if a song was too catchy it was changed or excluded. Light Years from Binaural, for example, was changed.
The songs "Sad", "Fatal", "Hold on", "All night" and "In the moonlight" are so great that it has been said by many that if included, they would have greatly improved their respective albums. "Sad" in particular is one of their best ever.
Disk 2, the mellow disk, is more somber. "Hard to Imagine", "Other side", "Fatal", and "Wash" are haunting and introspective.
"Brother" sounds like Satriani and is waiting to be put in back of a movie chase scene. "Sweet Lew" well, that is experimental and sounds like it is off of Beck's Odelay. "Gremmie out of control" is classic. Shows diversity. They actually make this surfer song believable.
Lost Dogs has something for everybody. The hardly a rarity "Yellow Ledbetter", the hit "Last Kiss", the rockers, ballads... everything.
Free Music Review: No bad songs here....
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow....I didn't know what to expect. But with Pearl Jam, the quality of songwriting just doesn't fall off... the songs that didn't make it onto proper p.j. releases are sometimes so shockingly good, you wonder what they were smoking when they didn't put them on an album... but then, of course, you listen to the albums, and see that those decisions are sometimes very hard.
This two-disc set reminds me of Springsteen's "Tracks," especially in the sense that (as Springsteen himself put it) sometimes the best songs "get away" without being represented on a proper release. Here, though, these songs get the royal treatment - lovely packaging, with candid snipets in the liner notes about each song, some telling the back-story of the track, others relating why the song never made it on an album, etc.
The album works well, each of the two discs flowing well, like the songs were intended to be played in this order. The first disc (roughly) is home to the more upbeat moments, and the second disc is full of the more somber and reflective songs. And, because the material isn't arranged chronologically, its difficult to tell when a particular track may have been recorded.
Brilliant stuff... If you're a pearl jam fan, you gotta have this. Sure, there's "Yellow Ledbetter," "Footsteps," and "Last Kiss", and other well-known non-album tracks, but the 27 or so other tracks are equally impressive. Cudos to P.J.
Free Music Review: Generous final sony release from PJ
Hit: 5 Stars
Pearl Jam was at the end of their long contract with Sony and instead of giving its' dedicated corp of fans a rehashed "BEST OF" disc that 9 out of 10 artists would do, they gave us many rare, mostly unheard songs that did not make any of their previous albums.
Additionally, if that were not enough, knowing that fans have a bunch of these songs from b-sides on previous singles, they release new, different recordings of many of those songs! This is a generous gift from PJ to their fans. They don't take their fans for granted and give them their money's worth. Every single time!
As for Lost Dogs, this works like two albums - one hard, another soft - both interesting and with many surprising great songs. The best tracks - "Fatal", "Sad" and the amazing (hidden-all these years) "Hold On". For years PJ fans have not heard such an early, youthful anger and emotion from the band. This was the greatest gift on this album. I thought I'd never hear that sound again from them and they dig out an unheard gem that belonged on either the Ten or Versus albums. It is heartbreaking.
Other great tracks include "Hard to Imagine", "Black, Red and Yellow", "Leaving Here", and of course, "Yellow Ledbetter"
This is a great disc for those of you who haven't heard PJ since their early-mid ninties days. It covers their entire career. A great gift! Thank you Pearl Jam!
Free Music Review: Essential for Pearl Jam fans
Hit: 5 Stars
Pearl Jam is one of the last true rock bands. For 12 years they've released an endless amount of music, toured extensively, and each member contributes quality songs without trying to repeat themselves or put out radio hits. I've been following these guys since their first album, and it amazes me how dedicated they are to their beliefs, songs and their fans. These guys really don't care what the critics have to say; they write from the heart and love to play. Most importantly they've put out these songs for their causes and their fans, not to make a buck. They've been releasing random B-sides and singles gradually over the years, but finally we get a compilation album. Many of these you've heard before, but it's so rare for a band to release a double "B-sides" album that is worth every penny. Songs like Hard To Imagine and Wash are as good as anything they've ever written, and even the newer outtakes like Fatal still hold up to their "classic" era. There are a couple throwaway songs, but as a whole this album is very easy to listen to. My only complaint is that the discs are too short (50-55 minutes each) and there are a lot of B-sides & Christmas singles missing. Angel, in particular, is one of my favorites. This is more of a sampler of their non-album songs, but it's incredible that Pearl Jam at their worst are still better than today's bands at their best.Free Music Review: the overlooked secret track
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great CD, especially given that none of these songs were originally deemed great enough to warrant inclusion on a regular album. For greater detail about the overall greatness of the CD, see other reviews. What I'm concerned about is the lack of recognition being given to far and away the best song on this double album, a secret track at the end of the second album. The last listed song on the second CD, Bee Girl, is very short (and pretty unremarkable by the rest of the album's standards), lasting less than 2 minutes. Maybe the majority of the owners of this CD just absent-mindedly stop the CD as soon as "Bee Girl" ends, I don't know. If the CD is turned off after "Bee Girl," you lose a chance to hear one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. So pop some Ritalin if necesssary, and wait all the way till the six minute mark, when this masterpiece begins. Entitled "4-20-02", it is a song that Eddie recorded almost immediately upon hearing of the death of the late great Layne Staley from Alice In Chains. It is a gorgeous tribute. If you are a fan of Layne's music, then it is that much more meaningful, but the song is so melancholy and beautiful that it must stand out to anyone. Despite the presence of numerous other great songs (including Yellow Ledbetter), 4-20-02 is far and away the best.