Pearl Jam vs Soundgarden
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Topic: Pearl Jam vs Soundgarden
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Subject: Pearl Jam vs Soundgarden
Date Posted: March 04 2019 at 23:56
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Which band do you prefer? Choose the king of the Grunge. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 00:03
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Soundgarden More diverse, bigger roots in doom metal and had a defined philosophy from the getgo. The influences flew wild and the sum became a garden of sound. Without Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam would not have been. -------------  
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 03:54
| Soundgarden - Superunknown is a classic. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 04:53
| These days it's Soundgarden. I liked early PJ but pretty quickly lost interest. |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 05:06
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I Like Superunknown more t'han any Pearl Jam album but if I consider the whole discography of the two groups, Pearl Jam ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 05:58
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Badmotorfinger still sound pretty great so Soundgarden |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 08:48
Dbl edged sword on your question.......I think the king of Grunge is Pearl Jam which trumps who I prefer. -------------   
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jamesbaldwin wrote:Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 08:56
| Probably Pearl jam , but not by much.However, I do like Chris Cornall's voice better. He was a great singer. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 12:03
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Pearl Jam couldn't dust Soundgarden's road cases!* Soundgarden went from strength to strength. Chris also did some great solo music and I like all three of Audioslave's albums, too. (*Except for Matt Cameron, who ended up drumming for Soundgarden and PJ simultaneously.) ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: March 05 2019 at 12:35
| Soundgarden by miles. |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: March 30 2019 at 06:31
| Soundgarden was the only truly great band to come from that whole grunge scene.Easy vote. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 30 2019 at 09:54
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i reccomend everyone to listen to Skin Yard, a band that more than any grunge act, merged prog with grunge, like Zappa meats grunge, heavy and unpredictable. -------------
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 30 2019 at 10:08
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I think in retrospect, 90s grunge was pretty unremarkable and boring, especially since a similar music had been done before, and better, by bands like Television, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, and others. It seems that the only thing added ten years later was hype. Those earlier bands deserved the attention that stuff like Nirvana and Pearl Jam got, but they simply lacked being in "the right place at the right time." Queue up Zappa talking about marketing. One band from the grunge era that holds up for me is that brief era when the Pumpkins were throwing a lot of colorful creativity on top of the bleakness. Gish through Mellon Collie were special. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: March 30 2019 at 13:46
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This is tougher than I thought, but in the end I have to go with Soundgarden. Cornell was an amazing singer, but so is Vedder. I think I like the rougher edge of Soundgarden in songs like "Birth Ritual" and "Superunknown" and the occasional psychedelic feel in songs like "Head Down". ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 01 2019 at 11:03
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Soundgarden started out as a post-punk band, early thei have show influence of Bauhaus and Killing Joke. -------------
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Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 22:47
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Old thread, but I have to go with Soundgarden. PJ are great, but I really love the more experimental and psychedelic elements that SG play with, not to mention the Alice in Chains-esque doom metal parts. Plus, without SG's influence in the 80s, so many great 90s bands probably wouldn't have existed in the first place However, if we were to include EVERY Big 4 band, my vote would go to Alice in Chains  ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 22:57
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 03:31
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The kings of grunge are Nirvana, but I vote Pearl Jam here. Soundgarden never did much for me. |
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 20:09
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I have pretty much the full catalogue from both these bands but it is Pearl Jam that I return to most often and they are still releasing quality stuff. Their last(?) album "Gigatron" is well worth the listen; and "Black" is still one of the best grunge songs ever released: ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: July 27 2022 at 01:39
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It’s a very tricky question, as the two are very different bands with very little in common musically. I love both bands, and I’m not sure I think either is better than the other overall. If I go purely by the studio albums, Soundgarden possibly has the edge, but when it comes to live, Pearl Jam walks all over them. When PJ began releasing their “bootlegs” from the Binaural tour (and pretty much ever since), I almost ceased playing their studio albums. PJ live is so much better than their albums. Furthermore, PJ after Matt Cameron joined sometimes almost seems like a different band. The albums from Binaural onwards are almost all superb, and really show the different group dynamic that exists from that point. In terms of vocals, Soundgarden will always trump PJ for me, because as much as I like Eddie’s vocals, they are nothing (NOTHING!) on Chris’s. Actually, my favourite vocalist in PJ is Stone, and I also very much like his solo offerings. My favourite band from this time and place, though, is Alice in Chains. And rounding up my big four would be, not Nirvana, but Screaming Trees. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 27 2022 at 05:09
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Soungarden for me. Big King’s X fan, and it’s only from currently reading their fantastic biography (The Oral History) that I’ve realised how big an influence they were on the grunge scene. I can hear it now, but never had previously…. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: July 27 2022 at 06:58
| Pearl Jam indeed |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 27 2022 at 14:46
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I guess PJ.... ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |