Lollercoasters, I’d love to know which classic literary works I could have discovered this in. Apparently I have been missing out on some of the world’s best novels.

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-is-the-music-group-pearl-jam-named-pearl-jam.htm

See, the problem is that Silent Alarm set the bar SO damn high. That record was near perfection, and it came practically out of nowhere. And I hate to play the comparison game, but AWITC just didn’t hit that bar. Believe me, I wanted it to so badly, but instead of being the great ALBUM that SA was, it was a handful of great songs and an unfortunately more prominent handful of not-so-great songs. Intimacy, while admittedly much better, has the same issue.

I’m all for bands progressing and trying new things and not making the same album over and over again, but come on. Neither sophomore nor junior album really come close to what this band promised us in the beginning.