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I've said it once and I'll say it again, I'm exceptionally happy as a fan as I honestly never thought this would happen, ever.

However, If I'm honest even happier for Axl and Slash to have just reconciled as two friends. They formed a band together and went through some major highs and major lows and despite all the negativity that has gone one over the last few years, you can't ever forget those experiences, so just knowing they're (hopefully) friends again makes me happy (yes, I'm sappy and stupid). I remember when I saw Cribs a little while back and saw that Slash kept the Dino rocker because Axl had given it to him, it was clear he missed at least some part of that relationship, I guess Axl did too. Oh and I think it's quite big of both of them to have reconciled, it takes a lot to do that and that really can't be overestimated.

I love Slash, but he is totally going to ruin this by even acknowledging he and Axl talked.

It won't be long before we get a story of Axl releasing a statement about how Slash is once again in the media talking about him and so forth.

He really should just keep quiet about it and keep letting whatever it is build until there is more trust there.

Must say, I had that feeling too, but he did attempt to move the conversation on quite quickly, which is rare for Slash. I think that says a lot.

I know Bruce Hornsby is a little middle of the road to some, but I personally love his work. 'The Way It is' is probably familiar to most especially since tupac's version of the song became a hit. Unfortunately that song, despite it's brilliance, seems to have an overbearing quality on Bruce's work as his subsequent work seem to have receieved less puclic attention, although it should be noted that Bruce has always done what he wanted and hence the surpsingly varied nature of his catalogue of work and no doubt that is one of the reasons he has maintaned a large dedicated following. His chops on the Piano and Jazz piano a only rivalled by a few.

Anyway obviously 'The Way It Is' is a great song and album, but I personally think his next album with his band The Range is his best 'Scenes from the south side.

Songs:

The way it is

Look out any window

Resting place

Preacher in the ring

Mandolin rain

across the river

Anyone a fan of this band?

I only really got into listening to them a year ago and I think they have produced some great stuff. Forget rock star INXS, because you need michael Hutchence to fully appreciate the band.

Kick is probably the album they are most famous for, but they have produced some stellar stuff subsequent and prior to that. I guess the way I would describe them is a funk rock act/ mainstream rock.

Songs to download:

New sensation

Suicide blonde

the stairs

Never tear us apart

Need you tonight

what you need

elegantly wasted

and lots more....

ME!!! I LOVE BON JOVI!! Ive seen them live at milton keynes and i have to say that it just blew me away! I love their recent stuff as much as the older stuff, if not more. I would really recommend going to a concert of theirs!!!

I went to their first night at Milton Keynes and I agree mate, they were excellent. I also agree their new album is up their with some of their best work ever. I took some photos of the concert (fairly poor ones), but here are a few:

I've genuinely grwon to love every song on that album barring Untitled. Pilate and now way especially are excellent songs, just takes a little while to dig them. Pearl Jam haven't made any bad albums persae, but they have gone a little off track over the last few years. Experimentation and intreverted albums are cool, but With this new album (which i just got a copy of yesterday ), they really seem to have refuelled themselves.

The new kicks ass, really it does. It's angsty and punky, melodic, catchy and there are somne solos too! There is a fair mixture faster and slower paced songs. Eddie seems to just get better with age and stone mike (mike contributed lyrics for the first time ever on this album) seem engergized like never before. Rolling stone magazine say it's the best album they have done in ten years! At the moment I wouldn't like to comment on that, because only time will tell if i actually dig this album as much as say yield in years to come, but right now i wounldn't doubt it.

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Wartime, for everything else that's wrong with it, brings out the best in Pearl Jam: the power-chord brawn, contrary righteousness and metallic-KO songwriting sense. The band's second and third albums, 1993's bluntly titled Vs. and 1994's Vitalogy, are as good as modern rock-in-opposition gets: shotgun guitars, incendiary bass and drums, and Eddie Vedder's scalded-dog howl, all discharged in backs-to-the-wall fury and union.This album, Pearl Jam's first studio release in four years and their best in ten, is more of that top electric combat.

With a difference. The Pearl Jam on Pearl Jam is not the band that famously responded to overnight platinum by going to war with the world. Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron are now fully at war in the world, unrepentant veterans of the campaign trail (the Vote for Change Tour) and right-wing crucifixion (the "Bushleaguer" uproar) who have made the most overtly partisan -- and hopeful -- record of their lives. For Vedder, the 2004 election was not a total loss. "Why swim the channel just to get this far?/Halfway there, why would you turn around?" he demands in the first song, "Life Wasted," in a ragged, run-on bark. And it's all forward ho from there. As immediate and despairing as breaking news from Baghdad -- "World Wide Suicide" opens with a newspaper casualty report -- Pearl Jam is also as big and brash in fuzz and backbone as Led Zeppelin's Presence.

That's not just rock-critic shorthand. However you define grunge music, Pearl Jam didn't play it. They were, from jump street, a classic rock band, building their bawl with iron-guitar bones and an arena-vocal lust that came right from Zeppelin, early-Seventies Who and mid-Eighties U2 (with distortion instead of the Edge's glass-guitar harmonics). But Pearl Jam have not been this consistently dirty and determined in the studio since they subbed for Crazy Horse on Neil Young's 1995 Mirror Ball. I own two complete tours' worth of Pearl Jam's official-bootleg concert CDs, and this record's five-song blastoff ("Life Wasted," "World Wide Suicide," "Comatose," "Severed Hand" and "Marker in the Sand") is right up there in punch and crust with my favorite nights in that live series (Seattle, 11/6/00, and New Orleans, 4/8/03, to name two). And whenever the guitars take over, which is a lot -- Gossard and McCready's slugging AC/DC-like intro to "Life Wasted"; McCready's wild wah-wah ride in "Big Wave"; the way he cracks Vedder's gloom in "Parachutes" like heat lightning -- it reminds me that Gossard and McCready deserved to be on our 2003 "Greatest Guitarists" list. Permit me to admit it here: I screwed up.

That's more confession than you'll ever hear in the Bush White House. But talk-show pit bulls will be disappointed to find that Vedder doesn't waste his breath naming names here, except for a glancing reference to "the president" in "World Wide Suicide." There is blame, but it's spread all around. "Now you got both sides/Claiming killing in God's name/But God is nowhere to be found, conveniently," Vedder sings in "Marker in the Sand," from inside Gossard and McCready's crossfire and the saturation bombing of Ament and Cameron. There is dread too -- lots of it. "Army Reserve" is a midtempo elegy for the real Army Reserve, the wives and children who serve in worry, behind the lines. (The dark harmonies crowding Vedder's low, grainy vocal feel like ghosts in waiting.) And "Unemployable" is just half a story, with a soaring-melancholy chorus. The song ends before the guy with the pink slip can find a new job. But Vedder's opening scene -- the fist with the ring that says jesus saves, flying with helpless anger into a metal locker -- is lesson enough. In multinational capitalism run riot, the bottom line doesn't care about religion or party line. We're all expendable.

And we're all accountable. The politics on Pearl Jam are not those of right or left but of engagement and responsibility. In "Life Wasted," Vedder at least partly mocks his old self, the one that wore success and the leverage that came with it like sackcloth: "Darkness comes in waves, tell me/Why invite it to stay?" But there is only determined optimism in Pearl Jam's superb finish, "Inside Job." The song starts quietly, then climbs and peaks like a combination of "Stairway to Heaven" and the Who's "The Song Is Over" -- a mirror image of Vedder's stumble through each line from night into light. "I will not lose my faith," he promises under thunderclap guitars, with such assurance that even if you don't agree with anything else on this record, you believe him.

Rolling stone review:

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearlj...3/rid/10028282/

To be honest I've never been a big fan of the chili peppers. Whilst i think they make some great singles, i find their albums somewhat underwhelming and even repetetive. Jmo.

To me, they seem like a band that people like because it's 'cool' to like them, rather than genuinely appreciating them. Anthony kiedis, and let's be honest about this, can't rap for shit and live he's fairly adequate at best. In general he's a quite bit annoying.

but like i said, jmo.

The new single isn't too be bad, reminds me of some earlier stuff. I'm more interested to see how they have managed to produce a double length album, when even their single disc stretch on.

gotta get myself a copy of degredation trip it seems.

Pearl are my favourite. Second AIC and third STP/Nirvana/Soundgarden.

Firstly sorry if this has already been posted, i haven't been on the forum for a while so yeah sorry.

Anyway it's been four years since their last album, which is far too long for pearl jam. I'm used to one or two year waits, but four years! It does seem though that this album will be worth the wait, especially since i've been slightly diasppinted with the last two albums.

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Pearl Jam Set the Date

Veteran grunge rockers to release eighth studio effort in May

Pearl Jam will release their eighth, self-titled studio album on May 2nd. Produced by Adam Kasper (Soundgarden), the follow-up to 2002's Riot Act was recorded in Seattle and will be the band's first for J Records.

"A couple of rock songs, a couple of ballads -- it's not rocket science," says Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard about the new disc. But his hopes are high: "It feels like a new opportunity for us. We're proud of the songs, and we think they have a chance to do a little better commercially."

Pearl Jam is the band's most collaborative effort yet: They produced the album together, each member will receive writing credits and for the first time ever guitarist Mike McCready contributes lyrics, to the album closer "Inside Job." Gossard has also contributed two of his own songs, "Parachutes" and "Life Wasted."

The first single, "World Wide Suicide," penned by frontman Eddie Vedder, hits radio March 8th. On the same day, the song -- which McCready has described as "very punky and Who-ish" -- will be made available as a free download on the band's Web site, pearljam.com.

Pearl Jam, who have sold more than sixty millions albums since their 1991 inception, will launch a spring world tour in support of the album. Details will be announced later this month

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearlj...am_set_the_date

about fucking time.

The only thing I don't like about him is how he keeps repackaging his songs and re-releasing a different mix of "greatest hits"  tracks every year. I know of at least five different CDs that contain virtually the same tracks -- all in a lame attempt to milk fans. 

I've only ever seen one official greatest hits album (crossroad) and one alternative greatest hits (this left feels right).

really got into just over a year ago, great band.

-Dry County

-My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms

-If I Was Your Mother

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Too right! I deleted Diamond, don't like that one as much, but the others...! B)

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exactly diamond ring is the one cap on song these days.

I know the Spin's went out of fashion with this fickle music industry, but they are still quality band. Anyway the original line up split in 1994. Since then they have continued to release albums, but with a shifting line up, but this year sees the original line up back together for the first time in 11 years and releasing their first album together since 1994.

Anyway i'm sure there will we be many shooray for tolerance&#33;s and laughs had at the band, that seemingly went from cool to uncool virtually overnight, but this new album really is good. If anyone wants to download a few tracks i'd recommend:

Margarita

Nice talking to me

Tonight You Could Steal Me Away

can't kick the habit

p.s. everyone should check out "Pocket full of kryptonite" the Spin doctors debut 1991 album, which is still their best work to date.

Spindoctors.com (Official website)

Alice in chains - Dirt

Alice in chains - Jar of flies/Sap

Exrtreme - porno graffitti

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Bruce Hornsby & the range - The way it is

and preordered:

Bon Jovi - have a nice day

Spin doctors - nice talking to me

Institute - distort yourself

my favourites would have to be:

pink floyd, the who, rem and ofcourse vr.

Paul is on

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Did you see VR being called 'the damp squid' of the event? and Fern asking wtf the whole megaphone thing is about ?

R.

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yeah, but like jonathan said it was more because no one knew their songs.

mesmorising.

here we go

"Every hour Live 8 goes over the schedule time of 9:30pm they get fined £350,000."

I guess that's the reason. Not enough time.

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wtf, "where's the love?"

short, but sweet.

best performance of the night (so far anyway)

david beckham *changes the channel*

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He is starting toooo look old.

I like Robbie,gives as good as he gets.Great live show.I wish he would play Me And My Monkey.

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yep all those years married to posh must be taking their toll.

p.s. thanks for the pm, i'll send one round soon.