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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 2515
Released: May 2, 2006 |
| Our Price: $3.94 |
| Used Price: $2.41 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Pearl Jam Track Listing:
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Marker In The Sand
6. Parachutes
7. Unemployable
8. Big Wave
9. Gone
10. Wasted Reprise
11. Army Reserve
12. Come Back
13. Inside Job
Editorial Review:
Japanese pressing of their 2006 album with no extras.13 tracks. J Records.
Description of Pearl Jam:
If its debut album 15 years ago made Pearl Jam apprehensive with success, the Seattle quintet better buckle in for a return to eminence. On its eighth studio release--and first since 2002--the band socks away the adventurous experimentation that dogged some of its most recent records to investigate a post-September 11, war-ravaged world overflowing with urgency and significance. "It's the same everyday in a hell manmade/What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?" lead singer Eddie Vedder wonders in "World Wide Suicide," one of several contemptuous rants on the Bush administration. Yet the album's spark is more than political. Songs like "Life Wasted," "Comatose" and "Big Wave" embrace the garage-rock past, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard play off each other with the primal lucidity of a decade ago and drummer Matt Cameron, one of rock's best, adds raw backing vocals to Vedder's polished craft. But Pearl Jam also turns up some of its most harmonious works since "Daughter," including "Marker in the Sand," with its radio-ready chorus, the tuneful "Parachutes" paced by Gossard's divine strumming, and the burning narrative and Urge Overkill punch of "Umemployable." Finally Vedder pleads for a lover's return in "Come Back," a keyboard-soaked love song complete with a chilling Gossard solo. It's got a soulfulness that begs for Sam Cooke to sing it and an originality that shows that a vibrant and cocksure Pearl Jam is back in town--and ready to retake the world. --Scott Holter
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Pearl Jam Reviews:
pearl jam rocking again 
2009-10-10 - not 10 , not even vs, but this release has faster pace to it than anything since vitology.
Pretty Good, Not Great 
2009-09-22 - I like and enjoy this album, but it's not their best. There are some moments here are greatness, but some of the songs fall a bit flat. The production on the album also sounds thin, and not lush like some of their other recording.
Stand out songs: Marker In The Sand, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Army Reserve, and Parachutes.
OK songs: Comatose, World Wide Suicide, Inside Job, Unemployable, Come Back, Wasted Reprise and Big Wave
Not so great: Gone
The words are too important = @
2009-07-04 - I own every album except Binural & No Code. Also, I am wondering when/if they'll have 'Picture in a Frame' on a new album soon?
This rock group still has it and always did. If you're more into the typical 'hype' of the music industry...Pearl Jam is definitely NOT FOR YOU!
I love the messages in the songs- the feelings of being 'human' on this crazy messed-up planet.
Honestly, I am never burnt out on their music...I don't believe I ever will. (Proudly, I have a Pearl Jam logo tattooed on my wrist along with: corduroy, i am mine, save you, & come back- 'do the evolution' is on the back of my neck!)
They will ever rock, no doubt
2009-02-05 - Its an amazing album, full of hard guitars, mc cready is the man.
their music has improve a lot, they can give us many suprises on the future.
please people listen to pearl jam, not only about the three most popular albums everybody knows, take care of the after grunge era albums, do the evolution, babies.
i mean this band is the best hard rock band ever.
songs:
life wasted: 9
wws: 8.3
comatose: 10
severed hand: 8.5
marker in the sand: 7.9
parachutes: 6.8
unemployable: 9.2
big wave: 8.0
gone: 9.7
wasted reprise: 10
army reserve 7.2
inside job: 10
comeback: 8.0
Pearl Jam by Pearl Jam
2009-01-26 - This is album is more political but it still rocks. Eddie's gravelly voice is more vigorous than ever. He rages on songs like "World Wide Suicide" and "Life Wasted" in a vehement, torturous way. He portray his convictions with raw emotions also some tender soul. The harmonizing is impecable between Stone and Mike. They sound as fresh today as when the first time they came on the scene. You can't get a better band than Pearl Jam. Their just perfect.
