That connection with fans has only grown over the years as Vedder has penned classic Pearl Jam tracks like "Better Man," "Wishlist," "I Am Mine" and "World Wide Suicide." Vedder's talent has always been writing intensely personal lyrics that people can apply to their own lives. But the way songs like "Black" were written, it would be impossible for people not to latch onto what Vedder was singing. But it was Vedder providing the lyrics that made him a generational leader, against his best efforts. In Pearl Jam's early days, Eddie Vedder wasn't the one writing most of the songs, as that was up to Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament. Despite a continuing debate on the merits of The Fixer(the lyrics were most likely Ed's, even though the song is credited to Matt Cameron), we'll go ahead and prais our hometown hero for the honor. Why this is a “stock” festival as opposed to a “palooza” is anyone’s guess. I am seriously considering the 8 hour drive tomorrow just to see an all-female tribute to Rage Against the Machine!Ĥ writer, Andrew Moll, listed his Top Ten Songwriters this week. For those of you who still hunger for the sounds of Seattle, 102.9 The Buzz’s Grungestock fest will feature tribute bands Ten ( Pearl Jam), Badmotorfinger ( Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog), Facelift ( Alice in Chains) and Nashville’s one-and-only all-female tribute to Rage Against the Machine, Take the Power Back. Of course, the glory days of grunge hit the wall when Kurt Cobain put a shotgun in his mouth, pulled the trigger and blew Candlebox, Seven Mary Three and Bush out the back of his head, effectively ending an era. You’re on the train, watching the person you love or the life you wanted to live recede into nothing as you gather speed leaving the station.Īccording to the Nashville Scene, you can get your fix of "Pearl Jam," "Soundgarden," "Alice in Chains," and "Rage Against the Machine" at Cannery Ballroom, Friday night () at 9pm.įor fans of the ’90s grunge movement, there is probably no greater moment in the history of recorded music than Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike.” The song, which showcased Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell out-wailing each other in a blood-and-thunder tribute to fallen Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood, is the “American Pie” for the flannel-clad generation. There’s almost a Tom Waits feel to that sentiment, although Waits would have used a train metaphor. The speed of sound metaphor works great here, both as a vision of energy, happiness, and movement (the way speed is a stand in for meaning, power, and agency-see Born to Run, although Eddie has long been drawing water from that well) but also the way in which a door is rapidly closing-that life is moving fast, and if he doesn’t find his peace soon, his way to slow it down, it will have moved far beyond his grasp, and he’ll be left behind. He’s coming to grips with his own failures to live, his own failures to feel, his own fear of peace and happiness, and he’s starting to realize that he’s running out of time. Instead the singer is mourning the loss of something more tangible-something once held and since surrendered, perhaps due to the fears, doubts, or self-destruction of the singer. I’m reluctant to comment too much on this when we’re only going by fan transcriptions of demos, but the song is animated by a sense of loss, but his isn’t a sister song to Elderly Woman, where the singer is haunted by everything they never did. They slingshot between anger and uncertainty perhaps, or hope and fear, but not known and unknown.
Their records don’t often come from these kind of divergent headspaces.
Whereas the later are brimming with confidence and optimism these are quiet and meditative numbers-lost, where the others are found.
Lyrically there is a really fascinating counterpoint in a song like Speed of Sound (or the End) compared to The Fixer (or Got Some).
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