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  • Guess I’d never really listened properly to those lyrics. Makes sense it’s about homelessness… To be fair, it’s pretty bloody hard to understand what EV’s singing at the best of times.

    I often wonder what changed about Pearl Jam’s songwriting - they never managed to recapture that same intensity that Ten had. Incredible debut, not a bad song on that album. Then Vs, a couple, maybe three dud songs. Vitalogy, maybe 50/50. Stopped listening pretty much after that. Certainly never bought another of their albums.

    Like Vedder’s solo stuff tho.










  • Pearl Jam. For me, Ten was the perfect album - riffs, hooks, emotive lyrics, powerful music, no filler. I stuck with them grudgingly until about the fourth album (Yield?) but haven’t listened to a thing they’ve put out since. It seemed they just got more and more generic with every album, and had less and less of that spark that made Ten so special. I’ve often wondered why - was it a conscious decision to move from that heavily riff-based music, or did they just run out of original ideas?





  • I like the comparisons with synthesizers, digital cameras, Photoshop etc. Not an aspect I’d considered before, so it will be interesting if we do in fact see a “creativity boom” as a result of these new techs…

    Personally, I’ve found the text based LLMs to be invaluable in parts of my professional life - for example, churning out boilerplate type text for procedural documents. It’s a tool to be used when appropriate, but currently it’s new and shiny…