When Lightning Bolt surfaces next week, they’ll have released an equal number of studio albums in the ’00s as they did in the alternative-dominated ’90s. Then again, it’s easy to dismiss, not to mention restrict, Pearl Jam as “one of those grunge groups from Seattle who wore a lot of flannel in the early ’90s.” Albums like Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy are beacons held up as shining lights of a bygone era where mainstream rock ‘n’ roll was somehow better, more real, and not as watered-down as what our senses consume today. I couldn’t help myself from leaning into my rearviewmirror to see how many more of my hairs turned grey.
So, I happened to listen to a classic rock station the other day, and what should come on amidst a hair-swinging block of songs by AC/DC and the Scorpions? Pearl Jam’s “Alive”.
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