Both have an Ed in the band and two As in their name, and you might think they're stylistically disparate but play Radiohead's 'Bodysnatchers' back-to-back with Pearl Jam's 'Do The Evolution' and you might have to reconsider.Īnd if Pearl Jam had their very own Kid A moment then it was in 1996 with the release of No Code. Both have written a song called 'Present Tense'. Both Pearl Jam and Radiohead, and particularly their singers, could be accused of maintaining a certain arrested adolescent mopishness. As Lowe implied, they each move in a similar league, maintaining both huge popularity without pandering to the populist by-numbers naffness of U2 whose own creative urges have been permanently fulfilled by dressing up as The Village People and shouting the word "discotheque" in front of a large shiny lemon. O'Brien's disclosure that he'd recently seen Pearl Jam perform for the first time in his life wasn't the most revealing remark of all time but the similarities between his band and the Seattle grunge merchants are worth exploring further. I wouldn't piss on them if they or their sex were on fire. Interviewing the second upon the release of In Rainbows, Lowe compared the Oxford group to their apparent American counterparts on the grounds that they "do exactly what they wanna do and they continue to make great records and they have the back catalogue to back it up." To this Ed O'Brien replied, "I saw Pearl Jam last year and it blew my mind." Then they span 'My Party' by Kings of Leon, who are so patently not in the same league as the other two that it's like making good use of a WH Smiths 3for2 offer by purchasing Jude The Obscure, East Of Eden and The Formulaic Romance That Could Be Easily Be Adapted Into A Screenplay by Nicholas Sparks. A massive fan of massive bands, the radio disc jockey Zane Lowe once tried to draw a parallel between three of his favourite big hitters: Pearl Jam, Radiohead and Kings Of Leon.
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