Probably better than 90% of the crap on the radio

Pearl Jam has a new album out. I've never been a huge fan of theirs. They seemed pretty weak-dick compared to Soundgarden & Alice in Chains. And that fucking song Jeremy may have been the most overrated of the 90's.

It comes with a slight sense of irony now that Eddie Vedder and company are essentially practicing an art that they are supposed to have redefined with Ten and Vs. Not that the band would notice the irony of it all. If Kurt Cobain was Generation X's reluctant social satirist, Vedder was the earnest confessor, preferring instead to repel the social misfitism that ran through his psyche and his lyrics with impassioned heart-wailing and wild, gesticulating on-stage showmanship.