New Pearl Jam

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Preston & Steve react to the new Pearl Jam song, Dance of The Clairvoyants.

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00:00Step back in the spirit of the sound

00:02Unrelated sound to anything from Pearl Jam that I've ever heard before

00:08I agree

00:09I knew it was going to be different

00:11I found that very surprising

00:13We shall discuss in just a moment

00:15First thing Casey said to me before I listened to it

00:20He goes, it's Talking Heads

00:22He said, it sounds like Talking Heads

00:24And you nailed it, Casey

00:26Spot on with that

00:27Because there are parts in there where he sounds a lot like David Byrne

00:30And they're using a lot of synth elements in this particular song

00:33Which of course the Talking Heads did a lot of

00:35And he says, this is not my beautiful Pearl Jam

00:37Oh, I missed that part

00:38Some people were texting in saying they hear a Chili Peppers vibe in there as well

00:43And a lot of negative comments on the text messages

00:47Let me give you my first impression on that

00:50And I'm not a one-listen guy

00:51I've said that many, many, many times

00:53And it takes a lot of listens for me to warm up to a song

00:55Casey and I listened to about the first minute and a half of it

00:58In the Q speakers here in the studio earlier this morning

01:02I thought it was terrible

01:03I didn't care for it

01:04By the last 30 seconds here of that

01:07I think I like it

01:08That's how quickly it turned around

01:11I'm not a big fan of Eddie Vedder's voice in general

01:15Meaning the vibrato that he does

01:19It's very choppy

01:22But I think it fits well with the grunge

01:26Heavy distorted guitar thing

01:28And it kind of slides in there well

01:31And that's why I didn't like the beginning of it

01:35Because you can really hear his

01:36His singing

01:37But by the end of it

01:39The melody kind of got me

01:40I've always been a sucker for synth pop

01:44It's interesting that Pearl Jam's going that route

01:46You can hear Matt Carman is clearly using electronic sounds

01:51And his drum kit

01:52There's a keyboard

01:54Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do thing going on there

01:56Who would be playing that, Nick?

01:57Is Eddie going to be playing keys?

01:59I don't know

02:00I mean, they've got two guitar players

02:01So somebody could step up and play that

02:03Eddie can play piano

02:04But it's probably the producer, I would think

02:06He does some growling in this song, too

02:09I heard kind of angry Eddie

02:12Which I haven't heard in a long time

02:13So there's the vibrato stuff

02:15Which you don't care for

02:15But then this is like some rock

02:16He's pretending to be a dog

02:20Casey, play the

02:21Let me play it again

02:23Let me see if I can

02:25Hang on a second

02:25It's just a couple seconds in

02:28Hang on, listen

02:29Now I heard it

02:49You heard it that time?

02:49Yeah

02:50It's subtle

02:51Steve, that fit perfectly

02:54That was so good

02:55Rhythmically, that was perfect

02:56I'm a master on the ground

02:58Oh my god

02:59One more time

02:59You're freezing

03:00I missed it

03:06You, you, you, you

03:07Cure me

03:07Here we go

03:09Wait

03:09One, two, three

03:11And

03:12There it is

03:13You sure you want to do this, Ed?

03:25It's an expression of the animals in the world

03:28Suffering from the glaciers

03:29What's up to you?,

03:46Well, I know this

03:47You are a historian

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