"World Wide Suicide," Pearl Jam

[tozion]

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Goes for adds on March 13.

[That Skipping Rope.]

Sounds like a winner.

[Punchanello]

Not a fan, but I'll see if I like it or not.

[jeff]

GREAT!

[tozion]

Here's a clip of the chorus. I don't like it already. They haven't impressed me in a long time.

www.fmqbproductions.com/epks/2006/pearljam/

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

G-Rock played the 30 second clip today. Sounds like a bunch of repetitive and pointless screaming.

[tozion]

Pearl Jam's eighth studio album will simply be self-titled, and arrive in stores on May 2. Pearl Jam is the first studio album to be released on their new label, J Records and is also the Seattle band's first studio release in four years.

"It's a very special opportunity for us to work with a band that possesses such an historic legacy," said J Records founder and BMG U.S. Label Group Chairman Clive Davis.

The first single off the highly anticipated album will be "World Wide Suicide." Last month, FMQB sent a 15 second clip of the song to radio as a sneak preview. On Wednesday, March 8, the single will be made available as a free unrestricted download on the band's official Web site for two days beginning 6:00 a.m. EST that morning. "World Wide Suicide" will then be available to purchase digitally as of March 14, which is its add date at radio as well.

Pearl Jam was produced and mixed by Adam Kasper and the band at Studio X in Seattle, WA. Kasper was also on hand to co-produce 2002's Riot Act.

-- FMQB

[hidizzyguy]

I heard this on the radio today..... it's... i don't know..... very Pearl Jam.......decent rock track..... nothing really new or different from them.....

[tozion]

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I have to admit, I like it more having heard the whole song. It's still a little disappointing though. I hate the hook.

[tozion]

#24

+762

[mjb1124]

Meh...I'm not crazy about this song. Give me something like "I Am Mine" any day over this.

[tozion]

Billboard review:

World Wide Suicide
PEARL JAM
Producer(s): Pearl Jam, Adam Kasper
Genre: ROCK
Label: J Records (digital download)

The world has changed for the worse since Pearl Jam's 2002 Epic swan song, "Riot Act," a fact Eddie Vedder affirms on the band's self-titled debut for J (due May 2). Vedder has become increasingly vocal about his political opinions in recent years, but luckily "World Wide Suicide" is not just an anti-Bush tirade. Instead, atop a propulsive beat and a thick, three-guitar attack, Vedder personalizes his anger that the U.S. occupation of Iraq has reached the three-year mark. After recognizing a fallen soldier's face in an obituary, he imagines "medals on a wooden mantle next to a handsome face that the president took for granted." Rock radio should jump on this despite the delicate subject matter. —Jonathan Cohen

[tozion]

#11

+1213

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I HATE this. It's just noise. It's doing this well on name alone. If some random band did this same song it would peak at like #217.

[Punchanello]

Sounds very old-school. Not bad, I can see why their fans love this.

[tozion]

NEWS OF THE 'WORLD': A three-year absence from the Modern Rock Tracks chart has made Pearl Jam fans' hearts grow fonder. The group has the highest new entry of its career, as "World Wide Suicide" (J) opens at No. 3. That beats the No. 8 debuts of "Go" in October 1993 and "Who You Are" in August 1996.

"World Wide Suicide" is the highest new entry on the modern tally since the week of March 15, 2003, when Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong" debuted at No. 2. The only song to debut higher than No. 2 was R.E.M.'s "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" in September 1994. "Frequency" opened at No. 1.

"World Wide Suicide" also enters the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at No. 6. Two Pearl Jam songs have debuted higher on this survey: "Go" started at No. 3 and in 2000, "Nothing As It Seems" bowed at No. 5.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

So how many Bush-bashing songs have hit #1 Alternative now? lol

"Megalomaniac" - Incubus
"American Idiot" - Green Day
"The Hand That Feeds" - NIN
this...

I must be forgetting at least one or two more!

[tozion]

#1 Alternative

That won't necessarily translate over to Billboard's version of the chart, although if it does it will be only their third #1 on that chart.

[tozion]

By debuting at #41 on the Hot 100, this instantly becomes their biggest Hot 100 hit since "Last Kiss" went to #2 in 1999.

It's also looking like their biggest Modern Rock hit since "Who You Are" in 1996.

[tozion]

'WORLD' MUSIC II: Pearl Jam's label debut on J gives the band its first No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in almost 10 years. "World Wide Suicide" is the group's third No. 1 on this chart, and the first since "Who You Are" in September 1996. The first modern No. 1 for Pearl Jam was "Daughter" / "Yellow Ledbetter" in January 1994.

"World Wide Suicide" is also the Hot Shot Debut on the Billboard Hot 100, at No. 41. That is Pearl Jam's highest debut on this chart since January 1998, when "Given to Fly" opened at No. 23. "World Wide Suicide" is already Pearl Jam's highest-ranking song since "Last Kiss" peaked at No. 2 in June 1999. That remake of a J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers pop hit from 1964 remains Pearl Jam's biggest Hot 100 hit to date.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

I forgot all about "Last Kiss." I loved that song. It's really hard to believe that "Last kiss," "Jeremy," and "World Wide Suicide" are by the same band. They sound like 3 different artists. The first two songs sound like two very GOOD artists... the current song, not so much.

[picpak]

I've never been a big Pearl Jam fan, but I like this. They sound like they're having fun; a lot of their stuff just sounds dull.

[ffej]

"Last Kiss" is my song, lemme tell you. This is only okay for me though.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

As expected the bullet is completely collapsing. Down to +54 already. Yesterday it was over +100.

[tozion]

Pitchfork gave it 2.5/5.

Meet the new Pearl Jam, same as the Pearl Jam that grungy fuddy-duddies cut bait on once the group became insular and phrenological. Though such a position wrongly excludes more than half of the band's catalog from any sort of love, those fair-weather fans might be in the right when it comes to this song. The group's efforts to quote rock unquote sound pretty flat-- you'll believe that this is the group's eighth album. As for what the lyric sheet holds, Eddie's attempts to zing a certain jug-eared preznit one more time ("Tell you to pray while/ The devil's on his shoulder") are equally lackluster. The belabored baseball metaphors on Riot Act were a better vehicle for beating around the bush than this well-intentioned what-is-it-good-for gnashing. If this single is indicative of what Pearl Jam's self-titled album has to offer, Clive Davis might have to spring for Rick Parashar's magical flange to recoup his investment. [David Raposa]