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| | Pearl Jam: Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003): Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | The "down side" to Pearl Jam's career allowed many people to romanticize the group's shift away from the spotlight as one purely of choice, and the band has since been characterized by honesty, good intentions, and yeoman's work, the sort of qualities that often make for turgid, sometimes rote, faceless music. |
 | | Pearl Jam were all solos and riffs and lighters-aloft, arena-rock sentiment; like so many 60s rockers, they looked to the Asian sub-continent for their first flirtations with "growth" and "maturity"; they even cuddled up to the "right" rock 'n' roll architects (Pete Townshend, Bob Dylan, Neil Young). |
 | | To claim Pearl Jam as the greatest rock band of our time-- as many listeners and critics do-- is virtually a negation of the past 30 years of guitar-based music, a relieved sigh that the values of the 70s aren't completely lost. |
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