Daveportivo's Cultural Evaluation Facility

Oh some bands should just stay retired. Pearl Jam have a great legacy, Ten and Vs. ensure them a rosy retrospective from music historians of years yonder. So what if they inspired the worst bands in human history (Nickelback, Stone Temple Pilots anyone?) but at least they never made a bad rec....oh. So their last self title effort wasn't much cop but your allowed to have one dodgy album, everyone lets off Morrissey for the hit and miss You Are The Quarry because we just glad to have him back making great singles again. Well the honeymoon period is over for Pearl Jam and it's time for them to start making good music again and they give us The Fixer. Quite simply this is the worst Pearl Jam single I've ever heard. It's so vanilla and bland, it's got a cheery bouncy guitar line that's about as creative as a Scouting For Girls riff. Then there's Eddie Vedder singing as if he's aiming for a romantic comedy sound track. Now he's spent years exploring his inner torement for our entertainment, so he deserves to have some fun, but this is just pathetic. This is a band playing it as safe as humanly possible, this is so wussy Nickelback would turn it down. Compared to the exciting pop music being thrown out by Lily Allen, Girls Aloud and the newly re-energised Sugababes, The Fixer is frankly pathetic. For a band who built their legacy on anti-coperate, anti-music video, anit-establishment lines this is an embarsement. So Eddie's due some fun, but seriously if this is a sign of things to come, he should put down the mic and pick up a x box controller or a surfboard, or something, anything but this. A track for those who find vanilla a little to risque.