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New Pearl Jam Single – A First Listen

3 years ago by Alan Cross | July 14, 2009 4:13 pm

The Obama Administration has done wonders for Eddie Vedder’s mood.  He sounds…happy.  I mean, Beach Boys happy. 

The new Pearl Jam single, “The Fixer,” can only be described as a windows down, radio up summer drivin’ song.  The first fifteen seconds sounds like a cousin to “Worldwide Suicide,” but then it shifts into this, er, joyful gear where Eddie seems positively gleeful. 

The chorus (“If I could get it back again/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”) is singalong stuff, right down to the piano (!?!  At least I think it’s a piano.  Or it could be some kind of tightly-strung steel-stringed instrument) and the cowbell. 

Yes, Pearl Jam has added more cowbell.

By the time the song faded away after two minutes and fifty-five seconds, I was initially left with a “What the hell was THAT?” feeling.  It’s still Pearl Jam—but an optimistic, post-Dubya one. 

“The Fixer” will be released to radio on Monday.  The album, Backspacer, is scheduled for September 21 (but that could change).

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  • Anthony
    July 14, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    How do you listen

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  • Yul
    July 14, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    You’ve got the lyrics wrong. He is saying “fight to get it back again,” not “if i could get it back again.”

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  • Kevin Parks
    July 15, 2009 at 9:30 am

    Hey Alan,

    Thanks for the review!!! The PJ community has been jonesin’ for info on the new single.

    Just an addition though.. The album should be out Sept. 20 :) You can pre-order from pearljam.com vinyl & cd as well as a cool 7″ vinyl “Fixer” single.

    Cheers!

    KP

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