Jake Brennan (Host)

Bands fell in and out of favor with every release, with every video, with basically every move they made.

For example, I loved that third Pearl Jam record, Vitology.

but this is the third Pearl Jam album.

The second Pearl Jam album was a monster record, monster, huge, huge.

You could just walk around Boston and you would just hear that album playing from windows.

It was absolutely massive.

So by the time the third record comes out, I mean, we were sick.

I was sick of Pearl Jam by 10 basically, but I still, it was so overplayed that first album, but I still liked the band.

My friends, on the other hand, it was way uncool to like Pearl Jam.

By the third record, it was definitely uncool to like Pearl Jam.

They were just, you know, a less cool version of Soundgarden, who we thought was beyond cool.

They were darker than Pearl Jam.

Their singer was just as talented.

They were heavier.

But I didn't love Super Unknown, the album that came out in 1994, as much as I love Bad Motorfinger.

I still listen to Bad Motorfinger.

My neighbors can attest to that.

It's one of my favorite driving records.

I pull onto my street pretty much once a week with Bad Motorfinger blaring from my car windows.

Great driving records.