By Jason Andreasen

Who doesn’t want to watch back-to-back marathons of Flavor of Love, Brooke Knows Best and The Surreal Life reruns? Hopefully, you. The channel that came into existence under the title “Video Hits First” has all but abandoned both “video hits” and music altogether. That said, the recent broadcast of VH1 Rock Honors The Who was finally something that VH1 did right.

While The Flaming Lips and Incubus did a good job paying homage to the iconic Brit band, Rainn Wilson and Tenacious D brought some comedic relief and The Foo Fighters did their best (easily the worst performance of the evening), it was Pearl Jam who stole the show. If you missed it, here’s your chance to catch one of the best covers you’ll hear this year.

Whether you [misguidedly] despise Pearl Jam’s political preachiness or [misguidedly] see them as just another 90s band, you have to admit that the band did an incredible job with this assignment. Vedder’s gut-wrenching screams ought to make you reminisce about times when frontmen had cojones and what The Who was all about. Kudos.