"Corduroy" is the crown jewel of their catalog afaic, but "Yellow Ledbetter" and "In Hiding" and "Leaving Here" and "Do the Evolution" are all personal favorites
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
Elderly Woman is one of only about 3-4 Pearl Jam songs worth hearing.
Curious, what are the other 2-3?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
you know I still love "Better Man" for the same reason I did in '94: verse chorus verse, concise, smart.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
this is "Black" vs "Better Man" for me
I actually don't know a bunch of these
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
Daughter, Better Man... that might be it for me.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
Corduroy, the best song they ever did.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 15, 2012 2:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's funny how Eddie wrote that song for a previous band, and didn't even bring it to Pearl Jam for like 4 years, just had that surefire hit in his back pocket, didn't release it as a single when they finally did record it.
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Caught myself singing along to Eldery Woman when it was on the radio the other day, so that.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
verse chorus verse, concise, smart
A lot of the bangers from Vitalogy onward are exactly like this, one of my favorites being "The Fixer" from the most recent album.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Better Man" has a pretty non-formulaic bridge/outro thing though
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's when Pearl Jam tries to rock out that they become really bad and painful to listen to.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Naw, that's their best look. When they meander around in floaty atmosphere I get bored.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol I'd forgotten which song "Corduroy" actually was
I like these guys a lot whenever I actually get around to listening to them
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
'I Got Id' for Neil Young's scorching guitar solo.
― agnosy, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
This has got to be Corduroy. Though I like most of the songs listed.
― Marty Innerlogic, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
'tremor christ' imo
― omar little, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
so glad ppl here agree with me about corduroy
― 69, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
― kornrulez6969, Friday, June 15, 2012 2:29 PM (1 hour ago)
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
everyone who rides for corduroy OTM
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
I HAIIIII WOOOOBADOOOOOO HUUUUUEEEHHHAAA
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
seriously sitting here staring at whiney's post, and then the list of songs, back and forth, trying to figure out which vedder garble he's transcribing
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
must be hunger strike
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
eddie grew as a person, in "hunger strike" he didn't mind eating bread from the mouth of decadence but by the time of "corduroy" he'd rather starve than eat your bread.
or, possibly he developed a gluten allergy.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
omg m@tt
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
i am not decadent tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
precisely why I prefer those later albums
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
Corduroy, but these are almost all good/great.
― Gotye Sports (It's In The Name) (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
I got so happy when they played "Red Mosquito" at one of the last shows I saw.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
I still like "I Got Id" but the last few times I heard it I found myself wishing it didn't include the Neil Young solo.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
I think Dad McCready coulda owned it harder.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
nah that's such a big cathartic squeal
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
i would rather starve than stealin bread
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp I know it's an unpopular opinion.. I think Neil solos fit better in his own stuff.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
he sings about bread a lot
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― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm actually (lowers voice to a whisper) kind of hot and cold about neil guitar myself, but i think it works on that song.
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
"black" - for the pain
― da croupier, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah I'm voting "Black", just dig that song too much
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Corduroy" always struck me as their take on INXS's "The One Thing", which is obv yet another reason why it's awesome
this remains the weirdest thing
― da croupier, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, June 15, 2012 4:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
woah, never occurred to me before
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
"I Got Shit" is a great song and is very underappreciated. I think it's my favorite single (CD or 7") by them.
― van smack, Friday, 15 June 2012 22:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
..and "Glorified G" is horrific -- one of their worst songs.
I will go out on a limb and say "Glorified G." Lyrics a little juvenile, but love the bridge an outro. Was my favorite song on the first CD I ever bought... "Vs" way back in Jan 94.
― LimbsKing, Friday, 15 June 2012 23:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
AWOOBA DOO AWOOBA DOO AOWAAHHHHH
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 June 2012 23:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
lotta good songs here
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 June 2012 23:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
i *love* the sound on i got id, what a weird and blown out recording
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 June 2012 23:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, Corduroy and Elderly Woman (and Ledbetter) are awesome but this is like the only time I'll get to vote for 'I Got Id'.
Seems like Immortality and Dissident should be in here. Did they get official single release.
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 16 June 2012 01:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
a yabba dee a yabba dee whoooooaa
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 16 June 2012 01:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
"red mosquito" vs. "corduroy" oh man, nope, can't do it
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 June 2012 02:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
like i never need to listen to a pearl jam album or song again in my life but those are two good songs right there
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 June 2012 02:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
lot of great tunes on this list, voting red mosquito.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'd been listening to their covers of public image and they're really charming -- you can tell at least eddie is a big fan of the song, and you can tell that's how he hears lydon's accent in his head.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
gave most of these songs a good listen this afternoon, just to see if anything had shifted, but no. twenny years down the line, and they're still not the band for me. "corduroy" is p great, but i don't dig the bread part. "i got shit" is amazing, no qualifications.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town" gets my vote even though i can hardly listen to Pearl Jam these days, i need a few more years removed before i don't turn the dial when they come on the radio.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
i've drifted away from these guys for awhile now (since 'yield' i've heard nothing), but i have to admit they're a great band for the most part.
― omar little, Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Friday, June 15, 2012 9:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah those were both proper singles. i owned the physical singles of both!
― bronytheus (some dude), Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, June 15, 2012 9:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
dude how many times do i have to tell you, "Evenflow" is not an option itt
― bronytheus (some dude), Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
my favorite non-single PJ track might be 'smile' from no code.
― omar little, Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Nicely done xp
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 16 June 2012 04:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
other Pearl Jam non-singles from the first 3 albums that I have heard on the radio* at least once that have not charted:
Once, Why Go, Porch, Garden, Deep, Release, Rearviewmirror, Rats, Nothingman, Whipping, Habit, Mankind
*not counting when some stations played the whole album on the air before they were released -- definitely heard Vitalogy and No Code this way for the first time, maybe others
― bronytheus (some dude), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Red Mosquito, no contest. Mike's guitar + that waltz beat, I can't get enough of it.
that being said, I Got Shit destroyed me when it came out, I really love it and it's still a def favorite. A lot of these are fkn great. I'm pretty lukewarm on Corduroy and Better Man these days, more bc they're overplayed than anything else.
They re-arranged Better Man at the Bridge Benefit a couple of years ago, sounded great. It was like a whole new song, no-one sang a long because they couldn't figure out how it went, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 16:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
i got shit, no question.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just listened to elderly woman again, really pretty song, top 10 REM songs of the 90s
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
"elderly" vs. "id"
the former for being a breezy respite (w/ country-ish guitar!) from their typical angst m.o.the latter for spending the night with a shovel and drunk-like focus digging that hole deeperwill need to think more.
― shaane, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
is Whiney doing "Yellow Ledbetter"? voted that one over "Black" b/c lol freshman year of college basically
― Euler, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 21 June 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like the version of "Better Man" with the added verse from their Touring Band dvd.
the last minute & half
― van smack, Thursday, 21 June 2012 00:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
Re-arranged 'Better Man' from Bridge School Benefit 2010
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 June 2012 01:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
the first verse feels a bit weird but I love the melody of the chorus
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 June 2012 01:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 22 June 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
Corduroy and Better Man *snooooorrrrrrrrrrre* cmon you guys
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 01:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
<3
well, "Corduroy" is just kinda the best
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Friday, 22 June 2012 02:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
smdh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 02:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
hey, i full on love more than half of these songs, but i agree with consensus here.
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Friday, 22 June 2012 02:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
i have never been a corduroy guy
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 June 2012 02:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
even when it came out as a single I didn't really get why everyone went apeshit over it. It's a fine song, but *shrug*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 June 2012 03:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
i remember taping Vitalogy off the radio when a station played it the week it came out on vinyl but wasn't on CD yet, and "Corduroy" was my instant favorite and i was so happy when it became a hit, pretty much my favorite Pearl Jam radio song now.
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Friday, 22 June 2012 03:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha you fucking kids
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
nothing for "tremor christ"? that would be my all time favourite PJ song if it weren't for "corduroy".
― charlie h, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:54 (11 months ago) Permalink