Pearl Jam - Vs. POLL

I prefer the live versions of RVM to the one on the album.

Either "Rearviewmirror" or "Elderly Woman", both for very emo nostalgia reasons. When I was 17 and driving around with my friends on a boring Friday night in the shitty small town we were living in, this was our go to album and those two songs (corn alert!) really helped feel like things were going to get better.

I ended up listening to both Vs and Vitology today for the first time in probably 10 years.. partially due to Pitchfork's review..

I think "Leash" has some great energy.. Fully enjoyed it. Couldn't make it through "Rats" or "Glorified G."

"Go" and "Elderly Woman" are probably the 2 best songs.. And I'm not gonna fucking vote for "Elderly Woman," so this was easy..

???!! There are people who don't like "Leash"!?!?

I can't believe I used to like "Glorified G" when I was 14. I'm embarrassed.

FUCKING GO

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ALWAYS...KEEP IT...LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOADED

I think I used to love all the songs you guys hate. Wma, rats, glorified g were all highlights for me an my mates at school.

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results pretty otm, although i have an odd fondness for "Glorified G"

yeah I dig "Glorified G" & never got why it was a target of so much mockery (not so much on ILM but in other media in the 90s, which I can't identify at this point, just a recollection)

irony of indifference being that low. also wrong.

Daughter wuz robbed.

^gets it

how can a gun be a glorified version of a pellet gun?

he's singing 'pelican'

how can a gun be a glorified version of a pelican

dunno

I believe it's the subject of the song (the wielder of two guns and lover of god) who is a glorified version of a pelican.

look at its mouth, it looks like a gun

(I just listened to this album yesterday for the first time in 10+ years and it was the first time I felt puzzlement about that particular lyric from "Glorified G" so that's pretty weird.)

I listened to it yesterday for the first time since 1994!

Vitalogy too. Still don't like that so much, but I'm really enjoying Vs., Glorified G's chorus aside.

What the eff, man. Weird. But yeah, pretty solid rock record.

Damn, NO votes for "Blood"?

Still love this album.

for an album that's so well packaged, Vitalogy is one strangely put-together album. All the big stinky rock tracks come in clumps and some of them are crap. but I love the more reflective moments on it, not to mention the throwaway weird/funny moments top

9. "Rats" 4:15 0
7. "Blood" 2:50 0
4. "Glorified G" 3:26 0
12. "Indifference" 5:02 0

this is accurate i guess. "Blood" an "Indifference" are quality filler but not album highlights. the other 2 are kinda garbage.

Rats >>>>>> Blood > Leash

"DONT SHIT WHERE THEYRE NOT SUPPOSED TO" is among the lmao-highlights.

it's safe to assume that if rats don't compare they probably don't poll either

Dinsdale otm. I still would take Rats and Dissident over the top 3

Special note: This was the first CD I ever bought in my life. Now, my order of song rankings from best to worst...

Elderly Woman...
Daughter
Dissident
Glorified G
Go
Animal
Blood
Rearviewmirror
WMA
Indifference
Leash
Rats

don't call me
dot

urr

anybody who didn't vote Rearviewmirror can munch a butthole

that said I don't remember if that's what i voted for

still got the soul patch

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/arrest-warrant-issued-for-former-pearl-jam-drummer-dave-abbruzzese/

Elderly
Daughter
Go
Rats
WMA
Glorified
Rearview
Leash
Animal
Indifference
Blood

I leave off Dissident too, what a stinker

ah i knew i'd forgotten about one of them. oh well.

I cant even be in this thread

SOYBEANS
SO MUCH CLEARER

I leave off Dissident too, what a stinker

Uh — this is the only PJ song I love!

Glorified G is such a terrible song.

Agreed (my freshman year roommate in college played this album con-stan-tly)

SOYBEANS

For reason the other day I remembered that back when this album was new, one of the KLOL* night DJs claimed that the full title was "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town Eating A Bag Of Cheetos And Rubbing Her Belly".

*The actual call letters!

For <some> reason.

this is probably my least favorite of the first 5 albums, but "Rearviewmirror" is very possibly their single best song

I had the flu when this thread started. You never forget the flu threads.

Did I vote for "Leash?" If I didn't I should have.

I would have voted for leash, don’t understand the hate, it’s basically this heat with a real singer

Love hearing Eddie go "one two three four two three" in concert and into Elderly Woman. Hair raising with the crowd singing along.

Did I ever tell the story here how I randomly stumbled upon the counter of the small town that the elderly woman worked at?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, March 29, 2019 9:42 PM (one year ago)

This is a good story, but I am pretty sure I posted it before. Need to search.

There is the little tiny speck of a town that I visit often, maybe 20-30 times a year, about 35 miles north of the small city where I live. One of the few landmarks of this tiny town is a hybrid store/bar/restaurant that serves as basically the only retail business in about a 10 mile radius. I was in there the other day and had a much longer conversation than usual with the man who is often working there. He is also a musician, after he was playing some perverted boogie woogie piano song, we started talking about music.

For some reason he brought up that in the early 90s, Pearl Jam stayed at a ranch/studio nearby while recording Vs. and that Eddie Vedder wrote the song "Elderly Woman..." about the former owner of the store/bar/restaurant who has since passed.

For its second album, Pearl Jam felt the pressures of trying to match the success of its debut album, Ten. In a 2002 interview, guitarist Mike McCready said, "The band was blown up pretty big and everything was pretty crazy."[1] Vs. was the first Pearl Jam album to have production duties handled by producer Brendan O'Brien. It was also the band's first album with drummer Dave Abbruzzese, who had joined the band in August 1991 and toured for the album Ten. Rehearsals for Vs. began in February 1993 at Potatohead Studio in Seattle, Washington. The band then moved to The Site in Nicasio, California in March 1993 to begin recording. Abbruzzese called the tranquil recording site "paradise" while lead vocalist Eddie Vedder said, "I fucking hate it here...I've had a hard time...How do you make a rock record here?"[2]

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I had always imagined it as a diner counter somewhere in the midwest or the plains.

Am I the only one who has always detected a slight reggae influence in this album? Particularly in the bass lines of W.M.A. and Rats (perhaps not coincidentally two of the most interesting songs).

I always felt that 'Rats' was Jeff trying to inject a little bit of Jah Wobble into things.

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DON"T GO ON ME NOW