pearl jam - best songs?

"eldery woman behind the counter in a small town"

i hate pearl jam but i heard this once on the radio on a cross country drive and i thought "hey, this isn't a horrible song!"

Leaving Here

oh, wait...

Last Kiss

oh, wait...

Corduroy. Best riff, best vocal and best melody.

everything on vs.

I kind of have a fondness for "Alive"

Even Flow has a nice chorus. Elderly Woman seconded. I used to like Tremor Christ a lot, but haven't heard it for maybe ten years.

I like "Not For You". Even bought a 45 of it. Pretty much that is the extent of my Pearl Jam fandom.

Bugs.

and the other weird songs on "Vitalogy."

That was my favorite CD when I was 12.

I never liked Pearl Jam, but two songs I do think are good
(from what I've heard) are "Oceans" and "Black".

They've gotten better with each album, to such an extent that their last one made my top 3 of the year – and, indeed, I still can't stand most of Ten.

"Given to Fly"
"Hail, Hail"
"Wishlist"
"Long Road" (I'm cheating)
"Faithful"
"Better Man"
"Once"
"Come Back"

Would never call myself a fan, but liked "Do The Evolution," and I still dig the histrionic denouement of "Jeremy."

I still can't stand most of Ten.

Ten has great songs, but I can't stand the production. Way too much reverb. Yield and Vitalogy are my two favorites. This band is so fashionable to hate, I don't quite understand why.

Ten's OK. The worst thing about that era of Pearl Jam is the hats.

PEARL JAM POXX:

Porch
Yellow Ledbetter
Breath
Go
Dissident
Last Exit
Corduroy
Long Road
In My Tree
Red Mosquito
Mankind
Black, Red, Yellow
Given To Fly
MFC
In Hiding
Insignificance
Grievance
Can't Keep
Get Right
World Wide Suicide

What's the last track on Vs, the organy one? That's quite nice.

The albums upto and including No Code are great.

i like the one they always play at teh bars that goes "do do do do doodoo doooo" at the end witht he falsetto voices.

"Black"

Although I very rarely listen to it I still think Evenflow is one of the best rock songs of the 90s.

Yellow Ledbetter sounds very emotional even tho I still have no idea what he's singing about.

I don't think I've ever tried to make a "pick only"...

Oceans
I Got ID
Rearviewmirror
Daughter
WMA
Betterman
Sometimes
Lukin
Around The Bend
No Way
Push Me Pull Me
All Those Yesterdays

I realise these aren't probably the most representative PJ tracks. Always liked Pearl Jam best when they weren't being Pearl Jam.

Having made the list, and acquired some distance since my teenage fandom, "Yield" appears to be by far their best in terms of decent tracks.

yeah Yield's pretty great. may not be able to resist the urge to do a sequel to my POXX upthread.

Yield has some awful filler (the one about Pilate, "Do the Evolution," a couple of others near the end) and Brendan O'Brien's production, but I still like it.

listening to yield again now - have to personallly disagree re: fillers, its a very solid listen. i really wasn't all that crazy about it at the time, but it's aged very well. and 'given to fly' was perhaps the best track they played at hyde park last weekend...

i really like the ten remaster too...

it (yield) doesn't hold together quite as well as no code (either that or vitalogy is the best pearl jam album in my estimation), but its highs are enormous in the pj discography: "low light," "mfc," "brain of j," etc. "pilate" has gorgeous verses but wtf @ that fucking chorus.

haven't listened to pj much since high school because why, but i still enjoy them when they reappear on my radar.

And, you know, "Wishlist" is pretty gorgeous. So is "In Hiding."

Never bothered with them post-Vitalogy, but I hear good things. Where to start? I tend to prefer their rockier, less noodly songs.

Pearl Jam and Backspacer are excellent. You should have no trouble finding Yield for cheap.

meanwhile, i remember this being a big deal in the height of my pearl jam fandom: what should have been the best song on binaural is not on binaural ("sad").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MscMAv7XHYc

Never bothered with them post-Vitalogy, but I hear good things. Where to start? I tend to prefer their rockier, less noodly songs.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 8:25 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hmmm, a "rhythm fixated member" who hasn't kept up with the band since Vitalogy...are you Dave Abbruzzese? anyway these are my fav post-94 non-noodly rockers:

In My Tree
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Black, Red, Yellow
Brain of J.
Do The Evolution
MFC
Breakerfall
Gods' Dice
Grievance
Get Right
World Wide Suicide
Big Wave
The Fixer

Top 10 songs after Vitalogy, in no order:

Insignificance
The Fixer
Hail Hail
Red Mosquito
Life Wasted
Unemployable
Love Boat Captain (best)
Faithful
Wishlist
MFC

Corduroy. Best riff, best vocal and best melody.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, February 4, 2008 6:12 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

Was at a bar this weekend where three cute louts sang "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter..." I can't escape Pearl Jam.

sounds like a Whiney-style cultural study in the making

They've been unhip for about 15 years now, but I still like 'em.

Were they ever hip? At the peak of my lol indie listening (and PJ's popularity) I and lots of my friends regarded them as a noble but slightly tacky enterprise.

Hip may be the wrong word. Appreciated is more accurate.

elderly woman, immortality, corduroy, i got id, mfc, in hiding, state of love and trust, yellow ledbetter, daughter, nothing as it seems