UNPOPULAR PEARL JAM OPINIONS

[VinylGuy]

I like come back

[McParadigm]

When you say it like that it sounds icky.

[VinylGuy]

icky tump

[Anders]

I am sure no one can post a top ten PRAMG-list that wouldn’t fit in this thread.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Kevin Davis]

I started typing out something about "Come Back" and started feeling like I was just repeating something I'd said multiple times before, so I searched, and sure enough:

"Come Back"'s biggest offense is volume -- heavy-handed snare, wailing stadium distortion on an otherwise tasteful guitar solo, set in a key that forces Eddie to push his voice to the most unflattering outer reaches of its range (largely the reason that "real possibility" line has become one of modern PJ's most quotable memes) -- it sounds like a soul song by a rock band whose primary point of reference for soul music is other rock bands who have made rock facsimiles of soul songs. I would like to hear it covered by someone who could really hit this kind of song out of the park, because as a composition I think it's really solid. It's just too..."amped."

"Come Back" should have been Pearl Jam's first foray into authoring songs for the purpose of giving them to other artists--it's a good song performed by the wrong band, the heavy-handed rock presentation mitigating what at heart is a very tuneful, very soulful song.

Two March Madness threads where I voted for the other song.

[VinylGuy]

I loved that Spotify mix of Come Back that appeared a while back.

[Anders]

I am sure no one can post a top ten PRAMG-list that wouldn’t fit in this thread.

Challenge excepted!

Army Reserve
The Fixer
Unemployable
My Father's Son
Life Wasted
Gonna See My Friend
Johnny Guitar
Severed Hand
Parachutes
Force of Nature

Good list, even if I would change a few songs. However, GSMF does not belong.

Come Back —-> MFS ——> GSMF

[LetMeSleep]

I agree wholeheartedly with Ruddo and KD here. A ep or album of Cold Confession, Come Back etc produced by Nigel Godrich in a style of Beck's Seachange, now that'd be sweet.

[chewm]

I like Come Back a lot.

[liebzz]

I am sure no one can post a top ten PRAMG-list that wouldn’t fit in this thread.

Gotta try:

Life Wasted
Comatose
Severed Hand
Inside Job
Got Some
Pendulum
My Father’s Son
Unthought Known
Mind Your Manners
Of the Earth (does it count if it isn’t on an album?)

...I tried. Not necessarily my top 10 (but close)...just wanted to see if it would fail to fit here.

[LoathedVermin72]

Top 10 from the shit albums:

Army Reserve
Comatose
The Fixer
Future Days
Getaway
Gone
Inside Job
My Father's Son
Sleeping by Myself
World Wide Suicide

I guess? None of these songs mean anything to me.

[Anders]

These lists fit perfectly in this tread I am afraid, though I do applaude the effort. Unthought Known, Future Days. Sorry.

[LetMeSleep]

Marker
Parachutes
Unemployable
Army Reserve
Big Wave
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Swallowed Whole
Infallible
Again Today

And if we count Cold Confession and Let It Ride, those would replace the LB tracks.

[dimejinky99]

You guys are crazy. The end is a beautiful song. And Come back and Parachutes are also great songs

[liebzz]

Unpopular Pearl Jam Opinion I actually have:

I like every one of their albums. Every one.

[Birds in Hell]

You guys are crazy. The end is a beautiful song.

Maybe, but is it really a Pearl Jam song?

[96583UP]

the PJ Missoula poster probably cost Tester 20K votes

[E.H. Ruddock]

Yeah that might be the last time he lets them do a benefit for him

[96583UP]

well he has a 6 year term

that means Jeff Ament will be 61 years old at the time of his next contest

at that age, he probably won't be able to grasp a paintbrush anymore without assistance from an elderly care worker