Rank the first singles.

[Chris_H_2]

Go
Given to Fly
Who You Are
Dance of the Clairvoyants
I Am Mine
Alive
Spin the Black Circle
The Fixer
Nothing As It Seems
Worldwide Suicide
Mind Your Manners

[Monkey_Driven]

Mind Your Matters and WWS are definitely last.

[OmegaprimeVKM]

I Am Mine
Given to Fly
Go
Spin The Black Circle
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Alive
Nothing As It Seems
Mind Your Manners
Who You Are (still doesn't appeal to me)
The Fixer
Worldwide Suicide

Can't Deny Me isn't the first single to anything. It's just stand alone crap.

[Anders]

Nothing As It Seems
Given To Fly
Go
Who You Are
Alive
Dance of the Clairvoyants
I Am Mine
Spin The Black Circle
World Wide Suicide
The Fixer
Mind Your Manners

[ABNorman]

Despite getting into Pearl Jam around '96, I somehow missed Yield's release, so the first single I heard as a single was NAIS.

As I experienced 'em:

Dance of the Clairvoyants
WWS
I Am Mine
NAIS
Mind Your Manners
The Fixer

How I'd rate all of 'em now:

Given to Fly
Who You Are
Go
Alive
Dance of the Clairvoyants
NAIS
World Wide Suicide
Spin the Black Circle
The Fixer
Mind Your Manners
I Am Mine

[E.H. Ruddock]

If Go isn't first on your list, you are dumb. Not you in particular AB (although you are because it isn't) but everybody.

[Anders]

Go is not the best Pearl Jam song by a long shot.

[LoathedVermin72]

Go is not the best Pearl Jam song by a long shot.

Wrong

[Jorge]

It's up there. Great song

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Anders]

Good song. Top 40 Pearl Jam song.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Go is not the best Pearl Jam song by a long shot.

Ok, but we are talking about the best first singles here

[Jorge]

Go
Who You Are
Spin the Black Circle
Nothing As It Seems
Given to Fly
Alive
I Am Mine
Worldwide Suicide
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Mind Your Manners
The Fixer

[Anders]

Yes, that’s why Sad didn’t win.

[stip]

this is towards the bottom of the list for me right now, but I love all their initial singles.

[Chris_H_2]

Go is not the best Pearl Jam song by a long shot.

Ok, but we are talking about the best first singles here

Go is the best pearl jam song, period.

[Anders]

this is towards the bottom of the list for me right now, but I love all their initial singles.

Let’s see your list.

[Anders]

Go is not the best Pearl Jam song by a long shot.

Ok, but we are talking about the best first singles here

Go is the best pearl jam song, period.

Insgnificance, Hail, Hail, Tremor Christ, Animal, NAIS, GTF, In My Tree, Release, there are so many good ones, all better than Go for me.

[stip]

Alive
Worldwide Suicide
Given to Fly
Mind Your Manners
Go
I Am Mine
The Fixer

Dance of the Clairvoyants
Spin the Black Circle
Nothing As It Seems
Who You Are

Maybe? 1-7 are all 4.5-5 star songs for me. Alive predates my fandom (I got into them around the time Jeremy was breaking) but I've been here for the rest. WWS was the single I had the most pleasantly visceral reaction to - it was all the anger and energy I had been hoping for on Riot Act and Binaural and didn't get. Basically the reaction Spenno described in the DotC thread. Who You are was the most disappointed I ever was, even though I really like that song now. Had there been a facebook my comments probably would have been similar to some of the negative reactions that LV curated. I wasn't ready for Pearl Jam to be something different

[joostone]

Alive
Go
Nothing As it Seems
Given to Fly
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Who You Are
I Am Mine


Worldwide Suicide
The Fixer
Mind Your Manners