Strongest track number in the catalog

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Strongest track number in the catalog?

1: Once / Go / Last Exit / Sometimes / Brain Of J / Breakerfall / Can’t Keep / Life Wasted / Gonna See My Friend / Getaway / Who Ever Said / Scared of Fear
19
23%
2: Evenflow / Animal / Spin the Black Circle / Hail Hail / Faithfull / Gods’ Dice / Save You / World Wide Suicide / Got Some / Mind Your Manners / Superblood Wolfmoon / React, Respond
7
8%
3: Alive / Daughter / Not For You / Who You Are / No Way / Evacuation / Love Boat Captain / Comatose / The Fixer / My Father’s Son / Dance of the Clairvoyants / Wreckage
13
15%
4: Why Go / Glorified G / Tremor Christ / In My Tree / Given To Fly / Light Years / Cropduster / Severed Hand / Johnny Guitar / Sirens / Quick Escape / Dark Matter
20
24%
5: Black / Dissident / Nothingman / Smile / Wishlist / Nothing As It Seems / Ghost / Marker in the Sand / Just Breathe / Lightning Bolt / Alright / Won’t Tell
4
5%
6: Jeremy / WMA / Whipping / Off He Goes / Pilate / Thin Air / I Am Mine / Parachutes / Amongst the Waves / Infallible / Seven O’Clock / Upper Hand
2
2%
7: Oceans / Blood / Pry, To / Habit / Do The Evolution / Insignificance / Thumbing My Way / Unemployable / Unthought Known / Pendulum / Never Destination / Waiting For Stevie
1
1%
8: Porch / Rearviewmirror / Corduroy / Red Mosquito / Red Dot / Of The Girl / You Are / Big Wave / Supersonic / Swallowed Whole / Take the Long Way / Running
6
7%
9: Garden / Rats / Bugs / Lukin / MFC / Grievance / Get Right / Gone / Speed of Sound / Let the Records Play / Buckle Up / Something Special
0
No votes
10: Deep / Elderly Woman / Satan’s Bed / Present Tense / Low Light / Rival / Green Disease / Wasted Reprise / Force Of Nature / Sleeping By Myself / Comes Then Goes / Got To Give
1
1%
11: Release / Leash / Betterman / Mankind / In Hiding / Sleight of Hand / Help Help / Army Reserve / The End / Yellow Moon / Retrograde / Setting Sun
3
4%
12: Indifference / Aye Davanita / I’m Open / Push Me, Pull Me / Soon Forget / Bushleaguer / Come Back / Future Days / River Cross
0
No votes
13: Immortality / Around The Bend / All Those Yesterdays / Parting Ways / Half Full / Inside Job
2
2%
14: Stupid Mop / Arc
1
1%
15: All Or None
5
6%
 
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UPDATE:
I chose Track 6 and will explain why below. Maybe you’ll be compelled to explain your choice.

JEREMY – This song is iconic for good reason. My appreciation for it rose to a whole new level after watching this video; It’s much more complex than I ever realized, and that it was accomplished by a bunch of guys in their early-to-mid 20’s makes it even more impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRmxyGruWI

WMA – Every song on Vs. is a good song, can’t go wrong with any of them.

WHIPPING – The “angry rocker” of the bunch, love the energy of this song.

OFF HE GOES – Just a beautiful song.

PILATE – As I’ve posted about here before, this “weird” song typifies the point at which casual PJ fans jumped ship, and the dedicated fans decided to remain on board. The first three albums are undeniably great, and then No Code was kinda weird … fans could give it a pass for being kinda weird … and then when Yield came out, and it wasn’t a recreation of Ten, lots of people bailed. I specifically remember playing this song on a road trip to a high school basketball game and most of the guys on my team hated it, which made me love it that much more.

THIN AIR – An even more beautiful song, and perhaps my favorite among the Track 6’s in the catalog. However there’s another one gaining traction…

I AM MINE – I love the message in this song.

PARACHUTES – The only PJ song Mrs. Bam let me play at our wedding.

AMONGST THE WAVES – Welp. They can’t all be chart-toppers. The only questionable inclusion on this list.

INFALLIBLE – I like this song, OK?

SEVEN O’CLOCK – Absolutely love this song, and it pushed the Track 6’s over the edge for me. Could end up being my favorite of the bunch.

UPPER HAND - Jimi Hendrix come back from the dead.

This group of songs makes for a complete album … I don’t know what order you put them in, but it has the Anthem, the Angry Rocker, the Cheesy Ed Tune, the Internal Struggle Ed Tune, the Inspirational Message Song, the off-kilter weird experiment but not just filler noise, a couple of really pretty ballads, the political protest songs … PJ in a nutshell.
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#1 that time when you threw the ball over the yard and then the guy was actually shorter than you.
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knee tunes wrote:#1 that story where you threw the ball over the yard and then the guy was actually shorter than you.
That guy was so short!!

I think it was Mickey, actually.
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#2 that time when you did the RM interview and someone threw a ful bottle of water up into the air and you watched its full motion give you a black eye
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#3 that time when in the RM interview you confided that sometimes you would post a wisecrack and afterward think "haha that was a good one".

No, it wasn't.
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#4 where'd ya go, kud'nu?
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1 and it’s not even remotely close
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:1 and it’s not even remotely close
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Prob 1

8 starts off so good n then ehh

6 n 7 are underrated n could contend
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Yeah, I think it's #1.
#4 had a GREAT run though:
Tremor Christ / In My Tree / Given To Fly / Light Years / Cropduster
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4

1: Once / Go / Last Exit / Sometimes / Brain Of J / Breakerfall / Can’t Keep / Life Wasted / Gonna See My Friend / Getaway / Who Ever Said
4: Why Go / Glorified G / Tremor Christ / In My Tree / Given To Fly / Light Years / Cropduster / Severed Hand / Johnny Guitar / Sirens / Quick Escape

Once vs Why Go = close, perhaps Once
Go vs Glorified G = Go
Last Exit vs Tremor Christ = close, perhaps Tremor Christ
Sometimes vs In My Tree = In My Tree
Brain Pf J vs Given To Fly = Given To Fly
Breakerfall vs Light Years = Light Years
Can’t Keep vs Cropduster = close, perhaps Cropduster
Life Wasted vs Severed Hand = close, perhaps Severed Hand
Gonna See My Friend vs Johnny Guitar = Johnny Guitar
Getaway vs Sirens = Sirens
Who Ever Said vs Quick Escape = Quick Escape
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Mike wrote:Yeah, I think it's #1.
#4 had a GREAT run though:
Tremor Christ / In My Tree / Given To Fly / Light Years / Cropduster
Glorified G isn’t great imo, but even for the newer records than the ones you mentioned, 4 is mostly great.
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#8 is my favorite song on the first three albums, so i went with that. #4 is probably second
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8 starts strong, but then gets very uneven.
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Went with #8 but #4 is a close second.

#1 seemed like the choice but after really looking at that group of songs, I don’t think they would hold up long as a playlist.
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4: Why Go / Glorified G / Tremor Christ / In My Tree / Given To Fly / Light Years / Cropduster / Severed Hand / Johnny Guitar / Sirens / Quick Escape
8: Porch / Rearviewmirror / Corduroy / Red Mosquito / Red Dot / Of The Girl / You Are / Big Wave / Supersonic / Swallowed Whole / Take the Long Way

Why Go vs Porch =Porch
Glorified G vs Rearviewmirror = Rearviewmirror
Tremor Christ vs Corduroy = Corduroy
In My Tree vs Red Mosquito = In My Tree
Given To Fly vs Red Dot = Given To Fly
Light Years vs Of The Girl = close, perhaps Light Years
Cropduster vs You Are = close, perhaps Cropduster
Severed Hand vs Big Wave = Severed Hand
Johnny Guitar vs Supersonic = Johnny Guitar
Sirens vs Swallowed Whole = Swallowed Whole
Quick Escape vs Take The Long Way = Quick Escape

Still 4.
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1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. need to think on it
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I think we have this thread already
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