121. Blood vs. No Way

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Thu March 25, 2021 12:20 am

No Way is a fucking gem.

Post by **stip** » Thu March 25, 2021 12:22 am

This is kind of close for me. The music in No Way is clearly better. But I've always hated these lyrics (not that Blood is a triumph) and a fiery Vs. performance (which everyone delivers) goes a long way - especially since No Way is one of the bottom of the album vocal performances for me.

Now that I type all that all, easy vote for Blood.

Jaeti · Post by **Jaeti** » Thu March 25, 2021 12:51 am

I'm struggling with this one. Neither one of these are top-shelf for me, but I like them both, and to my ears they each carve out a unique little space in the catalogue.

I think I'm going with No Way, but it's close.

Thurman Murman · Post by **Thurman Murman** » Thu March 25, 2021 12:54 am

Ok i'm going to have to come back to this one....

wease · Post by **wease** » Thu March 25, 2021 1:03 am

Blood for Dave A

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Thu March 25, 2021 1:48 am

No Way.

Especially love the SVT Theory when they jam the outro ....

What a great song.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Thu March 25, 2021 3:02 am

No Way in a big way.

Post by **epilogue** » Thu March 25, 2021 3:02 am

No Way is the best song on Yield.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Thu March 25, 2021 3:03 am

fuck! very hard one for me...Blood is so fucking intense i love when PJ rocks that hard....but No Way is a favorite. Its perfect.

Im voting for No Way

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Thu March 25, 2021 3:55 am

The 93-95 live Bloods were epic, but these days i prefer the studio cut of No Way

The Town · Post by **The Town** » Thu March 25, 2021 6:16 am

Picking a favorite song is a definite fool's errand, but No Way has been my favorite lately.
If it were up to me it'd win it all this year.

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to describing music and music theory but I'm curious.
Is No Way the epitome of "rhythmic things that butt up against each other"?
There are constantly changing guitar riffs and often Mike and Stone are playing pretty different things.
Brain of J has a lot of that too.

I mean Blood has nice guitar interplay too actually, just isn't quite the core of the song in the same way as No Way and Brain of J.

No Way has a lot to sink your teeth into. Excellent headphone listening.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Thu March 25, 2021 6:27 am

This is close.

Higgs · Post by **Higgs** » Thu March 25, 2021 9:00 am

LetMeSleep wrote:No Way is a fucking gem.

And a rhinestone even!

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Thu March 25, 2021 12:21 pm

"No Way," easily. Sometimes it's my favorite song on Yield. It's got a weird little swagger and there's copious sonic details in the production to pick out with each listen.

"Blood" has always been one of the lesser songs since the first time I heard it. It leans a little too heavily on the funk and metal aspects for my taste, but I enjoy the catharsis when I'm in the right mindset.

wease · Post by **wease** » Thu March 25, 2021 12:58 pm

Brett wrote: It leans a little too heavily on the funk...

You should be banned for saying this. You can never have too much funk.

liebzz · Post by **liebzz** » Thu March 25, 2021 1:14 pm

wease wrote:
Brett wrote: It leans a little too heavily on the funk...
You should be banned for saying this. You can never have too much funk.

There must be a George Clinton meme out there somewhere for this...

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Thu March 25, 2021 2:13 pm

wease wrote:
Brett wrote: It leans a little too heavily on the funk...
You should be banned for saying this. You can never have too much funk.

Funk is fine in and of itself, but Pearl Jam's songwriting got better after they trimmed most of the funk influences out. They could play the style like nobody's business, but had a hard time transcending pastiche in their writing.

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Thu March 25, 2021 4:01 pm

funk >>>>>>>>>>>>mediocre to bad forced punk

Red Mosquito

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