49. Push Me/Pull Me vs. Thin Air vs. Not For You

[stip]

Push Me/Pull Me vs. Thin Air vs. Not For You

[PHATJ]

All three are darn close for me. Going with Not For You. My next choice is a super close Thin Air.

[Strat]

Push Me Pull me or Thin Air.

PMPM is the best song to show people that pearl jam just aren't some dumb rock band. That there is so much more to this band.

But Thin Air is so beautiful. Subtle. And off my favorite album.

Hmm.

[PHATJ]

Push Me Pull me or Thin Air.

PMPM is the best song to show people that pearl jam just aren't some dumb rock band. That there is so much more to this band.

But Thin Air is so beautiful. Subtle. And off my favorite album.

Hmm.

I agree with everything you said, and I still had to vote for Not For You. I remember being like 13-14, when that song was fresh and ferocious... so good.

[Strat]

Push Me Pull me or Thin Air.

PMPM is the best song to show people that pearl jam just aren't some dumb rock band. That there is so much more to this band.

But Thin Air is so beautiful. Subtle. And off my favorite album.

Hmm.

I agree with everything you said, and I still had to vote for Not For You. I remember being like 13-14, when that song was fresh and ferocious... so good.

I'm definitely taking NFY for granted right now

[PHATJ]

Push Me Pull me or Thin Air.

PMPM is the best song to show people that pearl jam just aren't some dumb rock band. That there is so much more to this band.

But Thin Air is so beautiful. Subtle. And off my favorite album.

Hmm.

I agree with everything you said, and I still had to vote for Not For You. I remember being like 13-14, when that song was fresh and ferocious... so good.

I'm definitely taking NFY for granted right now

It’s kind of an easy one to do that with. I definitely haven’t voted heavily for it over the years, but it fucking sounds awesome on Vitalogy. I love Thin Air (and Binaural), but Vitalogy has so many great songs too.

[liebzz]

The RMs Love Thin Air. That it has no votes 10 voters in is shocking.

[E.H. Ruddock]

It has one vote. This is a tough matchup

[tragabigzanda]

Sympathy vote for Thin Air

[CitizenDick]

Thin Air

[epilogue]

Thin Air

[tragabigzanda]

Not For You on SNL was the performance that pushed me from serious fan to rabid fan. It should win this round and I'd be fine with it winning the whole tourney. But I am sticking with my Thin Air sympathy vote because that song just gets better every time I hear it.

[Anders]

Good songs, but I love Thin Air.

[thesound]

Push Me/Pull Me no hesitation.

[coptheriotact]

Thin air, i never get tired of it.

[ABNorman]

Thin Air is such a lovely little song.

[stip]

What a surprise to find this somewhat close....

Push Me/Pull me and Thin Air are fine. Push Me/Pull Me has a really cool baseline, and some moments I like, but it also feels a little inorganic to me - a little bit of tryhard experimentation. I like the song, but it's never felt essential

Thin Air is a beautiful piece of music that i've come to enjoy over the years, but Stone's writing is very hit or miss and this falls firmly in the miss camp for me. there's also some slightly weird distortion on Eddie's voice I can't quite describe that takes me out of the song a bit (not the same that's on lowlight but a similar issue - like he was afraid to play a ballad straight). That bit when he starts to soar towards the end is great.


I think I would have voted for Thin Air over Push Me/Pull Me, but both are far, far below the volcanic Not For You, which contains a collection of scorching performances, one of their all time great riffs, and of course one of the most important lyrical moments in the catalog (and it's a middling song on Vitalogy! What a record!).

[knee tunes]

Push Me/Pull Me no hesitation.

[evenslow]

push me

[evenslow]

pull me