2023 March Madness Survivor: Gigaton Finals

General Pearl Jam discussion.

Choose 1 song to eliminate

Dance of the Clairvoyants
10
29%
Quick Escape
24
71%
 
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2023 March Madness Survivor: Gigaton Finals

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Round 5 - choose 1 songs to ELIMINATE. Voting open until 8pm EST 3/19
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Re: 2023 March Madness Survivor: Gigaton Round 1

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This is probably my only easy round, with the caveat that I like 3 of these 4 songs, and even Take the Long Way is a perfectly fine lowpoint

Take the Long Way
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This is actually one of the hardest albums for me. It's a very consistent album.

Never Destination for sure. I'll have to think about the rest.
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Comes The Goes
River Cross

Who Ever Said is damn lucky to survive. Ed is the weakest link songwriting wise for me.
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I don't know this album well enough half the songs I don't remember what they sound like. Abstain.
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Retrograde, River Cross, Alright, Comes Then Goes
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Buckle Up is a serious candidate for the best song on the album. Of the songs with 9-10 votes currently, it’s by far the best.
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i prefer river cross but it is great
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River Cross
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bada wrote:I don't know this album well enough half the songs I don't remember what they sound like. Abstain.
Some sound like The Who. Some sound like Bruce Springsteen. One sounds a lot like Talking Heads
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This is a very top heavy album, most of the songs eliminated are on the back end for me.
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Jorge wrote:
bada wrote:I don't know this album well enough half the songs I don't remember what they sound like. Abstain.
Some sound like The Who. Some sound like Bruce Springsteen. One sounds a lot like Talking Heads
And they're all good-to-great-to-spectacular.
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Jorge wrote:
bada wrote:I don't know this album well enough half the songs I don't remember what they sound like. Abstain.
Some sound like The Who. Some sound like Bruce Springsteen. One sounds a lot like Talking Heads

Somebody show me a Talking Heads song that actually sounds a lot like DOTC.
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Leatherhead wrote:
Jorge wrote:
bada wrote:I don't know this album well enough half the songs I don't remember what they sound like. Abstain.
Some sound like The Who. Some sound like Bruce Springsteen. One sounds a lot like Talking Heads

Somebody show me a Talking Heads song that actually sounds a lot like DOTC.
I think it's not necessarily the song that sounds like Talking Heads. It's more the inflection Ed uses when singing some parts of DOTC that are David Byrne-esque.
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dad wrote:
Leatherhead wrote:
Jorge wrote:
bada wrote:I don't know this album well enough half the songs I don't remember what they sound like. Abstain.
Some sound like The Who. Some sound like Bruce Springsteen. One sounds a lot like Talking Heads

Somebody show me a Talking Heads song that actually sounds a lot like DOTC.
I think it's not necessarily the song that sounds like Talking Heads. It's more the inflection Ed uses when singing some parts of DOTC that are David Byrne-esque.
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It's like a Weird Al, "Dare to Be Stupid" thing. A stylistic pastiche
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Speaking In Tongues-era Talking Heads. Both the groove and Ed’s performance. Not sure which song is most similar.
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The vocal round at the end is lifted right out of Born Under Punches, while Mike’s guitar seems to be inspired by the guitar on America Is Waiting (admittedly from a Byrne/Eno side project)
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