5 Star Pearl Jam Songs

[Monkey_Driven]

Inspired by the conversation in the Dark Matter album thread, how many PJ songs earn a 5-star rating? Like a true, perfect to near perfect 5-star song. Not a 4.5 or 4 that you're feeling particular into today.

Post your list here. Maybe we can use science to determine what RM considers the band's bests songs.

My personal list:

Alive
Release
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Last Exit
Tremor Christ
Corduroy
Immortality
I Got Id
Hail Hail
Wishlist
Do the Evolution
Light Years
Sad
Can't Keep
Life Wasted
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Comes Then Goes
Wreckage
Setting Sun

[Ello Sailor]

Let me know when the 5+SSSTier++!!1 thread drops.

[Monkey_Driven]

Let me know when the 5+SSSTier++!!1 thread drops.

Stip is banned from this thread

[Farmer John]

Are we rating these on a curve within the Pearl Jam universe? Or are we comparing them to every other song ever made? Like are "Animal" and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67" both equal 5 star songs? (Yes they are)

[stip]

even flow
alive
black
jeremy
porch
release
breath
solat
yellow ledbetter
go
animal
RVM
Small Town
Indifference
Last exit
nothingman
corduroy
betterman
immortality
given to fly
wishlist
DTE
Life Wasted
WWS
Comatose
Mind Your Manners
Who Eve Said
Superblood
Dance
Wreckage
Dark Matter
WFS
Setting Sun

[liebzz]

My list is going to be long.

[daft twat]

All of Merkinball, surely.

[Monkey_Driven]

All of Merkinball, surely.

Oh shoot, I'd add I Got Id to my list. Somehow forgot that one.

[liebzz]

A shot at this:

Yellow Ledbetter
Even Flow
Alive
Why Go
Black
Jeremy
Oceans
Porch
Release
Go
Animal
Daughter
WMA
Rats
Rearviewmirror
Small Town
Indifference
Last Exit
Not For You
Tremor Christ
Nothingman
Whipping
Corduroy
Better Man
Satan’s Bed
Immortality
I Got Id
Long Road
Hail, Hail
In My Tree
Smile
Off He Goes
Red Mosquito
Present Tense
Brain of J
No Way
Faithfull
Given to Fly
Do the Evolution
MFC
In Hiding
All Those Yesterdays
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Insignificance
Of the Girl
Sleight Of Hand
Parting Ways
Can’t Keep
Save You
Cropduster
1/2 Full
All or None
HelpHelp
Man of the Hour
All Night
Sad
State of Love and Trust
Breath
Down
Undone
Leatherman
Of the Earth
Alone
Education
Black Red Yellow
Fatal
Other Side
Hard to Imagine
Footsteps
Wash
Dead Man
Life Wasted
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker in the Sand
Parachutes
Big Wave
Gone
Army Reserve
Inside Job
Got Some
Speed of Sound
Force of Nature
Pendulum
Yellow Moon
Who Ever Said
Superblood Wolfmoon
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Quick Escape
Seven O’Clock
Never Destination
Take the Long Way
Retrograde
Scared of Fear
React Reapond
Wreckage
Dark Matter
Upper Hand
Waiting For Stevie
Got to Give
Setting Sun

…for starters since I know I am missing some.

[Monkey_Driven]

That seems like too many

[Birds in Hell]

I know I am missing some.

Some as in “songs by Pearl Jam”? OK, maybe a small handful.

[wease]

Even Flow
Why Go
Jeremy
Porch
Deep
Release
Wash
Hold On
Alone
Go
Animal
WMA
RVM
Elderly Woman
Indifference
Hard to Imagine
Last Exit
Tremor Christ
Whipping
Corduroy
Immortality
I Got Shit
Hail, Hail
Red Mosquito
Brain of J
Evolution
Light Years
Insignificance
Of the Girl
Parting Ways
Sad
In the Moonlight
Cropduster
You Are
Help Help
Get Right
1/2 Full
All or None
Life Wasted
Severed Hand
Unemployable
Johnny Guitar
Waiting for Stevie
React, Respond

[Birds in Hell]

Jeremy
RVM
Red Mosquito
Johnny Guitar
React, Respond

wease, you’re a sensible man.

Are you telling me there’s not a hair’s breadth difference between these songs? They’re completely equal in quality, can’t divide them? All on the same level?

[Leatherhead]

Didn't think too hard on this. Just went through each album picking what I think are my favorite songs right now. Also, I'm not really sure about the DM songs, still too early.

Garden
Deep
Animal
Last Exit
Tremor Christ
Hail Hail
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Brain of J.
Faithful
Do The Evolution
All Those Yesterdays
Evacuation
Nothing as it Seems
Insignificance
Of the Girl
Grievance
Sleight of Hand
Cropduster
Green Disease
Help Help
All or None
Severed Hand
Army Reserve
Got Some
Johnny Guitar
Who Ever Said
Dance of the Clairvoyants
Dark Matter
Upper Hand
Setting Sun
Sad
Wash
Man of the Hour

[Matters]

I’ll try the objective list first

Even Flow
Alive
Black
Jeremy
Release
Yellow Ledbetter
SOLAT
Go
Animal
Daughter
Rearviewmirror
Elderly Woman in a Small Town
Indifference
Last Exit
Corduroy
Better Man
Immortality
I Got ID
Hail, Hail
Present Tense
Given to Fly
Do the Evolution
MOTH

[uberfischerv2]

Black
Release
Yellow Ledbetter
Indifference
Nothingman
Immortality
I got I’d
Long Road
Given to Fly
Light years
Come back
Won’t tell
Setting sun

[wease]

Jeremy
RVM
Red Mosquito
Johnny Guitar
React, Respond

wease, you’re a sensible man.

Are you telling me there’s not a hair’s breadth difference between these songs? They’re completely equal in quality, can’t divide them? All on the same level?

I like them all equally. It’s a highly subjective exercise.

[liebzz]

I know I am missing some.

Some as in “songs by Pearl Jam”? OK, maybe a small handful.

Get It Back is another I missed.

[Farmer John]

Jeremy
Black
Go
Animal
Daughter
Rearviewmirror
Corduroy
Tremor Christ
I Got ID
Hail Hail
In My Tree
Do the Evolution

I tried to be extra stingy. If was rounding up all the 4.5s I would have a whole bunch more.

[Chris_H_2]

everybody gets a trophy!