Song of the Moment: Of the Earth

[96583UP]

I love Of The Earth

[Dex]

I love Of The Earth

Which live version?

[96583UP]

I love Of The Earth

Which live version?

All of them!

Always thought it would make a great closer

bring the house down and walk off

end the show with that as the last word

[Dex]

I love Of The Earth

Which live version?

All of them!

Always thought it would make a great closer

bring the house down and walk off

end the show with that as the last word

Well, I agree.
I hope someday they'll do this.
I guess we'll be waiting for the cycle of 2025 shows to see it happen.

[LetMeSleep]

Saw it live.

Went to the bar.

[Dex]

Saw it live.

Went to the bar.

[96583UP]

I love Of The Earth

Which live version?

All of them!

Always thought it would make a great closer

bring the house down and walk off

end the show with that as the last word

Well, I agree.
I hope someday they'll do this.
I guess we'll be waiting for the cycle of 2025 shows to see it happen.

Maybe they will add more shows in October

[E.H. Ruddock]

Given the “feedback” from certain recent incidents here, i wouldn’t be surprised if they never played this song live again

[96583UP]

they stopped playing OTE long before the incident on this board and our irrelevant feedback

[dimejinky99]

Think I was at the first live playing of it? Think it was here. Didn’t blow my hair back exactly but it is a song designed to be played live as others have said. It doesn’t really work in the studio.

[B]

Given the “feedback” from certain recent incidents here, i wouldn’t be surprised if they never played this song live again

They played it 12 times from 2010-2016. It was fairly unlikely we were going to hear it live ever again as it was.

[stip]

I didn't realize they played it that often, actually.

[dimejinky99]

It’s kind of a momentum killer in a set if you think about it. That pull back and forth in the tempo and no real singable chorus. And you’ve to wait a long time to get to the jam at the end which is just a porch redo to my ears, and only really the band get anything out of it. it’s not really up there with their best at all but appreciate the effort.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[stip]

of the last 5 albums i think you could have slotted a version of this anywhere except Backspacer.

Unless it was a hidden track

[VinylGuy]

yeah i see it on ST. maybe in LB, because that album is like a mix between all their phases too, and it could have been awesome on Gigaton.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[McParadigm]

of the last 5 albums i think you could have slotted a version of this anywhere except Backspacer.

Unless it was a hidden track

It’s a bit like alone or leatherman, to me.

If it had been released as a b-side… Assuming a studio version is similar to the live one… I would treasure it as an interesting subcutaneous work by a band whose creative energies often overflow the project at hand. I would revisit it every few years and would feel a lot of joy when I did.

But like alone and leatherman, if it had been on an album I would wonder what they were thinking by including it and skip it all the time.

[McParadigm]

I have no reason to assume this, because what do I know, but I have to believe there are much more interesting unreleased works from that general era.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i dont know for a fact, but i guess they have very cool unreleased stuff