so were I the kind of pearl jam fan that regularly ranked songs, you could just list the tracks from every album up through Binaural and I'd be fine with that with the exception of stupid mop, otherwise, I don't give a flying fuck about ranking a body of work that had such a huge influence on my life for such a long amount of time.
which is basically me saying : oh, good.
Dev wrote:you're delusional. you are a sad sad person. fuck off. you're mentally ill beyond repair. i don't need your shit. dissapear.
Alive
Black
Release
State of Love and Trust
Rearviewmirror
Small Town
Indifference
Corduroy
Nothingman
Better Man
Immortality
In My Tree
Red Mosquito
Brain of J
Do the Evolution
Given to Fly
Wishlist
Insignificance
I Am Mine
Can't Keep
Marker in the Sand
Life Wasted
Unthought Known
The End
Getaway
Pendulum
Alive
Black
Jeremy
Release
Footsteps
Yellow Ledbetter
Daughter
Small Town
Rearviewmirror
Not For You
Tremor Christ
Corduroy
Better Man
Immortality
I Got Shit
Hail, Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree
Red Mosquito
Faithfull
Given To Fly
Do The Evolution
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Insignificance
Of The Girl
Rival
Sleight Of Hand
Parting Ways
Cant Keep
All Or None
Sad
All Night
Fatal
Other Side
Hard To Imagine
Parachutes
Pendulum
Once
Alive
Oceans
Release
Go
Animal
Daughter
RVM
Last exit
Nothingman
Corduroy
Betterman
Hail hail
In my tree
Present tense
Faithful
Given to fly
Do the evolution
Light years
Grievance
Can't keep
Half full
All or none
Unthought known
Force of nature
The end
Getaway
Sirens
I take the question to be, what really stands out even among the best of your favorite band... being generally opposed to the kind of grade inflation that makes everything good into an "A", I'm going to keep this as short as I possibly can:
Release
Even Flow
RVM
Corduroy
Not For You
Immortality
Who You Are
In My Tree
Present Tense
In Hiding
DTE
I Am Mine
Parachutes
Severed Hand (Live)
There are 30-40 songs in the PJ catalogue (studio albums plus Lost Dogs plus Singles soundtrack plus Merkinball) which are 5 star songs for me. Here they are, in order:
1. Black
2. Corduroy
3. Rearviewmirror
4. Immortality
5. Nothingman
6. Jeremy
7. Better Man
8. Given To Fly
9. Evenflow
10. Infallible
11. State of Love And Trust
12. Not For You
13. Animal
14. Alive
15. Go
16. Last Exit
17. Getaway
18. Do The Evolution
19. Eldery Woman
20. Release
21. Pendulum
22. I Got ID
23. Hail, Hail
24. Once
25. Spin The Black Circle
26. Indifference
27. My Father's Son
28. Red Mosquito
29. Yellow Ledbetter
30. Yellow Moon
31. Footsteps
32. Garden
33. Breath
34. Brain of J.
35. Off He Goes
36. Porch
Daughter, Dissident, Tremor Christ, Present Tense, In My Tree, Wishlist, Nothing As It Seems, Grievance, I Am Mine, Love Boat Captain, World Wide Suicide, Gonna See My Friend, The End, Force of Nature and Sirens are all on the cusp of 5 star status but fall just short.
EDIT: I added 'I Got ID' in at no. 22. Forgot about Merkinball when making my original list.
Last edited by Release_Me on Sun October 27, 2013 8:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I don't really have star rankings, but there's a top tier of work that to me represents them being at maximum strength, doing the things they do best. Those songs for me...
Porch
State of Love & Trust
Breath
Rearviewmirror
Indifference
Last Exit
Tremor Christ
Nothingman
Corduroy
Immortality
I Got Shit
Long Road
Hail, Hail
In My Tree
Present Tense
Brain of J.
MFC
In Hiding
Insignificance
Grievance
Sad
Education
Undone
Alive
Black
Even flow
Release
Yellow ledbetter
Rearviewmirror
Indifference
Nothingman
Betterman
Immortality
Present tense
Given to fly
In hiding
Man of the hour
Nothing as it seems
Of he goes
Porch
Unthought known
Force of nature
Sirens
Infallible
Pendulum
There might be more songs I ussually give 5 stars, but here are my faves:
Alive
Release
Breath
Dissident
Rearviewmirror
Elderly Woman
Tremor Christ
Corduroy
I Got ID
In My Tree
Off He Goes
Present Tense
Faithfull
Given To Fly
Low Light
In Hiding
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Save You
Love Boat Captain
World Wide Suicide
Unemployable
Come Back
Got Some
Infallible
Pendulum
Yellow Moon
Sad
Down
Undone
Yellow Ledbetter
Fatal
Other Side
Hard To Imagine
Even Flow
Release
Alive
Black
Indifference
RVM
Corduroy
Not For You
Red Mosquito
Present Tense
In My Tree
Given to Fly
Do the Evolution
Insignificance
Grievance
I am Mine
Fatal
Save You
LBC
Comeback
Unthought Known
Getaway
Infallible
Pendulum
I Got Shit
Let it Ride
Just from proper albums
Jeremy
Release
Go
Indifference
Last Exit
Tremor Christ
Immortaliity
heysexymop
Corduroy
I Got ID
Long Road
Hail Hail
In My Tree
Off He Goes
PT
I'm Open
Around The Bend
GTF
DTE
All Those Yesterdays
Faithful
Evacuation
Sleight Of Hand
Parting Ways
Rival
Grivance
Insignificance
Cropduster
Ghost
Help Help
My Fathers Son
You have to shave your nipples if you want to be with me.
McParadigm wrote:I see here that my one wish...that ebola be communicated purely through the love of ranking music via the use of "stars"...is yet to be realized.
My work continues...
In this case think of it as sorting more than ranking
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