MC4-5: Yellow Moon vs. Comatose

Post by **stip** » Sat April 11, 2026 10:58 am

Yellow Moon vs. Comatose

Post by **stip** » Sat April 11, 2026 11:00 am

I adore both of these, but in its prime I had Comatose at 5 stars (that first run of 3 songs was maybe my favorite 3 song run in the catalog for a few years). Yellow Moon never made it quite that high.

The opening moments of Yellow Moon is some of my favorite mood setting in the catalog. How it feels so open and expansive yet vaguely claustrophobic at the same time. It paints a very vivid picture in my mind almost instantly. It's always felt cinematic to me.

But it's still Comatose - Pearl Jam's most feral album track

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Sat April 11, 2026 11:01 am

Easy vote for Comatose, Yellow Moon is awful.

Post by **epilogue** » Sat April 11, 2026 12:40 pm

Yellow Moon by a zillion.

Comatose is second only to Habit in songs I never want to hear again and wish didn't exist at all.

wease · Post by **wease** » Sat April 11, 2026 12:56 pm

Birds in Hell wrote:Easy vote for Comatose, Yellow Moon is awful.

Post by **Jorge** » Sat April 11, 2026 1:27 pm

The "two songs that are transparent attempts at sounding like older, better songs" matchup

Matters · Post by **Matters** » Sat April 11, 2026 7:49 pm

Yellow Moon is better than the older song. Comatose isn’t.

Post by **epilogue** » Sat April 11, 2026 9:03 pm

Yellow Moon is not better than Low Light. And I have no idea what Comatose is being compared to, but it can't possibly be worse. Unless it's Habit.

Matters · Post by **Matters** » Sun April 12, 2026 3:05 am

Comatose < STBC

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Sun April 12, 2026 3:24 am

Low Light is maybe the worst song the band had released at that point, and Yellow Moon is many leagues worse again.

Post by **epilogue** » Sun April 12, 2026 3:26 am

Birds in Hell wrote:Low Light is maybe the worst song the band had released at that point, and Yellow Moon is many leagues worse again.

Shut up

Post by **epilogue** » Sun April 12, 2026 3:28 am

Matters wrote:Comatose < STBC

Wait, do people associate Comatose with STBC?

That feels like the world's biggest "DUH"

Because STBC is LEAGUES better.

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Sun April 12, 2026 3:29 am

That whole vein of Jeff's songwriting - Low Light, Nothingman, etc - just really doesn't do anything for me.

Kind of dreary but also cloying.

(I'm being a little over the top, I would listen to Low Light in preference to either I'm Open or Stupid Mop.)

Matters · Post by **Matters** » Sun April 12, 2026 3:36 am

epilogue wrote:
Matters wrote:Comatose < STBC
Wait, do people associate Comatose with STBC?

That feels like the world's biggest "DUH"

Because STBC is LEAGUES better.

Wasn’t Comatose the one that was originally known as Crapshoot Rapture before the album release and people were saying it’s STBC 2?

Post by **stip** » Sun April 12, 2026 10:23 am

certainly the first half of that is true

the stbc comparison makes sense, though

But comatose is better

Post by **epilogue** » Sun April 12, 2026 12:20 pm

Birds in Hell wrote:That whole vein of Jeff's songwriting - Low Light, Nothingman, etc - just really doesn't do anything for me.

Kind of dreary but also cloying.

(I'm being a little over the top, I would listen to Low Light in preference to either I'm Open or Stupid Mop.)

I hope my playfulness is clear in my previous response.

While I don't totally agree, I do totally understand what you're saying.

The hyperbole is one of my favorite things about the PJMM tourney every year!

wease · Post by **wease** » Sun April 12, 2026 2:07 pm

Birds in Hell wrote:That whole vein of Jeff's songwriting - Low Light, Nothingman, etc - just really doesn't do anything for me.

Kind of dreary but also cloying.

(I'm being a little over the top, I would listen to Low Light in preference to either I'm Open or Stupid Mop.)

But don’t you love NAIS?

lvc · Post by **lvc** » Sun April 12, 2026 5:13 pm

I think the best way I can describe sections of the vocal delivery in comatose is constipated.

wease · Post by **wease** » Sun April 12, 2026 6:59 pm

lvc wrote:I think the best way I can describe sections of the vocal delivery in comatose is constipated.

Why else would it have been named Crapshoot Rapture?

Leatherhead · Post by **Leatherhead** » Sun April 12, 2026 7:26 pm

Comatose is good. Yellow Moon is fine.

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