Automated PJ Song Ranker

[Anders]

If I did it all manually I would also rate songs a little differently, and a few seem a bit out of place, but overall it's a good list.

[epilogue]

Top 50 from the automated ranker:

In My Tree (No Code, 1996)
Black (Ten, 1991)
Release (Ten, 1991)
Immortality (Vitalogy, 1994)
Sleight Of Hand (Binaural, 2000)
Tremor Christ (Vitalogy, 1994)
Hard To Imagine (Lost Dogs, 2003)
Even Flow (Ten, 1991)
Alive (Ten, 1991)
Insignificance (Binaural, 2000)
Hail Hail (No Code, 1996)
Last Exit (Vitalogy, 1994)
No Way (Yield, 1998)
Do The Evolution (Yield, 1998)
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town (Vs., 1993)
In The Moonlight (Lost Dogs, 2003)
Rearviewmirror (Vs., 1993)
Better Man (Vitalogy, 1994)
Animal (Vs., 1993)
Jeremy (Ten, 1991)

Low Light (Yield, 1998)
Daughter (Vs., 1993)
Red Mosquito (No Code, 1996)
I Am Mine (Riot Act, 2003)
Help Help (Riot Act, 2003)
Oceans (Ten, 1991)
Sad (Lost Dogs, 2003)
In Hiding (Yield, 1998)
Faithfull (Yield, 1998)
Not For You (Vitalogy, 1994)
Nothing As It Seems (Binaural, 2000)
Rival (Binaural, 2000)
Corduroy (Vitalogy, 1994)
Cropduster (Riot Act, 2003)
I Got Id (Merkin Ball, 1996)
W.M.A (Vs., 1993)
Pendulum (Lightning Bolt, 2013)
Cant Keep (Riot Act, 2003)
Thin Air (Binaural, 2000)
Go (Vs., 1993)

Infallible (Lightning Bolt, 2013)
Indifference (Vs., 1993)
Severed Hand (Pearl Jam, 2006)
Given To Fly (Yield, 1998)
Porch (Ten, 1991)
Present Tense (No Code, 1996)
Yellow Ledbetter (Lost Dogs, 2003)
Down (Lost Dogs, 2003)
Sometimes (No Code, 1996)
Mind Your Manners (Lightning Bolt, 2013)

Here's my top 50 from my Rank the Catalog thread from the beginning of the year. Just for comparison. Obviously, this list doesn't contain LB songs, but still interesting to look at:

In My Tree
Black
Immortality
Small Town
Hard To Imagine
Do The Evolution
Release
Tremor Christ
Daughter
Sleight Of Hand
Angel
I Am Mine
No Way
Even Flow
Insignificance
Animal
RVM
In The Moonlight
State of Love and Trust
Breath

Yellow Ledbetter
Wash
Just Breathe
Jeremy
Last Exit
Hail, Hail
Faithfull
Corduroy
Porch
Alive
Cropduster
Not For You
Better Man
Help Help
Sad
Can’t Keep
Off He Goes
Red Mosquito
Amongst The Waves
Severed Hand

Smile
Nothing As It Seems
Of The Earth
Man of the Hour
Long Road
I Got Shit
Marker In The Sand
In Hiding
Nothingman
Lowlight

[Lament]

Did anyone else find it annoying that it included covers?

[LetMeSleep]

Did anyone else find it annoying that it included covers?

very annoying. all covers were ignored (except when up against my disliked bunch)

[Lament]

At first I tried to pick all originals over covers by default, but then I got Leavin' Here against like Just Breathe or something, and I couldn't do it any longer.

[LetMeSleep]

At first I tried to pick all originals over covers by default, but then I got Leavin' Here against like Just Breathe or something, and I couldn't do it any longer.

That was the example I was about to mention. Leavin Here rocks. Just Breathe, arrgghh

[LetMeSleep]

I like you Lament.

[Lament]

I like you too, LetMeSleep.

[Birds in Hell]

Leavin' Here is their best cover by miles.

Crazy Mary seems like an oversight.

[stupidmop]

I know loads of people hate it, but i really love last kiss. Maybe cause i don't think i'd heard it before getting into pearl jam a few years ago. But chirpy 50s teen death song? Awesome.

I love leaving here too though, lots of fun, and ed sounds demonic. And i like live crazy mary circa 2000, never really been attatched to the studio version though.

[stip]

Last kiss is wonderful, and screw the cold dead heart of anyone who says otherwise

[Lament]

Last kiss is wonderful, and screw the cold dead heart of anyone who says otherwise

I feel like my rank should be "Cold dead heart" at this point.

[LetMeSleep]

Don't worry Lament. I was labelled that due to not liking Just B, Last Kiss and Wishlist.

[epilogue]

Last Kiss is really great. One of the few covers of a classic that I prefer to the original.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Being labeled by stip for not liking a bad song that he likes is like a little kid calling an adult "poopy pants". It's funny, cute, and you have nothing to worry about.

[stip]

Last kiss is wonderful, and screw the cold dead heart of anyone who says otherwise

I feel like my rank should be "Cold dead heart" at this point.

I figured you didn't like this one and I was going to call you out by name. But then I thought 'hey, someone dies. Maybe lament likes this one'

[epilogue]

Last kiss is wonderful, and screw the cold dead heart of anyone who says otherwise

I feel like my rank should be "Cold dead heart" at this point.

I figured you didn't like this one and I was going to call you out by name. But then I thought 'hey, someone dies. Maybe lament likes this one'

AL

[Lament]

Last kiss is wonderful, and screw the cold dead heart of anyone who says otherwise

I feel like my rank should be "Cold dead heart" at this point.

I figured you didn't like this one and I was going to call you out by name. But then I thought 'hey, someone dies. Maybe lament likes this one'

Haha. No, actually I think on the list I posted it came in behind everything except for Sirens and Just Breathe. That being said, I don't mind the Frank J. Wilson version that much, and I enjoyed the Pearl Jam version once upon a time, before the billionth time I heard it in the summer of 1999. I've never recovered from the summer of Last Kiss though.

[Jorge]

The thing I really like about the "Last Kiss" cover is how laid-back and, like, deliberately half-assed the band's performance is. Like they were going for a lazy, almost lounge-singer-backing-band sort of vibe, the music kind of grooving placidly along-- except for Ed, who delivers a totally earnest performance all the way through. I really like it. It works.

[LetMeSleep]

It is a good performance. I just don't want to ever hear it again.