Song of the Moment: Future Days

[LetMeSleep]

You just need to come to my house and give mia a hug and then you'll love that song

Or you could drop by my house and watch Wolf kick this song squarely in the nuts. Except this song has nuts whatsoever. In fact he'd probably hear the opening chords and scream NO and throw a chair over. I'm going to test this out tomorrow.

Look, if Wolf and Mia are going to get married someday he's gonna have to make his peace with this song. Because it's the song I'm going to dance to with her at her wedding.

So many parts of this quote frighten me.

[Lament]

Looks like LetMeSleep didn't read the fine print on his RM registration and is just finding out about the contractually binding arranged marriage agreements for the first time...

[LetMeSleep]

Maybe we can get some kind of voting on the dowry.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Looks like LetMeSleep didn't read the fine print on his RM registration and is just finding out about the contractually binding arranged marriage agreements for the first time...

Should've read the terms and conditions...

[LetMeSleep]

Is that a Stiptepede?

[LetMeSleep]

going to get married someday he's gonna have to make his peace with this song. Because it's the song I'm going to dance to with her at her wedding.

Wait, why are you pushing Mia onto Wolf? Surely Ellie is more his age. Unless that has already been planned too. Stip, you are very organised.

[Lament]

C'mon man, you know someday Wolf is gonna appreciate you setting him up with the younger sister...

[LetMeSleep]

C'mon man, you know someday Wolf is gonna appreciate you setting him up with the younger sister...

Uncle Lament speaks the truth. Concern and question withdrawn.

[Release_Me]

I wonder if they'll do a Greatest Hits 2004-2014.

I'd assume that, if anything, they'd be more likely to do like most long-lived bands and just do yet another full-career retrospect hits record (this time a little more concise, dropping some minor early successes to make room for bigger late-era hits). But I'd be a little curious to see how a 04-14 hits record would sell....some of these songs got more play than almost anything else they've ever done besides Daughter and Betterman, but is that initial impact translating into a lasting memory?

World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Gone (or perhaps they'd replace it with Severed Hand, since that got some live-tv plays?)
Brother
Love Reign O'er Me
The Fixer
Just Breathe
Got Some
Amongst the Waves
Unthought Known (another maybe, because of tv exposure and some mild radio attention)
Mind Your Manners
Sirens
Lightning Bolt
Future Days

Instead of a greatest hits, I'd prefer a best of which would be something like this:

World Wide Suicide
Marker In The Sand
Inside Job
Gonna See My Friend
Amongst The Waves
Force Of Nature
The End
Getaway
My Father's Son
Sirens
Infallible
Pendulum
Yellow Moon

LROM would definitely get in if you're including non-album tracks. Don't think Brother qualifies. It's quite an old song.

If you subtract the Ten, Vs and Vitalogy tracks from Rearviewmirror, I'd take the above list of songs over that any day of the week.

[stip]

Welcome back I don't know that I'd take a best of from the last 3 albums over the 5 prior, but it'd be close. The strength of Backspacer and L-bolt for me is their depth more than the highs (the highs are probably just as high on the other albums). It's just that there are 5 Pearl Jam albums i'm happy to listen to from start to finish (excepting maybe supersonic), and they happen to include Lightning Bolt and Backspacer.

Hmmm, lets think about this.


Top 15 from No Code through Riot Act

1. Hail Hail
2. In My Tree
3. Red Mosquito
4. Insignificance
5. Grievance
6. Nothing As It Seems
7. Rival
8. Given to Fly
9. Wishlist
10. Do the Evolution
11. Brain of J
12. Save You
13. I am Mine
14. Can't Keep
15. Undone


Top 15 from S/T through Lightning Bolt

1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Parachutes
5. Come Back
6. LROM
7. Gonna See My Friend
8. Force of Nature
9. The Fixer
10. Got some
11. Lightning Bolt
12. Infallible
13. Pendulum
14. Yellow Moon
15. Mind Your Manners.


I'm not sure. It's pretty close for me. Probably the older list is better, but there are a lot more songs I was tempted to include from the last 3.

[McParadigm]

Inside Job

[WaitingForBluey]

I was just doing something like this recently. I was thinking about what a 2nd RVM album would look like (a mixture of some of my personal favorites along with what I would expect the band to pick). However, I went farther back to start at Merkinball, since I think the 95 to 02 phase is underutilized on the original RVM comp.

RVM part 2 (1995-2013)
Disc One:
1 In My Tree
2 Red Mosquito
3 Faithfull
4 Insignificance
5 Grievance
6 Sad
7 Half Full
8 Down
9 World Wide Suicide
10 Severed Hand
11 Life Wasted
12 The Fixer
13 Got Some
14 Mind Your Manners
15 Lightning Bolt

Disc Two:
1 Long Road
2 Present Tense
3 In Hiding
4 All Those Yesterdays
5 Love Boat Captain
6 Parachutes
7 Army Reserve
8 Come Back
9 Just Breathe
10 Unthought Known
11 Amongst the Waves
12 Sirens
13 Infallible
14 Sleeping By Myself
15 Future Days

[McParadigm]

The thing with RVM, though, is that it's basically every song released as a single in the US during that time frame, plus a few tracks that the band felt the urge to grab from comps (probably wanting State and Breath to actually be on a Pearl Jam record so that sales of those songs would affect the band's figures), a handful of songs that had a high profile or became concert staples, and Once.

I stand by the idea that a new hits record would basically start from scratch, and not be an addendum to Rearviewmirror, but whatever time frame it employs will still be represented almost exclusively by singles.

[stip]

Here is a random question McP (or anyone) but do bands usually draw a distinction between a 'greatest hits' (which descriptively makes sense to think of in terms in singles) and a 'best of' (which for a band with a deep catalog need not lean heavily on singles at all)?

I think you're correct, btw

[McParadigm]

Some bands do, some don't. Even the ones that do tend to lean heavy on singles, which ostensibly stems from "of course we think that's a best of track, that's WHY it's a single...," but really seems to be an acknowledgement to the need to generate sales.

On a total side note that I just thought was weird, Led Zeppelin is only the 41st best selling act of the Soundscan (1991-onward) era. That really surprised me.

You could certainly shrug your shoulders, and go, "Well, sure...they were well past broken up by then," but Zeppelin had a pretty high profile among classic artists during most of that time frame, and a shit ton of radio play. Comparatively, the Beatles are #2, Pink Floyd is #10, Elvis is #11, AC/DC is #17, the Eagles are #23, Frank Sinatra is #30, and Jimmy Buffet is #38 (just ahead of Nirvana).

[stip]

what are some of the higher profile rock acts that came of age in that period?

[McParadigm]

what are some of the higher profile rock acts that came of age in that period?

[epilogue]

Top 15 from No Code through Riot Act

1. Hail Hail
2. In My Tree
3. Red Mosquito
4. Insignificance
5. Grievance
6. Nothing As It Seems
7. Rival
8. Given to Fly
9. Wishlist
10. Do the Evolution
11. Brain of J
12. Save You
13. I am Mine
14. Can't Keep
15. Undone


Top 15 from S/T through Lightning Bolt

1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Parachutes
5. Come Back
6. LROM
7. Gonna See My Friend
8. Force of Nature
9. The Fixer
10. Got some
11. Lightning Bolt
12. Infallible
13. Pendulum
14. Yellow Moon
15. Mind Your Manners.

This looks like a fun game!

Top 15 No Code thru Riot Act:
1. In My Tree
2. Sleight of Hand
3. Do The Evolution
4. Insignificance
5. Hail Hail
6. Nothing As It Seems
7. I Am Mine
8. Low Light
9. No Way
10. Red Mosquito
11. Help Help
12. In Hiding
13. Crop Duster
14. Rival
15. Off He Goes

Top 15 S/T thru Lightning Bolt:
1. Infallable
2. Yellow Moon
3. Marker
4. Just Breathe
5. Severed Hand
6. Unemployable
7. Pendulum
8. Amongst the Waves
9. My Father's Son
10. Mind Your Manners
11. Parachutes
12. Got Some
13. Speed of Sound
14. Come Back
15. Johnny Guitar

[stip]

I would definitely prefer your post riot act greatest hits to your pre

[tommymtcom]

I don't think I could even do a post-RA top 15.