The Best Moment in...Binaural

[PHATJ]

Sleight of Hand is the best song PJ has ever written. It's absolutely perfect.

[stip]

Every time I listen i SOH I try really hard to get drawn in. It's never happened. I just don't think eddies voice is suited to that kind of song

[darth_vedder]

Every time I listen i SOH I try really hard to get drawn in. It's never happened. I just don't think eddies voice is suited to that kind of song

This has to be a contender for the most stip post of all time.

[stip]

It's really my big problem with Binaural, and why my favorite songs are the more 'traditional' tracks (Insignificance, Rival, Grievance)--where Eddie is angry or there is some something he's pushing back against--even if it's his own insignificance.

I just have much less interest in lost and depressed Eddie. I feel like he has to shut down so much of what makes him great to perform those songs, and I'm comparatively bored by them.

[Alex]

will you just shut up?

[stip]

who can say?

[Heathen]

you're such an angry person, stip

[darth_vedder]

The 3:30ish to 4:20ish range from SOH makes me:

[bodysnatcher]

Sleight of Hand is the best song PJ has ever written. It's absolutely perfect.

yup. favorite all time PJ song.

[Strat]

oh, stip.

[Release_Me]

It's really my big problem with Binaural, and why my favorite songs are the more 'traditional' tracks (Insignificance, Rival, Grievance)--where Eddie is angry or there is some something he's pushing back against--even if it's his own insignificance.

I just have much less interest in lost and depressed Eddie. I feel like he has to shut down so much of what makes him great to perform those songs, and I'm comparatively bored by them.

I agree with this. Though my favorites from Binaural are NAIS, Grievance and Light Years. I like LY much less than the other two but better than the rest of the album.

[Vindicator]

If there is one instrumental I would pick for them to go back and work on it's Harmony. It sounds almost like a Soundgarden song, and I'd love to hear what Ed can do with that song. And the ending guitar part is really memorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsCJzE-5piY

The glory at 1:37

[PHATJ]

The 3:30ish to 4:20ish range from SOH makes me:

Exactly!

[PHATJ]

Every time I listen i SOH I try really hard to get drawn in. It's never happened. I just don't think eddies voice is suited to that kind of song

I'm the exact opposite. It drew me in immediately when I first heard it. I doubt I've ever skipped it hen it comes on. I still find it interesting, beautiful, haunting, dark.... I just love it. I have always wished PJ concentrated on making more songs in this vein. You Are and In The Moonlight are kind of similar (and both are great songs), but I wish we had many more of these. And I completely disagree on your Ed take too. He sings this song to perfection.

[dprival78]

puzzles and games is how pearl jam should've gone "pop", instead of that fixer garbage.

[Norah]

When was pearl jam not pop?

[stip]

Don't be precious. You know what he means

[Norah]

Betterman is one of the poppier songs Pearl Jam ever did.

[bodysnatcher]

POWER POP!

[Birds in Hell]

When was pearl jam not pop?

Eh, I'd hesitate to say Pearl Jam have ever been anything but a rock band.