Round 1C: Garden v Man of the Hour v Don't Believe in X-Mas

Post by **stip** » Fri February 05, 2016 1:42 pm

Vote for your favorite

Post by **stip** » Fri February 05, 2016 1:46 pm

Don't Believe in X-mas is exactly the kind of fun cover they should be putting out every year. Garden is the weakest most overwrought song on Ten, and Man of the Hour is pretty great.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Fri February 05, 2016 1:47 pm

Man of the Hour gets my vote.

LoathedVermin72 · Fri February 05, 2016 1:55 pm

"Man of the Hour" is great, but "Garden" is immortal.

Post by **Bammer** » Fri February 05, 2016 2:06 pm

Tough one here. My vote could change daily.

I'll go with Man Of The Hour.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Fri February 05, 2016 3:33 pm

I love Stone's arpeggiated guitar part to "Garden" -- it has a haunting, rainy ambience to it that sucks me right in. It was one of my very first favorite songs on "Ten," and is still up there. But "Man of the Hour" is one of the finest compositions this band has -- a masterful piece of songwriting full of beautiful transitions and note-perfect resolutions which artifulculates a simple but devastating emotion with plain, unpretentious poetry. It's one of my very favorite things in the Pearl Jam songbook, and a no-brainer for me here.

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Fri February 05, 2016 3:35 pm

Garden is the prototypical Creed/Staind song.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Fri February 05, 2016 3:36 pm

Pearl Jam is the prototypical Staind/Creed band.

LoathedVermin72 · Fri February 05, 2016 3:38 pm

Harshly judging the original because of lesser things it inspired is silly.

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Fri February 05, 2016 3:41 pm

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Harshly judging the original because of lesser things it inspired is silly.

What I meant to say is that Garden is bad in all the ways that those things are with few of the redeeming qualities of other PJ songs of the time.

LoathedVermin72 · Fri February 05, 2016 3:42 pm

ABNorman wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Harshly judging the original because of lesser things it inspired is silly.
What I meant to say is that Garden is bad in all the ways that those things are with few of the redeeming qualities of other PJ songs of the time.

don't be a silly

Post by **Bammer** » Fri February 05, 2016 3:42 pm

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Harshly judging the original because of lesser things it inspired is silly.

ABNorman · Post by **ABNorman** » Fri February 05, 2016 3:44 pm

LoathedVermin72 wrote:
ABNorman wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Harshly judging the original because of lesser things it inspired is silly.
What I meant to say is that Garden is bad in all the ways that those things are with few of the redeeming qualities of other PJ songs of the time.
don't be a silly

's just how I feeeeeel, man.

Post by **4/5** » Fri February 05, 2016 4:40 pm

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Harshly judging the original because of lesser things it inspired is silly.

Drake is why I don't like 808's.

Brett · Post by **Brett** » Fri February 05, 2016 5:27 pm

KD, did you mean to coin the term "artifulculate" in your post?

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Fri February 05, 2016 5:38 pm

No -- but thank God I did!

Post by **epilogue** » Fri February 05, 2016 5:56 pm

I like all three of these songs for different reasons. But the correct answer here is clearly Garden.

Post by **stip** » Fri February 05, 2016 6:37 pm

Brett wrote:KD, did you mean to coin the term "artifulculate" in your post?

I was just about to ask this. What a great word the language didn't even realize it was missing

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Fri February 05, 2016 8:21 pm

Garden.

Post by **epilogue** » Fri February 05, 2016 8:26 pm

LetMeSleep wrote:Garden.

You're goddamn right, Garden.

Red Mosquito