II-6: Brain of J v Alive

Post by **stip** » Wed February 17, 2016 2:23 pm

As good as Brain of J is, Alive remains the definitive pearl jam song. Arguably their best riff with its slow, portentous energy, great performance from eddie, and they have nothing better than that outro.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Wed February 17, 2016 2:30 pm

Brain of J. Is what PJ should sound like.

chewm · Post by **chewm** » Wed February 17, 2016 2:36 pm

I like Alive and all, but Brain of J better win this match.

Post by **Bammer** » Wed February 17, 2016 2:39 pm

I still love Alive

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Wed February 17, 2016 2:52 pm

Like a lot of "Ten" songs, "Alive" works better for me now as a memory than as a great piece of music. Every once in a while, I'll hear it and find myself surprisingly overcome by the same enthusiasm I felt for it as an adolescent, but more often it feels like a dinosaur anthem with no modern relevance to me whatsoever.

I have all those same sentimental connections to "Brain of J," but unlike "Alive" this song feels ever vital -- as soon as that Irons fill rips the song open, my adrenaline is off and running. It's one of the great ones.

darth_vedder · Post by **darth_vedder** » Wed February 17, 2016 3:44 pm

chewm wrote:I like Alive and all, but Brain of J better win this match.

Post by **evenslow** » Wed February 17, 2016 4:42 pm

Everything stip wrote about Alive is true.

But I gotta go with Brain of J.

digster · Post by **digster** » Wed February 17, 2016 5:19 pm

Brain of J. It's one of those perfect encapsulations of what PJ can do well when it cranks the volume and the tempo. And the chorus melody really hits me in a way a lot of their other up-tempo songs don't. There's this melancholy to the way he sings "the whole world will be different soon;" it's plaintive in comparison to the barking dog Ed turns into during the verse.

Post by **Jorge** » Wed February 17, 2016 5:20 pm

"Brain of J".

Post by **stip** » Wed February 17, 2016 7:11 pm

I like Brain of J a lot, and my shell has grown hard enough that these results can no longer hurt me

hlniv · Post by **hlniv** » Wed February 17, 2016 10:11 pm

Brain of J has always been fresh. From the 95 tour versions all the way to Ed the barber.

Alive is mostly stale for me at this point.

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Thu February 18, 2016 1:34 am

Brain baby. All five guys shine bright.

William Bloke · Post by **William Bloke** » Thu February 18, 2016 3:50 am

evenslow wrote:Everything stip wrote about Alive is true.

But I gotta go with Brain of J.

thesound · Post by **thesound** » Thu February 18, 2016 3:51 am

This is an easy one for me - Brain of J

WaitingForBluey · Thu February 18, 2016 2:00 pm

Easiest vote in this round. BRAIN OF J.

Post by **stip** » Thu February 18, 2016 3:29 pm

THIS SHOULD NOT BE EASY!!!

E.H. Ruddock · Post by **E.H. Ruddock** » Thu February 18, 2016 3:40 pm

stip wrote:THIS SHOULD NOT BE EASY!!!

Get some Pit people over here, stip. They'll vote for Alive.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Thu February 18, 2016 3:52 pm

LoathedVermin72 · Thu February 18, 2016 4:07 pm

Alive is great but I have to agree that this is an easy vote for BOJ

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