2016 Finals: Immortality vs Hail Hail

[jamfan14]

immortality ftw

[BurtReynolds]

Hail

[LB10]

Hail, Hail

[stip]

Hail

that's only half a vote, burt

[ABNorman]

Hail

that's only half a vote, burt

[stip]

[LetMeSleep]

Cheers Norm for the continuing scores. At least this is close now.

[BurtReynolds]

hail

[stip]

If only two of the waffling voters would change over to immortality. Hail Hail is a nice little rocker in which eddie says some surprisingly insightful things about love.

Immortality, on the other hand, features some of their most lushly haunting music--a song that is lonely and desolate but is just a slight change in perspective away from opening up into something much more nurturing and forgiving. It's got some of Eddie's most strikingly fractured lyrics and a beautifully understated performance given the way the material encourages an over-the-top woe is me lament.

Plus one of Mike's very best solos, and it functionally closes out Pearl Jam's masterpiece so there's no need to listen to stupid mop.

And there's pretty much never been a bad live version

[stip]

[Rangi Guy]

I could be swayed to change my vote

[Jorge]

stripped and sold mom

[Birds in Hell]

stripped and sold mom

I will be bitterly disappointed in everyone if Immortality manages to pull ahead.

It's a good song but c'mon.

[stip]

stripped and sold mom

that line just slayed you in 1994

[Chris_H_2]

are you woman enough to be my man?

this is reason enough to vote for immortality.

[Jorge]

stripped and sold mom

that line just slayed you in 1994

I was 7 years old in 1994 so probably

[Jorge]

"Hail Hail" is ragged overdriven and violent. It's love in an abattoir-- chopped liver, thick lacquered lips, gore, despair-fucking amidst steaming entrails tied together with red satin ribbons. Everything about it is red-- dangerously red, feverish, up-against-the-wall, pounding away at the emptiness of everything, red skirt hitched high by bloodied knuckles. And then it opens up at the end, with Mike's chiming arpeggios finally letting some air in. It's the kind of Pearl Jam I want Pearl Jam to be. I understand why people like "Immortality" but to my ears it's staid, plodding, comically self-serious and dullllll. At least compared with a track like "Hail Hail".

[ABNorman]

"Hail Hail" is ragged overdriven and violent. It's love in an abattoir-- chopped liver, thick lacquered lips, gore, despair-fucking amidst steaming entrails tied together with red satin ribbons. Everything about it is red-- dangerously red, feverish, up-against-the-wall, pounding away at the emptiness of everything, red skirt hitched high by bloodied knuckles. And then it opens up at the end, with Mike's chiming arpeggios finally letting some air in. It's the kind of Pearl Jam I want Pearl Jam to be. I understand why people like "Immortality" but to my ears it's staid, plodding, comically self-serious and dullllll. At least compared with a track like "Hail Hail".

I. Am. Erect.

[stip]

It's only kind of those things. Hail hail has its virtue, but red meat danger is not one of them

[ABNorman]

Red Meat Danger is my pimp name.