Re: RANK THE ALBUMS
Posted: Wed April 05, 2017 12:33 am
1. Vitalogy - This album is a masterpiece and it belongs in the conversation with the best rock albums ever made.
2. Binaural - This has grown so much for me over the years. I wish we'd gotten a finished/official Tchad Blake version of this album. I'm fairly certain I'd rank it PJ's best album. Sleight of Hand is absolutely PERFECT.
3. Yield - Consistently strong songs, but more than anything Yield just sounds so damn good. BOB really did an amazing job. Where have these sensibilities gone?
4. Vs. - Raw, blistering energy, powerful. A classic in its own right. I still love listening to Vs.
5. No Code - This one is difficult to place for me, and this is as high as I can reasonably place it. There is a lot to love about No Code, but inconsistencies hurt it a bit.
6. Ten - I've placed this as high as number one in years long past. And in reality, it has as many top shelf songs as any PJ album (probably more). But it is 25 years old now, and I might listen to the album once a year. It is the reason PJ is PJ, and it is the reason this band has been my favorite band since I was 11 years old. But it has nothing left for me to discover, and my desire to regularly listen to Ten went away ten years ago.
7. Riot Act - There is a lot of material here. Much of it is very good, but I find very little on Riot Act to reach the heights of the albums that came before it. I also just think it's a bit too long. And the bottom end tracks on this album are some of my least favorite in the PJ catalog.
8. Pearl Jam - Terrible production, some decent songs, some horseshit songs (I'm looking at you, WWS). I really think this could have been a much stronger album with the inclusion of Cold Confession (and Let it Ride), and some reasonably good production. It's just not that fun to listen to in its current state, which is a shame.
9. Lightning Bolt - Just like S/T, this album was ruined by awful mixing and production choices. There are some songs here that had great potential but just got completely neutered. It's a shame but it detracts so much of what LB could have been. And oh yeah, there are a couple of awful songs too.
10. Backspacer - Fuck this shit.
2. Binaural - This has grown so much for me over the years. I wish we'd gotten a finished/official Tchad Blake version of this album. I'm fairly certain I'd rank it PJ's best album. Sleight of Hand is absolutely PERFECT.
3. Yield - Consistently strong songs, but more than anything Yield just sounds so damn good. BOB really did an amazing job. Where have these sensibilities gone?
4. Vs. - Raw, blistering energy, powerful. A classic in its own right. I still love listening to Vs.
5. No Code - This one is difficult to place for me, and this is as high as I can reasonably place it. There is a lot to love about No Code, but inconsistencies hurt it a bit.
6. Ten - I've placed this as high as number one in years long past. And in reality, it has as many top shelf songs as any PJ album (probably more). But it is 25 years old now, and I might listen to the album once a year. It is the reason PJ is PJ, and it is the reason this band has been my favorite band since I was 11 years old. But it has nothing left for me to discover, and my desire to regularly listen to Ten went away ten years ago.
7. Riot Act - There is a lot of material here. Much of it is very good, but I find very little on Riot Act to reach the heights of the albums that came before it. I also just think it's a bit too long. And the bottom end tracks on this album are some of my least favorite in the PJ catalog.
8. Pearl Jam - Terrible production, some decent songs, some horseshit songs (I'm looking at you, WWS). I really think this could have been a much stronger album with the inclusion of Cold Confession (and Let it Ride), and some reasonably good production. It's just not that fun to listen to in its current state, which is a shame.
9. Lightning Bolt - Just like S/T, this album was ruined by awful mixing and production choices. There are some songs here that had great potential but just got completely neutered. It's a shame but it detracts so much of what LB could have been. And oh yeah, there are a couple of awful songs too.
10. Backspacer - Fuck this shit.
