Binaural: Official Album Thread

[mikejasond]

I have now been to ten Pearl Jam shows (one was a short Global Citizen Festival set though), and in that time I have only seen ONE performance of a Binaural song (Sleight of Hand at my very first show in Brooklyn 2013). Im kind of surprised I've never heard any of the others. It's by far my least heard album (I've even heard five performances of riot act songs - 4 different songs and 1 twice). It's weird since you'd think some of the songs are good live

I've seen the band five times, but four times post-Binaural.

I've seen three songs from the album (Gods' Dice, NAIS and Thin Air) but they were all in the two shows I saw in 2006.

Sorry to veer off-topic but this sent me down a rabbit hole of wondering what the least-played Pearl Jam original song I've seen was (No Way) and the least-played song I've seen more than once (Red Mosquito).

I'm running 3/5 for both Once and Blood, which seems statistically unusual for someone who didn't see the band play before 1998 - and I've only seen Black and RVM once.

Somebody said a few weeks ago it'd be fun to have a thread of live statistics and anomalies and this would be fun.

9 regular shows, and 1 festival show in total....

The least played song I've seen (non-cover, because I saw at least one cover they've only played once) was Out of my Mind which I've seen 2 out of the 7 times it was played O_O.

My other rarest ones, not counting Dark Matter songs...These are the ones that I could find that have been played less than 50 times (but Gigaton and LB songs are kind of cheating). In parentheses is how many times they've played it.

Swallowed Whole (15 times)
Future Days (seen 2 out of 16 times, including the last time they played it)
All Or None (17 times - wtf pearl jam, play this more!!)
I'm Open (18 times)
Seven O'Clock (18 times)
Who Ever Said (20 times)
Let the Records Play (21 times)
Infallible (2 out of 22 times)
All Those Yesterdays (24 times)
The End (27 times)
Yellow Moon (27 times)
Army Reserve (31 times)
Dance of the Clairvoyants (34 times)
Satan's Bed (40 times)
Pendulum (4 out of 49 times)

So out of those, I guess All or None, All Those Yesterdays, and Satan's Bed are the most meaningful, as most of the others were new. BUT WHY WON'T THEY PLAY ALL OR NONE AND ALL THOSE YESTERDAYS MORE??

I have yet to see a show without Alive (duh) or Do the Evolution. Until MSG2 this year I had not seen one without GTF but now it is it at 9/10. This includes the GCF show.

And as I said, only one binaural performance ever at the first show of 10

Have seen all of Ten and Vs (though WMA was as a tag, so doesnt quite count).

[stip]

I wonder if we can count I'm Open, since it's not the whole song (I've gotten the snippet before as well)

[Chris_H_2]

my god, i've seen black, red, yellow 4 out of the 7 times that they've played it, and sweet lew 2 out of 3 times. what terrible/good luck.

edit: and bugs 2 out of the 3 times they've played it. gross.

[guitar_davey]

I wonder if we can count I'm Open, since it's not the whole song (I've gotten the snippet before as well)

Have they ever actually played it live with EV doing all the spoken word bits?

[liebzz]

I count myself lucky that I went to both Mansfield 3 in 2003 and Philly 4 in 2009. That’s basically the whole bucket of rarely played songs.

That said, I certainly was never in the business of collecting those. Always just want a great show.

[darth_vedder]

I wonder if we can count I'm Open, since it's not the whole song (I've gotten the snippet before as well)

I got it in DC 2008 and count it. It says it's 1:22 on the CD, while No Code is 2:58, so I guess I got the snippet too.

[darth_vedder]

I count myself lucky that I went to both Mansfield 3 in 2003 and Philly 4 in 2009. That’s basically the whole bucket of rarely played songs.

That said, I certainly was never in the business of collecting those. Always just want a great show.

It's fun to get them. I went to Philly 3 and got "Hold On" which was the live debut. I wasn't most excited for that though, the 3 songs I specifically was hoping for that night: In My Tree, Tremor Christ, and Parting Ways, all got played. My wife really wanted Breath, and they played that too; fun night.

[wease]

I count myself lucky that I went to both Mansfield 3 in 2003 and Philly 4 in 2009. That’s basically the whole bucket of rarely played songs.

That said, I certainly was never in the business of collecting those. Always just want a great show.

It's fun to get them. I went to Philly 3 and got "Hold On" which was the live debut. I wasn't most excited for that though, the 3 songs I specifically was hoping for that night: In My Tree, Tremor Christ, and Parting Ways, all got played. My wife really wanted Breath, and they played that too; fun night.

Hold On is my other White Whale.

[darth_vedder]

I count myself lucky that I went to both Mansfield 3 in 2003 and Philly 4 in 2009. That’s basically the whole bucket of rarely played songs.

That said, I certainly was never in the business of collecting those. Always just want a great show.

It's fun to get them. I went to Philly 3 and got "Hold On" which was the live debut. I wasn't most excited for that though, the 3 songs I specifically was hoping for that night: In My Tree, Tremor Christ, and Parting Ways, all got played. My wife really wanted Breath, and they played that too; fun night.

Hold On is my other White Whale.

I've gotten both your White Whale songs

[wease]

I count myself lucky that I went to both Mansfield 3 in 2003 and Philly 4 in 2009. That’s basically the whole bucket of rarely played songs.

That said, I certainly was never in the business of collecting those. Always just want a great show.

It's fun to get them. I went to Philly 3 and got "Hold On" which was the live debut. I wasn't most excited for that though, the 3 songs I specifically was hoping for that night: In My Tree, Tremor Christ, and Parting Ways, all got played. My wife really wanted Breath, and they played that too; fun night.

Hold On is my other White Whale.

I've gotten both your White Whale songs

It’s my penance for missing 2000 and 2003 tours.

[darth_vedder]

I wish I would have gone to more 2000 shows (only went to Charlotte). At least we have all of them (and 2003) available. To this day, Detroit 2000 remains one of my all time favorites.

[Leatherhead]

Any song on Binaural is better than all of Dark Matter.

[blueviper]

Any song on Binaural is better than all of Dark Matter.

Disagree.

[Farmer John]

Mostly agree

[stip]

Any song on Binaural is better than all of Dark Matter.

i will see your podt and raise you a ‘75% of the songs on Dark Matter are better than 75% of Binaural

[Monkey_Driven]

Any song on Binaural is better than all of Dark Matter.

i will see your podt and raise you a ‘75% of the songs on Dark Matter are better than 75% of Binaural

You're a mad man

[Jaeti]

Any song on Binaural is better than all of Dark Matter.

i will see your podt and raise you a ‘75% of the songs on Dark Matter are better than 75% of Binaural

This is actually true.

[stip]

Any song on Binaural is better than all of Dark Matter.

i will see your podt and raise you a ‘75% of the songs on Dark Matter are better than 75% of Binaural

You're a mad man

a danger to myself and others

[DDWJMUVW]

Only three songs on Binaural could hang on DM:

Grievance, Parting Ways, and Light Years


Binaural has a lot of good (God's Dice, Rival, Evacuation, NAIS) but not much great.

[Monkey_Driven]

The Light Years --> Sleight of Hand stretch of Binaural is arguably the strongest/most diverse run of songs in their catalog. It easily beats DM stuff. What are we even doing here?!