Bottom 10 songs

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[liebzz]

Not sure if I replied to this in the past, but this is a really hard list for me to curate, mostly because I apparently have a positive ear and enjoy nearly every Pearl Jam song...but here’s my best list least favorite to 10th least favorite:

1) Future Days
2) Turning Mist
3) Angel
4) Pry, To
5) Stupid Mop
6) Bee Girl
7) Sweet Lew
8) Evil Little Goat
9) Johnny Guitar
10) Can’t Deny Me

I thought hard about Johnny Guitar. I want to like this song in theory but this is one of the few songs Eddie Vedder absolutely botches.

[epilogue]

Not sure if I replied to this in the past, but this is a really hard list for me to curate, mostly because I apparently have a positive ear and enjoy nearly every Pearl Jam song...but here’s my best list least favorite to 10th least favorite:

1) Future Days
2) Turning Mist
3) Angel
4) Pry, To
5) Stupid Mop
6) Bee Girl
7) Sweet Lew
8) Evil Little Goat
9) Johnny Guitar
10) Can’t Deny Me

I legit love 7 of the songs in your list. Most of these are top tier PJ.

[washing machine]

I gave Future Days a listen recently and it's not bad. Not good. Not memorable. But not bad.

[liebzz]

Not sure if I replied to this in the past, but this is a really hard list for me to curate, mostly because I apparently have a positive ear and enjoy nearly every Pearl Jam song...but here’s my best list least favorite to 10th least favorite:

1) Future Days
2) Turning Mist
3) Angel
4) Pry, To
5) Stupid Mop
6) Bee Girl
7) Sweet Lew
8) Evil Little Goat
9) Johnny Guitar
10) Can’t Deny Me

I legit love 7 of the songs in your list. Most of these are top tier PJ.

Which 7?

Future Days, particularly the studio version, ugh. It might be the one Pearl Jam song I actively hate. The remainder are just songs that I either don’t care about or don’t really dislike but still think they misfired on what they were going for.

[knee tunes]

Amongst The Waves
Gone
Can’t Deny Me
Brother
Parting Ways
I Am Mine
Present Tense
Sweet Lew
Footsteps (harmonica version only)
Mind Your Manners

We can never be friends

[wease]

1-10 - Nothing as it Seems

[LetMeSleep]

1-10 - Nothing as it Seems

Fucking hell, wease.

[Norah]

wease is a monster

[knee tunes]

1-10 - Nothing as it Seems

We are best friends

[bodysnatcher]

The wease stock has really plummeted this week

[Bammer]

Team wease. NAIS is lame.

[LetMeSleep]

If I could only listen to one PJ track for the remainder of my days it would be Nothing As It Seems.

[ridleybradout]

If I could only listen to one PJ track for the remainder of my days it would be Nothing As It Seems.

Nice

Mine would probably be Off He Goes.

[liebzz]

If I could only listen to one PJ track for the remainder of my days it would be Nothing As It Seems.

Yes.

[Chris_H_2]

the entire lightning bolt album (besides lightning bolt)
come back
never destination
comes then goes

[epilogue]

Not sure if I replied to this in the past, but this is a really hard list for me to curate, mostly because I apparently have a positive ear and enjoy nearly every Pearl Jam song...but here’s my best list least favorite to 10th least favorite:

1) Future Days
2) Turning Mist
3) Angel
4) Pry, To
5) Stupid Mop
6) Bee Girl
7) Sweet Lew
8) Evil Little Goat
9) Johnny Guitar
10) Can’t Deny Me

I legit love 7 of the songs in your list. Most of these are top tier PJ.

Which 7?

Future Days, particularly the studio version, ugh. It might be the one Pearl Jam song I actively hate. The remainder are just songs that I either don’t care about or don’t really dislike but still think they misfired on what they were going for.

Angel is a top 10 all-time PJ song for me. It was my #1 for a long time. The other six are:

Future Days
Pry, To
Bee Girl
Sweet Lew
Johnny Guitar
Can't Deny Me

I imagine 95% will disagree with me about Future Days and Can't Deny Me. But I love both of those songs. FD particularly.

[wease]

If I could only listen to one PJ track for the remainder of my days it would be Nothing As It Seems.

I would sooner gouge my ears with ice picks.

[liebzz]

Not sure if I replied to this in the past, but this is a really hard list for me to curate, mostly because I apparently have a positive ear and enjoy nearly every Pearl Jam song...but here’s my best list least favorite to 10th least favorite:

1) Future Days
2) Turning Mist
3) Angel
4) Pry, To
5) Stupid Mop
6) Bee Girl
7) Sweet Lew
8) Evil Little Goat
9) Johnny Guitar
10) Can’t Deny Me

I legit love 7 of the songs in your list. Most of these are top tier PJ.

Which 7?

Future Days, particularly the studio version, ugh. It might be the one Pearl Jam song I actively hate. The remainder are just songs that I either don’t care about or don’t really dislike but still think they misfired on what they were going for.

Angel is a top 10 all-time PJ song for me. It was my #1 for a long time. The other six are:

Future Days
Pry, To
Bee Girl
Sweet Lew
Johnny Guitar
Can't Deny Me

I imagine 95% will disagree with me about Future Days and Can't Deny Me. But I love both of those songs. FD particularly.

Fascinating. Angel for me was always near the bottom. It always sounded like a tossed off improv to me. Same with Bee Girl.

Can’t Deny Me is weird. Almost left it off. I don’t actually hate it, but it sort of fit as the worst song I can still listen to outside the context of any album (granted it is not on any album). Pry, To I hear often because I tend to play Vitalogy straight through. It seems transitional in a space that needs no transition.

[epilogue]

Because I always listen to Vitalogy all the way through, as well, Pry, To has always sounded like an intro to Corduroy more than a stand alone track. For years, every mix I made for someone what had Corduroy on it also had Pry, To. They are the same song to me in a lot of ways.

But I've also used Pry, To by itself as a track on mixes and it's always worked well.