Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

liebzz wrote: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.

liebzz wrote: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.

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

epilogue wrote:

liebzz wrote: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.

tragabigzanda wrote: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

1-10 - Nothing as it Seems

wease wrote:1-10 - Nothing as it Seems

Fucking hell, wease.

wease is a monster

wease wrote:1-10 - Nothing as it Seems

We are best friends

The wease stock has really plummeted this week

Team wease. NAIS is lame.

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

LetMeSleep wrote: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.

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

Yes.

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

liebzz wrote:

epilogue wrote:

liebzz wrote: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.

LetMeSleep wrote: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.

epilogue wrote:

liebzz wrote:

epilogue wrote:

liebzz wrote: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.

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.