List your top 10 PJ songs you wish didn’t exist

[Anders]

Off He Goes

OHG is a great song you knucklehead.

[Jorge]

"Help Help" is fantastic; a great example of everything they did right in Riot Act

[Monkey_Driven]

Hmmmm...

Not Including Covers...

Bee Girl
(Just a) Girl
Stupid Mop
Amongst the Waves
Gonna See My Friend
Let the Records Play
Leash (I cringed at this song even when I was a teenager)
Soon Forget (just a little too on the nose)
Ole
Olympic Platinum

[Anders]

Not saying Just A Girl is great in any way, but I think it's a decent Ten era song, with some cool history. Wish they would play it at least one more time live.

[Monkey_Driven]

Not saying Just A Girl is great in any way, but I think it's a decent Ten era song, with some cool history. Wish they would play it at least one more time live.

It's just entirely forgettable.

[Anders]

"Help Help" is fantastic; a great example of everything they did right in Riot Act

I have some issues with Riot Act, where I adore about half the songs, like a few of the rest, and then there are some songs that hurt the overall experience. This was a first for me, as I love Binaural, and the albums before it. My favorite part of Riot Act is the warm sound, which I feel is the opposite on S/T. If S/T was more like Riot Act, it might even have been a better album. Some of the lyrics are among Ed's best as well. Full of heartfelt lyrics.

Ghost is a cool song, but could have been a great song. It has a part in the chorus that lets the song down. Bu$hleaguer with the cringy lyrics. Get Right we have already talked about. Green Disease is just ok. Help Help has some cool music, but I really don't like the lyrics and how Ed sings them.

Tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me
Tell me lies, tell me

Tell me why
Tell me why, tell me
Tell me why, tell me

Tell me lies,...

Help me

[LoathedVermin72]

Those are some of the best songs on the album.

[Anders]

I love Love Boat Captain, I Am Mine, Save You, Can't Keep, Thumbing My Way, All Or None, Cropduster, You Are, most of Ghost. Have no complaints about 1/2 Full, while Arc is ok for what it is. Anyway, we've discussed this before in the Riot Act thread. Happy to see that only Riot Act songs I love have made it this far in the March Pearl Jam tournament.

[LoathedVermin72]

Thumbing My Way, All or None, and - to a lesser extent - LBC are the duds, IMO.

[Anders]

They are all powerful songs, especially lyrically. I was dealing with some stuff at the time myself, and they really spoke to me.

Thumbing My Way

I let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back
And in time I've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next, from this lonely overpass
Hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past
All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
Choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back, now there's no turning back

Love Boat Captain

It's an art to live with pain, mix the light into grey,
Lost nine friends we'll never know, two years ago today
And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret?
And the young, they can lose hope 'cause they can't see beyond today,
The wisdom that the old can't give away

All Or None

Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that our destinations
Are the ones we've been before?
I still try to run on
But it's all or none
To myself, I surrender
To the one I'll never please

[PHATJ]

"Help Help" is fantastic; a great example of everything they did right in Riot Act

[wease]

NAIS
Sirens

[bada]

Why do so many people hate Just Breathe and The End so much? Those are two of their best songs from that album. Is it cuz it sounds like it should be on Ed's solo stuff?

It's music for soccer moms. Lame.

And Ed's I-have-a-cold voice is unbearable.

I've never been able to make it all the way through The End or Future Days. I wish the last two albums didn't exist. I'd be fine if the last three didn't...I kinda love Riot Act and I'm glad we have it but honestly I could live without it too. Binaural was the last album that had songs I figure are mandatory must haves. That was a long time ago.

[E.H. Ruddock]

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[VinylGuy]

There is nothing as awful as Future Days. I think the bands knows it and that why they are barely playing on it.
Its the worst song in their catalogue by far.

[guestT]

LTRP
Supersonic
Future Days
Infallible
Mind Your Manners
Dirty Frank
Unthought Known
Ole

[LoathedVermin72]

They are all powerful songs, especially lyrically. I was dealing with some stuff at the time myself, and they really spoke to me.

Thumbing My Way

I let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back
And in time I've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next, from this lonely overpass
Hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past
All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
Choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back, now there's no turning back

Love Boat Captain

It's an art to live with pain, mix the light into grey,
Lost nine friends we'll never know, two years ago today
And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret?
And the young, they can lose hope 'cause they can't see beyond today,
The wisdom that the old can't give away

All Or None

Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that our destinations
Are the ones we've been before?
I still try to run on
But it's all or none
To myself, I surrender
To the one I'll never please

I hate all these mopey sadsack lyrics

[Monkey_Driven]

They are all powerful songs, especially lyrically. I was dealing with some stuff at the time myself, and they really spoke to me.

Thumbing My Way

I let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back
And in time I've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next, from this lonely overpass
Hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past
All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
Choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back, now there's no turning back

Love Boat Captain

It's an art to live with pain, mix the light into grey,
Lost nine friends we'll never know, two years ago today
And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret?
And the young, they can lose hope 'cause they can't see beyond today,
The wisdom that the old can't give away

All Or None

Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that our destinations
Are the ones we've been before?
I still try to run on
But it's all or none
To myself, I surrender
To the one I'll never please

I hate all these mopey sadsack lyrics

These came along at the perfect time for some things I was going through at the time. Just because they are mopey does not make them bad or disgenuine. But I can understand if they don't connect with everyone.

[LoathedVermin72]

No, they are bad

[LetMeSleep]

7 Ed tracks that should have stayed Ed solo tracks

Soon Forget
Thumbing My Way
Gone
Just Breathe
The End
Sleeping By Myself
Future Days

Of those I reluctantly admit that Gone works as a band song. I don't like it. Same could be said for Speed Of Sound except I like that band performance.