Best studio performance

[Monkey_Driven]

Gigaton

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[uberfischerv2]

No Way

[Norah]

Nothingman might be it.

[Birds in Hell]

No Way is a song where I feel the studio version could never be replicated elsewhere.

that's a good one. Even during the Jack years the live versions never really came together.

Sorry for being a pedant, but they never attempted No Way live with Jack.

[Farmer John]

Elderly Woman...

I've never heard a live version I liked, but the studio version is perfect.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Farmer John]

The bit of No Way on Single Video Theory sounded pretty cool.

[evenslow]

Elderly Woman...

I've never heard a live version I liked, but the studio version is perfect.

I wouldn't say it's their best but you're right, it's on another level.

[evenslow]

Best (solo) studio performance: Comes Then Goes

[Birds in Hell]

No Way is a song where I feel the studio version could never be replicated elsewhere.

that's a good one. Even during the Jack years the live versions never really came together.

Sorry for being a pedant, but they never attempted No Way live with Jack.

For real?

Yeah.

Jack only played the Hawaii/NZ/Australian leg of the Yield tour (the Adelaide date of which was the first time I saw the band) and they never tried No Way on those shows.

They played it a few times with Matt later that year and then dropped it until 2009 (?).

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[OmegaprimeVKM]

The production on Riot Act is clean and purposeful. On Binaural it's beautifully airy and atmospheric. I reckon the best recording of a track committed to record though is something like In Hiding, Red Mosquito or Spin the Black Circle.

[injuddstree]

Hail Hail

[Farmer John]

I Got ID is probably the correct answer.

[VinylGuy]

Yeah I know those Matt versions sucked. I just had the idea in my head that I've never heard a good live version, and wrongly assumed there had been bad ones with Jack.

Alpine Valley 2011 kicked ass. And i think they played it 2010 too and it was amazing.

[evenslow]

Good, so after almost 2 pages we've narrowed it down to 57 choices.

[bodysnatcher]

There are particular performances where they were able to catch the eeriness, weight, and atmosphere of a song...

Fatal
Sleight Of Hand
Nothing As It Seems
Strangest Tribe
Tremor Christ
Immortality
Of The Girl

There are probably instances where they matched those songs live, but i have no idea.

[LoathedVermin72]

Good, so after almost 2 pages we've narrowed it down to 57 choices.

lol

[liebzz]

The original, harmonica-free, version of Footsteps. Also surprisingly the original Dirty Frank. Neither are my favorite Pearl Jam songs but the miss have to be the definitive versions of each.