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Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat October 31, 2020 7:54 pm
by LetMeSleep
Man, the 2010-2019 run was dire.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat October 31, 2020 8:01 pm
by epilogue
Monkey_Driven wrote:
epilogue wrote:
PHATJ wrote:
epilogue wrote:You knew it was coming!
The only song on Backspacer worth listening to.
:bammer:
I believe you two are alone on that island.
I like a few of the songs on Backspacer. But Amongst the Waves is the best of the bunch, for sure.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat October 31, 2020 11:23 pm
by PHATJ
epilogue wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
epilogue wrote:
PHATJ wrote:
epilogue wrote:You knew it was coming!
The only song on Backspacer worth listening to.
:bammer:
I believe you two are alone on that island.
I like a few of the songs on Backspacer. But Amongst the Waves is the best of the bunch, for sure.
I’ve got no problem being unique. Being a sheep in the herd was never my thing anyway.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sun November 01, 2020 12:27 am
by RockPusher
Amongst the Waves is not a bad song. It's just a really good example of the band trying to achieve a type of slick, positive grandiosity that feels a bit more contrived when compared to the type of gritty, highly-charged grandiosity they used to achieve just by doing their thing. Who Ever Said is, in my opinion, a great example of the latter. That is unquestionably the type of Pearl Jam I prefer.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sun November 01, 2020 2:06 am
by Jaeti
Strat wrote:I tried this. I couldn't come up with anything definitive.

A majority of songs were from Gigaton.

I love pearl jam.

Warts and all.
Yeah, my list wouldn't literally be ten songs from Gigaton, but it almost could be. There's not a single song on it that couldn't credibly appear in a post-2002 top 10.

Life Wasted, Parachutes, Come Back, Unthought Known, Lightning Bolt are the ones that would be trying to elbow out a few Gigaton tracks.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 1:28 pm
by 7 Years and Maybe Longer
The contenders for me from this era are:
Gigaton
Cold Confession
Let It Ride
Come Back
Pendulum
Got Some

Hoping Gigaton was the start of a new, better era that goes through the 2020s.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 9:32 pm
by The Town
Was it released ≥ S/T and have terrible mixing and/or production; it's a PRAMG'er
Gigaton is post-PRAMG

Post Riot Act Money Grab Top 10:
1) Come Back
2) Big Wave
3) Army Reserve
4) Speed of Sound
5) Unemployable
6) Force of Nature
7) Marker in the Sand
8) Amongst The Waves
9) Sirens
10) Life Wasted

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 9:34 pm
by JuanHamm
The Town wrote:Was it released ≥ S/T and have terrible mixing and/or production; it's a PRAMG'er
Gigaton is post-PRAMG

Post Riot Act Money Grab Top 10:
1) Come Back
2) Big Wave
3) Army Reserve
4) Speed of Sound
5) Unemployable
6) Force of Nature
7) Marker in the Sand
8) Amongst The Waves
9) Sirens
10) Life Wasted
If we're not counting pre-avocado and post Gigaton then I can't do it. I couldn't even do a top 5.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 9:45 pm
by The Town
JuanHamm wrote:
The Town wrote:Was it released ≥ S/T and have terrible mixing and/or production; it's a PRAMG'er
Gigaton is post-PRAMG

Post Riot Act Money Grab Top 10:
1) Come Back
2) Big Wave
3) Army Reserve
4) Speed of Sound
5) Unemployable
6) Force of Nature
7) Marker in the Sand
8) Amongst The Waves
9) Sirens
10) Life Wasted
If we're not counting pre-avocado and post Gigaton then I can't do it. I couldn't even do a top 5.
Is it the songs themselves that don't do it for you?
How much have you listened to acclaimed live versions and alternative studio versions like BrickwallHater and Spotify remasters of these?

Fair enough if you just don't like the song writing, but for me I seek out the 10 I posted on a regular basis when I'm wanting to listen to PJ.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 9:52 pm
by JuanHamm
The Town wrote:
JuanHamm wrote:
The Town wrote:Was it released ≥ S/T and have terrible mixing and/or production; it's a PRAMG'er
Gigaton is post-PRAMG

Post Riot Act Money Grab Top 10:
1) Come Back
2) Big Wave
3) Army Reserve
4) Speed of Sound
5) Unemployable
6) Force of Nature
7) Marker in the Sand
8) Amongst The Waves
9) Sirens
10) Life Wasted
If we're not counting pre-avocado and post Gigaton then I can't do it. I couldn't even do a top 5.
Is it the songs themselves that don't do it for you?
How much have you listened to acclaimed live versions and alternative studio versions like BrickwallHater and Spotify remasters of these?

Fair enough if you just don't like the song writing, but for me I seek out the 10 I posted on a regular basis when I'm wanting to listen to PJ.
I have never listened to the other mixes of Avocado. It might help,but I really don't like the way Ed sings most of the album. Backspacr and Lightning Bolt don't even really register with me at all. I don't remember the last time I listened to BS and I don't think I even made it all the way through LB once. It's just a horrible parody of Pearl Jam.

Gigaton feels like they've finally made a follow-up to Riot Act.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 9:54 pm
by VinylGuy
is this thread about the low points? If thats so:

- Lightning Bolt: the album is the weakest. Sounds horrible and half of the album is half baked.

- Lightning Bolt: the song. Its should have been a classic and its not by a long shot.

- Matt´s drums in LB: Brendan hates him.

-Brendan´s sound in both Backspacer and LB

-Avocado mastering.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Fri November 13, 2020 9:56 pm
by JuanHamm
Post avocado, pre Gigaton top 5

Army Reserve
Big Wave
Santa Cruz
Better Days (not sure if this counts)
Got Some

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat November 14, 2020 3:24 am
by epilogue
Post avocado, pre Gigaton top 5

Infallible
Amongst the Waves
Yellow Moon
Ole
Just Breathe

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat November 14, 2020 1:22 pm
by Kevin Davis
Gonna See My Friend
Got Some
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Ole

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat November 14, 2020 1:25 pm
by Bi_3
Kevin Davis wrote:Gonna See My Friend
Got Some
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Ole

Kevin...

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat November 14, 2020 1:30 pm
by Kevin Davis
Bi_3 wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:Gonna See My Friend
Got Some
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Ole

Kevin...
To clarify, this is the "post-Avocado, pre-Gigaton" version...

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat November 14, 2020 2:32 pm
by Ms Harmless
Monkey_Driven wrote:
epilogue wrote:
PHATJ wrote:
epilogue wrote:You knew it was coming!
The only song on Backspacer worth listening to.
:bammer:
I believe you two are alone on that island.
we talking about Amongst the Waves? nope, I really like it too (but I like several songs on Backspacer; it doesn't work as an album for me because stuff like Supersonic utterly ruins it)

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Sat November 14, 2020 4:24 pm
by epilogue
Ms Harmless wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
epilogue wrote:
PHATJ wrote:
epilogue wrote:You knew it was coming!
The only song on Backspacer worth listening to.
:bammer:
I believe you two are alone on that island.
we talking about Amongst the Waves? nope, I really like it too (but I like several songs on Backspacer; it doesn't work as an album for me because stuff like Supersonic utterly ruins it)
Same. I like several songs on the album but the thing just doesn't work as an album for me.

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Mon November 23, 2020 6:31 pm
by PHATJ
Kevin Davis wrote:Gonna See My Friend
Got Some
The Fixer
Johnny Guitar
Ole
Hideous. Just hideous. :throwup:

Re: PRAMG Top 10

Posted: Mon November 23, 2020 6:39 pm
by bodysnatcher
I’ve tried to make this list several times and I just can’t do it