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Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 12:42 am
by E.H. Ruddock
cutuphalfdead wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Why did this retain the new thread's title and not the old?
Yeah I'm about to have an aneurysm.
I'm here for you, friend.
Why did stip do that?
Spite?
Lots of threads are pissing me off.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 1:24 am
by malice
E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Why did this retain the new thread's title and not the old?
Yeah I'm about to have an aneurysm.
I'm here for you, friend.
Why did stip do that?
Spite?
Lots of threads are pissing me off.
it's your age
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 1:30 am
by LetMeSleep
malice wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Why did this retain the new thread's title and not the old?
Yeah I'm about to have an aneurysm.
I'm here for you, friend.
Why did stip do that?
Spite?
Lots of threads are pissing me off.
it's your age
and it's okay.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:07 am
by Fuzzcharger
Are mods going to merge this with the old thread? Are we living in the wild west where newbies can start a new post on an existing topic however they want. What about the RULES.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:07 am
by Norah
Fuzzcharger wrote:Are mods going to merge this with the old thread? Are we living in the wild west where newbies can start a new post on an existing topic however they want. What about the RULES.
It has been merged but it retained the new thread title not the old one.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:08 am
by Fuzzcharger
cutuphalfdead wrote:Fuzzcharger wrote:Are mods going to merge this with the old thread? Are we living in the wild west where newbies can start a new post on an existing topic however they want. What about the RULES.
It has been merged but it retained the new thread title not the old one.
I see. Why would anyone in their right mind do that.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:11 am
by Norah
Fuzzcharger wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Fuzzcharger wrote:Are mods going to merge this with the old thread? Are we living in the wild west where newbies can start a new post on an existing topic however they want. What about the RULES.
It has been merged but it retained the new thread title not the old one.
I see. Why would anyone in their right mind do that.
In the past when threads were merged the titled went with the oldest of the threads. Maybe this is a new version of phpbb that uses a different criteria, such as which thread had the most posts?
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:15 am
by Fuzzcharger
cutuphalfdead wrote:Fuzzcharger wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Fuzzcharger wrote:Are mods going to merge this with the old thread? Are we living in the wild west where newbies can start a new post on an existing topic however they want. What about the RULES.
It has been merged but it retained the new thread title not the old one.
I see. Why would anyone in their right mind do that.
In the past when threads were merged the titled went with the oldest of the threads. Maybe this is a new version of phpbb that uses a different criteria, such as which thread had the most posts?
Quite possibly. At least the old threads had uniformity.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:20 am
by Kevin Davis
Birds in Hell wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:it annoys me that Breath is on there.
It's kind of a weird tracklisting overall.
If I were to design a one-disc "greatest hits"-type compilation from the same era, it would look something like this:
1. Alive (promo single mix)
2. Even Flow (single mix)
3. Jeremy (single mix)
4. Black (O'Brien remix)
5. Yellow Ledbetter
6. Daughter
7. Go
8. Spin the Black Circle
9. Corduroy
10. Better Man
11. Who You Are
12. Hail, Hail
13. Given to Fly
14. Do the Evolution
15. Last Kiss
16. Nothing As It Seems
17. Grievance
18. I Am Mine
Is it really that weird of a tracklisting? It seems to me the compilation is pretty much everything it claims to be.
Personally, I'd ax neither-hit-nor-single "Breath" for forgotten single "Oceans" on the second disc, and ax neither-hit-nor-single "Once" for something else from the 2000-2002 era, probably "Insignificance" or "Grievance," on the first. But other than that I think they did alright with this thing.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:21 am
by Norah
I've never listened to this.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:23 am
by EJ
Never bothered with this one. Though I do remember hearing the SOLAT from it. Hated it.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:25 am
by Birds in Hell
cutuphalfdead wrote:I've never listened to this.
I bought it for the alternate mixes (Once, Alive, Black, State of Love and Trust, Who You Are, etc.)
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 9:44 am
by stip
Birds in Hell wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:I've never listened to this.
I bought it for the alternate mixes (Once, Alive, Black, State of Love and Trust, Who You Are, etc.)
Totally worth it for those. And once was a hit, just not a single.
as an aside, when you merge threads it sometimes (I don't know when/why) takes the new title. But if you go to edit the first post and then hit save (and not touch anything) it goes back to the old title
That is the only modding trick I know. I have now made myself irrelevant
Re: Rearview Mirror Greatest Hits: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 9:47 am
by Sgt. Crackpot
No stip, now that you've cloned yourself with a little minion, you're "obsolete".
BTW, congrats.
Re: Rearview Mirror Greatest Hits: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 11:25 am
by Angus
I remember when we all thought after their last obligation to Sony, they would be free to release all kinds of cool stuff.
Re: Rearview Mirror Greatest Hits: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 11:30 am
by Sgt. Crackpot
Angus wrote:I remember when we all thought after their last obligation to Sony, they would be free to release all kinds of cool stuff.
Pretty ironic that they then released their worst.
Re: Rearview Mirror Greatest Hits: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:41 pm
by lvc
Just for posterity because nobody mentioned it in the new posts: Pearl Jam didn't make any choices at all on this, except maybe dividing soft and loud songs. This is just a compilation of every song released as a single in order of release of the album on which it appeared. It was a simply a final contractual obligation to Sony, and maybe the joke is that their greatest hits were just anything that ever made it to the radio.
* edit-- I might be wrong about all of this. Alas.
Re: Opinions on Rearviewmirror greatest hits album?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 2:55 pm
by Thejambi
stip wrote:Birds in Hell wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:I've never listened to this.
I bought it for the alternate mixes (Once, Alive, Black, State of Love and Trust, Who You Are, etc.)
Totally worth it for those.
Re: Rearview Mirror Greatest Hits: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 4:00 pm
by WaitingForBluey
lvc wrote:Just for posterity because nobody mentioned it in the new posts: Pearl Jam didn't make any choices at all on this, except maybe dividing soft and loud songs. This is just a compilation of every song released as a single in order of release of the album on which it appeared. It was a simply a final contractual obligation to Sony, and maybe the joke is that their greatest hits were just anything that ever made it to the radio.
* edit-- I might be wrong about all of this. Alas.
That logic doesn't really hold much weight.
These songs were never released as "official" singles:
Once, SOLAT, RVM, Corduroy, I Got Id, Do the Evolution, Black, Breath, Small Town, Betterman, Nothingman, Yellow Ledbetter
These songs were released as "official" singles but don't appear on RVM:
Oceans, Bu$hleaguer (believe it or not???), Love Boat Captain
So there was obviously some type of decision-making that went into this process
Re: Rearview Mirror Greatest Hits: Official Album Thread
Posted: Fri July 26, 2013 5:01 pm
by bada
bluestate wrote:lvc wrote:Just for posterity because nobody mentioned it in the new posts: Pearl Jam didn't make any choices at all on this, except maybe dividing soft and loud songs. This is just a compilation of every song released as a single in order of release of the album on which it appeared. It was a simply a final contractual obligation to Sony, and maybe the joke is that their greatest hits were just anything that ever made it to the radio.
* edit-- I might be wrong about all of this. Alas.
That logic doesn't really hold much weight.
These songs were never released as "official" singles:
Once, SOLAT, RVM, Corduroy, I Got Id, Do the Evolution, Black, Breath, Small Town, Betterman, Nothingman, Yellow Ledbetter
These songs were released as "official" singles but don't appear on RVM:
Oceans, Bu$hleaguer (believe it or not???), Love Boat Captain
So there was obviously some type of decision-making that went into this process
Think it was less strictly singles but which songs charted and some soundtrack songs.