Red Mosquito

Monkey_Driven wrote:

epilogue wrote:I made like a 20 hour PJ playlist recently. Had it on during a three hour drive yesterday. It "shuffle" on the playlist and let the gods decide what came on. At one point, it played WES followed by React, Respond, and it was fucking awesome. Those songs work really well together as a 1/2 punch. So much so, that i might make a new version of Dark Matter than just removes SoF and inserts WES at track one instead.

this sounds made up

If I had a nickel for every time an RM said that to me...

It makes sense to me that those songs would work well together.

epilogue wrote:I made like a 20 hour PJ playlist recently. Had it on during a three hour drive yesterday. It "shuffle" on the playlist and let the gods decide what came on. At one point, it played WES followed by React, Respond, and it was fucking awesome. Those songs work really well together as a 1/2 punch. So much so, that i might make a new version of Dark Matter than just removes SoF and inserts WES at track one instead.

i dont do that thing where you play the last record and go straight into the new one. I know the band employ some pj magic/science to that when theyre recording, but ive never done it.
LB just doesnt flow into Gigaton at all, they're two completely incompatible worlds. and thats fine.
But Gigaton and Dark matter. Thats a different matter they couldnt work better together and one into the other.

i might follow you and make a playlist of both and hit shuffle

There is some 13 track version of the best of Gigaton and Dark Matter that is the best PJ record since Riot Act. Maybe even Yield. And a couple of days ago I would have thought those 13 tracks didn't include WES. But now I know that's wrong. It absolutely MUST include WES. And it absolutely should be track 1.

I think a best of these two records is on the short list of Pearl Jam’s best albums, full stop

What 13 songs would you include?

WES
SoF
Superblood
React
Dance
Won’t Tell
Alright
Stevie
Take the Long Way
Comes Then Goes
Got to Give
Setting Sun
Get it Back

Who Ever Said
React Respond
Dance
Dark Matter
Quick Escape
Upper Hand
7:00
WFS
TTLW
Running
Comes Then Goes
Got to Give
Get it Back
Setting Sun

14 songs. Remove one if you want.

WES
SoF
React, Respond
Dark Matter
DotC
Quick Escape
Upper Hand
Stevie
Running
Take the Long Way
Comes then Goes
River Cross
Setting Sun

a lot of possible closers across this experimemt

13 songs (not 14 leatherhead, you maniac!), not sequenced

who ever said
superblood wolfmoon
dance of tbe clairvoyants
quick escape
scared of fear
react responsd
wreckage
dark matter
upper hand
waiting for stevie
running
and either reteograde, river cross, or comes than goes depending on the sequence
setting sun

this craic needs its own thread

Hail Hail is of course, better than any of these songs

dimejinky99 wrote:Hail Hail is of course, better than any of these songs

That statement applies to the band’s whole catalogue.

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Hail Hail is of course, better than any of these songs

That statement applies to the band’s whole catalogue.

yep. and this is why i love you

stip wrote:I think a best of these two records is on the short list of Pearl Jam’s best albums, full stop

No doubt

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Hail Hail is of course, better than any of these songs

That statement applies to the band’s whole catalogue.

Top 3 PJ song for me

this cant be real. but it is..

hail hail at a festival..in 2000.. 750 million miles per hour

https://youtu.be/E72aY85freA?si=zopNLeXUyKxGmlZN

Ed could still sing

love to see it

Mattspeed is a problem

Pretty damn good.