Red Mosquito

Getaway vs. Black Red Yellow vs. Off He Goes

Off He Goes is awfully pretty.

It pains me to not vote BRY here. Gotta go Off He Goes.

Strat wrote:

Thurman Murman wrote:It pains me to not vote BRY here. Gotta go Off He Goes.

Exactly

it felt GREAT voting for BRY

BRY

Off He Goes

but Black Red Yellow is fantastic and the third best Pearl Jam b-side, as voted by me

Spoiler: show

1. Leatherman
2. Wash
3. Black Red Yellow
4. Alone
5. Yellow Ledbetter
6. Out if My Mind
7. U
8. Footsteps
9. Down
10. Dirty Frank

Leatherman fucking rules

Off He Goes but I respect the BRY vote

I wish I would have given getaway a sympathy vote, it's great

Kalevi wrote:I wish I would have given getaway a sympathy vote, it's great

da fuq

Off He Goes is probably the "better" song, but I'm going with BRY just because.

Stupendously easy vote for Off He Goes.

Getaway is somewhat underrated in that it's not terrible. It's a little generic, and one of those cases where I'll concede there may be just a few too many lyrics, but there is the core of a good song there. It's just a little samey throughout. It's been a while since I heard it, but there are a few moments where the song takes on this siren urgency that is really cool - and if the song had that energy throughout it would be really good.


My thoughts on Off He goes are pretty well documented. Beautiful music, really dislike the lyrics, and don't particularly like Eddie's music.

Black Red Yellow is just a ton of fun from start to finish, and maybe the best example of the 2000s of 'fun' pearl jam

This is one of the easier matchups thus far. Getaway is fine, but fairly middling, and I've never heard a big appreciation for Big Red Yellow, and think the vocal layering Eddie does in that song is used to much better effect elsewhere in the catalog. Off He Goes is a fantastic, fantastic song; the beauty of the music is only matched by the perfection of the production (whatever his sins may be later on, O'Brien nailed his job for much of the 90s). And Eddie's lyrics and vulnerable vocal, which sounds like it's sitting right in your ear, is one of his best.

vote for the 50 foot Roman

stip wrote:Black Red Yellow is just a ton of fun from start to finish, and maybe the best example of the 2000s of 'fun' pearl jam

*does not compute*