Red Mosquito

Round 5 - choose 1 song to ELIMINATE. Voting open until 8pm EST 3/17

Ohh, this is really hard

Supersonic is the really easy choice. But after that I like pretty much the whole record without stark gradations beyond confidently saying Fixer and Force of Nature are my favorites.

Lets go with Just Breathe and The End, as I'm more likely to skip those if they come on than the others (though The End can hit hard in the right mood)

Waves
Supersonic
The End

GSMF, Supersonic, Speed Of Sound

Just breathe
Supersonic
Speed of sound

Just Breathe
Supersonic
Force of Nature

I don't know this album well enough to vote

The Fixer
Just Breathe
Amongst the Waves

Just Breathe
Supersonic
The End

Johnny Guitar
Just Breathe
The End

Only 3?

bodysnatcher wrote:Only 3?

It's Stip's favorite album. He's throwing it a bone.

CopperTom wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Only 3?

It's Stip's favorite album. He's throwing it a bone.

Jesus took the wheel

Things I will admit now about Backspacer:

I do actually enjoy Supersonic

I was annoyed when it came out there were songs I thought belonged more with Eddie solo than Pearl Jam proper (Tulumne *ahem* Just Breathe, The End). They get voted off the island with Johnny Guitar, which is Pearl Jam extremely awkwardly trying to do something different.

I don’t even know that I could vote for 3 songs to KEEP.

I’m not voting in this tourney at all but I’ll take a second to defend every rock song on Backspacer save Amongst the Waves. They’ve aged surprisingly well. The acoustic songs suck ass.

Supersonic, Just Breathe, and The End are eliminated - an ignoble state of affairs for Pearl Jam's biggest hit in twenty years and what felt like a very popular song at the time of Backspacer's release

Backspacer might have become the PJ album have the hardest time ranking. Other than my top two song I like almost all of them equally - a great run of solid songs, but few top shelf.

Given what's here, I'll go with Johnny Guitar, Unthought Known, and Speed of Sound - but again, this is a game of inches

GSMF
AtW
SoS