Red Mosquito

MM 1-15: Animal vs. Rearviewmirror (Bracket Finals)

Voting ends 3/8/24 8ish est

Two worthy finalists, and I'll no complaints with whoever wins. This may be the horse I ride to the end. But RVM cleanly takes this one for me. It's been my greatest late fandom rediscovery

Animal

Animal is a 2.5 minute burst of energy while Rearviewmirror just keeps building to that epic finale. I’ll take RVM but it is is mighty close. Both top Pearl Jam songs for me and define in my brain what I think Pearl Jam sounds like.

Both outstanding but Animal just won a back to back listen.

RVM was the first song I ever saw them do live.

Easy vote for Animal. RVM is fine too.

Animal by a mile!

#TeamGossard represent

stip wrote:Two worthy finalists, and I'll no complaints with whoever wins. This may be the horse I ride to the end. But RVM cleanly takes this one for me. It's been my greatest late fandom rediscovery

I agree with everything you've written here except Animal is my greatest late fandom rediscovery. It and Wishlist are the 2 songs that have grown more for me over the last few years than all others.

I'm all in on Animal, but there's no wrong answer here.

Rearviewmirror

*throws drumsticks*

Easily RVM

MTV music awards Animal is still probably my single greatest moment as a fan

Every video I've seen of the MTV Awards performance, Jeff is way too low in the mix. You can barely hear the bass.

yeah, I've never been nearly as in love with that particular performance as other folks have been. I think 1992 me was actually a little disappointed in it, but that's because I was primed to expect 5 minute anthems and Animal (and Vs as a whole) was partially about resetting expectations

I voted for "RVM" -- it's more of a shapeshifter, contains more multitudes, is more of a PJ song for all seasons, while not without its share of the same raw grit that "Animal" possesses.

stip wrote:yeah, I've never been nearly as in love with that particular performance as other folks have been. I think 1992 me was actually a little disappointed in it, but that's because I was primed to expect 5 minute anthems and Animal (and Vs as a whole) was partially about resetting expectations

Plus, we didn’t hear it until 1993.

I got to hear it early.

I hope you included that in the book