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Aye Davanita vs. Hard to Imagine

Aye Davanita is great interstitial music. Hard to Imagine is a great song.

So great it was left off two albums

i love both these tracks and would love to Someday hear an extended version of the Aye Davanita jam

Hard to Imagine might be a top-10 PJ song for me and def gets the W here

Hard to Imagine is a top 5 PJ song for me.

Happy to vote for it here because it'll likely be the last chance I get in this tournament.

I’d vote for Aye Davanita, Arc or Master/Slave over a lot of great songs.

Aye Davanita

HTI

stip wrote:Aye Davanita is great interstitial music. Hard to Imagine is a great song.

Another brutal match-up. I'd love to be at a show where the band played Aye Davanita, I loved it from my first listen. I understand why you view it as "interstitial" but for me it's always been a proper song. It's exotic and familiar at once, with a wonderful groove. I don't know what it means, I don't think I really want to, but it just works and each time it fades out I want it to stay.

It's part of what makes Vitalogy such a fantastic album, it augments the powerful songs, it's saying not only can we write Immortality but we can do this too, we can be a bit weird, a bit unusual, it's part of what makes them special.

Sure, cut out all the weirdness from the record and it's still amazing, but their aim was art, not always easy to take in on first listen but if done well, only improves with time.

So, here's the timeless Aye Davenita, more than an interesting connective tissue between songs but something worthy and unique all its own.

Hard To Imagine is just another perfect song from the band .I've been quite fortunate to have heard it live a number of times and enjoyed it. After surviving the heartache of Black one can float along with the introspective mood of this song. It's both grounded and airy and exists as part of that musical energy that's the reason PJ is my favorite rock band.

There's a looseness to the music, deceptive as it builds to a powerful climax, that again perfectly meshes with Eddie's voice and lyrics. Thinking about it now, the tune reminds me of those jams the band would play in '91, '92, Stone lighting upon some riff or chord progression, Dave kicking in with support and everyone slowly joining in, Eddie mumble-singing his way forward. I love those moments, so Hard To Imagine feels like one of those jams carried forward into song proper.

I can't decided, I love 'em both. I guess Aye Davanita just barely.

nice description