Match BY: Life Wasted vs. Olympic Platnium

[stip]

Match BY

[digster]

I love Life Wasted. I feel like a lot of people really dislike that opening 3-song run to S/T, but besides the one-two punch of Parachutes/Unemployable it's the only part of the record I feel like they get right.

[Birds in Hell]

I love Life Wasted.

I like it a lot too, even if it hasn't sounded right live ever since they dropped the key.

[digster]

Like Binaural, all of my favorite versions of the songs from S/T come from the year they toured on the record.

edit: speaking of which, I just listened to Black Market Avocado for the first time recently. That's awesome, thanks.

[William Bloke]

Life Wasted is a great tune. This makes me want to crank "Black Market Avocado" again.

:searches:

[chewm]

I love Life Wasted

[stip]

I love Life Wasted. I feel like a lot of people really dislike that opening 3-song run to S/T, but besides the one-two punch of Parachutes/Unemployable it's the only part of the record I feel like they get right.

it's one of my absolute favorite stretches in the catalog. It's pretty close to my 1-2-3 for the post 2000 era. And both WWS and Comatose have been top 5 songs for me at one point. All 3 were top 10

[Norah]

I voted for Olympic Platinum and I'm dead serious about it.

[digster]

I love Life Wasted. I feel like a lot of people really dislike that opening 3-song run to S/T, but besides the one-two punch of Parachutes/Unemployable it's the only part of the record I feel like they get right.

it's one of my absolute favorite stretches in the catalog. It's pretty close to my 1-2-3 for the post 2000 era. And both WWS and Comatose have been top 5 songs for me at one point. All 3 were top 10

Whoa now, pump the brakes, buddy.

[BurtReynolds]

It's alright. Delete WWS and add Severed Hand, and it's a decent opening.

[digster]

I really like WWS besides its' lunkhead of a chorus.

[Lament]

All 3 were top 10

I mean...I know I should expect these things but...

Wow.

[stip]

WWS is still there.

[Lament]

One of them being in the top 10 doesn't surprise me or seem excessive (though none of them would be in my top 50). Three just seems like a lot.

[stip]

You also have to understand how much of a breath of fresh air these songs felt like to me. I love when pearl jam is all roar and fire and they basically stopped writing songs like that for the better part of a decade. The beginning of s/t was a homecoming

[stip]

One of them being in the top 10 doesn't surprise me or seem excessive (though none of them would be in my top 50). Three just seems like a lot.

In their way they are similar songs, and so they all kind of elevated each other.

They are all probably still top 20.

[stupidmop]

Sing like whitneeeeeyeyeyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I loathe life wasted.

[Thejambi]

The beginning of s/t was a homecoming a return to form.

[Kevin Davis]

"Life Wasted" for me. Love the bridge, and always found it surprisingly melodic for the lunkheaded rocker it makes itself out to be. One of my favorite songs on "S/T."

[Thejambi]

I rank it as average to slightly above average. I think Ed sounds pretty weak and that takes away a lot for me. He's singing at an 11 and it doesn't work as well for me as he does on say, My Father's Son.