Red Mosquito

I wanted to make a cool mix for a friend that is coming over tomorrow night. He is a Pearl Jam fan and has been with me to at least 3 PJ shows. He has more than a good general knowledge of the PJ catalog, but he definitely is more familiar with the hits and the songs that get played a lot at live shows. I want to make a cool album length mix from the middle records (No Code - Riot Act) and I want the songs to be fairly distributed with each album represented more than once. I also want to avoid songs he's heard 100s of times, hence the "deep cuts". I am also trying to make it feel like a sonicly cohesive album (or at least I want the songs to flow well from one to the next as much as possible).

Here's what I've come up with at this point:

01. Brain of J.
02. Leatherman
03. No Way
04. Evacuation
05. Hail, Hail
06. Low Light In The Moonlight
07. You Are
08. Nothing As It Seems
09. Cropduster
10. MFC
11. Lukin Sleight Of Hand
12. Present Tense
13. Parting Ways

13 Songs * 51 Minutes

lose Leatherman, replace with anything

BurtReynolds wrote:lose Leatherman, replace with anything

I've always liked that song, and I think he likes it too (if I remember correctly). It's probably been 5+ years since he's heard it, so it stays.

i hope you know what you're doing, phatj

BurtReynolds wrote:i hope you know what you're doing, phatj

It's a risk I'm willing to take.

I want to see some other track lists. I'm always interested in how people track out an album.

I made a couple adjustments. My buddy hates Lukin (I love it) so I took that out. I replaced Low Light because Sleight of Hand is the best PJ song ever and I just had to include it, and I like the way it plays off of In The Moonlight (my replacement for Lukin) and You Are.

How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

PHATJ wrote:

Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

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Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

The intro to MFC sounds real nice following Of The Girl.

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Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

The intro to MFC sounds real nice following Of The Girl.

The transition into Sad sounds real nice too. Off to a great start.

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Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

The intro to MFC sounds real nice following Of The Girl.

The transition into Sad sounds real nice too. Off to a nice start.

Faithful into Low Light is solid. I'm needing something really uptempo now...

PHATJ wrote:

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Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

The intro to MFC sounds real nice following Of The Girl.

The transition into Sad sounds real nice too. Off to a nice start.

Faithful into Low Light is solid. I'm needing something really uptempo now...

I think I want to flip flop Grievance and LBC. I need that punch after Low Light, and Grievance delivers.

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Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

The intro to MFC sounds real nice following Of The Girl.

The transition into Sad sounds real nice too. Off to a nice start.

Faithful into Low Light is solid. I'm needing something really uptempo now...

I think I want to flip flop Grievance and LBC. I need that punch after Low Light, and Grievance delivers.

LBC coming out of Grievance sounds really good. I like that swap around a lot.

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Biff Pocoroba wrote:How about this? Trying for a variety of paces with some kind of flow.

Of the Girl
MFC
Sad
Faithfull
Lowlight
Love Boat Captain
Grievance
Parting Ways
In My Tree
No Way
All Those Yesterdays

Nice, I'll give it a listen.

I love Of The Girl as an opener. It's such a great mood setting piece.

The intro to MFC sounds real nice following Of The Girl.

The transition into Sad sounds real nice too. Off to a nice start.

Faithful into Low Light is solid. I'm needing something really uptempo now...

I think I want to flip flop Grievance and LBC. I need that punch after Low Light, and Grievance delivers.

LBC coming out of Grievance sounds really good. I like that swap around a lot.

Because of my song flop, I don't think Parting Ways fits well after LBC. I'd like to replace Parting Ways with Black, Red, Yellow.

Here is my version of your mix:


01. Of the Girl
02. MFC
03. Sad
04. Faithfull
05. Lowlight
06. Grievance
07. LBC
08. Parting Ways Black, Red, Yellow
09. In My Tree
10. No Way
11. All Those Yesterdays

I like your changes, we seem to have similar PJ tastes.
Playing around with lists like that is certainly one of my more nerdy fanboy things; still love looking at concert sets and switching up songs.

Biff Pocoroba wrote:I like your changes, we seem to have similar PJ tastes.
Playing around with lists like that is certainly one of my more nerdy fanboy things; still love looking at concert sets and switching up songs.

Nice! I love playing with stuff like this too. Finding the perfect mix or perfect set, I just think its a lot of fun. Thanks for playing along.