Red Mosquito

Voting ends 3/15

It's double elimination, baby!

Now see, I do actually love all three of these. But I love Pry, To mostly as an intro to Corduroy and in the context of the whole record. On it's own, it's way out of its depth. Aye Davanita is amazing and I would take it over plenty of other songs. Like Satan's Bed or StBC.

Nothingman is beautiful. I love it so much. If, somehow, Aye Davanita finds a way to win, I'll be fine with that. But I have to go with Nothingman.

I would have voted for just about anything on Vitalogy but these two songs (and Stupid Mop) over Nothingman. Oh well.

Nothingman is one of my favorite things this band has done.
It has an easy match, but I'd also vote for it over amost everything this round.

Nothing man is so gentle and affecting.

Aye Davanita

Aye Davanita has managed a coupla R2 appearances.
Pry, To, not so much.
Nothingman's best was a R4 loss to In Hiding way back in 2005.

Nothingman is wonderful and easily gets the vote.

so people are actually voting for 2 filler "songs" over nothingman? it's not my favorite song by any means, but yikes.

Pry, To.

I love it.

Aye Davanita is a gem.

Birds in Hell wrote:Pry, To.

I love it.

I must admit I changed my vote to this

Aye Fucking Davanita

"Aye Davanita" is a nice little groove-jam, nothing more, and "Pry To" is no more consequential on its own than the little feedback loop between "Satan's Bed" and "Better Man." Plus if P-R-I-V-A-C-Y was so priceless to him, why include this candid little snippet of slurred nonsense as a standalone track? Weird how in so many ways their hatred-of-fame album seems to contain more stupid rock star excess wankery than anything else they ever made.

"Nothingman" seems to have found its fair share of detractors of late, but I rate it pretty highly among early PJ tunes. Easy vote.

Nothingman is gorgeous.

Yeah, if you're 14.

Kevin Davis wrote:"Aye Davanita" is a nice little groove-jam, nothing more, and "Pry To" is no more consequential on its own than the little feedback loop between "Satan's Bed" and "Better Man." Plus if P-R-I-V-A-C-Y was so priceless to him, why include this candid little snippet of slurred nonsense as a standalone track? Weird how in so many ways their hatred-of-fame album seems to contain more stupid rock star excess wankery than anything else they ever made.

"Nothingman" seems to have found its fair share of detractors of late, but I rate it pretty highly among early PJ tunes. Easy vote.

Bummed to hear you're not a fan of the experimentation. It's part of what makes this my favorite album of all time.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Nothingman is gorgeous.

Hallelujah

Kevin Davis wrote:"Aye Davanita" is a nice little groove-jam, nothing more, and "Pry To" is no more consequential on its own than the little feedback loop between "Satan's Bed" and "Better Man." Plus if P-R-I-V-A-C-Y was so priceless to him, why include this candid little snippet of slurred nonsense as a standalone track? Weird how in so many ways their hatred-of-fame album seems to contain more stupid rock star excess wankery than anything else they ever made.

"Nothingman" seems to have found its fair share of detractors of late, but I rate it pretty highly among early PJ tunes. Easy vote.

Agreed on all counts

tragabigzanda wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:"Aye Davanita" is a nice little groove-jam, nothing more, and "Pry To" is no more consequential on its own than the little feedback loop between "Satan's Bed" and "Better Man." Plus if P-R-I-V-A-C-Y was so priceless to him, why include this candid little snippet of slurred nonsense as a standalone track? Weird how in so many ways their hatred-of-fame album seems to contain more stupid rock star excess wankery than anything else they ever made.

"Nothingman" seems to have found its fair share of detractors of late, but I rate it pretty highly among early PJ tunes. Easy vote.

Bummed to hear you're not a fan of the experimentation. It's part of what makes this my favorite album of all time.

Those few minor tracks have never been enough to cause "Vitalogy" to feel experimental to me; the bulk of the songwriting either hangs comfortably in familiar territory, or inches forward slightly from previous works, but overall, it's not PJ's visionary breaking point. I enjoy "Aye Davanita," but think people overstate its artistic ambition, and "Bugs" always makes me laugh. But to me "No Code" is much more in line with what I think of when I think of musical experimentation -- a questioning of how to grow and evolve the music within a form, as part of the overall artistic movement of the band, not just brashly cluttering your record with self-conscious one-off indulgences.