Red Mosquito

Voting ends 3/20

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My first and third (honestly maybe second) favorite pearl jam songs. Vote for Alive, but these are my two favorite song climaxes in the entire catalog. Maybe ever.

Alive. Not even close.

Both are good songs that I don't seek out ever and could possibly never hear again. Alive just. If it was just Dave A era Porch would win hands down.

Go listen to the BoB remix of Alive on RVM with headphones. It's the definitive version of the song as far as I'm concerned. It dials back the sense of space just enough to make it feel like it could have been on Vs without losing the grandeur of Ten

Porch or Alive?

Is that the question?

And if so, if so, who answers, WHO ANSWERRRRRRRRRRS!?!?

I answer, my friends.

(My vote is for the song Alive)

I don't know which to pick. And it's not even close

Alive

When I vote in these tournaments, I tend to take everything into account--not just how much I enjoy each song on its own merits and the first way I heard it (more often than not on a record), but also how it's gained or lost life as a live track that I've heard on countless bootlegs. I like Porch a lot, I really do, but it's been played so much in recent years that it's become skippable for me. The thing is, so has Alive in some senses--I much preferred this song when it could show up anyplace in PJ's setlists than to the stirring rock-anthem status it gets when it's almost always played in the same slot every show (the last four shows I've been to, it's been played 3rd-to-last every time--and at 3 of those 4 shows, Porch has either been a first-set closer or an encore closer). So this is a rare time when I'm trying to dig back into just the songs themselves and to think about which hits me harder, which I get most excited to hear when it comes up on the LP, and things like that. For me it's Alive, which still packs a punch, still has an awesome riff, and still sort of soars for me. Definitely Alive.

In 2006, when voting was open on TSIS, Porch beat Alive 646 votes to 418.

My vote's for Alive.

Alive. I'm so bored with Porch.

My vote is for Dave A's Porch.

theplatypus wrote:I don't know which to pick. And it's not even close

this a bad joke. stop making it

I stopped like 3 hours ago, Corky

You were going to come back tomorrow and try again, I know you. I had to head you off at the pass.

I wasn't going to but now I think I will. And it's not even close

lol

it's a little funny after all

The Argonaut wrote:it's a little funny after all

no it isn't. lol