Least Favorite 5 Pearl Jam Songs

pineapplesandwaves.

VanquarTheGreat wrote:

In order...

1. Dissident (Only PJ album song I truly don't like at all)

I was always pretty indifferent about Dissident, and it was my least favourite on Vs., but then, in 2000, I heard it live and now I love it!

My list:

Evacuation
Cropduster
Help Help
Ghost
Big Wave

Honourable mention: Speed of Sound

Hooch

CrookedTom wrote:

Ok, not including covers and the werid experimental songs (which I acutally like apart from Hey Foxy)

1) Deep - Worst song on Ten, and now sounds one of their most dated. Don't like the riff, and although the verse is cool, the chrous just doesn't do it for me.

2) Spin The Black Circle - Probably their first bash at a full on punk song. Pretty poor. Rarely played live now so the band obviously agrees.

3) Help Help - There's alot of pretty uninspired stuff on Riot Act, but this is surely one of the worst songs they ever recorded.

4) Half Full - Now this one seems to be rated as one of the highlights on Riot Act. For me its a crappy blues dirge with sloppy Vedder lyrics about cimbing out mountains, and looking at the sea. The jam at the end live is pretty good, but the studio version is horrible.

5) Parachutes - This one kind of grew on me after a few listens of Pear Jam back in 2006, but now I can't listen to it. Its a nice little Gossard melody but Vedder ruins it with poor vocals,sounds like he's stretching all the time for the high notes. Pretty painful. The verses are too long as well, should of shaved it down to a little 2 minute song

This is why there is no such thing as a perfect setlist, and why they make 31 flavors...

I couldn't disagree with you more. The riff on Deep is one of my favorite pieces of music, period. Half Full and Spin the Black Circle both rock, and I don't know why no one seems to like Parachutes, but I love it.

My 5 would be:

Last Kiss
Education
Evacuation
Black, Red, Yellow
??? (If I think of another I'll be sure to add it)

TheVan218

I'm not sure if I could list the top (or in this case bottom) five, but I can safely say that they are all from Riot Act, and wouldn't be Save You, Green Disease, LBC, or I Am Mine.

Stereotype

Help help
Bee girl
Bushleaguer
World wide suicide
Sweet Lew

restlesssoul

help help
foxymop (it counts)
in the moonlight
around the bend
all night

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

Lost Dogs are too easy

Ricsard

Red Dot (that's what I REALLY FUCKIN HATE!)
Aye Davanita
Sweet Lew
Cropduster
Hey Foxymophandlemama, that's me

I have no problems with other PJ songs, I like 5% of them but love 95%!

vant0037

Easy...

1. Sleight of Hand
2. Dissident (an oh-so-close second, mind you)
3. Deep
4. Around The Bend
5. Sweet Lew

staceycurci

What's wrong with parachute??? Great tune!

Okay here goes....

Johnny guitar
thin air
WMA
evacuation
manklind

that was tough to do!

BMo-643

OK I'm going to preface my post with this....I will not include Lost Dogs tracks in my top 5...and I will not include non-songs from the albums..(you know the ones I'm talking about) ...Lost Dogs is a great, great album - lots of great tunes and more bands should release more of their "B side" material...but there is a lot of crap on that album...(Gremmie Out of Control, Whale Song, Sweet Lew, Last Kiss, Let Me Sleep) and there are a number of my favs from that album (Black,Red,Yellow - , Fatal, Dirty Frank, Footsteps, Hard To Imagine, Drifting, Down, In The Moonlight)....

So...I'm going to stick to my least favorites from their main - studio albums. I will also preface my list with this second statement...for some reason even the songs that I don't like on the studio albums are still good songs that I don't mind to hear, they're just not my favorites...the only songs that I really do not like...are on Lost Dogs....

Come Back
I'm Open
W.M.A (Album version, hearing the song live is so much better...I didn't like this song at all until Bonnaroo 2008)
Johnny Guitar
Speed of Sound

demetrios

I can't think of 5 songs! :oops: I can think of one, and that's 'Come Back'!

Gmoney

I am shocked at the amount of times cropduster has been listed! wtf? that song is great!!

acutejam

Can't Keep -- huh, just saw this listed and went, yeah throw that in, worst album opener IMO
Love Boat Captain -- pure gnutella, schmaltzy, hokey
Severed Hand -- just sick of it, every show, the new even flow! Tries too hard to be edgy!
Inside Job -- reminds me of some wierd STYX/ELP/YES/ELO monstrosity, dunno, never clicked
Don't Gimme No Lip -- no eddie?

I bet if we listed age and m/f there'd be some interestin' correlations....

Dark Energy

Parachutes
Ghost
Cropduster
Around The Bend
Johnny Guitar

Absolutely love Come Back, why all the hate for this one? Not a fan of blues?

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

acutejam wrote:

Can't Keep -- huh, just saw this listed and went, yeah throw that in, worst album opener IMO
Love Boat Captain -- pure gnutella, schmaltzy, hokey
Severed Hand -- just sick of it, every show, the new even flow! Tries too hard to be edgy!
Inside Job -- reminds me of some wierd STYX/ELP/YES/ELO monstrosity, dunno, never clicked
Don't Gimme No Lip -- no eddie?

I bet if we listed age and m/f there'd be some interestin' correlations....

ok thats the worst list ever. not a big fan of LBC or Inside Job, but they arent the worst, but Severed and Cant Keep? nuts. DGNL is too stupid to hate. i like it.



anyway, looks like Cropduster, Sweet Lew, Speed of Sound, and Evacuation make the overalll list. number 5 is too close to call.

Slow Moe

Sorry - only two songs qualify for me:
1) Parachutes
2) All the Way (commonly known as that fucked up Ode to Loserville)

The rest range from good to incredible, mostly leaning towards incredible.

CrookedTom

acutejam wrote:

Love Boat Captain -- pure gnutella, schmaltzy, hokey

Oh God. totally agree. What were they thinking with this one?

Grandmas Jam

U R A Crazy Breed wrote:

parachutes
last kiss
big wave
come back
speed of sound (Backspacer version)

Really Erik? Comeback and Big Wave? You hate Avacado....sorry S/T

Last Kiss
Just Breathe
Betterman
Small Town
Last Kiss (hate it so much it needed to be mentioned twice)

Go ahead, yelle at me for those middle three

CantKeepMeHere

Speed of Sound
Evacuation
Spin The Black Circle
Habit
Pilate


Hey remember - least favorite not "most hated" or "worst"

Sian-of-the-dead

Big Wave
Evacuation
All Night
Whale Song
MFC