Worst Pearl Jam Song

Gern Blansten

tbergs said:

mcgruff10 said:

I think my top 5 from the studio albums are (that translate the worst live to me):
1.  you are
2.  evacuation
3. unemployable
4. cropduster
5.  sleight of hand 

Sleight of Hand circa '00 is amazing. It has lost the impact and overall tone Ed could sing it in since then. Same with most of Binaural unfortunately. Those songs killed in '00. I actually really enjoyed Cropduster on the '03 tour. Another one that pretty much dies outside that album tour year.

Cropduster is a defining PJ tune in my book....right up there with Corduroy and I Got Shit. 

Gern Blansten

thispureamericanriot said:

I'd go further and say I'm generally not a fan of PJ songs that are Ed solo with ukulele/guitar and no other band members on the track. To me, I consider those EV solo songs and not necessarily PJ songs, so I usually skip them, but I do like Just Breathe. It's songwriting 101.

Agreed.  I'm not sure I could have classified any PJ song as bad until Backspacer.  I don't like the sappy stuff and/or the Ed solo tunes.  

Just Breathe
The End
Future Days

Blacksheep76

Bugs...No question

Jerome230

F Me In The Brain said:

Yellow Poon

Jerome230

[inadvertent doublepost]

thispureamericanriot

Gern Blansten said:

thispureamericanriot said:

I'd go further and say I'm generally not a fan of PJ songs that are Ed solo with ukulele/guitar and no other band members on the track. To me, I consider those EV solo songs and not necessarily PJ songs, so I usually skip them, but I do like Just Breathe. It's songwriting 101.

Agreed.  I'm not sure I could have classified any PJ song as bad until Backspacer.  I don't like the sappy stuff and/or the Ed solo tunes.  

Just Breathe
The End
Future Days

True. I'm not saying there are any "bad" PJ songs, but if I were to classify Ed ukulele/acoustic vs. PJ songs, I'd go with the three you mentioned above and add Soon Forget and Drifting. I think those five songs would have fit nicely onto EV's solo album and freed up room for better B Side songs to have made it onto albums (Stone's Fatal certainly comes to mind). Not complaining, just saying. Thanks!

tbergs

thispureamericanriot said:

Gern Blansten said:

thispureamericanriot said:

I'd go further and say I'm generally not a fan of PJ songs that are Ed solo with ukulele/guitar and no other band members on the track. To me, I consider those EV solo songs and not necessarily PJ songs, so I usually skip them, but I do like Just Breathe. It's songwriting 101.

Agreed.  I'm not sure I could have classified any PJ song as bad until Backspacer.  I don't like the sappy stuff and/or the Ed solo tunes.  

Just Breathe
The End
Future Days

True. I'm not saying there are any "bad" PJ songs, but if I were to classify Ed ukulele/acoustic vs. PJ songs, I'd go with the three you mentioned above and add Soon Forget and Drifting. I think those five songs would have fit nicely onto EV's solo album and freed up room for better B Side songs to have made it onto albums (Stone's Fatal certainly comes to mind). Not complaining, just saying. Thanks!

Oh man, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. We know the gems they left off Binaural in place of Soon Forget so that does make it easier for me to cast that song out as a PJ tune. I guess I don't really know what could have replaced some of those other solo type EV songs, which are all good songs, but would have been better served as Ed solo stuff. I guess I would have preferred Of the Earth making an album over one of them.

thispureamericanriot

Oh man, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. We know the gems they left off Binaural in place of Soon Forget so that does make it easier for me to cast that song out as a PJ tune. I guess I don't really know what could have replaced some of those other solo type EV songs, which are all good songs, but would have been better served as Ed solo stuff. I guess I would have preferred Of the Earth making an album over one of them.

Of The Earth woulda been great inclusion - I'd love to hear studio version of that song! Also, you made me think about Binaural with all the extra tracks added...double album like Exile On Main Street or Mellon Collie. In some ways Vitalogy was an album that did included all it's B-sides if you consider the "non-songs". Vitalogy would have still been very strong without those extra songs IMO. Some people like them, some don't. All I know is my Vitalogy vinyl has side 4 exclusively dedicated to Stupid Mop...I never play it that side. :(

Vitaology without "non-songs":
1. Last Exit
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Tremor Christ
5. Nothingman
6. Whipping
7. Corduroy
8. Satan's Bed
9. Better Man
10. Immortality

bobby dazzlers

How You Remind Me....it's the worst

rummy

thispureamericanriot said:

Oh man, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. We know the gems they left off Binaural in place of Soon Forget so that does make it easier for me to cast that song out as a PJ tune. I guess I don't really know what could have replaced some of those other solo type EV songs, which are all good songs, but would have been better served as Ed solo stuff. I guess I would have preferred Of the Earth making an album over one of them.

Of The Earth woulda been great inclusion - I'd love to hear studio version of that song! Also, you made me think about Binaural with all the extra tracks added...double album like Exile On Main Street or Mellon Collie. In some ways Vitalogy was an album that did included all it's B-sides if you consider the "non-songs". Vitalogy would have still been very strong without those extra songs IMO. Some people like them, some don't. All I know is my Vitalogy vinyl has side 4 exclusively dedicated to Stupid Mop...I never play it that side. :(

Vitaology without "non-songs":
1. Last Exit
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Tremor Christ
5. Nothingman
6. Whipping
7. Corduroy
8. Satan's Bed
9. Better Man
10. Immortality

If I had the power to retrack (the amazing) Vitalogy, it would look like this:
Side 1
1. Last Exit 
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Nothingman
5. Tremor Christ
6. Pry To
Side 2
1. Corduroy 
2. Whipping
3. Satan's Bed
4. Better Man
5. Immortality
6. Aya Davanita

pashapasaman

leatherman, push me pull me, evacuation

thispureamericanriot

rummy said:

thispureamericanriot said:

Oh man, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. We know the gems they left off Binaural in place of Soon Forget so that does make it easier for me to cast that song out as a PJ tune. I guess I don't really know what could have replaced some of those other solo type EV songs, which are all good songs, but would have been better served as Ed solo stuff. I guess I would have preferred Of the Earth making an album over one of them.

Of The Earth woulda been great inclusion - I'd love to hear studio version of that song! Also, you made me think about Binaural with all the extra tracks added...double album like Exile On Main Street or Mellon Collie. In some ways Vitalogy was an album that did included all it's B-sides if you consider the "non-songs". Vitalogy would have still been very strong without those extra songs IMO. Some people like them, some don't. All I know is my Vitalogy vinyl has side 4 exclusively dedicated to Stupid Mop...I never play it that side. :(

Vitaology without "non-songs":
1. Last Exit
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Tremor Christ
5. Nothingman
6. Whipping
7. Corduroy
8. Satan's Bed
9. Better Man
10. Immortality

If I had the power to retrack (the amazing) Vitalogy, it would look like this:
Side 1
1. Last Exit 
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Nothingman
5. Tremor Christ
6. Pry To
Side 2
1. Corduroy 
2. Whipping
3. Satan's Bed
4. Better Man
5. Immortality
6. Aya Davanita

I like that order...we only lose Bugs and Stupid Mop. Those two could have worked on Lost Dogs too.

cyrielbuysse

Lightning bolt
comatose 
gone
Dirty frank 
world wide suicide
Fathers son

FrankY59

Glorified G sucks ass.

Ukuleddie Vegger

Mankind should not be considered a Pearl Jam song

Pap

pashapasaman said: leatherman

evenflow82

thispureamericanriot said:

Oh man, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. We know the gems they left off Binaural in place of Soon Forget so that does make it easier for me to cast that song out as a PJ tune. I guess I don't really know what could have replaced some of those other solo type EV songs, which are all good songs, but would have been better served as Ed solo stuff. I guess I would have preferred Of the Earth making an album over one of them.

Of The Earth woulda been great inclusion - I'd love to hear studio version of that song! Also, you made me think about Binaural with all the extra tracks added...double album like Exile On Main Street or Mellon Collie. In some ways Vitalogy was an album that did included all it's B-sides if you consider the "non-songs". Vitalogy would have still been very strong without those extra songs IMO. Some people like them, some don't. All I know is my Vitalogy vinyl has side 4 exclusively dedicated to Stupid Mop...I never play it that side. :(

Vitaology without "non-songs":
1. Last Exit
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Tremor Christ
5. Nothingman
6. Whipping
7. Corduroy
8. Satan's Bed
9. Better Man
10. Immortality

You could add in Hard to Imagine, I got Id and Long Road and it's a darn near perfect album.  I got Id and Long Road were recorded in early Feb 1995, or about two months after Vitalogy came out, so if you delay the release of the album, they could have easily been on there.  Hard to Imagine had been kicking around since 1992 with no real home, so that certainly would have been a better inclusion compared to any of the wasted tracks.  Finally, Immortality into Long Road would be a fantastic end to the album.

Or you could start the album with Long Road and end with Immortality.  That would be fitting.  

My suggested album:
1. Last Exit
2. Spin The Black Circle
3. Not For You
4. Tremor Christ
5. Nothingman
6. Hard to Imagine
7. Whipping
8. I got Id
9. Corduroy
10. Satan's Bed
11. Better Man
12. Immortality
13. Long Road