does anyone else not have Ten in their top 5 PJ albums?

Chasing Footsteps

REALLY!?!? To say that Ten would not make your top 5 PJ album list is nuts! We all have different tastes and inclinations, but one thing that most of us on this board have in common is our love and respect for PJ, which for many of us began when we first heard Ten. If I heard Ten Played end-to-end in a show, I would pee my pants! Ten is one of the best albums of all time; this fan club is even named after it! I have grown with PJ and have loved every single one of their albums, as they have really evolved to be the best band on this planet (IMO, anyway), but to say that Ten would not make your top 5 PJ album is insane people. Gotta run, Alive just came on the radio!

curly

I agree w/ smanchac1 here....
w/ my thoughts adding...
its like saying led zeppelin 4 isn't their best....

smanchac1 wrote:

Ten is the best. The remixed version is great too.

You can not deny the greatness of ten. From start to finish its amazing and can never be recreated.

Not to take away from other albums. Riot act and binaural are my favorites, but I grew up on ten. To say any album, even the masterpiece Vs, is better than ten, is simply wrong.

If vitalogy was pjs first record, it wouldn't have ever had the response ten did.

curly

like the thread though....makes for some interesting reads...
not to mention,...I have to listen to the first 3 albums again....
its been so many years..... :oops: :oops:

colebluerose

Ten would probably make my top 5 in remix form. i don't rank PJ albums because it would probably change tomorrow. or in the next few hours
I like that there seems to be no real consensus on a top 5. makes things interesting.

tinz.

1.Ten
2.Yield
3.Vitalogy
4.Vs.
5.No Code
6.Self Titled
7.Binaural
8.Riot Act
9.Back Spacer

am i the first? release gives me chills

rummy

I don't think any of the non-1990's albums will ever be able to crack my top 5 - too much "history" for me with Ten though Yield.

fortyshades

iOnlyownMymind wrote:

fortyshades wrote:

Guilty as charged.

Vitalogy
No Code
Binaural
Backspacer
Yield

The list changes, but Ten is never in the top 5.

Backspacer ahead of Ten AND Yield :shock: Blasphemy! Not in a million years for me anyway.

Yep, I should be taken into a backally and be shot, I know, I know... I came a fan a bit later than most. Didn't like Ten, was too polished for my taste. (So I don't have the nastolgia that we *should* have, I suppose.) And i love Yield... BS just have a personal meaning to me...

Now shoot me.

PJ_Soul

Chasing Footsteps wrote:

REALLY!?!? To say that Ten would not make your top 5 PJ album list is nuts! We all have different tastes and inclinations, but one thing that most of us on this board have in common is our love and respect for PJ, which for many of us began when we first heard Ten. If I heard Ten Played end-to-end in a show, I would pee my pants! Ten is one of the best albums of all time; this fan club is even named after it! I have grown with PJ and have loved every single one of their albums, as they have really evolved to be the best band on this planet (IMO, anyway), but to say that Ten would not make your top 5 PJ album is insane people. Gotta run, Alive just came on the radio!

Yeah, it is one of the best albums of all time.... But so are most of their other albums IMO! So as someone else said, it's just splitting hairs. Number 8 on my list is better than most other albums of all time. And again like someone else said, it's like ranking Led Zep albums. For the most part, it's just moot. Really, I have just about every PJ album as my #1, and then Backspacer as #2. :P

mookieblalock

Some people just like to be different.

fortyshades

mookieblalock wrote:

Some people just like to be different.

Or they are (Thank God.)

mookieblalock

fortyshades wrote:

mookieblalock wrote:

Some people just like to be different.

Or they are (Thank God.)

Yeah, I have the Beatles White Album listed as my least favorite :roll:

scratched vinyl

Absolutely! I've unfortunately lost some of my connection to that album as the band has changed through the years, although the remixes definitely helped to revive it a bit. In order of how much I listen to them now a days:

Vitalogy
No Code
Vs
Binaural
Pearl Jam
Yield
Riot Act
Ten
Backspacer

I should add, Ten was the first album I ever bought with my own money, and it's the only album I listened to for two years, until Vs came out. (Once in a while I'd mix in the singles like Alive with Dirty Frank B Side). I drove my family crazy with how much I listened to it. Pretty much non-stop, so it will always be the most important album to me, but I've moved with them through their career, and loved every album, so that just happens to be the oldest one, and hence, the one I listen to the least.

scratched vinyl

jakesbluskyhome wrote:

I didn't want to respond because I thought it may come off as trolling but honestly it's not at all, I merely want to share a thought

I can Completely understand and accept that many people don't have Ten in their top 5 fav albums. That's because music is art and art is subjective. Thus one man's Ten is another's Riot Act, so to speak.

But I must say, if we are looking at this objectively (no person feelings, just doing our best to determine which album is "best") I'd be flabbergasted if people would put Ten out of PJs top 5 albums.

The songs on that album, though at times over-produced, are so fantastic it's unreal. Granted those are just my feelings but c'mon, just look at the track list. Shit's unreal. I think most can agree they really did something special on that album.

But thats just my take. God I love Pearl Jam

Peace all! Keep rockin to whatever your fav album is! Maybe come October it'll be Lightning Bolt!! (And god bless polite discourse. Those who think it's "negative" don't get it. We just love talking bout our common love!)

I actually think about how crazy the writing session for Ten was. Not just the songs that made the album, but the one's that didn't get on the record, and ones that came shortly after, are equally ridiculous:

Footsteps
Breath
SOLAT
Hard To Imagine
Wash
Hold On
Brother
Alone
Yellow Ledbetter
Dirty Frank

Ten could easily have been a double album of completely solid tunes.

Wobbie

Big Bank Hank wrote:

my list has had a few changes over the past year? the irony is that Ten has my two favorite songs Alive and Black, but here is my list as of now

1.Vs
2.No Code
3.Yield
4.Vitalogy
5.Binaural
6.Ten
7.Pearl Jam
8.Riot Act
9.Backspacer

ten has got to be top 5. but you got last place correct

PJ_Soul

jakesbluskyhome wrote:

I didn't want to respond because I thought it may come off as trolling but honestly it's not at all, I merely want to share a thought

I can Completely understand and accept that many people don't have Ten in their top 5 fav albums. That's because music is art and art is subjective. Thus one man's Ten is another's Riot Act, so to speak.

But I must say, if we are looking at this objectively (no person feelings, just doing our best to determine which album is "best") I'd be flabbergasted if people would put Ten out of PJs top 5 albums.

The songs on that album, though at times over-produced, are so fantastic it's unreal. Granted those are just my feelings but c'mon, just look at the track list. Shit's unreal. I think most can agree they really did something special on that album.

But thats just my take. God I love Pearl Jam

Peace all! Keep rockin to whatever your fav album is! Maybe come October it'll be Lightning Bolt!! (And god bless polite discourse. Those who think it's "negative" don't get it. We just love talking bout our common love!)

Well, the band would agree with you apparently. I believe they've always felt that the album could have been better. Yeah, it's not the "best" album if you're thinking objectively. Not even close. I understand that there is a connection because most of us fell in love with PJ when we heard that album, and it IS still a fucking awesome record!! After that, it's just a matter of taste and emotional attachment. Fantastic album... Most famous album.... not PJ's best album. Still.... we all love Ten. I think I can say that my #1 PJ SONG is on that album anyway - "Release"..... Well, favorite song this week, anyway.

PJ_Soul

imalive wrote:

Big Bank Hank wrote:

my list has had a few changes over the past year? the irony is that Ten has my two favorite songs Alive and Black, but here is my list as of now

1.Vs
2.No Code
3.Yield
4.Vitalogy
5.Binaural
6.Ten
7.Pearl Jam
8.Riot Act
9.Backspacer

ten has got to be top 5. but you got last place correct

The last place spot is a much less controversial point of discussion.

TMudrick

Can't knock ten for what it's accomplished not only for the band but for rock history in general. Ten, to me is easily one of the top 100 albums of all time and I would go as far as to say that it should be top fifty... However it doesn't even fall high on my list which is strange...

1. Yield
2. No Code
3. Vs
4. Vitalogy
5. Ten
6. Binaural
7. Riot Act
8. Back spacer
9. Lost Dogs/LO2Legs/ Any live boot



Avacado

fortyshades

mookieblalock wrote:

fortyshades wrote:

mookieblalock wrote:

Some people just like to be different.

Or they are (Thank God.)

Yeah, I have the Beatles White Album listed as my least favorite :roll:

And you are a big Michael Bolton fan looking at your picture. So here you go...

mookieblalock

fortyshades wrote:

mookieblalock wrote:

fortyshades wrote:

Or they are (Thank God.)

Yeah, I have the Beatles White Album listed as my least favorite :roll:

And you are a big Michael Bolton fan looking at your picture. So here you go...

Obviously. Ten takes a back seat to any Michael Bolton album. For my money it doesn't get any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman."

fortyshades

mookieblalock wrote:

fortyshades wrote:

mookieblalock wrote:

Yeah, I have the Beatles White Album listed as my least favorite :roll:

And you are a big Michael Bolton fan looking at your picture. So here you go...

Obviously. Ten takes a back seat to any Michael Bolton album. For my money it doesn't get any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman."

:thumbup: Oh man, you made my day. Was sitting behind the computer here and cracked up. Girlfriend is looking at me with a wtf expression on her face. Prob. have to sing When a Man Loves a Woman to her tonight...