Home› The Porch
Options

What's the best album closing song that Pearl Jam has?

WhyGo91WhyGo91 Posts: 639
edited September 2013 in The Porch
1) Release
2) Indifference
3) Hey Foxy...(stupid mop)
4) Around the Bend
5) All Those Yesterdays
6) Parting Ways
7) All or None
8) Inside Job
9) The End

*we should bring back this thread when Lightning Bolt comes out so we can include Future Days*

My vote is either Indifference, All Those Yesterdays, or Inside Job!
446927_artist.jpg?0119
Post edited by Unknown User on
«1

Comments

  • Options
    Empty GlassEmpty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    My faves would be:

    1) All those Yesterdays
    2) Release
    3) Indifference
    4) Parting Ways
    5) Inside Job
    6) All or None
    7) Around the Bend
    8) Stupid Mop
    9) The End

    Edit: Future Days (based in Wrigley) would rank below Stupid Mop
    I've met Rob

    DEGENERATE FUK

    This place is dead

    "THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015

    "Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
  • Options
    motorcitymadmanmotorcitymadman Posts: 107
    Inside Job by miles and miles, though the studio version isn't what it is live as long as Mike's guitar has more distortion than gloss on it.
  • Options
    sderrig55sderrig55 Posts: 12
    1) Indifference
    2) All Those Yesterdays
    3) Inside Job
    4) All or None
    5) Hey Foxy...(stupid mop)
    6) Release
    7) Around the Bend
    8) Parting Ways
    9) The End

    this is my ranks strictly as album closers
    if we are talking about live versions however, release and indifference take the cake for me, with around the bend and parting ways closely following
  • Options
    leekstokieleekstokie Stoke-on-Trent - UK Posts: 903
    1) Release
    2) Indifference
    3) Inside Job
    4) Around the Bend
    5) All Those Yesterdays
    6) All or None
    7) The End
    8) Parting Ways
    9) Hey Foxy...(stupid mop)
    PJ
    2012 - Manchester 1 - 20/6 
    2014 - Amsterdam 1 - 16/6, Amsterdam 2 - 17/6, Milan - 20/6, Leeds - 08/07, Milton Keynes - 11/07
    2015 - Bogota - 25/11
    2016 - Philly 1 - 28/04, Philly 2 - 29/04, NYC 1 - 01/05, NYC 2 - 02/05
    2018 - LDN 1 - 18/06, Krakow - 03/07, Berlin - 05/07, Madrid - 12/07, LDN 2 - 17/07, Missoula 13/08
    2022 - LA 1 - 06/05, LA2 - 07/05, Berlin - 21/06, Frankfurt 28/07, London 1 - 08/07, London 2 - 09/07, Budapest - 12/07, Krakow 14/07, Amsterdam 2 - 25/07, NYC Apollo - 10/09, NYC MSG - 11/09, OKC - 20/09, Denver - 22/09.
    2023 - St Paul 2 - 03/09, Chicago 1 - 05/09, Chicago 2 - 07/09

    EV
    2012 - Manchester - 28/07/12, 2017 - Amsterdam - 29/05/17, 2019 -Amsterdam - 09/06/2019, Madrid - 22/06/2019
  • Options
    DiRtyFranK38DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    Release and then Inside Job
    2006: Hartford
    2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
    2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
    2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
    2011: Ed Solo Hartford
    2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
    2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
  • Options
    bigbadbillbigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    For Vitalogy, I always count Immortality as the closer, even though it technically isn't. It's the last real song on that album. Stupid Mop is this sound collage, artsy mumble jumbo at the end. As for my favorite closer on a Pearl Jam album, my vote goes to Inside Job.
    11/6/95, 11/18/97, 7/13/98, 7/14/98, 10/24/00, 10/25/00, 10/28/00, 6/2/03, 6/3/03, 6/5/03, 7/6/06, 7/7/06, 7/9/06, 7/10/06, 7/13/06, 7/15/06, 7/16/06, 7/18/06, 10/21/06, 4/10/08, 4/13/08, 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, 10/9/09
  • Options
    Niko80Niko80 Posts: 1,564
    Indifference and Release are the two standout closing songs to me.
    I will swallow poison
  • Options
    SG64159SG64159 Posts: 18
    i have to say all those yesterdays, only because of a personal significance to the lyrics and tone of the track itself.

    -willy
  • Options
    JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,217
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    1) Release
    2) Indifference
    3) Hey Foxy...(stupid mop)
    4) Around the Bend
    5) All Those Yesterdays
    6) Parting Ways
    7) All or None
    8) Inside Job
    9) The End

    *we should bring back this thread when Lightning Bolt comes out so we can include Future Days*

    My vote is either Indifference, All Those Yesterdays, or Inside Job!

    Release, All those Yesterdays, Parting Ways, Indifference, and Around the Bend (Honorable mention All or None)
    But I can do without the fucking typwriter at the end of Binaural...always scares the shit out of me when I have it cranked up.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • Options
    F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 30,662
    Good question. I first thought of Insight Job but looking at Release and Indifference it is tough to pass them by. Some great songs on this list!

    1) Release
    2) Indifference
    3) Inside Job
    4) All Those Yesterdays
    5) The End
    6) Around the Bend
    7) Parting Ways
    8) All or None
    9) Hey Foxy...(stupid mop)
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Options
    a5pja5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,861
    writer's block :D
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • Options
    brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,763
    My vote is a three way tie:
    All or None
    Around the Bend
    Inside Job
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • Options
    ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,755
    All Those Yesterdays
    Release
    All or None
    Parting Ways
    Indifference
    Around the Bend
    The End
    Inside Job
    Stupid Mop
    E8toX.gif

    http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
  • Options
    DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,413
    Release
    All Those Yesterdays
    Parting Ways
    Indifference
    All or None
    Inside Job
    Around the Bend
    The End
    Stupid Mop
  • Options
    slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,758
    It's Release, but since I now consider Release to be an opener instead of a closer, due to its use in the live shows, then the answer is Indifference.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Options
    AzWickerAzWicker Posts: 1,162
    Release
    Inside Job
    Indifference
    All those Yesterdays
    Around the Bend
    Stupid Mop
    All or None
    The End
    Parting Ways
    Future Days
    Ed: 2011-07-09 2012-11-04
    PJ: 2011-09-03 2011-09-04
  • Options
    Johnny HitchhikerJohnny Hitchhiker Posts: 42
    Best or rank them?

    I'm just gonna list the best...All Those Yesterdays.

    best hidden track...Hummus.
    I'm about to explode cause I can't carry your load
  • Options
    WhyGo91WhyGo91 Posts: 639
    Johnny Hitchhiker wrote:
    Best or rank them?

    I'm just gonna list the best...All Those Yesterdays.

    best hidden track...Hummus.

    Well it's suppose to be best, but everyone seems to be ranking them for some reason haha.
    446927_artist.jpg?0119
  • Options
    jumbojetjumbojet Posts: 1,484
    I am afraid that Future DAys will be the weakest album closer, except Stupid Mop.

    After seeing Release opening in BA, I cannot pick anything else for the best.
    What's your part, who you are?

    2012: Arras, Berlin 1-2
    2013: Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires
    2014: Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin
    2016: NY MSG 1
  • Options
    TunnelThroughDenialTunnelThroughDenial Posts: 768
    Obviously Release since it's also their best song ever.
    |9.5.93Gorge|2.6.95Moore|5.7.98AROSpace|7.21.98Seattle|7.22.98Seattle|10.21.00PHX|11.5.00Seattle
    |11.6.00Seattle|6.6.03Vegas|6.7.03PHX|5.25.06Boston|7.22.06Gorge|7.23.06Gorge|9.21.09Seattle|9.22.09Seattle |10.6.09LA|11.19.13PHX|11.29.13Portland|12.6.13Seattle |10.22.14Denver| 8.8.18 Seattle | 8.10.18 Seattle

    EV Solo |7.15.11 Benaroya|7.16.11 Benaroya|4.13.12PHX|10.30.14Redmond|
    TOTD 11.11.16 San Fran
  • Options
    justamjustam Posts: 21,396
    I like Inside Job as a closing song.
    &&&&&&&&&&&&&&
  • Options
    dannydanny Posts: 2,270
    all around the bend
    danny d
  • Options
    Blood Red MosquitoBlood Red Mosquito Posts: 1,609
    brianlux wrote:
    My vote is a three way tie:
    All or None
    Around the Bend
    Inside Job

    I agree
    1995: San Francisco, San Diego
    2000: Phoenix
    2008: Camden 2
    2009: San Diego, Philly 1, Philly 2
    2010: MSG 1, MSG 2
    2011: Alpine 1, Alpine 2
    2012: Missoula
    2013: Wrigley, Phoenix, San Diego, LA1, LA2, Oakland
    2014: Denver
    2016: MSG1, MSG2, Fenway 1, Fenway 2
    2018: Fenway 1
  • Options
    landingonwaterlandingonwater Posts: 325
    Difficult. Though, anyone who would put "Inside Job" at the top of this list is crazy. I think it's a bit of a bore. I also can't stand it live. Really takes the wind out of a show. That intro. SNORE. That said, I love "The End." Yea, I know my credibility just went out the window. I find it to be one of the stronger songs on what is a particularly weak album (in terms of Pearl Jam).

    "Parting Ways," however ... now that's a closer. A real triumph in the Pearl Jam catalog. That's up there with "Release" in my book.

    Well, as I look at this list, I think "Inside Job" is really the only less-than-stellar album closer. Wasn't huge on "Future Days" at Wrigley, so "Inside Job" might not look so bad in the coming months (I'm really excited for LB, though ... loved the other songs).

    Of course, "Release" is the best.
  • Options
    Kearn5yKearn5y Ireland Posts: 2,701
    Inside Job or Release. Both make great show openers
    Kearnsy
  • Options
    mr.macmr.mac Posts: 162
    TunnelThroughDenial wrote:
    Obviously Release since it's also their best song ever.

    Definitely this!
  • Options
    colors blendcolors blend Posts: 196
    release
    indifference
    inside job
    all or none
    all those yesterdays
    around the bend
    parting ways
    the end
    hey thats me
    you're god and you've got big hands
  • Options
    VeddernarianVeddernarian Posts: 1,919
    Release for sure.

    Definitely not Stupid Mop. What a turd.

    I'd say Immortality is 2nd on my list since turds arent songs. To me Vitalogy ends with Immortality. I was just imagining how great it would have been if Hard to Imagine, Chicago cab version, if Hard to Imagine was the Vitalogy closer and Stupid mop was gone.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • Options
    WhyGo91WhyGo91 Posts: 639
    Veddernarian wrote:
    Release for sure.

    Definitely not Stupid Mop. What a turd.

    I'd say Immortality is 2nd on my list since turds arent songs. To me Vitalogy ends with Immortality. I was just imagining how great it would have been if Hard to Imagine, Chicago cab version, if Hard to Imagine was the Vitalogy closer and Stupid mop was gone.

    so tell me how you really feel?
    446927_artist.jpg?0119
  • Options
    DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,413
    landingonwater wrote:
    Difficult. Though, anyone who would put "Inside Job" at the top of this list is crazy. I think it's a bit of a bore. I also can't stand it live. Really takes the wind out of a show. That intro. SNORE. That said, I love "The End." Yea, I know my credibility just went out the window. I find it to be one of the stronger songs on what is a particularly weak album (in terms of Pearl Jam).

    "Parting Ways," however ... now that's a closer. A real triumph in the Pearl Jam catalog. That's up there with "Release" in my book.

    Well, as I look at this list, I think "Inside Job" is really the only less-than-stellar album closer. Wasn't huge on "Future Days" at Wrigley, so "Inside Job" might not look so bad in the coming months (I'm really excited for LB, though ... loved the other songs).

    Of course, "Release" is the best.

    My feelings aren't so strong, but I kinda agree with you. Inside Job is incredibly overrated in these parts. I don't think it's horrible, but I think people base it's epicness more on the clock than the actual song.

    I do think about every closing song is among the best on their respective albums. And if we're taking of Foxy and Stupid Mop, Immortality may top the list for me.
Sign In or Register to comment.