is Lost Dogs the best studio album?

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  • Dr. DelightDr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    I do agree, regardless of lyrics, Hitchhiker is a weak point amidst LD.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,363
    rival. wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    rival. wrote:

    the beginning starts off with "you fool" and then half way through there is a "you're cool".

    almost forgot about the "YOU FOOL". what a terrible song :lol:
    :nono:

    :lol::lol:
    What? I like it. :willshrug:
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  • RoleModelsinBlood31RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TX Posts: 6,226
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    As it currently stands- no

    If the below B-sides were an album, it would be my favorite ever:

    Wash
    State of Love and Trust
    Alone
    Brother
    Fatal
    Breath
    Sad
    Footsteps
    Hard To Imagine
    Undone
    Hold On
    Yellow Ledbetter


    Add Just a girl and I'm sold
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  • Gold 26Gold 26 Posts: 676
    I love the start of All Night/Sad/Down/Hitchhiker and I've really started to enjoy Education.

    I think I'm alone but I've never dug Wash, I've largely ignored it over the years.
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  • Lost Dogs is great except for the rerecorded stuff. The stuff that was "brand new" at the time like Education, Hitchhiker, Sad, In The Moonlight, etc. are great but I just don't get why they'd rerecord stuff like Alone and Hard To Imagine. The originals were fine.

    Leatherman is conspicuous by it's absence. Always found that odd.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,363
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    As it currently stands- no

    If the below B-sides were an album, it would be my favorite ever:

    Wash
    State of Love and Trust
    Alone
    Brother
    Fatal
    Breath
    Sad
    Footsteps
    Hard To Imagine
    Undone
    Hold On
    Yellow Ledbetter


    Add Just a girl and I'm sold
    Great list, but still missing some of my faves from Lost Dogs.... Some of them are quirkier songs, which is why I think they didn't make it to albums. I.e. Black,Red, Yellow, Down, Other Side, Education, In the Moonlight, HItchhiker.... For me, these are 'weirder' songs, which appeals to me a lot, but they aren't usually great for albums (beside Vitalogy, apparently).
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  • BantBant Millinowhere, ME Posts: 506
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Isnt it "You fool"?
    "You fool! Dude, what do you think you're doing??"

    ..................

    "You're cool! Something-something your calculations!"

    It's both. ;)

    Fucking awesome song.


    Great song, I love it! 8-)

    You fool, dude what do what you think you're doing?
    So you're lost, my problem, that's not
    Conductor says, 'off of my train'
    We understood, guest/host relationships ain't my thing
    Even if I could, you ain't the kind of person I would help anyway
    I'm about to explode
    Cuz I can't carry your load
    Hitchhiker... go, hitchhiker

    You're cool, and cold in your calculations
    We're friends, only because of my situation
    I'm about to unload
    Cuz I can't carry your load
    Hitchhiker... go, hitchhiker

    Hitchhiker...
    So be gone, too soon is too late
    I don't want no delay
    So be gone, get your food off someone else's plate
    Go tell all your friends
    I'm an idiot and you're great
    Hitchhiker... hitchhiker...
    Now go, hitchhiker... go, hitchhiker
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  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    Yes with yield close behind.
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  • I do agree, regardless of lyrics, Hitchhiker is a weak point amidst LD.

    Love Hitchhiker!
    Go tell all your friends
    I'm an idiot and you're great ;)
    Make sure the fortune that you seek
    Is the fortune that you need

  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    It was certainly never meant to be anything other than what it is. A collection of b-sides. But why not put Leatherman on there??
    I love all of them except Sweet Lew and Brother.
    I'm glad that Leatherman was left off, I'd rather have a 4th LP of Lady Gaga added in than to have that stupid song on there.
    :lol: agree
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  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    It was certainly never meant to be anything other than what it is. A collection of b-sides. But why not put Leatherman on there??
    I love all of them except Sweet Lew and Brother.
    I'm glad that Leatherman was left off, I'd rather have a 4th LP of Lady Gaga added in than to have that stupid song on there.
    :lol: agree
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  • I have been listening to it a lot lately, at least for me of the 11 studio Albums it is #1

    My fav album too


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  • WhyGo91WhyGo91 Posts: 639
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...
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  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    Dear God OP!! Have you never heard the greatness that is Yield??????
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  • Well, I don't even consider it a studio album, so I'd have to say no. Granted, they are songs recorded in studios, but to me a true studio album is a batch of songs from a specific time, recorded at the same sessions, released with a specific track order - not a bunch of outtakes and previously released b-sides that aren't even in chronological order (though I'm sure they did put thought into the sequencing of LD).

    I've probably only listened to it as "Lost Dogs" a few times - what I've done is create playlists of each studio album, and then at the end I tack on the b-sides and then the outtakes, and listen to it in that form. I just like it better that way than any other.

    So for example, when I listen to Riot Act it's:

    (the full album)
    Down ("I Am Mine" b-side)
    Other Side ("Save You" b-side)
    Undone (outtake)
    4/20/02
    (and I even tack on Eddie's solo version of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" at the end, since it also came out in '02 and I think was played a fair amount on the Riot Act tour).
  • FoxyRedLaFoxyRedLa Lauren / MI Posts: 4,810
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...

    :clap: :thumbup:

    Agreed. I do not consider LD a studio album.

    There is not a song on LD that I don't root for. I love them all - thoroughly entertained!

    That being said - what makes a bad song? The actual lyrics? The actual music?
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  • Gold 26Gold 26 Posts: 676
    What makes a bad song? Go ask The Script.
    All my favourite singers have stolen all of my best lines.
  • Big Bank HankBig Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...
    well that is where you are wrong, a compilation is a collection of previously or mostly released stuff, like a greatest hits, since Lost Dogs is all stuff not on previous albums, I consider it, it's own album, but it's all studio stuff, so by definition, I think that qualifies it as a studio album
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,363
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...
    well that is where you are wrong, a compilation is a collection of previously or mostly released stuff, like a greatest hits, since Lost Dogs is all stuff not on previous albums, I consider it, it's own album, but it's all studio stuff, so by definitionI that qualifies it as a studio album
    I consider it a studio album as well, for the same reasons. No, it's not a traditional studio album, but it still is one IMO. I never understood why people sometimes call it a compilation album. That's not what a compilation album is.
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  • Dr. DelightDr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    I do agree, regardless of lyrics, Hitchhiker is a weak point amidst LD.

    Love Hitchhiker!
    Go tell all your friends
    I'm an idiot and you're great ;)
    They already know! ;)
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • I do agree, regardless of lyrics, Hitchhiker is a weak point amidst LD.

    Love Hitchhiker!
    Go tell all your friends
    I'm an idiot and you're great ;)
    They already know! ;)
    :lol:
    Make sure the fortune that you seek
    Is the fortune that you need

  • LloydXmasLloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...
    well that is where you are wrong, a compilation is a collection of previously or mostly released stuff, like a greatest hits, since Lost Dogs is all stuff not on previous albums, I consider it, it's own album, but it's all studio stuff, so by definition, I think that qualifies it as a studio album
    The band has it under other albums not studio.
  • fox_mulderXfox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    It's technically not an album like Ten or Vitalogy so it's difficult to compare. Each album has a certain feel to it and Lost Dogs just mashes it all together. I really enjoy Lost Dogs, but I'd call myself crazy if I ever thought of putting it ahead of Vitalogy or Yield.
    It would be kind of like calling a bands 'greatest hits' their best album.

    A-Hey, man, what's your favourite Pearl Jam album?
    B-Without a doubt, Rearview Mirror.
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    A-That doesn't make sense... it's a greatest hits.
    B-Don't tell me my business; you're not my dad.
    A-Okay, but I'm just saying that a greatest hits is a mix of every album. It doesn't really count.
    B-Blow me. I do what I want.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    I have been listening to it a lot lately, at least for me of the 11 studio Albums it is #1


    Maybe if it didn't include worse versions of so many amazing songs it could be a contender.

    Wash
    Drifting
    U
    BR&Y
    Alone

    None of the versions on LD are as good as the originals.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    BinFrog wrote:
    I have been listening to it a lot lately, at least for me of the 11 studio Albums it is #1


    Maybe if it didn't include worse versions of so many amazing songs it could be a contender.

    Wash
    Drifting
    U
    BR&Y
    Alone

    None of the versions on LD are as good as the originals.


    Lest we forget the re-worked Footsteps too.

    Keep the harmonica for concerts...leave Footsteps alone. There was NO need to add it to the studio recording. None.
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  • i agree with all of that, Footsteps/Wash/Drifting should have been left alone. I never listen to those versions, i want the originals.

    The lack of any kind of cohesion definitely ruins it for me. I honestly was shocked on release that they didn't try to make things mesh a little more. If they re-recorded vocals, why couldn't they take 5 minutes to get a mood and flow to the tracklist.

    Plenty of great songs, so i'm thankful they put it out. Fatal, HTI, Strangest, Down, All Night, Sad, Otherside. These are the highlights for me, by far. Leatherman should have been on there, especially considering Leavin Here or YL is. Dead Man is great, but definitely sort of a downer, so i don't listen to it much. Some of 'em, like Hitch/Education/Undone i find kind of ....blah. I love Gremmie, that can stay. Hate Bee Girl. Hate Sweet Lew, far more than anything else i've ever heard by this band (this coming from a PJ fan who loves all the interludes and Stupid Mop on Vitalogy)

    Studio album? Eh...maybe/sorta. Best? :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: NO.
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...
    well that is where you are wrong, a compilation is a collection of previously or mostly released stuff, like a greatest hits, since Lost Dogs is all stuff not on previous albums, I consider it, it's own album, but it's all studio stuff, so by definition, I think that qualifies it as a studio album


    Sorry, but it's a compilation. Without question.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Leatherman should have been on there, especially considering Leavin Here or YL is.


    Leatherman was an odd omission.

    Last Kiss should not have been on there. But that being said, and since it is a cover (as well as Leaving Here), then where the hell is Sonic Reducer and I've Got A Feeling?!?

    And leaving off Angel was just a slap in the face to Dave A.

    And another song they re-worked that should have been left alone: Dirty Frank.
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  • BinFrog wrote:
    where the hell is Sonic Reducer

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  • boyo79boyo79 Warrington, UK Posts: 6,525
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Im sorry, but i don't consider Lost Dogs a studio album. I hate saying this cause I'll probably piss a lot of people off but I consider it to be a compilation album. It's a collection of b-sides, rarities, and other unreleased songs right? Usually a collection of songs over a bands career is considered a compilation, not a studio album...
    well that is where you are wrong, a compilation is a collection of previously or mostly released stuff, like a greatest hits, since Lost Dogs is all stuff not on previous albums, I consider it, it's own album, but it's all studio stuff, so by definition, I think that qualifies it as a studio album

    It's not a studio album. It's a collection of B-sides and rarities.

    It's a very good collection.
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