5 PJ songs to indroduce to a potential fan

QA185761

What five songs (in order) from the entire PJ collection would you have a person listen to that you wanted to introduce to Pearl Jam that you are sure would have them asking for more?

My list in order is...

1. BM
2. Unthought Known
3. Given to Fly
4. I am mine
5. Release

:corn:

RM70601

Terrible list. The whole point is to allure them in. Like a fish. You dont want to overwhelm. Start slow. My list would be
1) Even Flow
2) Daughter
3) Better Man
4) Hail Hail
5) Given To Fly
Again, I like all your songs, but I Am Mine for a newbie is a terrible choice.

QA185761

RM70601 wrote:

Terrible list. The whole point is to allure them in. Like a fish. You dont want to overwhelm. Start slow. My list would be
1) Even Flow
2) Daughter
3) Better Man
4) Hail Hail
5) Given To Fly
Again, I like all your songs, but I Am Mine for a newbie is a terrible choice.

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Thirty Bills Unpaid

RM70601 wrote:

Terrible list. The whole point is to allure them in. Like a fish. You dont want to overwhelm. Start slow. My list would be
1) Even Flow
2) Daughter
3) Better Man
4) Hail Hail
5) Given To Fly
Again, I like all your songs, but I Am Mine for a newbie is a terrible choice.

Don't hold back, brother! Just tell it like it is.

Lingering in the mix all these years and suddenly... he pounces. I like your style!



For the newbie... rearviewmirror/ Jeremy/ given to fly/ porch/ animal. Burt there are others.

FrankieG

It depends on who the person is...

But I'm bad at this.. I end up giving them 50+ songs. :P

QA185761

FrankieG wrote:

It depends on who the person is...

But I'm bad at this.. I end up giving them 50+ songs. :P

So what are your five?

FrankieG

QA185761 wrote:

FrankieG wrote:

It depends on who the person is...

But I'm bad at this.. I end up giving them 50+ songs. :P

So what are your five?

I'm physically unable to narrow it down to 5 :oops:

D-Rod

Not for you
given to fly
Sad
Animal
Yellow Ledbetter

and for good measure, spin the black circle.

those are five solid punches in the face

QA185761

FrankieG wrote:

QA185761 wrote:

FrankieG wrote:

It depends on who the person is...

But I'm bad at this.. I end up giving them 50+ songs. :P

So what are your five?

I'm physically unable to narrow it down to 5 :oops:

We all may have a problem narrowing it down to five but please try. (Think of the band trying to make a setlist to appease everyone)

You can do it, try.

QA185761

D-Rod wrote:

Not for you
given to fly
Sad
Animal
Yellow Ledbetter

and for good measure, spin the black circle.

those are five solid punches in the face

I hear ya, but keep it to five and see what they say.

morgie2

Off He Goes
In Hiding
Red Mosquito
Long Road
Garden

FrankieG

QA185761 wrote:

FrankieG wrote:

I'm physically unable to narrow it down to 5 :oops:

We all may have a problem narrowing it down to five but please try. (Think of the band trying to make a setlist to appease everyone)

You can do it, try.

well ok.

Breath
Present Tense
Black
Porch
Light Years

QA185761

FrankieG wrote:

QA185761 wrote:

FrankieG wrote:

I'm physically unable to narrow it down to 5 :oops:

We all may have a problem narrowing it down to five but please try. (Think of the band trying to make a setlist to appease everyone)

You can do it, try.

well ok.

Breath
Present Tense
Black
Porch
Light Years

That wasn't so hard was it?

Imagine the band trying to come up with a setlist to please everyone.......wow

jimbojones1138

Alright, lets get weird. I rarely listen to studio stuff once they release a majority of the new stuff live, so id go the live route

1) Alive - Pink Pop 92 - with the "you survived today" intro
2) Even Flow - from either Soldier Field 95 (dedicated to *Wesley Willis of Chicago. Hear ed scream "VOICES, VOICES" after the "looking through the paper though he doesnt know to read" line, an obvious reference to Willis who was diagnosed w/schizophrenia) or ahoy, rotterdam 1993
3) Blood - Berlin 1996 (or any version of blood where he sings a little "atomic dog", this one is special cause he does atomic dog and some of Bowie's "Fame", then i think it goes into "suck you dry" by Mudhoney
4) Porch - Atlanta 1994 ("you fuck with me? Ill fuck with You!" then a little of Sonic Youth's Androgynous Mind thrown in) Pure awesomeness.
5) Black - from 06/06/1992 Finsbury Park - absolutely love the intro to this..."Light your match, there is NOOOO flame!"

Alright so i switched up jeremy for a live blood, cause blood is the shit. I especially love the "digga-jigga wowmp WOWMP," i think stone plays right after the "paint ed big, turn ed into one of my enemies"

Also, simply show them Porch from Pink Pop 1992 on youtube, shit show them the entire performance. Ed almost kills Jeff with a Mic stand during alive, and then the infamous, most insane stage dive ive ever seen...

*if you know nothing about Wesley Willis i recommend reading up on him. his music is nowhere near for everyone, but he led an interesting life and left an influential legacy

SP96445

Working off the assumption that the person "introducing" PJ to has at least heard all or part of PJ hits on the radio and/or has heard of Pearl Jam:

Elderly Woman/Small town
Animal
Present Tense
Wishlist
Life Wasted

mostly older songs but wide scope of their sound in 5 songs

QA185761

jimbojones1138 wrote:

Alright, lets get weird. I rarely listen to studio stuff once they release a majority of the new stuff live, so id go the live route

1) Alive - Pink Pop 92 - with the "you survived today" intro
2) Even Flow - from either Soldier Field 95 (dedicated to *Wesley Willis of Chicago. Hear ed scream "VOICES, VOICES" after the "looking through the paper though he doesnt know to read" line, an obvious reference to Willis who was diagnosed w/schizophrenia) or ahoy, rotterdam 1993
3) Blood - Berlin 1996 (or any version of blood where he sings a little "atomic dog", this one is special cause he does atomic dog and some of Bowie's "Fame", then i think it goes into "suck you dry" by Mudhoney
4) Porch - Atlanta 1994 ("you fuck with me? Ill fuck with You!" then a little of Sonic Youth's Androgynous Mind thrown in) Pure awesomeness.
5) Black - from 06/06/1992 Finsbury Park - absolutely love the intro to this..."Light your match, there is NOOOO flame!"

Alright so i switched up jeremy for a live blood, cause blood is the shit. I especially love the "digga-jigga wowmp
WOWMP," i think stone plays right after the "paint ed big, turn ed into one of my enemies"

Also, simply show them Porch from Pink Pop 1992 on youtube, shit show them the entire performance. Ed almost kills Jeff with a Mic stand during alive, and then the infamous, most insane stage dive ive ever seen...

*if you know nothing about Wesley Willis i recommend reading up on him. his music is nowhere near for everyone, but he led an interesting life and left an influential legacy

These five would make their brains explode and therefore they would no longer be able to listen to PJ.

Like a fish....

jimbojones1138

QA185761 wrote:

jimbojones1138 wrote:

Alright, lets get weird. I rarely listen to studio stuff once they release a majority of the new stuff live, so id go the live route

1) Alive - Pink Pop 92 - with the "you survived today" intro
2) Even Flow - from either Soldier Field 95 (dedicated to *Wesley Willis of Chicago. Hear ed scream "VOICES, VOICES" after the "looking through the paper though he doesnt know to read" line, an obvious reference to Willis who was diagnosed w/schizophrenia) or ahoy, rotterdam 1993
3) Blood - Berlin 1996 (or any version of blood where he sings a little "atomic dog", this one is special cause he does atomic dog and some of Bowie's "Fame", then i think it goes into "suck you dry" by Mudhoney
4) Porch - Atlanta 1994 ("you fuck with me? Ill fuck with You!" then a little of Sonic Youth's Androgynous Mind thrown in) Pure awesomeness.
5) Black - from 06/06/1992 Finsbury Park - absolutely love the intro to this..."Light your match, there is NOOOO flame!"

Alright so i switched up jeremy for a live blood, cause blood is the shit. I especially love the "digga-jigga wowmp
WOWMP," i think stone plays right after the "paint ed big, turn ed into one of my enemies"

Also, simply show them Porch from Pink Pop 1992 on youtube, shit show them the entire performance. Ed almost kills Jeff with a Mic stand during alive, and then the infamous, most insane stage dive ive ever seen...

*if you know nothing about Wesley Willis i recommend reading up on him. his music is nowhere near for everyone, but he led an interesting life and left an influential legacy

These five would make their brains explode and therefore they would no longer be able to listen to PJ.

Like a fish....

QA185761

SP96445 wrote:

Working off the assumption that the person "introducing" PJ to has at least heard all or part of PJ hits on the radio and/or has heard of Pearl Jam:

Nope. Just some random person that you want to convince that PJ is worth a listen.

jimbojones1138

i know i also have a lot of early stuff on my list. dont get me wrong i love everything since and they have written some epic stuff after the mid 90s, to date. But i guess it just comes down to me growing up with these earlier bootlegs, before the influx of like 70+ shows per tour with the official 2000 boots, and so on.

i guess as a teen i'd latch onto whatever live pj i could get back then, especially if it was a great sounding show. There was also a lot more angst and a lot of emotion in those. Since i didnt have $ and limited access i listened to the shit out of them. Now ill buy an entire tour of the official bootlegs, and there are so many of them. I'm lucky if ive listened to the 00 and 03 ones 2, 3 times each?

QA185761

QA185761 wrote:

RM70601 wrote:

Terrible list. The whole point is to allure them in. Like a fish. You dont want to overwhelm. Start slow. My list would be
1) Even Flow
2) Daughter
3) Better Man
4) Hail Hail
5) Given To Fly
Again, I like all your songs, but I Am Mine for a newbie is a terrible choice.

Wow this is your first post! Nice to hear from you.

This deserves a free Falla Sheep (opened) Shipping included

PM me with your info

No pm yet....

Gern Blansten

This is simple

1. Porch
2. RVM
3. Corduroy
4. I got shit
5. Dissident

If they don't immediately buy all albums just kick them in the nads and get new friends

QA185761

Gern Blansten wrote:

This is simple

1. Porch
2. RVM
3. Corduroy
4. I got shit
5. Dissident

If they don't immediately buy all albums just kick them in the nads and get new friends

If you kicked them in the nads then they would not be able to walk to the store and get the albums.....

wndowpayne

I just did this for a co worker...an entire disc of mostly unheard on the radio stuff....if i had to pick 5..for a newbie, start em with a newbie

Getaway
Alone
Red Mosquito
why go
state of love and trust

hrd2imgn

Evenflow
Indifference
Not For You
In My Tree
Yellow Moon

northerndragon

You need to ease them in and cover all the angles

Infallible – something with a groove to it you can dance to….then the lyrics get you
Breakerfall – a little rockin out but not full throttle that is for once they are hooked
You Are – the pure musicality of it, how can you not get lost in the music
Tremor Christ – dip their toes in the complexities of older Pearl Jam
Breath – pure PJ

Once they are intruiged/hooked you take them down the hallways of older/more obscure material.....

Jason78

Wow, this is gonna be a huge thread. Here come the opinions! Haha!

1) Black
2) Animal
3) Last Exit
4) Who You Are
5) Given to Fly

w/ Long Road as a bonus track

QA185761

Jason78 wrote:

Wow, this is gonna be a huge thread. Here come the opinions! Haha!

1) Black
2) Animal
3) Last Exit
4) Who You Are
5) Given to Fly

w/ Long Road as a bonus track

Keep it to five

let the listener choose the sixth

Big Bank Hank

Man Of The Hour
Animal
In My Tree
Insignificance
Come Back

QA185761

Big Bank Hank wrote:

Man Of The Hour
Animal
In My Tree
Insignificance
Come Back

Again we can't destroy our fans by blowing their brains out when they listen to a 5 song set.

Big Bank Hank

QA185761 wrote:

Big Bank Hank wrote:

Man Of The Hour
Animal
In My Tree
Insignificance
Come Back

Again we can't destroy our fans by blowing their brains out when they listen to a 5 song set.

huh? no one I know would blow their brains out after those 5 songs, not sure what kind of people you are hanging around :fp:

Big Bank Hank

my aunt is 62, and I am getting her into Pearl Jam, what did I give her to listen to/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek9C_vIsgB8