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  • shetellsherselfshetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    Deep is the definition of a heavy pj song...musically, lyrically, vocal delivery, loud guitars A song can definitely be fast without bring heavy. Blood is very heavy too
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  • SpokenSpoken Posts: 1,499
    Also- "You Are"
  • RoleModelsinBlood31RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TX Posts: 6,239
    Whipping, leash, blood
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    Big Green Country
  • veddertownveddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    pjhawks said:

    Whipping

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  • evenflow82evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    red dot.
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  • evenflow82evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    Also...whale song is very heavy (drum rimshot)
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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    blood is heavy as hell in the chorus, but is everyone forgetting during the verse it is a funk groove? chica bwa bwha....
    Heavy in the Zep/Sabbath manner I would say Not for You or maybe even All or None..acoustic or not, that sound is weighty
    For heavy in the modern sense (hard, loud) I would say Lukin. classic 2 power chords and full out vocals
    Lukin into Not For You takes the cake because it has elements of both styles of heavy.

    really surprised nobody said Porch...
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  • rr165892rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    edited February 2014
    Once is a great Hard Rock song.Crank up load and its in your face with force.My personal Fav is State Of Love and Trust.The guitar is very dirty and great driving beat.
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  • rr165892rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Oh yeah and -Save You
  • TJ25487TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    lots of good choices here but I have got to Pick "Go"
    When I think of heavy I think of Go.
  • PJForceofNaturePJForceofNature Posts: 3,087
    I would pick Blood.
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  • HobbesHobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,436
    mrussel1 said:

    Funny, the difference between 'fast' and 'heavy'. Are there PJ songs that are heavy, but not fast? I think about Zeppelin and their ability to be heavy without being fast. Dazed and Confused is a super heavy song (not particularly fast) but Achilles Last Stand is very fast, but not particularly heavy. It was the beauty of zeppelin. Before them, (and Sabbath), heavy just meant louder. They changed the meaning.

    So are there PJ songs heavy, but not fast?

    I also think of The Beatles- I Want You (She's So Heavy).

    With that, for PJ I'd say 1/2 Full or You Are. Pretty much anything off of Riot Act. I think it's their "heaviest" album.


  • chaslilchaslil Westminster CO Posts: 312
    I can't believe I haven't seen RVM mentioned. Different definition of heavy I guess. I don't think Mind Your Manners is heavy, it's more speedy.
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  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,407
    I vote Deep
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  • MMPoochMMPooch New Jersey Posts: 68
    Deep is their "heaviest" song for me.
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  • samjamsamjam New York Posts: 9,283
    pjhawks said:

    Whipping

    This came to mind first actually. This and Blood are my 'heaviest' votes.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    Deep ,no question
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  • northerndragonnortherndragon Posts: 9,851
    Blood is their heaviest song for me both lyrically and musically followed by Lukin. I could listen to these two on repeat with the music cranked to the max over and over again, those damn metal roots :)
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  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,907
    Ι'll go with ''Whipping'' and ''Save you''
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  • boyo79boyo79 Warrington, UK Posts: 6,525
    Deep or Blood.
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 96,955
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RTz0JNxNEU
  • smcleishsmcleish Oxford Posts: 137
    Getting slightly away from the original post somewhat, but what is Pearl Jam's emotionally heaviest song???

    Release? Black? Come Back?


  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited February 2014
    emotionally? all or none
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  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,906
    smcleish said:

    Getting slightly away from the original post somewhat, but what is Pearl Jam's emotionally heaviest song???

    Release? Black? Come Back?


    ARC
  • surforiasurforia SoCal Posts: 352
    Agree with the distinction between fast and heavy. To me, Whipping and Lukin are (great) fast, punk songs, but not heavy. Heavy is Deep or Why Go (can't believe no one mentioned Why Go yet). In lots of ways, Ten is probably their heaviest album.
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  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,211
    theres many in the same kind of vain, which is the 'heaviest' is very difficult.

    Habit
    STBC
    Go
    animal
    MYM
    Lukin
    Blood
    Leash

    etc
  • oysterjaroysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    edited February 2014
    depending on what heavy means- Present tense

    but I think what the OP was looking for is Not for you
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    Wind this thing up.

  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,065
    Blood
    Habit
    Half Full
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  • reesdogreesdog Auckland, NZ. Posts: 1,981
    Yes, have to agree with some of the comments, definitely 'Habit', such a great song, one of my faves. And 'Blood', thats a very in-your-face track! Incidentally the live version of 'Blood' on the PJ20 soundtrack, I was at that show, it was in the Mt Smart Supertop here in Auckland way back in 95'. That was killer.

    I did notice when listening to 'Animal', still what I'd consider a very 'heavy' sounding song, that their guitar's had a real 'roar' to them and the drum's from Dave A were brilliantly bashed out. I don't think anything off PJ's later albums had such a sound, definitely nothing off their last three, even though there is some great hard-rocking/fast/punk song's like WorldWide Suicide, Mind You Manners etc...
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