Glad you joined 10C, hope you enjoy it. Fenway was awesome!
Thanks so much! Yes, seems harsh on Vs ... none of them deserve to be #10. Fenway def awesome. Hoping they tour next year. Don't mind where ... will travel
1. VS. 2. Ten 3. No Code 4. Vitalogy 5. Binaural 6. Yield 7. Lightning Bolt 8. Riot Act 9. Backspacer 10. Pearl Jam
2000: Noblesville, IN 2010: Noblesville, IN 2011: PJ20 Night 1 2013: Wrigley Field, Baltimore 2014: St. Louis 2016: Lexington, Fenway I, Wrigley I, Temple of the Dog - NYC 2017: EV solo - Louisville 2018: Wrigley 1 2022: St. Louis 2023: Austin 1 & 2 2024: Vegas 1, Noblesville, IN
1. Ten (All of it) 2. Vs (Animal, Daughter, Dissident, Rearviewmirror, Elderly Woman, Indifference) 3. Vitalogy (Last Exit, Not for You, Tremor Christ, Nothingman, Corduroy, Better Man, Immortality) 4. Binaural (Light Years, Nothing As It Seems, Insignifcance, Sleight Of Hand, Parting Ways) 5. No Code (Sometimes, Hail/Hail, Off He Goes, Red Mosquito, Around The Bend) 6. Yield (Faithfull, Given To Fly, Wishlist, Do The Evolution, In Hiding) 7. Riot Act (Can't Keep, I Am Mine, Thumbing My Way, All or None) 8. Lightning Bolt (Sirens, Lightning Bolt, Pendulum, Yellow Moon) 9. Pearl Jam (World Wide Suicide, Gone, Army Reserve, Inside Job) 10. Backspacer (Just Breathe, Unthought Known, Force of Nature, The End)
To me, this is impossible to actually rank 1-10, or 11 or 12 if you count Lost Dogs or Mirror Ball. I truly love them all, but for different reasons and in different ways. So, it's in constant motion. Only way I can go on record with this is through a tiered system. Before you take exception, please note that each tier is listed in reverse chronological order... in other words, NOT ranked.
Tier 3 - "They have their moments. Great... and not so great." Lightning Bolt Backspacer Lost Dogs
Notes: There are songs on each of these three records that I adore and that are essential to the catalog, but there are songs on each that I consistently skip and that, for me, weakened the album's overall impact.
Tier 2 - "There's just something missing (relative to Tier 1)." Riot Act No Code Mirror Ball
Notes: No skips in Tier 2, but there also aren't as many superpowers per album. If either No Code or Mirror Ball included I Got Shit, I'd probably bump them into Tier 1. I'll also add that No Code might be the album helped the most by live performances over the years. Really all of NC is amazing live.
Tier 1 - Perfection! Avocado Binaural Yield Vitalogy VS Ten
Notes: Binaural might be the undisputed #1 for me if it had included the outtakes (Sad, Education, Fatal) and/or 1999 X-mas singles Strangest Tribe and Drifting.
Comments
2. Vs
3. Riot Act
4. Binaural
5. Yield
6. No Code
7. Vitlaogy
8. Backspacer
9. Pearl Jam
10. Lightning Bolt
Subject to change
1.No Code 9.99/10
2.Vitalogy 9.98/10
3.Vs 9.97/10
4.Ten Redux 9.96/10
(Merkinball 9.95/10)
...
5. Binaural 9/10
6. Yield 9/10
(Ten 9/10)
(Into The Wild 9/10)
(Lost Dogs 9/10)
...
7. Riot Act 8/10
8. Avocado 8/10
9. Lightning bolt 6.5/10
10. Backspacer 6/10
2000-PARIS
2006-ANVERS-MARSEILLE-PARIS
2007-LONDRES-NIJMEGEN-WERCHTER
2008-ED SOLO-LOS ANGELES1-LOS ANGELES2
2009-LONDRES
2010-DUBLIN-ARRAS
2012-AMSTERDAM1-ARRAS-STOCKHOLM-OSLO-COPENHAGUE
2014-MILAN
2024-BERLIN1-BERLIN2-BARCELONE1-BARCELONE2
2. Ten
3. No Code
4. Vitalogy
5. Binaural
6. Yield
7. Lightning Bolt
8. Riot Act
9. Backspacer
10. Pearl Jam
2010: Noblesville, IN
2011: PJ20 Night 1
2013: Wrigley Field, Baltimore
2014: St. Louis
2016: Lexington, Fenway I, Wrigley I, Temple of the Dog - NYC
2017: EV solo - Louisville
2018: Wrigley 1
2022: St. Louis
2023: Austin 1 & 2
2024: Vegas 1, Noblesville, IN
1. Ten (All of it)
2. Vs (Animal, Daughter, Dissident, Rearviewmirror, Elderly Woman, Indifference)
3. Vitalogy (Last Exit, Not for You, Tremor Christ, Nothingman, Corduroy, Better Man, Immortality)
4. Binaural (Light Years, Nothing As It Seems, Insignifcance, Sleight Of Hand, Parting Ways)
5. No Code (Sometimes, Hail/Hail, Off He Goes, Red Mosquito, Around The Bend)
6. Yield (Faithfull, Given To Fly, Wishlist, Do The Evolution, In Hiding)
7. Riot Act (Can't Keep, I Am Mine, Thumbing My Way, All or None)
8. Lightning Bolt (Sirens, Lightning Bolt, Pendulum, Yellow Moon)
9. Pearl Jam (World Wide Suicide, Gone, Army Reserve, Inside Job)
10. Backspacer (Just Breathe, Unthought Known, Force of Nature, The End)
1. Vitalogy
2. Yield
3. Vs
4. Ten
5. No Code
6. Binaural
7. Riot Act
8. Lightning Bolt
9. Backspacer
10. Avocado
1 riot act/ten 1A
2 no code
3 yield
4 vs
5 binaural
6 pearl jam
7 vitalogy
8 lightning bolt
10 backspacer
Sucks to put the last 2 at the tail end I would like to say i love backspacer is a great album. The window of difference isn't much
Tier 3 - "They have their moments. Great... and not so great."
Lightning Bolt
Backspacer
Lost Dogs
Notes: There are songs on each of these three records that I adore and that are essential to the catalog, but there are songs on each that I consistently skip and that, for me, weakened the album's overall impact.
Tier 2 - "There's just something missing (relative to Tier 1)."
Riot Act
No Code
Mirror Ball
Notes: No skips in Tier 2, but there also aren't as many superpowers per album. If either No Code or Mirror Ball included I Got Shit, I'd probably bump them into Tier 1. I'll also add that No Code might be the album helped the most by live performances over the years. Really all of NC is amazing live.
Tier 1 - Perfection!
Avocado
Binaural
Yield
Vitalogy
VS
Ten
Notes: Binaural might be the undisputed #1 for me if it had included the outtakes (Sad, Education, Fatal) and/or 1999 X-mas singles Strangest Tribe and Drifting.
2. Ten, Vs, Vitalogy, No Code, Binaural, Riot Act, Pearl Jam, Backspacer, Lightning Bolt
Ten
Vs
No Code
Vitalogy
Yield
Binaural
Riot Act
Pearl Jam
Backspacer
Lightning Bolt
2016: Greenville Columbia
10. Backspacer
9. Riot Act
8. Binaural
7. Lightning Bolt
6. No Code
5. Vitalogy
4. Avocado
3. Yield
2. Vs.
1. Ten
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
2. Ten
3. No Code
4. Vitalogy
5. Yield
6. Pearl Jam
7. Riot Act
8. Binaural
9. Backspacer
10. Lightning Bolt
2: VS
3: Binarual
4: Riot act
5: No code
6: Vitalogy
7: Gigaton
8: Ten
9: Lightening Bolt
10: Avocado
11: Backspacer
2007 Venezia
2010 London
2012 Oslo
2014 Milano
2018 Milano
2018 Krakow
2019 Barolo (Ed)
2022 Berlin
2022 Frankfurt
2022 Krakow
2024 London
2) Vitalogy
3) No Code
4) Backspacer
5) Pearl Jam
6) Lightining Bolt
7) Yield
8) Riot Act
9) Ten
10) Binaural
11) Gigaton
12) Dark Matter?