TOP 3 P J SONGS of ALL-TIME & Why !

CiNJaM

1. BlaCK! ´coz it was, it is and will always be the one for me!!! It reminds me a teacher I used to be in love with at fac!!! He was (is) a keen PJ fan and this was the first song I listened to with him, it was the 03/05/03 State College live version, which is just glorious and since then this is my fave one!!!

2. Given to fly! I didn´t mind this song at the begining, but once I heard it live I just had a crush on it!!!! something else!

3. I am mine because of the lyrics and Eddies voice! Awesome!


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righteousbabe

1.Indifference
2.I got shit
3.Immortality

No explanation necessary. Kind of funny they all start with "I".

Red Ledbetter

1. Thumbing My Way
I love walking around for myself, hearing this song, and relate it to everything around me and myself in person. It just means so much. I don't go a day without hearing it.

2. Black
Just love it. I heard it like 90 times in a row when I first got Ten, and it just get's better. I love to sing it. To basically just get out those desperate ending lines "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life" etc.. Gorgeous!

3. Footsteps
"I got scratches all over my arms. One for each day since I fell apart. I did what I had to do, and if there was a reason, it was you".


I'm a newbie to Pearl Jam pretty much, but these are my three favorites right now. Still, many songs are growing a lot on me!

josevolution

breath

hard to imagine

release , if i could hear these 3 in one show i would be happy to go to my grave..............

dissident31

This is really tough and obviously there's no right answer, so I tried to imagine it as if I could only hear three of their songs for the rest of my life:

Given To Fly: Their most uplifting song and it still rocks.
In Hiding: Just something about it I'll always like.
Breath: Has the greatest bridge of all there songs, and that's saying something, plus you never hear it, so it's always great.

Hardest Omission: Once, YL
Honorable Mentions: Alone, SOLAT, Leash, Animal, I Am Mine

MichaelMcKevin

Black- Great lyrics. Great Music. Best combination of the 2

Leash - an absolute anthem for young people. anthems are rare and hard to write.

Indifference- Of all their "stand up for yourself" songs, definitely the best. Would be given to fly if the riff wasn't based off "Going To California"

Honorable Mention: Alive, Given To Fly, I am Mine, Thumbing My Way, Long Road


Not necessarily my favorites to listen to, but best songs

ymerej

It hard to choose 3 "best of" songs...from Pearl Jam....
but okay....let's try...for me...
1. yellow ledbetter...(every time...it makes me wondeing why I am here...there...everywhere?...a song with some kind of lovely energy...)
2.in hiding.... (I can find myself here...and every time I listen to it, it's in some strange way different...)
3. corduroy (for me...best song ever written)

sfearll

in no particular order:

I Am Mine: because while it may have been written about Rothskilde, I interpreted it to be about the innocents killed in 9/11. I thought it was a powerful response to the national angst, and still find it a beautiful piece of writing.

Gone: been listening to this for several days, can't get it out of my head after hearing it in Sydney (and on the bootleg). A different take on the American Dream, becoming what you will be as soon as you get out of the place that's holding you back. Don't we all feel that way sometimes?

Nothingman: it so eloquently captures the emptiness of heartbreak. "caught a bolt of lightning, cursed the day he let it go."

close runners up: Elderly Woman, Black, Thin Air

Teslarocker

PResent Tense - The song describes my life perfectly

Black - It's just a beautiful song. Period. And Eddie sings it very passionately. And I can tell that the song really means a lot to him

Red Mosquito - A purist probably wouldn't want to read this. But I think it's a very cute song, especially the end where Eddie almost sounds like a drunken sailor. And I can practically picture him swaying back and forth and holding a liquor bottle while singing "If I had known then, what I know now"

Androgynous Mind

Teslarocker wrote:

Red Mosquito - A purist probably wouldn't want to read this. But I think it's a very cute song, especially the end where Eddie almost sounds like a drunken sailor. And I can practically picture him swaying back and forth and holding a liquor bottle while singing "If I had known then, what I know now"

I can see it too!

AndiM

Puh ... Probably a draw between those three ...

- Given to Fly: For me THE perfect song, lyrics, music, voice ... Just wow. Fits all together and just gives you that ... dream-like mood. Don't know how to describe it.

- Wishlist: Somehow totally different from Given to Fly, but it was the first PJ song I've ever listened too ("blame" my English teacher over here in Germany for playing it in class ) and it's just beautifull.

- Animal: Once more really different from the two mentioned before. But anyway: This one rocks! I really freaked out when they played it this year in Berlin.

whispering hands

Hi. new here. top three songs eh?
would have to be:

Indifference as no.1 why?
the words are perfect, I feel that way so manys days and to hear the words coming outta someone else's mouth just seems to help. That and the music.. so haunting and chilling, soothing yet almost to soothing as if to get beneath your skin and crawl. Love that song very most of all.

Next would be Evenflow.
why? because I have been the persons about whom it was written. Have made pillows out of curbsides, and eaten what ever happened to be slower than me that day. Have had to beg, and had to hide, and most generally just had rathered that world than that of the civilized world. So now the song reminds me everyday, ' forget not from whence you came, for that road has already depicted where you are going to now.'

and last but not least In Hiding
why? because I am constantly learning new things, and seeing new pieces to the puzzle and the place in which they fit. This is a beautifull process, but just as the song claims one must dive deep down indside to dredge up the answers to each personal paradox. But upon surfacing and drawing the first breath of revelation all confusion falls away and enlightenment occurs.
"Ain't if funny how things change so much, it's all state of mind.."

momofglynn

Chris Sabo wrote:

I dont mean to be rude, but i'm sure ill sound that way, but you need to listen to more pj songs than just the ones on the greatest hits.
My top 3:
Immortality
Untitled
Present Tense

I don't mean to be rude but I am going to anyways ????
I think it's funny that this thread is what's your top 3, not let's bash someone else's top 3. If that's what the person likes......

My top 3...
Smile
Corduroy
Indifference

Bionic Man

Here's my input: (agreeing that it is too hard to just pick three!)

- Porch (I really wonder why this has not named more times. It is so powerful but still a catchy melody)
- Black (boring because everyone has this, but you are all right about this song)
- Rearviewmirror (I love this part when he scream "rearviewmirror"...)

All in all, I think the first two albums are the real masterpieces.

bovy_j

In my opinion, the greatest 3 songs are

1) Black
2) Present Tense
3) Garden

These 3 just stand out when I think of the greatest Pearl Jam songs. Lyrically and instrumentally they are amazing also.

edgarcamp

1) Animal
2) Porch
3) Of the Girl

It's really difficult to choose just three.

jammin1586

1) Immortality
2) No Way
3) Garden

Eraserhead

The correct answer is:

Release
Yellow Ledbetter
Smile

ev10

ok my top 3 at the moment.

long road- the words on this song are just pure magic. they take you away.
smile- because like ed says on this song"this is how i feel"
come back- for the same reason as long road. when ed screams "i'll be here come back" at the end it feels so honest and true.

paris 9/11
athens30/11

crislx

Tough one! It's like choosing between mummy and daddy!
But these 3 songs are just viscerally intense to me.

Black - Because it's "love gone bad", because I just love Ed's early and intense vocal (and emotional) performances, with all the rage... and because it's a beautiful love song and I'm sucker for clichés.

Oceans - its wonderful lyric has something of a Greek epic (could have been written to Ulysses himself) and I also feel it very close to my country's cultural background.

Sad - it's one my favourites at the moment, rocks my world and because the story resembles something that happened to one of my family members.