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The Best Pearl Jam Songs Of All Time, Ranked

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It's incomplete as he only ranked 60 songs
https://uproxx.com/indie/pearl-jam-best-songs-ranked/

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  • pearljammr78pearljammr78 Posts: 1,613
    It’s impossible to rank Pearl Jam songs. Everyday brings a different feeling and a different favorite. 

    Always at the bottom. 

    Mankind
    Whale Song
    Sweet Lew 
    Last Kiss (cover but horrible)
    Black Red Yellow

    all tied for last. 


    Peace,Love and Pearl Jam.
  • CM189191CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    I saw this and another article ranking PJ albums.

    Seems like press is heating up for the new album...
  • CM189191CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    CM189191 said:
    I saw this and another article ranking PJ albums.

    Seems like press is heating up for the new album...
    There it is

    https://www.spin.com/2019/11/best-pearl-jam-album-poll/
  • RE658041RE658041 Posts: 406
    pearljammr78 said:
    It’s impossible to rank Pearl Jam songs. Everyday brings a different feeling and a different favorite. 

    Always at the bottom. 

    Mankind
    Whale Song
    Sweet Lew 
    Last Kiss (cover but horrible)
    Black Red Yellow

    all tied for last. 


    Love Whale Song. And Black Red Yellow live.
  • Abe FromanAbe Froman Posts: 5,252
    I stopped reading after I saw Smile and Immortality in the 50s with Leatherman ahead of them. 
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 41,793
    RE658041 said:
    pearljammr78 said:
    It’s impossible to rank Pearl Jam songs. Everyday brings a different feeling and a different favorite. 

    Always at the bottom. 

    Mankind
    Whale Song
    Sweet Lew 
    Last Kiss (cover but horrible)
    Black Red Yellow

    all tied for last. 


    Love Whale Song. And Black Red Yellow live.
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    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain Posts: 31,121
    pearljammr78 said:
    It’s impossible to rank Pearl Jam songs. Everyday brings a different feeling and a different favorite. 

    Always at the bottom. 

    Mankind
    Whale Song
    Sweet Lew 
    Last Kiss (cover but horrible)
    Black Red Yellow

    all tied for last. 


    Bee Girl
    Yellow Moon
    Parachutes

    Always at the bottom.  Too 50 might even be tougher than Top 10.  So many great songs in the catalog!
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  • darthvedderdarthvedder Posts: 2,555
    CM189191 said:
    I saw this and another article ranking PJ albums.

    Seems like press is heating up for the new album...
    Either that or it's the 25th anniversary of the release of Vitalogy.
  • CM189191CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    darthvedder said:
    CM189191 said:
    I saw this and another article ranking PJ albums.

    Seems like press is heating up for the new album...
    Either that or it's the 25th anniversary of the release of Vitalogy.
    Something

    https://www.spin.com/featured/pearl-jam-cover-story-1995/
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,799
    pearljammr78 said:
    It’s impossible to rank Pearl Jam songs. Everyday brings a different feeling and a different favorite. 

    Always at the bottom. 

    Mankind
    Whale Song
    Sweet Lew 
    Last Kiss (cover but horrible)
    Black Red Yellow

    all tied for last. 


    I agree, it changes often.  And quite frankly, who cares?  Music is different to each person.  There will never be an end to the argument of best ever anything when it comes to art.  What needs to end is the argument itself.  It's subjective and as long as it touches you emotionally, that's all that matters.  Your opinion is as good as the opinion of the person next to you.  
  • rummyrummy Posts: 4,436
    This list (like many) is a mess. I'd rather read about a more objective, definitive list as oppose to some random writer's favourite. Sure, it might have the usual suspects from Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy in the top 10 but (as stated above) having songs like Immortality so far down and Unthought Known so far up doesn't make any (objective) sense.

    I guess we can argue this until the cows come home - or until the next tour.
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,692
    I'm surprised this kind of list gets published any longer.  Sure, fans make lists like these on forums like this but who's ever had one published?   Nah. 
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 27,794
    I wouldn't put covers if I made a list. And I've been thinking about doing one
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  • rummyrummy Posts: 4,436
    edited November 2019
    igotid88 said:
    I wouldn't put covers if I made a list. And I've been thinking about doing one
    I've done one in the past, too. It changes slightly from time to time but my "top 5" has held firm for a number of years now. With this said, I'm not sure where to put many of the "war horses" (e.g., Even Flow, Jeremy, Yellow Ledbetter, Porch, Why Go, and Small Town) that are sort of played out for me but I still can't deny their greatness/importance in the band's history.
    Post edited by rummy on
  • West Coast DreamgirlWest Coast Dreamgirl Posts: 1,887
    edited December 2019

    In no particular order these are just some of my favourite PJ songs, however I may have still missed a few songs:

    ·       Insignificance

    ·       Of the girl

    ·       Parting ways

    ·       Hail Hail

    ·       Mankind

    ·       Save You

    ·       Rearviewmirror

    ·       You are mine

    ·       Who you are?

    ·       In my tree

    ·       Unknown thought

    ·       I am a patriot

    ·       Red, Black and Yellow

    ·       All or none

    ·       Off he goes

    ·       Force of nature

    ·       Alone

    ·       Severed Hand

    ·       Last Exit

    ·       Hard to Imagine

    ·       All: Ten songs

    ·       All: Rearviewmirror compilation

    ·       All: Into the Wild Songs

    ·       All: Ukulele Songs

    ·       Hunger Strike

    ·       Crown of Thorns/Chloe Dancer

    ·       Footsteps

    ·       Breathe

    ·       State of Love and Trust

    ·       Sirens

    ·       Lightning Bolt

    ·       Yellow Moon

    ·       Better Man

    ·       Yellow Ledbetter

    ·       Smile

    ·       Long road

    ·       Indifference

    ·       Immortality

    ·       Marker in the sand

    ·       Dissident

    ·       Fuckin’ up

    ·       Pendulum

    ·       Low light

    ·       Given to fly

    ·       Other side

    ·       Future Days

    ·       Gone

    ·       Go

    ·       Saying No

    ·       Sad

    ·       Little Sister

    ·       Dirty Frank

    ·       Love Boat Captain

    ·       Thumbing my way

    ·       Green Disease

    ·       Grievance

    ·       Crazy Mary

    ·       Swallowed Whole

    ·       Bugs

    ·       Rats

    ·       Got some

    ·       Given to fly

    ·       Better man

    ·       Elderly Woman

    ·       Corduroy

    ·       Present Tense

    ·       Thin Air

    ·       Fatal

    ·       Wash

    ·       Just a girl

    ·       The End



    Post edited by West Coast Dreamgirl on
  • vogonpoetbythelakevogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    Hahaha...totally appreciate your list..made me giggle as I read through because I dont think I could stop listing them either...it would end up being the whole catalogue plus covers!
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