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Favorite "VS." Song

PHATJPHATJ Posts: 348
edited September 2006 in Words and Music...Communication
Leash. God, I absolutely love this song. So Freeing. This was the first song that really grabed me ten or twelve years ago when I first heard VS.. Today I was listening to an old import that I hadn't heard in years, and a live version of Leash came blaring through the speakers. Wow. So damn powerful. I hadn't listened to Leash in quite some time(especially live) and it was like new to me again. DROP THE LEASH! WE ARE YOUNG! So many great songs on VS. and this one takes the cake for me. What is your Fav.?
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  • Innocent_BystanderInnocent_Bystander Posts: 615
    Directly from the album, mine would be Go with that amazing, but so simplistic opening. Live, mine would be Animal cause it so hard and meaningful.
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  • Superunknown_jamSuperunknown_jam Posts: 83
    Although I like Go pretty much, Indifference it's my Vs. song....

    Such an emotional song to me, with a very sad lyric...

    How much difference, does it make?!

    * * *
    Speaking as a child of the 90's
  • JakeJake Posts: 3
    Daughter...with Small Town close behind.
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    For me, it's a set of five

    RVM Rats WMA Glorified G and Elderly Woman.
    Rats slightly above the rest these days...

    Everyone has mentioned a different song so far. What an incredible album :)
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  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    RVM
    small town
    go
    animal
    WMA
    leash


    shit....i like VS a lot
    I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.

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  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    it's me favorite pj album..

    i like dissident
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • drew0drew0 Posts: 943
    probably my favorite album when i think about it - there's not a lame song on it. animal/blood/go/rearviewmirror/small town/daughter/dissident/leash..yeah, the album kicks ass. probably small town, animal, or blood though. all have their specials places in my heart. ;)
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  • All_Five_HorizonsAll_Five_Horizons Posts: 15
    Man...the only two songs I can't really get into on that album are WMA and Blood...not to say I don't like them, I just like every other song SO MUCH.

    The song I've been listening the most to on that album recently has been Glorified G, because I wasn't a big fan of it when I first got VS (not enough radio play? I was a PJ noob at the time...), but lately I've realized how kicking it really is -- the solo is awesome, and the blending of the two choruses at the end is sweet. I especially love listening to it while at the shooting range...lol...big fan of Pearl Jam's music, but that's about it :)

    But if I objectively had to name the BEST song...Animal has to be it...I mean, I think it's one of PJ's most intense songs, while still maintaining the PJ sound that makes them the greatest band ever. Of course, I've heard to so many times now I try to give it a break once in a while...but really short breaks :)
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  • NevermindNevermind Posts: 1,006
    my favorite is leash. Leash is good live too.
  • treno_bluetreno_blue Posts: 14
    I pretty much love 'rats'. It's always appealed to me. that bluesy rhythm and the sneering sarcasm that's echoed in the lyrics. It's just fantastic.

    A close second would perhaps be W.M.A - one of the most powerful and moving songs the band has ever produced in my opinion!
  • PHATJPHATJ Posts: 348
    All the responces to this thread are really interesting. I love the diversity that Vs. brings to the table, everything from all out hard rock to soft, interspective songs. It is just damn good. Until I joined this forum a few months ago I often looked passed Vs. choosing TEN, No Code, Yield or whatever to listen to. Since then I would have to say Vs. might be my fav album. Unbelieveable. The only song I have never been able to really get into is Blood, and that is even a good song. PJ fuckin rocks!
    "I'll Ride the wave where it takes me. I'll Hold the pain. RELEASE ME!"

  • reditalianreditalian Posts: 329
    I love GO. Hereing that song on the way to work pumps me up so much WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!.
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  • Thin Air 211Thin Air 211 Posts: 114
    Thats tough. I guess I will just have to put my top 3, (no order) Leash, Indifference, Reviewmirror. Another of my of favorites is Dissdent, I don't think that song gets enough credit.
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  • PJLeaver44PJLeaver44 Posts: 44
    My favorite PJ album...favorite song has to be Animal, but Indifference is great too. Hell, I love every single song on that album!
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  • pjeddiesgurlpjeddiesgurl Posts: 5
    v.s is my absolute favorite. I definetly have to pick Elderly Woman. Good memories go with that song :)
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  • Niko80Niko80 Posts: 1,600
    Portuguese_Girl wrote:
    Although I like Go pretty much, Indifference it's my Vs. song....

    Such an emotional song to me, with a very sad lyric...

    How much difference, does it make?!

    * * *

    This song means so much to me too. I love how Eddie sings on this track.
    I will swallow poison
  • GoBuckyGoBucky Posts: 198
    Since it's PJ's best album, every song is great...but RVM tops it, followed by Indifference.
  • NothingbetterNothingbetter Posts: 570
    It usually depends on my mood as to what song I'm in from it, but I would say that RVM is my favorite. I'm also a big fan of Indifference and W.M.A.
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  • ronyrony Posts: 212
    Leash is by far the best song on Vs. I love listeningf to that walking down the street Fucking amazing
  • PappasPappas Posts: 809
    DROP THE LEASH, WE ARE YOUNG, DROP THE LEASH, WE ARE YOUNG!

    go eat an animals dissident daughter's rats while you wipe the blood off the leash which came from the glorified gun bought from an elderly woman behind the counter at a small town, an altho you see a WMA in your rearview mirror it is an indifference

    haha i couldnt help myself, i love VS.
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    leash. it genuinely made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and that only normally happens with ballads. it floored me. the drop the leash , we are young part is awesome
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  • RVM86RVM86 Posts: 76
    Rearview Mirror is my favorite song off of VS. I can relate to the song in such a personal way. It's so emotional.

    "I couldn't breath, holding me down, fist on my plate, swallowed it down, emnity gauged, united by fear, tried to endure what I could not fulfill."

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  • whoYOUarewhoYOUare Posts: 274
    i gotta say indifference does a lot for me, very mysterious song... lots of love

    and to RVM... the line is pissed on my plate, swallowed it down... i dont mean to be a jerk, its just one of the most intense line of hte whole record and puts Eddies feelings into perspective.

    ~peace
    peace
  • SpotntheskySpotnthesky Posts: 57
    Indifference is definitely my favorite from vs.

    The lyrics are so powerful... When I was in high school I used to always right the lyrics out on the chalk board in the music room!! :)
  • NothingbetterNothingbetter Posts: 570
    RVM

    W.M.A. and Indifference are up there as well.
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  • mccrispmccrisp Posts: 5
    I would have to say this is my favorite PJ cd and indifference is the best song on it, but they are all great every single one of them.
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  • Dick JonesDick Jones Posts: 777
    REARVIEWMIRROR.

    Saw things so much clearer, once you, were in my REARVIEWMIRROR.

    Awesome line.
    Are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys?
  • ladygooddivaladygooddiva Posts: 4,169
    daughter ..................
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    WMA....

    the best.... the drums oh so good, and the chanting or whatever it is.....
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