I don't have a least favourite song on Gigaton. Do you?

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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,073
    buckle up for me as well.  might be my least favorite (serious) song they've put on an album.
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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Nope

    although Comes and Goes is such heavy subject matter that i skip it sometimes to get to Retrograde.  

    Great tune tho.  Great tribute
  • jimjam1982
    jimjam1982 AZ Posts: 1,471
    comes then goes / Alright.  Comes then Goes is rising after many weeks of listens.  Alright is falling.  To each his/her own the board is fairly well divided on this matter!
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Buckle Up - Sorry Stoney old boy!
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  • matt84
    matt84 Posts: 827
    Buckle Up for me. I’ve listened to the album 5 or 6 times now. I find the album to be very similar to Backspacer and Lightning Bolt - a good strong start but then loses it’s way midway through. The three of these albums sound like they could have all been recorded at the same time. Gigaton is better than Backspacer but I think Lightning Bolt on the whole is a stronger album.
  • otter
    otter Posts: 772
    matt84 said:
    Buckle Up for me. I’ve listened to the album 5 or 6 times now. I find the album to be very similar to Backspacer and Lightning Bolt - a good strong start but then loses it’s way midway through. The three of these albums sound like they could have all been recorded at the same time. Gigaton is better than Backspacer but I think Lightning Bolt on the whole is a stronger album.
    I’d say gigaton is better than lightning bolt and a little better than backspaced. I like it more than avocado. Riot Act is my favorite but I’m enjoying gigaton a ton. Yield and Binural are from a different era. And Ten Vs Vitology and No Code. Are kinda like a different band altogether 

    but all in all I feel blessed to grow up with Pearl Jam. And I truly feel gigaton is perfect 
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  • B-Girl
    B-Girl Posts: 105
    Retrograde.
  • BlackSmile
    BlackSmile Posts: 95
    Never Destination and Buckle Up
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  • KN219077
    KN219077 Montana Posts: 1,201
    Hard to believe there’s so many Comes then Goes votes here. It’s as close to classic Ed songwriting as the album gets, in my mind. I skip forward to listen to it
  • toppertrav11
    toppertrav11 Posts: 6
    Buckle Up is my least favorite and not really a fan of it at all.  Feel like Take the Long Way is underrated.
  • JC29866
    JC29866 Chicago Posts: 85
    KN219077 said:
    Hard to believe there’s so many Comes then Goes votes here. It’s as close to classic Ed songwriting as the album gets, in my mind. I skip forward to listen to it
    Agreed. This song is perfectly written, recorded, performed and produced. It’s the warmest section of the album. 


  • JC29866
    JC29866 Chicago Posts: 85
    Take the Long Way feels out of place, both songwriting and production-wise. -sounds thin like foo fighters wasting light. 
    Retrograde also a low point, Sirens 2.0. 

    Cut those two songs and you’d have a leaner, better record. 
  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,559
    KN219077 said:
    Hard to believe there’s so many Comes then Goes votes here. It’s as close to classic Ed songwriting as the album gets, in my mind. I skip forward to listen to it
    Agree. That guitar too! 
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  • stratmad
    stratmad Posts: 211
    I can live without Never Destination. 
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,772
    edited April 2020
    Buckle up. The lyrics sound way too literal or something, as though it's actually a song about buckling up for safety, so it always feels a bit silly. It's not absolutely terrible - I wouldn't bother skipping it while listening to the album - but I could do without it.
    That's it though. I really like the rest of the album.
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  • False_Belief
    False_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    Surprised that, of the two back-to-back rockers, Never Destination is getting an easier time than Take The Long Way here.   I find the latter way more interesting, with its Soundgardenesque time signature.   Never Destination just sounds like a generic Backspacer era Pete Townshend retread to me.....

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  • wall232
    wall232 New York Posts: 1,346
    Buckle up
    Alright
    River Cross 

    These will probably be skipped the most by me. 

    Damn good album though.
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  • tschav
    tschav Posts: 2,900
    PJammer4life said:
    Buckle Up ruins the flow just like Pry to, Help, Help, Parachutes, Speed of Sound, and Sleeping by Myself. Why does Pearl Jam always do that?
    Agree on the broken flow comment. Every time I hear it I feel like I’m at the part of a live set list where people start talking over a song. It’s not bad, it’s just out of place on the record.
  • LukinAtU
    LukinAtU Posts: 831
    buckle up, retrograde, seven o'clock, never destination, take the long way and maybe whoever said
  • RE658041
    RE658041 Sweden Posts: 410
    Buckle Up, River Cross and Quick Escape.

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