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  • static111static111 Posts: 4,990
    Yeah, I have to agree that THEBIBLEISTEN's opinion is rendered moot by listing Ten as #4 and not having Yield anywhere on his list. Hell, those are the two best albums Pearl Jam has ever made! Crazy! 
    I amended my list.  I have no idea why I didn’t list yield initially.  Unforgivable.  Ten is a great album, but IN the last 29 years my tastes have come to prefer other albums over Ten.
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  • static111static111 Posts: 4,990
    static111 said:
    I wish I could get on board with everybody.  I think it is a great album especially when you compare it to popular releases by others in the last few years.  I think Dance of the Clairvoyants got my hopes up that the whole album was going to be very experimental.  As far as PJ records go it doesn't stack up for me.  For clarity here is how I feel about album ranking today

    1. No Code
    2. VS
    3. Binaural
    4.Ten
    5. Vitalogy
    6.Avocado 
    7.Riot Act
    8.Lightning Bolt
    9.Backspacer
    10.Gigaton

    Still Gigaton is going to go down as one of the best releases by anybody in 2020,

    You don’t even have Yield in here, by that standard your ranking is disqualified. Ameature 
    Gigaton blows LB out of the water
    Nothing on Gigaton comes close to Getaway, infallible, pendulum and sleeping by myself 
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  • tino_11tino_11 Posts: 2,178
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    I wish I could get on board with everybody.  I think it is a great album especially when you compare it to popular releases by others in the last few years.  I think Dance of the Clairvoyants got my hopes up that the whole album was going to be very experimental.  As far as PJ records go it doesn't stack up for me.  For clarity here is how I feel about album ranking today

    1. No Code
    2. VS
    3. Binaural
    4.Ten
    5. Vitalogy
    6.Avocado 
    7.Riot Act
    8.Lightning Bolt
    9.Backspacer
    10.Gigaton

    Still Gigaton is going to go down as one of the best releases by anybody in 2020,

    You don’t even have Yield in here, by that standard your ranking is disqualified. Ameature 
    Gigaton blows LB out of the water
    Nothing on Gigaton comes close to Getaway, infallible, pendulum and sleeping by myself 
    I know music is subjective but you'd be hard pressed to find many people agreeing that Gigaton offers nothing better than the band version of Sleeping by Myself. 
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  • static111static111 Posts: 4,990
    tino_11 said:
    static111 said:
    static111 said:
    I wish I could get on board with everybody.  I think it is a great album especially when you compare it to popular releases by others in the last few years.  I think Dance of the Clairvoyants got my hopes up that the whole album was going to be very experimental.  As far as PJ records go it doesn't stack up for me.  For clarity here is how I feel about album ranking today

    1. No Code
    2. VS
    3. Binaural
    4.Ten
    5. Vitalogy
    6.Avocado 
    7.Riot Act
    8.Lightning Bolt
    9.Backspacer
    10.Gigaton

    Still Gigaton is going to go down as one of the best releases by anybody in 2020,

    You don’t even have Yield in here, by that standard your ranking is disqualified. Ameature 
    Gigaton blows LB out of the water
    Nothing on Gigaton comes close to Getaway, infallible, pendulum and sleeping by myself 
    I know music is subjective but you'd be hard pressed to find many people agreeing that Gigaton offers nothing better than the band version of Sleeping by Myself. 
    There aren’t 4 songs on Gigaton that I find preferable to t he 4 songs I listed from LB
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  • ZodZod Posts: 10,876
    I gave Gigaton another spin yesterday.

    I love how it starts, the first half of the album has grown on me immensely.  The back half I seem to come and go on the different tracks.  I like some, but others haven't grown on me.  If you were to ask me to rate PJ albums best to worst.

    1. Ten
    1. Yield
    1. No Code
    1. Vs
    1. Vitalogy
    6. Avacodo
    7. Binaural
    7. Riot Act
    9. Backspacer
    10. Gigaton
    11.  Lightning Bolt

    Those ties are on purpose.  If you put a gun to my head I'm not sure I could choose between the first 5 albums.  I love them all.

    I'm in a similar boat with Binaural and Riot Act.  I like both those albums the same.

    In 6 months Gigaton has usurped lightning bolt.   I wonder where it'll settle on my top 10 as time passes on.

    It's not a bad album.  It's just that I really like the older ones, and have a huge history with them.

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  • mschostokmschostok Chicago, IL Posts: 858
    mcgruff10 said:
    I still think gigaton is their best since yield.  This album is gonna rock live!!!
    Agreed. Just listened to it again for the first time in a couple of weeks - it really is so solid. Only complaint is that it slows down and gets a tad too long toward the end but I'm nit picking. 
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  • mschostok said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    I still think gigaton is their best since yield.  This album is gonna rock live!!!
    Agreed. Just listened to it again for the first time in a couple of weeks - it really is so solid. Only complaint is that it slows down and gets a tad too long toward the end but I'm nit picking. 
    I don't think that is a nitpick. The album is weirdly sequenced. 

    Maybe it makes more sense on the vinyl.. stacking all the slow songs at the end...
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  • Ten is best. It's perfection. Better than any other album these ears have ever heard. Enough said. 
  • Yield is next. It's truly a complete album in seemingly every way. 
  • And for those Pearl Jam fans who truly have a set of balls, Riot Act is third. That album represents "angry" PJ as well or better than any other. Love it! 
  • Peace ✌️ out. 
  • 1ThoughtKnown1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited October 2020
    Enjoyable album... but masterpiece is stretching it a bit.

    Anyone else notice how River Cross is a lot like Memory of a Free Festival by David Bowie? 

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  • Shumway35Shumway35 Milton, Ontario Posts: 331
    And for those Pearl Jam fans who truly have a set of balls, Riot Act is third. That album represents "angry" PJ as well or better than any other. Love it! 
    Riot Act is a great album and is truly underrated 
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  • Shumway35 said:
    And for those Pearl Jam fans who truly have a set of balls, Riot Act is third. That album represents "angry" PJ as well or better than any other. Love it! 
    Riot Act is a great album and is truly underrated 
    Agree with this completely. Binaural is also grossly underrated.
  • Shumway35 said:
    And for those Pearl Jam fans who truly have a set of balls, Riot Act is third. That album represents "angry" PJ as well or better than any other. Love it! 
    Riot Act is a great album and is truly underrated 
    I agree riot act is as good as any of the  best ones. 
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  • bigbiggzybigbiggzy Posts: 838
    I agree - both Binaural and Riot Act are two of PJs most underrated (and under-appreciated) albums. Two of my favs personally.

    With Gigaton - it’s like the band found a way to take the various sounds of the past 30 years (and really - since No Code/Yield - so 22ish years ago) and made Gigaton. Hard to explain but I hear so many ties to the other records sonically speaking. 

    I sat down with my oldest son tonight to “bro” out. We listened to various songs off of every record while hanging. Once we got to Gigaton—I had to play the whole thing. Couldn’t help myself. 

    It’s my go-to these days... I absolutely love it. 
  • joseph33joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,340
    edited October 2020
    Just a superb album,through start to finish. Haven't like an album by them this much since Yield.
  • D-RodD-Rod Hamilton, Ontario Posts: 1,988
    Still listening to Gigaton daily.  I can’t fully say it’s my favorite since Yield until I hear them live but it’s trending in that direction. 
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