Vote for your favorite Pearl Jam songs in celebration of the band’s 31st anniversary

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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,873
    igotid88 said:
    They have so many great songs. If a few thousand more voted the list probably changes drastically 

    Oh big time!
  • OfThePearl
    OfThePearl Posts: 968
    My guess is that with only 5 max choices, some may not have wanted to use all of their votes on "Ten" (Release, Black, Alive, Porch, Evenflow, Jeremy all got in). Why Go is one of my faves, but did not make my top 5. Garden also, so close. 4 of my 5 made it.

    Last Exit did not. That also surprises me. But with only 5 votes, what would have been many people's #6-10 choices likely didn't make the list, even though they are still very highly regarded.
  • TheBeardedFellow
    TheBeardedFellow Posts: 329
    I used most of my votes on Yield and No Code songs.. Faithfull, In Hiding, In My Tree, Present Tense, and then I Got Id. Looks like all by my actual favorite made it, so.. good job fans, for how these lists usually end up?? 
  • TinaE
    TinaE Germany Posts: 2,197
    The list is great so far, it's just a shame that not a single Gigaton song made it on it...
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,873

  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,690
    TinaE said:
    The list is great so far, it's just a shame that not a single Gigaton song made it on it...
    I voted for Dance
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  • TinaE
    TinaE Germany Posts: 2,197
    igotid88 said:
    TinaE said:
    The list is great so far, it's just a shame that not a single Gigaton song made it on it...
    I voted for Dance
    Me too
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  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    MS142392 said:
    Am I the only surprised that In My Tree (great song, yes) made it in over Why Go and Not for You?
    Over the two songs? Yes/maybe. However, In My Tree is a beloved song on a beloved album.

    I’ve already listed a few songs that I was surprised didn’t make the cut but having neither Go nor Animal is quite a surprise. Oddly enough, not a single album opener made the list!
  • tino_11
    tino_11 Posts: 2,189
    igotid88 said:
    TinaE said:
    The list is great so far, it's just a shame that not a single Gigaton song made it on it...
    I voted for Dance
    Always going to be hard for songs off Gigaton to make the list. People have 30 years attachment to some of these songs, we've had 2 years of Gigaton. 

    Overall it's a good list IMO. There's some I personally wouldn't have anywhere near my top 31 and others which I definitely would. Light Years was a surprise omission for me. 
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,873
    demetrios said:


    Bump!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,873

  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    My takeaway from seeing this is that Pearl Jam's biggest fans apparently feel little connection to anything Pearl Jam has done in the last 24 years, which is both striking and unsurprising at the same time.  (Only four of 31 songs were released since 1998, and none after 2009.  All but seven date to 1995 or earlier.)  I think this says more about the nature of fandom (i.e., that most people just don't form the same emotional attachment to music as they get older) than it does the quality of Pearl Jam's music, which I think is much more consistent across decades than this list would suggest.  Another part of the equation is that people just don't (or can't) devote the kind of time to music as they get older and their lives get busier and more complicated as they can when they're younger.  If people spent as much time listening to some of the latter-day albums as they devoted to the first few albums, they might have connected with those later albums much more.
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited September 2022
    Not many surprises on the final list. Pretty much to be expected. 

    2 that raised my eyebrows positively, Present Tense and Inside Job. I wouldn’t have predicted PT that high or IJ to make the list at all. Two of my personal favourites. 
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,873
    Bump, on Demand! :)
  • DJ253147
    DJ253147 Posts: 709
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    Not many surprises on the final list. Pretty much to be expected. 

    2 that raised my eyebrows positively, Present Tense and Inside Job. I wouldn’t have predicted PT that high or IJ to make the list at all. Two of my personal favourites. 
    This. I’d I have IJ in my top ten any day and PT damn close. Surprised not to see Faithful on the list. 
  • bigbiggzy
    bigbiggzy Posts: 844
    Would be interesting to see the same approach for the top 50… (They’ve written a ton of songs over 3 decades).

    I’m not all that surprised about Gigaton. It’s still fairly new compared to the rest of their catalog. 
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,384
    demetrios said:

    I counted less than half of these in my top 31 🤷🏼‍♂️
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    demetrios Posts: 97,873
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