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After recently listening to Vitalogy for the first time in quite a while, and then very recently having watched the Rick Beato interview with Mike and Jeff, I found my interest on Pearl Jam music reignited all over again.  (It's not that I ever stopped liking them, but I tend to immerse my listening in particular types of music and the go on to something else for a while.)
So next thing I knew, I was digging into my P.J. singles which was really cool because doing that really puts the focus on individual songs, and the band has made several great singles.
My current favorites:
"Falling Down (Live)":  The B side of the 10" "No Jeremy", Club Edition.  Great song, excellent pressing!
"Alive": 2017 limited edition single, from the sound check for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony recorded on April 7th, 2017.  Amazing.  Sound check no less!
"Given to Fly": A side of the 1997 single.  Such a great song and sounds awesome coming out of those fat 7" grooves.
"Merkinball": 7", both sides.  Need I say more?  A long-time favorite.

What are your favorite Pearl Jam singles?

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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,257
    edited May 19
    Merkinball obviously. But mine skips on one side :/ 

    I also dug the Man of the Hour single, buying it off Amazon back when. I think it is one of the few times a single works without a different B-side (with it being a soundtrack song)... But maybe it could have had a borrowed Danny Elfman-track on there.

    Save You with Otherside as the B-side. One of those WHY ISN'T THIS SONG ON THE ALBUM-moments.


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Merkinball obviously. But mine skips on one side :/ 

    I also dug the Man of the Hour single, buying it off Amazon back when. I think it is one of the few times a single works without a different B-side (with it being a soundtrack song)... But maybe it could have had a borrowed Danny Elfman-track on there.

    Save You with Otherside as the B-side. One of those WHY ISN'T THIS SONG ON THE ALBUM-moments.



    It's kind of amazing that Merkinball has never (to my knowledge, anyway) be re-issued on vinyl.  Sure would be nice.  Mine copy sounds good, but it could be better, for sure.

    Save You is such a great song!  I have to keep an eye out for that one as a single.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,961
    Dissident. Having six live B-sides was mind blowing at the time. I couldn’t believe I actually had a live version of Even Flow on CD. Now, I have like 500 versions of Even Flow on my hard drive lol
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  • mace1229mace1229 Posts: 9,697
    I wouldn't take away Lost Dogs, but the internet and LD took away some of the appeal. I liked having the hunt back in the day. Trying to find a reasonable copy of Dead Man, searching through used CDs at the music store to see what else you could find.
    I probably listened to U, Dead Man, Down, and many others more as singles before they were released on LD or easy to find on the internet. The hunt and mystery was part of the fun.

    But to answer the question, the single I probably enjoyed listening to the most was Black, Red Yellow, even though that was easy to get. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    Dissident. Having six live B-sides was mind blowing at the time. I couldn’t believe I actually had a live version of Even Flow on CD. Now, I have like 500 versions of Even Flow on my hard drive lol
    Pearl Jam is one of the all-time great live bands!
    mace1229 said:
    I wouldn't take away Lost Dogs, but the internet and LD took away some of the appeal. I liked having the hunt back in the day. Trying to find a reasonable copy of Dead Man, searching through used CDs at the music store to see what else you could find.
    I probably listened to U, Dead Man, Down, and many others more as singles before they were released on LD or easy to find on the internet. The hunt and mystery was part of the fun.

    But to answer the question, the single I probably enjoyed listening to the most was Black, Red Yellow, even though that was easy to get. 

    I didn't know there were singles taken off Lost Dogs.  Are the vinyl or CD singles?
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,257
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    Dissident. Having six live B-sides was mind blowing at the time. I couldn’t believe I actually had a live version of Even Flow on CD. Now, I have like 500 versions of Even Flow on my hard drive lol
    Collected that one later on. In the 00s but it was crazy how gold that idea and single is. And not many later versions stack up to the ones on those discs. 
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  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,272
    I like that Golden State/Santa Cruz Xmas single.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    I like that Golden State/Santa Cruz Xmas single.

    Forgot about that one.  I'll give it a spin tonight!
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,375
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Merkinball obviously. But mine skips on one side :/ 

    I also dug the Man of the Hour single, buying it off Amazon back when. I think it is one of the few times a single works without a different B-side (with it being a soundtrack song)... But maybe it could have had a borrowed Danny Elfman-track on there.

    Save You with Otherside as the B-side. One of those WHY ISN'T THIS SONG ON THE ALBUM-moments.



    It's kind of amazing that Merkinball has never (to my knowledge, anyway) be re-issued on vinyl.  Sure would be nice.  Mine copy sounds good, but it could be better, for sure.

    Save You is such a great song!  I have to keep an eye out for that one as a single.
    This is the 30th anniversary of both Mirrorball and Merkinball. So maybe
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    igotid88 said:
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Merkinball obviously. But mine skips on one side :/ 

    I also dug the Man of the Hour single, buying it off Amazon back when. I think it is one of the few times a single works without a different B-side (with it being a soundtrack song)... But maybe it could have had a borrowed Danny Elfman-track on there.

    Save You with Otherside as the B-side. One of those WHY ISN'T THIS SONG ON THE ALBUM-moments.



    It's kind of amazing that Merkinball has never (to my knowledge, anyway) be re-issued on vinyl.  Sure would be nice.  Mine copy sounds good, but it could be better, for sure.

    Save You is such a great song!  I have to keep an eye out for that one as a single.
    This is the 30th anniversary of both Mirrorball and Merkinball. So maybe

    I hope so!  
    Imagine Merkinball on a really great twelve inch 45 RPM vinyl pressing... oh yeahhhh!
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,726
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    I like that Golden State/Santa Cruz Xmas single.
    That’s a really good one. I like the double 7” from 2001 with Last Soldier / Indifference / Gimme Some Truth / I Just Want to Have Something to Do as well.

    You really can’t go wrong with the all-time classic Alive / Once / Wash 12” either.
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  • Lost In OhioLost In Ohio Posts: 7,172
    edited May 20
    Does it have to be a record? Then again, the only place I have Go is on streaming, but the acoustic version of Elderly Woman (with the slight change in lyrics) is a good one.

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  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,272
    Alone - b-side of Go - is so much better than the Lost Dogs version.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    Lost In Ohio said:
    Does it have to be a record? Then again, the only place I have Go is on streaming, but the acoustic version of Elderly Woman (with the slight change in lyrics) is a good one.

    Me you wouldn't recall...becomes....of course you can't see me...

    I must confess, I always think of a single as a record, but anything that is considered a single in any form is fair game.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    edited May 20
    Some of the singles mentioned here (one of mine included) have three songs.  I wonder, is it not true that a release more than just one A-side and/ or more than one B-side is considered an EP (extra-play)?
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,257
    edited May 20
    I think that terminology must have been updated with the introduction of CD singles, that had 70 minutes on them.

    I have two 3 inch (?) CD-singles. Cute. But even those fit more than two songs I presume :)


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I think that terminology must have been updated with the introduction of CD singles, that had 70 minutes on them.

    I have two 3 inch (?) CD-singles. Cute. But even those fit more than two songs I presume :)



    I've seen CDs that only contain two songs.  Seems rather odd to put 6 or 7 minutes on a format that can hold over 70 minutes!
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,375
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I think that terminology must have been updated with the introduction of CD singles, that had 70 minutes on them.

    I have two 3 inch (?) CD-singles. Cute. But even those fit more than two songs I presume :)



    I've seen CDs that only contain two songs.  Seems rather odd to put 6 or 7 minutes on a format that can hold over 70 minutes!
    At what point does it become an EP and not a single then
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,726
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    igotid88 said:
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I think that terminology must have been updated with the introduction of CD singles, that had 70 minutes on them.

    I have two 3 inch (?) CD-singles. Cute. But even those fit more than two songs I presume :)



    I've seen CDs that only contain two songs.  Seems rather odd to put 6 or 7 minutes on a format that can hold over 70 minutes!
    At what point does it become an EP and not a single then

    It doesn’t actually have anything to do with the number of songs, or the length of the record. Typically, an EP is not named after one of the featured songs, whereas a single has a lead title (the A-side). This would mean Merkinball is an EP, even though it only has 2 songs, whereas Dissident is a single, even though it has a lot more.

    It got a lot more confusing with the advent of the CD single format, blurring the lines between single / EP / Maxi single / Mini LP etc
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  • Foriginal SinForiginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,847
    Jeremy, if only because I was 12 and YL was already playing in Chicago on the radio but Footsteps was new to me and it blew me away. 

    Also Merkinball and Man of the Hour 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,162
    goldrush said:
    igotid88 said:
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I think that terminology must have been updated with the introduction of CD singles, that had 70 minutes on them.

    I have two 3 inch (?) CD-singles. Cute. But even those fit more than two songs I presume :)



    I've seen CDs that only contain two songs.  Seems rather odd to put 6 or 7 minutes on a format that can hold over 70 minutes!
    At what point does it become an EP and not a single then

    It doesn’t actually have anything to do with the number of songs, or the length of the record. Typically, an EP is not named after one of the featured songs, whereas a single has a lead title (the A-side). This would mean Merkinball is an EP, even though it only has 2 songs, whereas Dissident is a single, even though it has a lot more.

    It got a lot more confusing with the advent of the CD single format, blurring the lines between single / EP / Maxi single / Mini LP etc

    It's never too late to learn something new.  Thanks Goldrush!
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  • Abe FromanAbe Froman Posts: 5,356
    I love the version of Smile on Olympic Platinum!  Mirrorball is the best though. Long Road and I Got Shit?!?  Come on with those two masterpieces 
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,726
    brianlux said:
    goldrush said:
    igotid88 said:
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I think that terminology must have been updated with the introduction of CD singles, that had 70 minutes on them.

    I have two 3 inch (?) CD-singles. Cute. But even those fit more than two songs I presume :)



    I've seen CDs that only contain two songs.  Seems rather odd to put 6 or 7 minutes on a format that can hold over 70 minutes!
    At what point does it become an EP and not a single then

    It doesn’t actually have anything to do with the number of songs, or the length of the record. Typically, an EP is not named after one of the featured songs, whereas a single has a lead title (the A-side). This would mean Merkinball is an EP, even though it only has 2 songs, whereas Dissident is a single, even though it has a lot more.

    It got a lot more confusing with the advent of the CD single format, blurring the lines between single / EP / Maxi single / Mini LP etc

    It's never too late to learn something new.  Thanks Goldrush!
    All good Brian. A couple of years of being a stock Buyer for HMV (and making sure we had stock of all of the Top 40 singles every week) taught me a few things  =)

    It also explains why PJ’s The Last of Us is an EP, as opposed to a Future Days single.
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