Top 5 songs you don't need to hear again (studio version)

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  • pjpitt89
    pjpitt89 Posts: 1,875
    evacuation
    jeremy
    in the moonlight
    im open
    any fillers on any album
    9/1/00, 4/28/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/12/03, 10/1/04, 9/28/05, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 6/1/06, 6/27/08, 6/30/08, 8/7/08 (EV), 6/12/09 (EV), 10/27/09, 10/28/09,10/30/09, 10/31/09, 5/21/10, 6/15/11 (EV), 9/2/12, 7/19/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 10/27/13, 4/28/16, 4/29/16, 8/7/16, 11/4/16 (TOTD), 8/18/18, 8/20/18, 9/24/21 (EV&Earthlings), 9/26/21, 9/11/2022, 9/14/2022, 9/7/2024, 9/9/2024, 9/12/2024, 5/16/2025, 5/18/2025
  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Jennytree wrote:
    I really like Evacuaaaaaatiooooon...

    anywho...

    1) Last Kiss - Heard it live for the first time last year, but up until then I totally hated it, now I only half hate it
    2) I'm Open - not a fan of spoken word
    3) Parachutes - holds no interest for me
    4) 1/2 Full
    5) I Am Mine

    I'm never seeing Pearl Jam with you... That's 5 of my favourites! :o

    Haha, oops :D
    This is me:
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    SMELL YER MA!
  • Soulfire42
    Soulfire42 Posts: 404
    I'm going to approach this a little bit differently and mainly target the album-crushing songs. These are the type of songs that kill the flow, focus or mood of albums or just plain suck. :)

    1. Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me... huge waste of space, kills replayability of album
    2. Pilate... you can't really think an album is too great with this song on it
    3. Parachutes... it's bad and doesn't fit on the album (there had to be a better B Side available)
    4. Help, Help... it's awful, nothing more needs to be said (and it landed a place instead of superior B Sides)
    5. Hummus... if I'm going to wait forever to hear something, it needs to be MUCH better than this

    Dishonorable mentions go to:
    Pry, To... come on now, we all know it is bad
    Bugs... see above comment, but at least a little humor
    Rival... Such a serious subject treated in such a corny way, a shame
    Tremor Christ... awesome lyrics, cheeseball music
    Dissident... just seemed to kill the flow of this amazing album
    Mankind... Stone, enough said
    Light Years... painfully overrated, in my opinion
    (and I agree with the person who stated that In the Moonlight doesn't go anywhere)
  • U R A Crazy Breed
    U R A Crazy Breed Posts: 8,370
    last kiss- sucks

    parachutes - blows..wanabe Beatles song..yuk!

    evacuation - total crap..big stinky dudu

    anything Stone sings! - sorry dude! genius on guitar..not on mic

    big wave - wtf were they thinking?!
  • redeye
    redeye Posts: 620
    1.worldwide suicide
    2.comatose
    3.daughter
    4.red mosquito
    5.aye davanita :mrgreen: ammmmmmmmbop!!!
  • KalEl31
    KalEl31 Posts: 26
    1. Last Kiss
    2. Last Kiss
    3. Last Kiss
    4. Last Kiss
    5. Last Kiss

    I've seen them 9 times since the Golden Gate Park show (where Ed got sick), and this is the only song that kills the set-list. I can't even listen to it on the bootlegs.
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    1 - Evacuation - It's THE POOREST song in the PJ catalogue IMO.
    2 - In The Moonlight - This song goes NOWHERE.

    You're retarded. Both of those songs are brilliant and they only "go nowhere" if you have poor comprehension.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    Evacuation Rules wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    1 - Evacuation - It's THE POOREST song in the PJ catalogue IMO.
    2 - In The Moonlight - This song goes NOWHERE.

    You're retarded. Both of those songs are brilliant and they only "go nowhere" if you have poor comprehension.

    That's mature. It's an opinion. Take it easy.
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    1. Come Back
    2. Get Right
    3. Bu$hleaguer
    4. Dissident
    5. All Night
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • LouisMatt2976
    LouisMatt2976 Posts: 43
    Okay. Wow, I agree with a lot of the songs people have posted. Here are my Five Studio songs.

    1. Evacuation
    2. Rival
    3. Bu$hleaguer
    4. Parachutes
    5. Hey Foxymophandlemama

    Runners up include: No Way, Light Years, Last Kiss & Help Help.
  • letsongsprotest
    letsongsprotest Novi, MI Posts: 552
    its funny how opinions can differ so much....here's mine-

    1. evenflow (ten version, no the re-recorded because i worship that one)
    2. ghost
    3. thumbing my way(never could get into this one no matter how hard a tried)
    4. unemployable
    5. sweet lew
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    CrazyMaryJP wrote:
    I'd have to say that the only Pearl Jam song I could really do without would be Last Kiss...the irony being that it's the most popular Pearl Jam single with regard to Top 40 success. Never liked it. Other than that, I could listen to Ed sing the phone book.
    ditto
  • LineOneMightyFine
    LineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    In no particular order:

    1. Elderly Woman
    2. Jeremy
    3. Ghost
    4. Unemployable
    5. Big Wave

    I could add a few more from Riot Act & Avocado. Its sad that 9 times out of 10 actually change the radio station if Elderly Woman or Jeremy comes on.
  • Ron Raygun
    Ron Raygun Posts: 2
    1. Yellow Ledbetter / Last Kiss – This one is a tie. It never fails that the songs that took the least amount of creativity are the ones that people love the most. It bothers me that so many include these songs among the “best” they’ve done.
    2. Daughter – The studio version of this song has been ruined due to its constant inclusion in their live shows. And let’s face it, it’s become just a vehicle to hear what EdVed is going to sing during the outro. [Even Flow could be a contender for the same reason].
    3. Dissident – This is such a blatant attempt to rewrite Alive. Play those tracks over each other and it’s practically the same song/arrangement. And I concur with Sian-of-the-dead, it’s freaking Booooooriiiiiing!
    4. Evacuation – Cameron is no Jack Irons when it comes to songwriting but the boy can drum.
    5. Undone/Gone/Thumbing My Way/I Am Mine/Green Disease/Education – These all wash over me as the same song. EdVed’s social commentary gone horribly awry.

    Bonus Track: You – That speaks for itself.
  • whgarrett
    whgarrett Posts: 574
    big wave
    evacuation
    in the moonlight
    jeremy
    gone
  • InMyTree4
    InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    1.evenflow
    2.last kiss
    3.crazy mary
    4.small town
    5.evenflow...still
    PJ:7/2/03.9/28/04.5/25/06.8/5/07.6/14/08.6/27/08.6/28/08.6/30/08.
    10/30/09.10/31/09.5/17/10.9/7/11
    EV:boston 1+2.albnay 1.boston 2010
  • Nats310
    Nats310 Posts: 40
    CrazyMaryJP wrote:
    I'd have to say that the only Pearl Jam song I could really do without would be Last Kiss...the irony being that it's the most popular Pearl Jam single with regard to Top 40 success. Never liked it. Other than that, I could listen to Ed sing the phone book.

    I'm with you on this one. I have a few others that kinda make me cringe -- "I'm Open" being the most glaring in my mind -- but "Last Kiss" (while nice) was never anything but a 10C novelty to me, considering what this band is capable of. My college students joked on a group evaluation that "Last Kiss" is the only good PJ song, because they knew how it annoyed me that people, when hearing I was a PJ fan, would say, "Oh dude, I love Last Kiss." It's not that it's a bad song, it's just so average. Now, "I'm Open" -- ugh. I really try to see its poetry, but I just find it pretentious.

    (As you can imagine, I had a helluva time explaining why my kids were rambling on about Pearl Jam on a writing seminar eval. They thought it was hilarous, but my old fogey department head didn't quite see it that way. Quite rightly, my teaching supervisors were worried that PJ was taking up too much class time. I didn't tell them that for the whole semester, my class had made it their daily mission to try and guess my favorite PJ song. God, I loved that group. . . )
  • HeavyHands
    HeavyHands Posts: 2,131
    Nats310 wrote:
    My college students joked on a group evaluation that "Last Kiss" is the only good PJ song, because they knew how it annoyed me that people, when hearing I was a PJ fan, would say, "Oh dude, I love Last Kiss." It's not that it's a bad song, it's just so average. Now, "I'm Open" -- ugh. I really try to see its poetry, but I just find it pretentious.

    (As you can imagine, I had a helluva time explaining why my kids were rambling on about Pearl Jam on a writing seminar eval. They thought it was hilarous, but my old fogey department head didn't quite see it that way. Quite rightly, my teaching supervisors were worried that PJ was taking up too much class time. I didn't tell them that for the whole semester, my class had made it their daily mission to try and guess my favorite PJ song. God, I loved that group. . . )

    I don't know what class you taught, but it sounds like I would've enjoyed it! :D
    "A lot more people are capable of being big out there that just don't give themselves a chance." -Stone Gossard
  • HeavyHands
    HeavyHands Posts: 2,131
    TheBurritoBottom wrote:
    5. Undone/Gone/Thumbing My Way/I Am Mine/Green Disease/Education – These all wash over me as the same song. EdVed’s social commentary gone horribly awry.

    +1 except for Thumbing My Way. The rest of those are remarkably similar to me as well.
    TheBurritoBottom wrote:
    Bonus Track: You – That speaks for itself.

    Probably Leatherman then too, huh?
    "A lot more people are capable of being big out there that just don't give themselves a chance." -Stone Gossard
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Evacuation Rules wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    1 - Evacuation - It's THE POOREST song in the PJ catalogue IMO.
    2 - In The Moonlight - This song goes NOWHERE.

    You're retarded. Both of those songs are brilliant and they only "go nowhere" if you have poor comprehension.

    That's mature. It's an opinion. Take it easy.

    Indifference71 - Thank you.

    Evacuation Rules - Yes, I believe that is my opinion. Exactly the same way that it's MY OPINION that people who randomly call someone 'retarded' for not agreeing on a SONG are actually infact, prize pricks. Check out the lists bud... The general concensus is that Evacuation FAR from 'rules' ;)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.

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