Honestly...Isn't Black Pearl Jam's very best song?

otter
otter Posts: 772
edited January 2010 in The Porch
Caught it on DVE last night. It's like perfect.

And I think the best live version is 1998 in Pittsburgh. Ed extended the extended version of "we belong together" with the 'it's ok, it's ok..."

If Black is not Pearl Jam's best song what is? Betterman? Alive? Rearview Mirror? The fixer?

Not your favorite cause that changes but what is their BEST song?
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  • Paka
    Paka Posts: 471
    "the best"...there's something I don't like about this term.
  • cajunkiwi
    cajunkiwi Posts: 984
    Couldn't possibly name their "best" song... kind of unquantifiable really... though I will say Black is a freakishly good song, one of my five favorite PJ songs of all-time, and one of my favorite songs by any band, ever. I've been listening to it since Ten came out and I'm yet to get sick of it.

    Does that count?
    And I listen for the voice inside my head... nothing. I'll do this one myself.
  • dave grolsch
    dave grolsch Posts: 730
    I dont know about best,maybe :?:

    I do know the version on Benny hall makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    the BEST song ever written in the HISTORY of MUSIC
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  • BB126827
    BB126827 Posts: 17
    Porch,then Release....there u go
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,741
    I really couldn't put up much of an argument to say that Black isn't PJ's best song. Ok, maybe the de-doo-doo... at the end is just a bit poppy. But still. All these years later, and I still love it every time I hear it.

    That said, my favorite song (by anyone) is Immortality. I'd also say that the quintessential, sound-defining, Pearl Jam song is either RVM or Corduroy.
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  • MD97728
    MD97728 Posts: 115
    THEY'RE ALL THE GREATEST!
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,361
    "Best" is subjective.
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    I don't like Black
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  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    I call TEN the best Pearl Jam effort ever. I cannot choose one song from the entire album as a favorite, much less choosing one song from the entire catalog. There has just been so f***ing much good music from PJ that I cannot call one song the best. "Black" is soooooooo good, but there are soooooooooo many others.
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    I don't like Black
    i remember u..... 8-)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • jonnyrock1975
    jonnyrock1975 Posts: 127
    Those babies are like my children. And I do have a favourite child. The boy one is much better than the girl one. Picking a favourite child turned out to be pretty easy. But picking the best pj song is much harder. If my house set on fire I'd rescue my pj records before my children.*


    *jonny rock doesn't actually have children, but he does have a wife and she knows that records would get rescued before her in a fire**


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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    I don't like Black
    i remember u..... 8-)
    Part of me just wrote that to hear your reaction D! :lol::lol::lol:
    Seriously though, Black is horrible. Probably the worst song they ever wrote. :lol::lol::lol:
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  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    otter wrote:
    Caught it on DVE last night. It's like perfect.

    And I think the best live version is 1998 in Pittsburgh. Ed extended the extended version of "we belong together" with the 'it's ok, it's ok..."

    If Black is not Pearl Jam's best song what is? Betterman? Alive? Rearview Mirror? The fixer?

    Not your favorite cause that changes but what is their BEST song?
    No cause immorality is.
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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    I don't like Black


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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    jut put Black from Athens 06
    again,,,the best in history of music....
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    BB126827 wrote:
    Porch,then Release....there u go

    I agree with this.... 100000 percent
  • LoveBoatAdmiral
    LoveBoatAdmiral Posts: 1,191
    There's nothing all that great about release
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  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Well...It's Definately UP there! :)
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 23,370
    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
    I really couldn't put up much of an argument to say that Black isn't PJ's best song. Ok, maybe the de-doo-doo... at the end is just a bit poppy. But still. All these years later, and I still love it every time I hear it.

    That said, my favorite song (by anyone) is Immortality. I'd also say that the quintessential, sound-defining, Pearl Jam song is either RVM or Corduroy.

    I always thought that "I got shit" was a very defining song too....
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