Pick a "Best of Pearl Jam" track list

nustang70
nustang70 Posts: 14
edited July 2008 in The Porch
40 years down the road, some kid will want to take a break from his/her contemporary audio-visual-olfactory music and delve into "classic rock;" you need to choose ten songs to be on a greatest hits album for Pearl Jam, a track list that will inspire timeless interest.

I've made top-ten lists for other bands before, but I've always abstained from doing it for Pearl Jam because I don't want to listen to just ten songs. Anyway, this shouldn't really be your personal top-ten, it should be a greatest hits collection as determined by you. And please don't post something stupid like "all of Yield," (although I am sure someone will, because they are either stubbornly foolish or simply antagonistic).

So here I go: (these are not in a particular order)

1. Alive
2. Jeremy
3. Black
4. Daughter
5. Corduroy
6. Do the Evolution
7. Given to Fly
8. Evenflow
9. Go
10. Rearviewmirror

...that was as difficult as i figured it would be.
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  • clark_kent
    clark_kent Posts: 166
    i've thought about this before... like what the millenium collection (those crappy 10 song best ofs) would look like for pearl jam.

    1. black
    2. alive
    3. even flow
    4. jeremy
    5. daughter
    6. betterman
    7. corduroy
    8. given to fly
    9. world wide suicide
    10. last kiss
    11. yellow ledbetter

    maybe sub elderly woman for given to fly or world wide suicide.
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  • raszputini
    raszputini Posts: 119
    There's no way it can be only 10. Albums are bigger now. I'll keep it to 13. This would fit on a CD and leave plenty o' room :). But we all know that in reality it would need to be a double CD or a box set

    1. Release
    2. Alive
    3. Leash
    4. rearviewmirror
    5. Daughter
    6. Even Flow
    7. Corduroy
    8. Red Mosquito
    9. Betterman
    10. Elderly Woman
    11. Given To Fly
    12. Black
    13. Immortality
  • nustang70
    nustang70 Posts: 14
    Ten songs only, guys. I realize it is difficult, but the point is to be succinct.
    "Is not Life miserable enough, comes not Death soon enough, without resort to the hideous enginery of War?"
    Horace Greeley
  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    1-Faithfull
    2-I Got Shit
    3-Red Mosquito
    4-Deep
    5-Rival
    6-Tremor Christ
    7-Severed Hand
    8-Black, Red, Yellow
    9-All Night
    10-Low Light
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    clark_kent wrote:
    i've thought about this before... like what the millenium collection (those crappy 10 song best ofs) would look like for pearl jam.

    1. black
    2. alive
    3. even flow
    4. jeremy
    5. daughter
    6. betterman
    7. corduroy
    8. given to fly
    9. world wide suicide
    10. last kiss
    11. yellow ledbetter

    maybe sub elderly woman for given to fly or world wide suicide.

    oh clark...take last kiss off that list.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    1. Rearviewmirror
    2. Why Go
    3. Better Man
    4. Lukin
    5. Hail, Hail
    6. Do The Evolution
    7. Nothing As It Seems
    8. You Are
    9. Elderly Woman
    10. State of Love and Trust
    Thanks EPOTTSIII!
    "Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
    424, xxx
  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    1. Release
    2. In my tree
    3. Tremor Christ
    4. Light Years
    5. No Way
    6. Immortality
    7. Not For You
    8. Inside Job
    9. Black
    10. Corduroy

    Hidden track – red mosquito
    Take me for a ride before we leave...
  • CopTheRiotAct
    CopTheRiotAct Posts: 953
    1. Corduroy - live
    2. Even Flow
    3. Rearviewmirror
    4. Betterman
    5. In My Tree
    6. Given to fly
    7. Nothing as it seems
    8. I am mine
    9. Severed hand
    10. Alive
    ...The Moon is Rollin' Round....
  • Trailer
    Trailer Posts: 1,431
    Release
    Why Go
    Sometimes
    Hard to Imagine
    Go
    Not For You
    Alive
    Nothing As It Seems
    Breath
    Smile

    ... all live
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • InMyTree4
    InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    Avacado
    Riot Act
    Binaural
    Yeild
    No Code
    Vitology
    Versus
    Ten
    Lost Dogs
    Benoroya

    does that count?:)
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    10/30/09.10/31/09.5/17/10.9/7/11
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  • Faithfultoyou
    Faithfultoyou Posts: 40
    1)State of Love and Trust
    2)Porch
    3)Rats
    4)Tremor Christ
    5)Hail, Hail
    6)Faithful
    7)In Hiding (Yield gets 2, because....well it's fucking YIELD)
    8)Light Years
    9)Bushleager
    10)Comatose
    not that these are the best songs per album, it's a diverse list and will have some historcial significance.
  • thecory
    thecory Posts: 290
    1.alive
    2.jeremy
    3.daughter
    4.rvm
    5.corduroy
    6.betterman
    7. i got shit
    8.hail hail
    9.evolution
    10. save you
  • finnannie
    finnannie Posts: 1,186
    1. Rearviewmirror
    2. Save You
    3. Immortality
    4. Black
    5. Off he goes
    6. Gone
    7. Alive
    8. Indifference
    9. Release
    10. Yellow Ledbetter
    Won't let the light escape from me.
    Won't let the darkness swallow me.
  • prince119
    prince119 Posts: 104
    "I've made top-ten lists for other bands before, but I've always abstained from doing it for Pearl Jam because I don't want to listen to just ten songs. Anyway, this shouldn't really be your personal top-ten, it should be a greatest hits collection as determined by you."

    Since the "assignment" called for "Anyway, this shouldn't really be your personal top-ten, it should be a greatest hits collection as determined by you.

    Here is my list as if I were a record exec.

    1) Animal
    2) Evenflow
    3) Jeremy
    4) Given To Fly
    5) Better Man
    6) Black
    7) State of Love and Trust
    8) World Wide Suicide
    9) Do The Evolution
    10) Alive
  • TT98
    TT98 Posts: 137
    Porch
    Immortality
    Indifference
    Alive
    Save You
    Footsteps
    Sad
    State Of Love And Trust
    Brain Of J
    Garden

    about 20 others that can fit into there it just depends on what mood I am in.
  • Rjonesrm20
    Rjonesrm20 Posts: 380
    M.G wrote:
    1. Release
    2. In my tree
    3. Tremor Christ
    4. Light Years
    5. No Way
    6. Immortality
    7. Not For You
    8. Inside Job
    9. Black
    10. Corduroy

    Hidden track – red mosquito


    this is mine as well....exactly!!!
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