Lost Dogs - Imagine this as a single regular album release
Paul Andrews
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OK, time to get back to talking about Pearl Jam and music don't ya think! 
Of all the albums I find myself listening to Lost Dogs most. Maybe it is partly because I never hear any of these songs anywhere else but most likely because it is such a solid record. I admit i skip the odd song but it is a great listen - so good when you score one of these songs live. So far I've clocked up 10 of them. Hope to get 'Undone' some day. We scored 'You' in Perth in 2006 was awesome - they were on fire that night - RVM on LO10L proves that.
It got me thinking, what if they'd put this out as a regular single album release. Drop the 'b-sides and rarities' label (that for most bands just means: the shit that wasn't good enough to go on an album) and marketed it as a regular release.
How would this go if it was released today:
Side 1
Sad
Down
Alone
Education
You
Black, Red, Yellow
Side 2
Brother
Undone
Hold On
Don't Gimme No Lip
Dead Man
Hard To Imagine
Would that album be held in the same regard as the rest, what rank would you give it - better than what but not as good as?
Of all the albums I find myself listening to Lost Dogs most. Maybe it is partly because I never hear any of these songs anywhere else but most likely because it is such a solid record. I admit i skip the odd song but it is a great listen - so good when you score one of these songs live. So far I've clocked up 10 of them. Hope to get 'Undone' some day. We scored 'You' in Perth in 2006 was awesome - they were on fire that night - RVM on LO10L proves that.
It got me thinking, what if they'd put this out as a regular single album release. Drop the 'b-sides and rarities' label (that for most bands just means: the shit that wasn't good enough to go on an album) and marketed it as a regular release.
How would this go if it was released today:
Side 1
Sad
Down
Alone
Education
You
Black, Red, Yellow
Side 2
Brother
Undone
Hold On
Don't Gimme No Lip
Dead Man
Hard To Imagine
Would that album be held in the same regard as the rest, what rank would you give it - better than what but not as good as?
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You know I agonized over 'Fatal" and "Strangest Tribe" but given the mellow end to side b , it, along with a couple of others didn't make the cut.
Also I thought it could survive as a rarity and still get love. Maybe they were left for the next album. If 'Yellow Ledbetter' has scored official lyrics, that's be on there too.
To tell you the truth, that's how "Don't Gimme No Lip" Survived the cut - I needed an up tempo song.
Having said that there are plenty of songs that did make albums that I don't understand either, so if this had been an album I probably wouldn't have thought twice about it.
As for whether or not this would be held in the same regard, depends on who you're talking about. Some of the actual studio albums aren't held in too high regard by some. Some people might hold it in the same regard as Riot Act or Backspacer, but those people might be the same ones that use those albums as coasters.
7 out of those 12 had already been released as B-sides or on other compilations. I would have felt that only getting 5 new songs was a real cash grab more than anything else. I like it the way it is...only song I never really listen to is Sweet Lew.
I think we're supposed to be pretending these songs were released for the first time on this hypothetical album.
Thanks Satan, you beat me to it
I can't speak for everyone, but if that were the tracklisting for a new Pearl Jam album, and those were all songs we'd never heard before, I'd probably say that it seemed to lack any real focus, and that the middle (U/Black, Red, and Yellow, and Brother) was my least favorite stretch of songs on any Pearl Jam album. It'd probably be my second to least favorite album (ahead of only Backspacer). While some of the songs from different eras mentioned above could conceivably exist on the same album (specifically the Binaural and Riot Act outtakes), I couldn't see most of them coexisting.
Side A.
Hard To Imagine
All Night
Sad
In The Moonlight
Hold On
Other Side
Side B.
Wash
Brother
Alone
Education
Fatal
Strangest Tribe
I'd have Still Here and Footsteps as hidden tracks on the CD. UK version of course!
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