Worst Pearl Jam song ever....

Gern Blansten said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

can't keep i probably resonate with more on the ev version, simply because i listen to uke songs way more than i listen to riot act. i really should change that. sorry mcgruff, RA is a fantastic record. 

It really is...I rediscovered it a few years ago.  Cropduster and Half Full blow me away

It's an amazing album. I love it so much.

mcgruff10 said:

PJNB said:

Parting Ways has been played 7 times in the last 13 years. That is less than 3% of the shows. SBM is played at 20% of the shows in the last 5 years. That is why I hate SBM  

Parting ways is amazing live and need to be played every other show. 

Yes!!!

Gern Blansten said:

So anyway....worst songs have to be The End and Future Days....just jump off the roof bad

Yeah, those are bad.

ledvedderman said:

I don’t get the hate for The End. I really don’t. I think it’s a beautiful tune. Heartbreaking lyrically, actually. Maybe it’s a better Ed solo song, but it’s still a good song. 

I agree with what you've posted above but it's just too darn sad to like too much.

I just love angry ed on the cowbell. Get s him all fired up. And us

Ok, so I am hijacking this thread because of the Can't Keep and uke references.

One of my all time favorite shows is Ottawa 9.16.2005 - I was able to go to both Ottawa and Montreal on that tour, I had to kids below age 5 at home, so able is the operative word.

My brother who has been fortunate enough to tag along to some epic PJ shows (Randalls, both nights, MSG 2 98, Jones Beach 3 2000) came with me on this trip.  I told him no trying to bring pot across the border.   He complied.   

And yet somehow in Montreal, he met a new age rastafarian in the ballroom and between Sleater Kinney and PJs sets.  Montreal show was pretty great and I was revved up for Ottawa.

Knowing that the Arena was outside of the city, I figured we would head down to pick up 10C tickets and then head back to the city for some lunch and beer etc.

We get to the parking lot and it absolutely down pours, deluge, for at minimum an hour and continues to just rain all day.  So we are stuck in the car can't even tailgate with anyone.   He starts lighting up and says, you should really try this, it is really good.  And it was, body and mind numbing.

After about an hour the rain just becomes regular so I say lets go pick up the tickets. We stumble inside the arena, hang a little and just try to get our barrings.  And I am very very relaxed as you can imagine.  And I hear this somewhat faint but audible music.  And it is like twangy guitar and I am thinking this is familiar.  And we are just sitting there talking and I am like oh wow cool, someone is playing the bootleg of Ed's Wiltern Theater performance from 2002.  And we got our tickets and I am saying to myself this is really neat as You're True finishes up and I start to hear sort of a weird transition and the progression of Can't keep begins and I am like, that is wrong he played Can't Keep before You're True...

And slowly it becomes apparent to me that Ed is soundchecking with his Uke.  He finished up Can't Keep and then did an instrumental run through Broken Hearted.  Fortunately for surprise sake their was a gap before the band joined to soundcheck and we excited before they did Wash and Lip.   I was much less out there by the time the show began later that night.

But thank you Rasta Montreal bathroom guy from 2005, you had some stellar stuff.