Waiting For Stevie

Top tier:  React / Respond, Got To Give, Setting Sun, Waiting For Stevie, Won't Tell, Dark Matter
Mid tier:  Wreckage, Scared Of Fear, Running, Upper Hand,
Low tier:  Something Special

MikeDigs said:

BF25394 said:

MikeDigs said:

Dr. Stip Zoidberg said:

This is a top 10 catalog song for me. It's pushing top 5.

It really is a top tier song in the catalog.  I was lucky to see this song live three times this year.  Absolutely LOVE it.

Mileage varies. For me, it's a bottom-tier song on Dark Matter.

I'd be interested to see your tiers for Dark Matter.

For me, it goes:

Top tier:  React / Respond, Running, Got To Give, Setting Sun, Waiting For Stevie
Mid tier:  Upper Hand, Dark Matter, Scared Of Fear, Won't Tell, Something Special
Low tier:  Wreckage

But... I never skip Wreckage when I listen to the album, because all of the tracks uplift each other.  That's a magical a beauty of the Dark Matter album.

Probably something like (and please bear in mind that I think this is a truly great album, there are no bad songs here-- I'm grouping them into tiers for purposes of this request, but the middle tier would be the best songs on 75 percent of other albums, and the bottom tier would be the best songs on 50 percent of other albums):

Top: 

"Wreckage"
"Got To Give"
"Scared of Fear"
"Won't Tell"

Middle:

"Setting Sun"
"React, Respond"
"Dark Matter"
"Upper Hand"

Bottom:

"Running"
"Something Special"
"Waiting for Stevie"

(I tried to put an equal number of songs in each tier to the extent that it is possible to do that with eleven songs and three tiers. If I were doing it like you did, I'd probably move "Setting Sun" and "React, Respond" up to the top tier and "Running" to the middle tier, so there would be six in the top tier, three in the middle tier and two in the bottom tier.)

demetrios said:

Pearl Jam - Waiting For Stevie LIVE in Melbourne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQd9DXBhPY

So happy to hear this at Melbourne 2. Didn’t quite get the crowd reaction I was hoping for, it was a good reaction, but not great. Just re-watched the clip and it RIPS! 

BrainofBGA said:

I know this is the Waiting for Stevie thread but really happy to see React, Respond in some
people’s top tier. That song, like Stevie, absolutely rips!!!

React/Respond took me the longest to appreciate. I even skipped it a few times in the beginning. Took me several months before it clicked. 
Love the Chili Peppers vibe! And to stay on topic: WFS is epic! 

Shaindli1 said:

TBH, Got to Give replaced Stevie as top DM track for me.

I kind of always preferred GTG/Won't Tell/Setting Sun over Stevie. I like it...just not one of my top favorites

We're driving around Montreal on vaca last week and listening to Canada's best radio music station, CHOM 97.7 - https://www.chom.com/ - and one of the DJs introducing Waiting for Stevie by saying Dark Matter is perhaps the best PJ album in 25 years. I'd say maybe 20 years. Anyway, it seems WFS is in high rotation there because we heard it more than once in the week we were there.

Definitely their best song since Quick Escape.

what a long, slow burn.  But such a phenomenal song. This is a top 5 catalog highlight for me.