TOP 3 P J SONGS of ALL-TIME & Why !

rvm - because of the "jam" they do in the middle when they play it live. it's all 5 of them playing, and it's an early eddie song that they can do better every tour.

black - partly because it's the best song on their biggest selling album. everyone owns it. everyone loves it.

given to fly - because it's a "given".

Porch & I got shit - It's like me singing that lyrics

Corduroy - My favorite ever, this song made me a fan

Ledbetter: The most beautiful music ever written
Indifference: The most poetic and gut wrenchingly true lyrics ever written
Black: ...Shit, who doesn't?

They are my three at the momment. The first two are constants, but three changes all the time...yeah, I'm a wierd one!

1. indifference
it's a very depressing but beautiful song, makes me sad every time i hear it, especially ed's howling and the words:
"i will stand arms outstreched, pretend i'm free to roam,
i will make my way through one more they in hell."
"i will hold the candle till it burns up my arm,
i'll keep taking punches until their will grows tired."

2. wash -the european bonus track version on ten, makes me terribly emotional, the feeling of a downpour, or waves in the ocean. feeling of cleansing and rebirth.
"oh please let it rain today,
this city's so filthy like my mind in ways,
oh it was the time, like a clean new taste,
smiling eyes before me and tears from my face."

3. i have a hard time choosing the third one, several options
- garden: it's just plain beautiful
- can't keep: because of the lyrics
- w.m.a.: because of its raw energy
- and finally the different live versions of daughter, especially the madison square garden one with ben harper and the one on live on two legs

and there are still so many more that i love, it's really a tough thread!

this is not hard for me. although i have all the pearl jam reconds even the bootlegs. my top 3 are simple:

3) light years ( when i first heard this song i played it 32 in arow and still listen to it every day)

2) (imo, the key to happiness) comes from thumbing my way. (all the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives choosing the shiny ones instead)

1) and finally number one is: Long road. (there is no point in saying why, if you heard it you would know why)

Picking a top three is like picking your favorite child... but here goes...

3) Breathe- one of the most powerful and lovely songs from the Singles soundtrack, went away for a while, thank God it's back.

2) Drifting- There's just something about this song that I love. I play it over and over.

1)Yellow Ledbetter- I know it's kind of cliche, but it doesn't change the fact that this was my first PJ love, and it remains all these years later.

i'm so light i hold just one breath and go back to my nest
sleep with innocence...
up here so high the boughs they break
up here so high the sky i scrape
had my eyes peeled both wide open, and i got a glimpse
of my innocence... got back my inner sense...

Present Tense
Indifference
All Those Yesterdays
Oceans
All or None
Immortality
Sleight of Hand
The Whale Song
You Are
Given2Fly

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privatejoker22 wrote:

I love this song too, the version off the Dead Man Walking soundtrack is the coolest.

i now a bought the whoel cd for the two songs that eddie sings. have you heard the 9-11 version. it is also great with Neil Young.

get it

blood- this is just an amazing song

Given to fly- I love this song, I love the vibe of this song

evenflow-I know this is a common PJ song, one of the few that you will still hear on the radio but its an awesome song. The riffs and solos on this song are mind blowing.