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

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  • Mercuryskitten
    Mercuryskitten Posts: 1
    Tough question....

    For me:

    Light Years - It represents to me the open, puzzled feeling you have when you lose someone...you can understand so many things, "but how could you be taken away"

    Rearviewmirror - I remember breaking up with a guy who used me horribly and literally leaving town ....driving away blaring this song. I felt so powerful! Like fuck you, dude!

    State of Love and Trust/Save You/Crazy Mary'/Lukin - I just love these all.

    For sheer power of vocals and making a statement - Masters of War....WOW!
    Shannon
  • I am mine
    I am mine Posts: 29
    My three fav PJ songs of All Time are:

    1. EVENFLOW
    2. Porch
    3. I got Shit

    Numbers 1 and 2 are definite forever. Number 3 is different everyday. EVENFLOW and PORCH just both give me soooo much energy. I cannot sit still when i hear those songs. EVENFLOW picks me up when i'm down and it makes me even more happy when i'm already happy. PORCH is just a great sing along, especially live. Sooo much energy, i especially love the:"Hear my name, take a good look....this could be the day!! Hold my hand...." part!
    I got shit is a song from which i like the album version better than the live version. It just gives me chills. Other number 3's could have been: Black, I am mine, Save you, In hiding..... and so on.
    To the universe, I don't mean a thing, but there is just one word I still believe and it's .....LOVE!

    Proud EVENFLOW PSYCHO member #0021.....WWWWAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Flying2Give
    Flying2Give Posts: 16
    Given To Fly - don't really know what it's about but it's a fucking sensationally written song and is very attrective to listen to.

    Parting Ways - very sad, very touching, easy to relate to, about breaking up I suppose, everyone breaks up.

    Immortality - I like this one lyrically because I believe religion is evil as well.
    All I want is the truth.
  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    Do the Evolution
    Blood
    MFC
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  • nevmiles
    nevmiles Ottawa, ON Posts: 1,363
    Tough question. Picking only three is really hard . . . buuuuuut I think I can do it . . .

    1) Black - album version is wonderful. Also great live (at least the pre-2003 versions). Fantastic when sung with emotion. Best part is from the "...and twisted thoughts that spin 'round my head..." line and on. I also LOVE the "tatooed all I see . . ALL THAT IIIIIIII AAAAM . . . ALL I'll BEEEEEEEE, YEEEEAHHHH!" part. Gives me chills.

    2) Corduroy - another song that is great live. I think it's the best song to open with; the way it builds and explodes with the ever-so-perfect-concert-starting line of: "the waiting drove me mad, you're finally here and I'm a mess" Isn't that how we all feel at a concert? Mikeys solos also help to make it my favourite song to hear live.

    3) Breath - the studio version is fantastic. I can't quite explain it, but every time I listen to it I can't help but feel really happy. The tempo, the intensity . . . everything just makes me feel great inside when I hear the song.
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  • naiveink
    naiveink Posts: 1
    It seems only fair that, if we must choose three among the whole catalog, that there should be one Ed lyric, one Jeff lyric and one Stone lyric ...

    In My Tree

    Low Light

    All Those Yesterdays


    Damn, that was really hard
    Your disciples are riddled with metaphors ...
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,254
    You want our three favorite?

    Probably...(at the moment) YL, Even Flow (radio version), and Betterman
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  • fsu2626
    fsu2626 Posts: 397
    a poet wrote:
    Daughter....Because it hits home for me, It such a BIG way....
    Last Exit.....Some of ED's best lyrics(my opinion)
    Boy this is harder then I thought......

    ummm...Wishlist...Pure Poetry

    wasn't last exit named something else before vitalogy came out?
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  • Blyss
    Blyss Posts: 166
    Chris Sabo wrote:
    I dont mean to be rude, but i'm sure ill sound that way, but you need to listen to more pj songs than just the ones on the greatest hits.
    My top 3:
    Immortality
    Untitled
    Present Tense

    I can see where you are coming from that PJ have greater songs then the ones on the greatest hits collection and i know that but that said I think you are being harsh because the Greatest Hits cd has something like 33 songs...so i think it actually covers a great deal of PJ's work.

    anyway...
    Oceans
    Black
    Jeremy/Given To Fly

    I don't actually know that I believe it's their best either, just what I can relate to/ feel the most.
  • STXLAX
    STXLAX Posts: 46
    Footsteps- So much emotion...I'm not even going to try and explain this one

    Release

    Nothingman


    A 3 highly emotional songs. I think Pearl Jam's best songs are the emotionally charged ones.
    "And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
    -Nietzsche

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  • Champagne
    Champagne Posts: 1
    That will be Black , Porch and All Or None all in the live versions.......
  • nailz100
    nailz100 Posts: 1,176
    I can't do it captain....I don't have the power!

    I can't just pick 3....Fuk dat
    Only with our eyes closed can we truly see
  • DPrecisionist05
    DPrecisionist05 Posts: 61
    Snce I started this thread, allow me to comment in a tangent way,
    It's been pretty cool witnessing the evolution of this Band.
    I mean if you think of your 3 favorite songs..how many can say..while they could relate to some of the down stuff, that they dont become enraptured with it anymore...like Indifference, Nothingman,..I got ID,
    some of these songs are like lessons on what not to do...
    Anyway Im happy to say the band's evolution has seemingly paralleled my life,
    I feel like in some small way Im traveling this congruent road with PJ, maybe its the age similarity, but it's cool to see less anger in their music, the angst of youth, while not losing a bit of passion...
    Refined passion ...wisdom..rock on.... "It's growing up just like me!"

    Cant wait for the next album .
  • whoYOUare
    whoYOUare Posts: 274
    Who You Are - i have told the story so many times... im real lazy now so ima just move on and say "look at my name"

    Oceans - it was the first song i saw the boys play live

    Parting Ways, Driftin, Soon Forget, Indifference, In Hiding, In My Tree, Present Tense, Nothing as it Seems... ok so there are more than three on the list, but the last eight are pretty much the same in that they are all very relevant to me as a person and speak to me in a way that a lot of other songs dont. beautifully writen and wonderful to listen to.

    altho i have to admit my favoties change almost daily (sometimes hourly) so these songs will most often appear high on the list, with songs like Rats, and Last Exit, Yellow Ledbetter, State of Love and Trust, Leaving Here also making the list... its a lagit tough question this was
    peace
  • RVM86
    RVM86 Posts: 76
    Well, I absolutely can't pick three cause I have soooo many!! But here's just a few of my favorites:

    Off He Goes
    Rearview Mirror
    Black
    Not For You
    Faithfull
    Nothing As It Seems
    Sad
    Ah, there's so many more. I think it's a sin to have just one favorite Pearl Jam song.
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  • PJ Party
    PJ Party Posts: 16
    1. Footsteps
    2. State of Love and Trust
    3. Yellow Ledbetter

    etc...etc...etc...
  • PHATJ
    PHATJ Posts: 348
    Release
    Slight of hand
    Leash
    You Are
    Hard to Imagine


    Sorry. Had to do five today.
    "I'll Ride the wave where it takes me. I'll Hold the pain. RELEASE ME!"

  • Mattbillz
    Mattbillz Posts: 64
    Jeremy
    Leash
    Everything else tied for 3rd.
  • u2mofo@u2.com
    u2mofo@u2.com Posts: 43
    1. Present Tense - it changed my life... Listen to it.. Believe it and it can change yours too... See my signature!

    2. Off He Goes - beautiful lyrics and it's the type of song that makes Pearl Jam stand apart from the rest. For some reason it brings a tear to my eye as so many of their songs do... i.e... Given To Fly, Black, Release, Indifference, Light Years...

    3. Wishlist - Great music, great lyrics - probably my single favorite song of all time!
    Live and let live
    That's what I always say
    Anyone who can't understand that should be killed

    -George Carlin
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    not too creative but here you go

    1. Alive. 100% pure adrenalin. probably the only song that i never get tired of. i could put it on repeat and just listen to it over and over forever.

    2. Not for You. Eddie is just plain angry in that one

    3. Corduroy, RVM, MFC, Ledbetter, Lukin, In my tree, and about a dozen others.

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