Its summer time, and I have baseball on the brain. So, I was thinking...what would my Pearl Jam baseball lineup be (1-8 ) if I had only the 8 studio albums to choose from, I couldn't pick any album twice, and the 9th place hitter was any song off of Lost Dogs. So for instance, for the leadoff song, i can choose any of the first songs off the first 8 albums. The cleanup song would have to be any of the 4th songs off any of the 8 albums.

So my choices are for leadoff are:

once
go
last exit
sometimes
brain of j
breakerfall
can't keep
life wasted

Lets say i pick 'Brain of J'. I can't then pick any other song off of Yield.

Giving those rules, this would be my lineup.

1. Brain of J
2. Save You
3. Comatose
4. In My Tree
5. Nothingman
6. Thin Air
7. Blood
8. Porch
9. Yellow Ledbetter

Now you try

Interesting concept.

1. Life Wasted
2. Spin the Black Circle
3. Alive
4. In My Tree
5. Dissident
6. Thin Air
7. Do The Evolution
8. You Are
9. Hard To Imagine

1. Last Exit
2. Comatose
3. Do The Evolution
4. In My Tree
5. Porch
6. Blood
7. 1/2 Full
8. Insignificance
9. Sad

Wrong... read the rules carefully.

You can only choose 1 song per album... and the slot on the team has to be a track that's the same number on it's album

Therefore, for the #2 slot, you can only choose "track #2" songs. So Comatose wouldn't work, since it's track #3 on Avocado.

i guess i have to ump this thing also. purex you forgot the chronological order part of the game.

ex DTE is the 7th song on yield, therefore it can only be eligible for the 7th place in your lineup.

i sorta like yours more than mine.

Why thank you. I think Evolution seems a little out of place though sandwiched in between the calmer stuff.

This is actually a pretty neat idea, even if it's been done already (it may not have been - there have just been so many PJ list threads in this forum that I lose track).

Mine would go:

1. Can't Keep (meaning this song gets on base a lot)
2. Faithfull (is willing to make a SF fly to advance the runner)
3. Who You Are (the fun-loving guy who's there when you need him)
4. Given to Fly (how can you not take this song for the clean-up spot?)
5. Nothing As It Seems (the big dude who can hit the ball a mile)
6. Thin Air (he plays for the Rockies)
7. Do the Evolution (he may be in the bottom third of the line-up, but still does something)
8. Of the Girl (this damn guy is too distracted to hit well)
9. Dirty Frank (a pitcher needs to play dirty to get a hit)

1. Last Exit
2. Animal
3. Alive
4. In My Tree
5, Black
6. I Am Mine
7. Do the Evolution
8. Corduroy
9. Sad

1.Can't keep
2.Faithfull
3.Alive
4.In my tree
5.Nothingman
6.Parachutes
7.Insignificance
8.Rearviewmirror
9.Undone

This is just based on my personal favorites, not necessarily going for coherence as an album

1-Last Exit
2-World Wide Suicide
3-Alive
4-Given To Fly
5-Black
6-I Am Mine
7-Do the Evolution
8-Corduroy
9-Yellow Lebetter

Actually, looking at this it makes a pretty excellent record

only one per album.

um for me this is tough, so i'll just make some shit up.

1. Last Exit
2. Gods Dice
3. LBC
4. In My Tree
5. Black
6. Parachutes
7. Do the Evolution
8. Rearviewmirror
9. Yellow Ledbetter

as i look at that, I think I have too many slow songs in the middle, especially Black-Parachutes. Well I'll look at it later.

01. Last Exit
02. World Wide Suicide
03. Alive
04. Given To Fly
05. Dissident
06. I Am Mine
07. Insignificance
08. Red Mosquito
09. Yellow Lebetter

a little weird...

life wasted
gods' dice
not for you
in my tree
ghost
wma
oceans
untitled (the color red)
in the moonlight

all of them are favourites, except the color red hehe, rules are rules.
just 9 songs, very short to be an album, half hour of music.

yeah...I tried to double it to make a 18 song cd and it's impossible...not being able to choose any song after 8 on a album makes it real tough...

Well I suck...

Attempt two

1-Last Exit
2-World Wide Suicide
3-Alive
4-Given To Fly
5-Smile
6-I Am Mine
7-Insignificance
8-Rearview Mirror
9-Yellow Lebetter

this was tough...

we came really close to the same team

1. Life Wasted
2. Hail, Hail
3. Not For You
4. Given to Fly
5. Black
6. Thin Air
7. Thumbing My Way
8. Rearviewmirror
9. Yellow Ledbetter

01. Once
02. Hail, Hail
03. Daughter
04. Tremor Christ
05. Marker In The Sand
06. I Am Mine
07. Do The Evolution
08. Of The Girl
09. Strangest Tribe

i like it.

edit: love it

frank you never sease to amaze me


mine would be like this:

Sometimes (just need to get on base)
Animal (get the crowd into it)
Alive (homerun potential, reliable if you need a hit)
Given to Fly (song goes the distance)
Smile (you'd pick Black if it weren't so reliable)
Parachutes (cultivate the fresh talent in the back of the lineup)
Insignificance (something that can drive in anyone on base)
Rearviewmirror (this would be your all-around great fielder and hitter)
Yellow Ledbetter (because the rest of Lost Dogs were outtakes or b-sides)