Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:51 pm Posts: 1251 Location: St. Paul - Minneapolis Gender: Male
I did a search for this and came up with nothing. Sorry if it is a repost of some sort.
I relistened to a number of the PJ records yesterday (Riot Act, Binaural, Yield). Some of them I hadn't listed to in their entirety for years. Riot Act is an example of that. I wanted to go back, listen to the whole record, kind of "rediscover" it, and rank the songs on the album. I know how I thought I would rank the songs, but when I actually listened to everything again, some songs I liked a lot more then I remember, and some songs I liked a lot less. Here is my new ranking of the songs of RIOT ACT.
1.You Are 2. I Am Mine 3. Bu$hleaguer 4. 1/2 Full 5. Can't Keep 6. ARC 7. All or None 8. Thumbing My Way 9. Love Boat Captain 10. Cropduster 11. Get Right 12. Save You 13. Ghost 14. Green Disease 15. Help, Help
I will be doing similar threads for Binaural and Yield for sure, and maybe for each of the albums. I found this a pretty enjoyable exercise.
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1 1/2 Full 2 Green Disease 3 Cropduster 4 All Or None 5 Cant Keep 6 Love Boat Captain 7 Save You 8 Bushleaguer 9 I Am Mine 10 Get Right 11 You Are 12 Thumbing My Way 13 Ghost 14 Help, Help 15 Arc
1.You Are 2. Green Disease (i dont know why i just do, ok!) 3. Can't Keep 4. 1/2 Full 5. All or None 6. ARC 7. I Am Mine 8. Thumbing My Way 9. Get Right 10. Help, Help 11. Save You 12. Bu$hleaguer 13. Love Boat Captain 14. Ghost 15. Cropduster
Joined: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:47 am Posts: 814 Location: Boston, MA
1. Green Disease 2. Ghost 3. 1/2 Full 4. Can't Keep 5. Cropduster 6. All Or None 7. Save You 8. Love Boat Captain 9. I Am Mine 10. You Are 11. Thumbing My Way 12. Help, Help 13. Arc 14. Bu$hleaguer 15. Get Right
1. All or None 2. Love Boat Captain 3. I Am Mine 4. Save You 5. You Are
Five amazing songs, as good as Pearl Jam can get. The problem with this record is that is covered with filler.
6. Can't Keep 7. 1/2 Full 8. Ghost 9. Help, Help 10.Green Disease These ones are very solid. Notable are 1/2 Full and Help, Help in the fact that they are infinitely better live.
11. Thumbing My Way 12. Cropduster 13. Arc 14. Bushleaguer 15. Get Right
Ranges from mediocre to downright embarrassing. A mixed bag for sure, but because of the top 5, still in the upper tier of PJ albums for me.
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1. Help Help 2. You Are 3. All Or None 4. Half Full 5. Can't Keep 6. Ghost 7. I Am Mine 8. Bushleaguer 9. Cropduster 10. Green Disease 11. Get Right 12. Save You 13. Thumbing My Way 14. LBC 15. Arc
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Joined: Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:55 am Posts: 1776 Location: New York, NY
1. All Or None 2. I Am Mine 3. Can't Keep 4. Save You 5. Cropduster 6. Thumbing My Way 7. 1/2 Full 8. Love Boat Captain 9. Ghost 10. HelpHelp 11. Bushleaguer 12. You Are 13. Get Right 14. Green Disease
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Can't Keep All or None Cropduster Ghost Thumbing My Way Get Right Half Full Help, Help Love Boat Captain I Am Mine Green Disease You Are Arc Save You Bushleaguer
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
1. I Am Mine 2. Save You 3. Can't Keep
These are all really good, and they'd be top tier on any PJ record.
4. You Are 5. 1/2 Full 6. Ghost 7. Arc
All pretty good
8. All or None 9. Help Help 10. Get Right 11. TMW 12. Cropduster
Decent--get right has horrendous lyrics but it's such a catchy little tune
The bottom of this record is fairly weak
13. Love Boat Captain 14. Green Disease 15. Bushleaguer
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Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
spenno wrote:
Do people really like Save You that much?
The music's alright but the lyrics are horrendously bad.
they're not great. It's a pretty good song but a terrific last verse and outro really push it up there for me
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Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:39 pm Posts: 1108 Gender: Male
All Or None 1/2 Full Bushleaguer Can't Keep Get Right Save You Help, Help I Am Mine Thumbing My Way Love Boat Captain Green Disease You Are Ghost Cropduster Arc
If Bushleaguer was less spoken word, more singing it might be number 2. I love the outro on it when played live.
1. You Are 2. Ghost 3. HelpHelp 4. Green Disease 5. 1/2 full 6. Bushleaguer 7. Get Right 8. Cropduster 9. LBC 10.Save You 11.I am Mine 12.Can't Keep 13. Arc 14. All or None 15. Thumbing my Way
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All or None You Are Can't Keep I Am Mine Help, Help Cropduster Thumbing My Way 1/2 Full Arc Save You Love Boat Captain Green Disease Bushleaguer Ghost Get Right
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