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I think ranking each of Pearl Jam's songs starting with each studio album (and then B-sides, etc.) could be fun. At least it will be an enjoyable exercise for me! I am going to use the 5 Star rating system (5 Stars = Classic Song, 4=Great song, 3=Good, 2=Average, 1=Bad, 0=Complete pile of shit waste). This may give me a fresh perspective on PJ's music as a collection of songs, and may help me see more clearly which albums I truly prefer. Here's to good listening.
TEN
Release 5/5 Black 5/5 Jeremy 5/5 Even Flow 4.5/5 Alive 4.5/5 Oceans 4/5 Why Go 3.5/5 Porch 3.5/5 Deep 3/5 Once 3/5 Garden 2.5/5
Corduroy 5/5 Last Exit 4.5/5 Not For You 4/5 Tremor Christ 4/5 Immortality 4/5 Nothingman 4/5 Satan's Bed 3.5/5 Better Man 3.5/5 Spin the Black Circle 2.5/5 Aye Davanita 2/5 Whipping 1.5/5 Bugs 1.5/5 Pry, To 1/5 Stupid Mop 0/5
No Code
Red Mosquito 4.5/5 In My Tree 4.5/5 Present Tense 4.5/5 Smile 3.5/5 Who You Are 3.5/5 Hail, Hail 3.5/5 Lukin 3/5 Off He Goes 3/5 Around the Bend 2.5/5 Sometimes 2/5 I'm Open 2/5 Mankind 1/5 Habit 1/5
Yield
Do the Evolution 5/5 Given To Fly 5/5 Faithful 4.5/5 In Hiding 4/5 All Those Yesterdays 3.5/5 MFC 3.5/5 No Way 3.5/5 Low Light 3/5 Brain of J. 3/5 Push Me, Pull Me 3/5 Wishlist 2/5 Pilate 1.5/5 Color Red 0.5/5
Binaural
Sleight of Hand 5/5 Of the Girl 3.5/5 Breakerfall 3.5/5 Rival 3.5/5 Grievance 3/5 Nothing As It Seems 3/5 Insignificance 3/5 Parting Ways 3/5 Light Years 2/5 Soon Forget 2/5 Thin Air 2/5 God's Dice 1/5 Evacuation 1/5
Riot Act
You Are 4.5/5 I Am Mine 4/5 Arc 3.5/5 Bu$hleager 3.5/5 Love Boat Captain 3/5 Can't Keep 3/5 Cropduster 3/5 Thumbing My Way 2.5/5 1/2 Full 2/5 Save You 2/5 All or None 1.5/5 Ghost 1.5/5 Green Disease 1/5 Help, Help 1/5 Get Right 0.5/5
Pearl Jam
Army Reserve 4/5 Gone 4/5 Marker in the Sand 4/5 Life Wasted 4/5 Come Back 4/5 Unemployable 3.5/5 Severed Hand 3/5 World Wide Suicide 3/5 Wasted Reprise 3/5 Inside Job 2/5 Parachutes 2/5 Comatose 1/5 Big Wave 1/5
Backspacer
Amongst the Waves 4/5 Johnny Guitar 4/5 Unthought Known 4/5 The End 3.5/5 The Fixer 3/5 Got Some 3/5 Just Breathe 3/5 Speed of Sound 2.5/5 Gonna See My Friend 2.5/5 Force of Nature 2/5 Supersonic 1/5
Miscellaneous:
Yellow Ledbetter 4.5/5 Hard to Imagine 4.5/5 I Got ID 4.5/5 Long Road 4/5 In The Moonlight 4/5 Drifting 4/5 Wash 4/5 Sad 4/5 Education 4/5 Strangest Tribe 3.5/5 Footsteps 3.5/5 Hold On 3/5 Fatal 3/5 Down 3/5 Dead Man 3/5 Leatherman 3/5 Undone 2.5/5 Alone 2.5/5 Let Me Sleep 2/5 Leaving Here 2/5 U 2/5 Dirty Frank 2/5 All Night 2/5 Black, Red, Yellow 2/5 Brother 2/5 Bee Girl 1.5/5 Other Side 1.5/5 Hitchhiker 1.5/5 Whale Song 1/5 Don't Gimme No Lip 1/5 Gremmie Out of Control 0.5/5 Sweet Lew 0/5 Last Kiss 0/5
More B-Sides and others to come later...
Last edited by PHATJ on Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:41 am, edited 3 times in total.
Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:10 am
Ghostasauros
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:51 pm Posts: 1251 Location: St. Paul - Minneapolis Gender: Male
cutuphalfdead wrote:
You're saying Amongst The Waves is just as good as In My Tree?
Maybe not to you, and it certainly isn't nearly as good live, but on the album I love Amongst the Waves. It was my favorite song on Backspacer after first listen and still is. In My Tree in concert is one of PJ's best songs for sure.
Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:24 am
Red Mosquito, my libido
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I wasn't saying it to be a dick. I've just fallen into the trap before when assigning 1-5 rankings and then looking at the songs with the same scores and going "wait, that can't be right".
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Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:35 am
Ghostasauros
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:51 pm Posts: 1251 Location: St. Paul - Minneapolis Gender: Male
cutuphalfdead wrote:
I wasn't saying it to be a dick. I've just fallen into the trap before when assigning 1-5 rankings and then looking at the songs with the same scores and going "wait, that can't be right".
I can appreciate that for sure. I was tempted to give .25 and .75 grades instead of just full and half grades to further differentiate the songs. It is easy to get lost in such a large collection and have that "wait, I just ranked Song A equally with Song B, what the fuck?" thing happen. There are certainly some 4 star songs I favor over other 4 star songs. In the by the album separations, the first song rated with a specific number qualifies ahead of the next song with the same ranking. An Example: I prefer Last Exit over Not For You but I ranked each song 4 stars.
Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:40 pm
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i feel like we may have this thread already
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Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:07 pm
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we have nothing quite like this
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Corduroy 5/5 Last Exit 5/5 Not For You 4/5 Tremor Christ 4/5 Immortality 5/5 Nothingman 4/5 Satan's Bed 4/5 Better Man 5/5 Spin the Black Circle 3/5 Aye Davanita 2/5 Whipping 3/5 Bugs 2/5 Pry, To N/A Stupid Mop N/A
No Code
Red Mosquito 4/5 In My Tree 4/5 Present Tense 4/5 Smile 3/5 Who You Are 3/5 Hail, Hail 3.5/5 Lukin 2/5 Off He Goes 1.5/5 Around the Bend 2/5 Sometimes 2.5/5 I'm Open 1.5/5 Mankind 1/5 Habit 2/5
Yield
Do the Evolution 5/5 Given To Fly 5/5 Faithful 2.5/5 In Hiding 2.5/5 All Those Yesterdays 3.5/5 MFC 2.5/5 No Way 2/5 Low Light 2/5 Brain of J. 4/5 Push Me, Pull Me 2/5 Wishlist 4/5 Pilate 2/5 Color Red (it should just be filler but for some reason I REALLY hate this thing) 0/5
Binaural
Sleight of Hand 2/5 (i can respect it more than I like it) Of the Girl 2/5 Breakerfall 3/5 Rival 4/5 Grievance 4/5 Nothing As It Seems 3/5 Insignificance 4/5 Parting Ways 4/5 Light Years 2/5 Soon Forget 2/5 Thin Air 1.5/5 God's Dice 1.5/5 Evacuation 2/5
Riot Act
I Am Mine 4/5 You Are 3/5 Arc 2.5/5 Bu$hleager 1.5/5 Love Boat Captain 2/5 Can't Keep 4/5 Cropduster 2/5 Thumbing My Way 2/5 1/2 Full 3/5 Save You 4/5 All or None 2/5 Ghost 3/5 Green Disease 2/5 Help, Help 2.5/5 Get Right 2.5/5
Pearl Jam
Army Reserve 2.5/5 Gone 2/5 Marker in the Sand 3/5 Life Wasted 5/5 Come Back 3.5/5 Unemployable 2/5 Severed Hand 3/5 World Wide Suicide 5/5 Wasted Reprise 3.5/5 Inside Job 1.5/5 Parachutes 4/5 Comatose 5/5 Big Wave 2/5
Backspacer
Amongst the Waves 2/5 Johnny Guitar 4/5 Unthought Known 3/5 The End 4/5 The Fixer 4/5 Got Some 3.5/5 Speed of Sound 2/5 Gonna See My Friend 4/5 Just Breathe 4/5 Force of Nature 4/5 Supersonic 1/5
Miscellaneous:
Yellow Ledbetter 5/5 In The Moonlight 1/5 I Got ID 3.5/5 Long Road 3.5/5 Sad 4/5 Education 3/5 Hold On 2/5 Down 3.5/5 Undone 4/5 Alone 4/5 Leaving Here 3/5 U 1/5 All Night 3/5 Black, Red, Yellow 3/5 Hitchhiker 0/5 Whale Song 1/5 Don't Gimme No Lip 1/5 Gremmie Out of Control 1/5
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Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:27 pm
Got Some
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stip wrote:
Yield
Do the Evolution 5/5 Given To Fly 5/5 Faithful 2.5/5 In Hiding 2.5/5 All Those Yesterdays 3.5/5 MFC 2.5/5 No Way 2/5 Low Light 2/5 Brain of J. 4/5 Push Me, Pull Me 3/5 Wishlist 4/5 Pilate 2/5 Color Red (it should just be filler but for some reason I REALLY hate this thing) 0/5
Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:44 pm
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actually push me/pull me should probably be a 2
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Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:47 pm
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i think yield is a pretty average album with two great songs and 3 very good songs.
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Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:50 pm
Yeah Yeah Yeah
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I looks like too much work to do all the albums, so I'll just do Yield.
Do the Evolution 5/5 Brain of J 5/5 Faithfull 5/5 All Those Yesterdays 5/5 In Hiding 4/5 Push Me, Pull Me 4/5 Given to Fly 4/5 No Way 3.5/5 Lowlight 3/5 Wishlist 3/5 Pilate 2.5/5 MFC 2.5/5
Post subject: Re: Ranking Pearl Jam's Catalog of Songs
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:51 pm
Coast to Coast
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stip wrote:
Color Red (it should just be filler but for some reason I REALLY hate this thing) 0/5
Quote:
MELODY MAKER: So have you been keeping up with what's new?
WAITS: As a father, you don't have much of a choice-- it's curious how you used to seek out music in used record bins, now music just finds you. Seeks you out. And you may fight it kicking and screaming but it always ends up taking over your house and robbing you of precious hours of sleep.
MELODY MAKER: I take it you're not happy with the current scene?
WAITS: There's all sorts of very talented, very clean people making music right now, and getting paid a lot for it. Actually what I've been interested in the most in the last few years has been hip hop music. You know, these are the folk and protest singers of this age. My son-- he's exactly at the right age now to be into rock and roll music, but not Bill Hayley and the Comets. He listens to music that seems to be designed to make parents angry and/or concerned.
MELODY MAKER: Are you concerned?
WAITS: I'm concerned for all these angry young men. They're going to get an ulcer or something. But, honestly, I love Pearl Jam-- you know them, right? Who doesn't? I bet you could do a census in Timbuktu and you'll find at least a thousand people who own Pearl Jam records.
MELODY MAKER: They're back with a vengeance.
WAITS: Where are they back from?
MELODY MAKER: Their last album didn't do very well.
WAITS: Oh... well, people make all sorts of assumptions. They're always in a hurry to say you're back. People keep asking me where I've been the past six years. Well, I was stuck in traffic school. They wouldn't let me graduate. Hand-eye coordination problems have haunted me since I was a child.
MELODY MAKER: So you like "Yield" (Pearl Jam's new album)?
WAITS: I do. I like the drummer, he reminds me of a demented Shelly Manne. The songs are good too. There's a song in there that's just 40 seconds of steel drum and some strange chanting. Right up my alley. Sometimes you get the most propulsive and stimulating and invigorating music from these small outbursts of craziness. You know, I went to see an orchestra play Schubert, and I wanted to leave after they were done tuning up. It was going to be hard to top that.
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