Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:34 pm
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I've long felt Save You was one of the most underrated really hard, driving rock songs of the band's catalog, I've been on a kick lately of listening to it over and over again.
Actually I came across a youtube video of when they played it live on Letterman, never had seen this before, and it seemed like about half of the time Ed replaced the fucks with "cuff you if.. etc" but then I swear the other half he just went ahead and sang "fuck", but it came out so rushed in the song and with the level of the instruments it certainly wasn't overt anyway
Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:08 pm
Unthought Known
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stip wrote:
No Code (good/great) Hail Hail: 44/44 (100%) In My Tree: 44/44 (100%) Red Mosquito: 43/44 (98%) Present Tense: 42/44 (96%) Smile: 37/44 (84%) Who You Are: 35/44 (80%) Off He Goes: 35/44 (80%) Sometimes: 34/44 (77%) Around the Bend: 25/44 (57%) Habit: 20/44 (46%) Lukin: 20/44 (46%) Mankind: 9/44 (21%) I'm Open: 9/44 (21%)
I like that No Code has had the most participation so far (44 voters). Good job team! Surprisingly, Backspacer has the 2nd highest participation count.
Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:46 pm
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mastaflatch wrote:
mick7184 wrote:
Help Help might be the most underrated song in the entire PJ catalog, it's definetely top 5.
i don't know about it being top 5 material - definitely one of their best weird song.
you mean best of the 2 or 3? I can get behind that.
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Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:47 pm
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darth_vedder wrote:
stip wrote:
No Code (good/great) Hail Hail: 44/44 (100%) In My Tree: 44/44 (100%) Red Mosquito: 43/44 (98%) Present Tense: 42/44 (96%) Smile: 37/44 (84%) Who You Are: 35/44 (80%) Off He Goes: 35/44 (80%) Sometimes: 34/44 (77%) Around the Bend: 25/44 (57%) Habit: 20/44 (46%) Lukin: 20/44 (46%) Mankind: 9/44 (21%) I'm Open: 9/44 (21%)
I like that No Code has had the most participation so far (44 voters). Good job team! Surprisingly, Backspacer has the 2nd highest participation count.
a lot of it is dependent on how long we left the threads up for.
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Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:49 pm
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riot act and S/T should be close, but thus far it defintiely looks like there is the least consensus on Backspacer (I'm considering consenus to be a song in the 40-80% good/great range. Anything above 80 or below 40 I think we can pretty safely say that the board either thinks is good or weak)
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Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:51 pm
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stip wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:
stip wrote:
No Code (good/great) Hail Hail: 44/44 (100%) In My Tree: 44/44 (100%) Red Mosquito: 43/44 (98%) Present Tense: 42/44 (96%) Smile: 37/44 (84%) Who You Are: 35/44 (80%) Off He Goes: 35/44 (80%) Sometimes: 34/44 (77%) Around the Bend: 25/44 (57%) Habit: 20/44 (46%) Lukin: 20/44 (46%) Mankind: 9/44 (21%) I'm Open: 9/44 (21%)
I like that No Code has had the most participation so far (44 voters). Good job team! Surprisingly, Backspacer has the 2nd highest participation count.
a lot of it is dependent on how long we left the threads up for.
Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:54 pm
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
stip wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
mick7184 wrote:
Help Help might be the most underrated song in the entire PJ catalog, it's definetely top 5.
i don't know about it being top 5 material - definitely one of their best weird song.
you mean best of the 2 or 3? I can get behind that.
What can we consider the "weird" Pearl Jam songs?
Help Help? Push Me/Pull Me? They don't really have many.
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Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:03 pm
Unthought Known
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stip wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
stip wrote:
mastaflatch wrote:
mick7184 wrote:
Help Help might be the most underrated song in the entire PJ catalog, it's definetely top 5.
i don't know about it being top 5 material - definitely one of their best weird song.
you mean best of the 2 or 3? I can get behind that.
What can we consider the "weird" Pearl Jam songs?
Help Help? Push Me/Pull Me? They don't really have many.
I'd throw in the 4nVitalogy songs, The spoken word songs (I'm Open / Bushleager), Whale Song, Hitchhiker (maybe), Sweet Lew, Dirty Frank (maybe), Hummus, Arc, and maybe a few others (that's all I can think of right now).
Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:53 pm
Force of Nature
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I realized looking at how I ranked the songs that I would find this a much better album if you just lopped off a good deal of the mediocre tracks and added a few of the out takes.
Can't Keep Save You Cropduster I Am Mine You Are Green Disease 1/2 Full Arc All or None
Thats a pretty good run of songs. Not great but there are too many mediocre songs that take away from the whole album for me.
Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:03 pm
Master of Meh
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VAN wrote:
I realized looking at how I ranked the songs that I would find this a much better album if you just lopped off a good deal of the mediocre tracks and added a few of the out takes.
Can't Keep Save You Cropduster I Am Mine You Are Green Disease 1/2 Full Arc All or None
Thats a pretty good run of songs. Not great but there are too many mediocre songs that take away from the whole album for me.
Hey, that looks like fun.
spenno's reworked Riot Act:
Love Boat Captain Save You Get Right Down Can't Keep Half Full Cropduster Ghost I Am Mine Undone Thumbing My Way Help Help Arc All or None
Post subject: Re: Is there consensus about the best songs on Riot Act?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:36 pm
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probably
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