Here it is:

Pearl Jam - (mostly) Acoustic

A two disc compilation of the best (read: my favorite) Pearl Jam performances in (mostly) acoustic settings.

Tracks taken from sources as listed (audience recordings taken from versions included in the Audio Archives), some level correction was done in Adobe Audition 3.0.

Disc 1:

Walking The Cow (BSB 10-1-94 Audience Recording)
Long Road (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Wash (BSB 10-2-94 Audience Recording)
Around The Bend (BSB 10-22-06 Audience Recording)
Footsteps (BSB 10-31-99 Nothing As It Seems Import Single)
Of The Girl (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Low Light (Bennaroya Hall)
Can't Keep (Bennaroya Hall)
Black (MTV Unplugged)
Betterman (BSB 10-31-99 Nothing As It Seems Import Single)
All Or None (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Nothing As It Seems (10-31-99 iTunes Bridge School Collection)
Immortality (BSB 10-2-94 Audience Recording)
Parachutes (BSB 10-21-06 Audience Recording)
Masters Of War (1992 Bob Dylan Tribute)
Oceans (MTV Unplugged)
Daughter (BSB 10-1-94 Audience Recording)
Corduroy (BSB 96 iTunes Bridge School Collection)

Disc 2:

Bee Girl (Rockline 1993 from Lost Dogs Demos...unmastered)
Let Me Sleep (PJ20 Soundtrack)
Angel (BSB 11-1-92 Audience Recording)
Nothingman (10-19-96 Bridge School Concerts Volume 1 CD)
Off He Goes (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Fatal (Bennaroya Hall)
All Those Yesterdays (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Drifting (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Last Soldier (BSB 01 - 2001 Christmas Single Vinyl Rip)
Thin Air (BSB 10-30-99 Soundboard Web Stream Rip)
Man Of The Hour (BSB 10-21-06 Audience Recording)
Sleight Of Hand (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Throw Your Hatred Down w/Neil Young (BSB 10-21-06 Audience Recording)
Picture In A Frame (BSB 10-21-06 Audience Recording)
Parting Ways (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Walk With Me (PJ20 Soundtrack)
Indifference (7-11-03 Official Bootleg)
Yellow Ledbetter (TFC 6-8-97)

That BSB alternate arrangement of Corduroy would be a good one, and iirc there's good quality versions of that.

Oh absolutely. I'll also clearly be using the first performance ever of NAIS.

Neat idea.

Will suggest some stuff later, but off the top of my head, Daughter/(American Pie) from BSB 1994 is a favourite.

Black and Porch from MTV Unplugged, for sure.

I have a huge bias towards 7/1103 so I know I'll use a few from there. I'm thinking Long Road, Of The Girl, and Parting Ways. And maybe All Those Yesterdays and Sleight Of Hand.

Cool. I'm going to go back and listen to all the songs people suggest in here starting tonight.

When was Angel performed, and is the recording any good? I haven't listened to that live in years.

The first PJ board I was on did a sloppy fan-made "best of Bridge School" compilation that everyone pitched in for. I still listen to it all the time.

I don't know that I think any of Pearl Jam's best acoustic performances come from MTV Unplugged. If you're trying to ensure that the comp is historically accurate, then it's a must, but other than that--they did this sort of thing better later on.

Personally, my favorite acoustic PJ performance in recent memory is that "Let Me Sleep" from the PJ20 soundtrack. I love that so much.

I would think that Ed's lyrical mistake on "Black" would preclude its inclusion on a compilation, but then Sony went and proved me wrong.

I don't think I can in my right mind leave off Porch from Unplugged

I really like all the live versions of "Angel"--Dallas '93, Bridge '94, Chicago '94--is that all? It misses those layered vocals but they make it work.

And it's far from the only lyrical mistake on there! Last Exit and Release too from memory.

I'm very much interested in any recommendations you have.

I think it was Bridge '92.

I really love the arrangement of Jeremy from that show.

"Porch" Unplugged was a great visual moment--any video history of Pearl Jam needs it. But I'm not sure they'd really hit their stride on the improv section yet at that point, and I don't think any of the guys in Pearl Jam really had much of an idea how to work within an all-acoustic format. Mostly I just find myself wishing all those MTV Unplugged peformances were Plugged--and from 1994.

I'll check them all out tonight.

You can take your pick from Tibetan Freedom Concert '97. I had that on the other night while I was reading, and I found myself putting my book down multiple times and just losing myself. The Nusrat performances and the Dead Man Walking sets are on the disc I burned too. Just wonderful recordings.

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd consider anything from Unplugged (were I compiling this) apart from maybe Oceans (fully Beth'd of course).

Yes, definitely "Yellow Ledbetter" from TFC. After all these years, I think that's clear and away the best performance they've done of that song.

I really like "Long Road" from the 9/11 telethon, with Neil Young on pump organ--Mike's on electric, but you're not going to have much to pick from if you let that stop you.

Two Bridge School performances that spring to mind are "Picture in a Frame" and "Parachutes" from 2006. Might add a little flava to the mix.

My main concern with including Unplugged is that those performances will sound the most out of place next to the ones from a few years later and throughout their career. Like KD said, they didn't quite know how to play those songs in an acoustic setting yet.