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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. 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.
Actually, with YIELD, I rediscovered how much I LOVE YIELD! I had kind of forgotten how truly great of an album it was. It was really difficult to rank these songs because I really like the top ten on my list a lot. Only the bottom three are songs I could really do without. Everything else rocks! Here is my new ranking of the songs of YIELD.
1. Do the Evolution 2. Faithfull 3. In Hiding 4. Given to Fly 5. No Way 6. MFC 7. Low Light 8. All Those Yesterdays 9. Push Me, Pull Me 10. Brain of J 11. Pilate 12. Wishlist 13. The Color Red
I will be doing similar threads for Binaural and Riot Act for sure, and maybe for each of the albums. I found this a pretty enjoyable exercise.
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1. DTE 2. GTF 3. Faithful 4. No Way 5. Low Light 6. Push me Pull Me 7. All Those Yesterdays 8. MFC 9. Brain of J 10. In Hiding 11. Wishlist 12. Pilate 13. The Colour Red, Red Dot
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1 Given To Fly 2 Do The Evolution 3 Faithfull 4 In Hiding 5 MFC 6 All Those Yesterdays 7 Brain of J 8 Low Light 9 No Way 10 Wishlist 11 Push Me, Pull Me 12 Pilate 13 Dot
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1. Given To Fly 2. In Hiding 3. Faithful 4. All Those Yesterdays 5. Do The Evolution 6. No Way 7. Brain Of J 8. Wishlist 9. Low Light 10. MFC 11. Push Me/Pull Me 12. Pilate 13. Dot
Incidentally, I wouldn't replace a single track on this album.
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mick7184 wrote:
1 Given To Fly 2 Do The Evolution 3 Faithfull 4 In Hiding 5 MFC 6 All Those Yesterdays 7 Brain of J 8 Low Light 9 Brain of J 10 Wishlist 11 No Way 12 Pilate 13 Dot
You've got Brain of J on there twice. Missing Push Me, Pull Me.
i've only been listening to the weird ones for awhile now.
1. Push Me/Pull Me 2. Brain Of J 3. No Way 4. All Those Yesterdays 5. Low Light 6. Faithful 7. MFC 8. In Hiding 9. Given To Fly 10. Dot 11. Do The Evolution 12. Pilate 13. Wishlist
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1. Do the Evolution 2. Given to Fly 3. In Hiding 4. Brain of J 5. Low Light 6. Faithful 7. All those Yesterdays 8. MFC 9. Wishlist 10. No Way 11. Push Me, Pull Me 12. Pilate 13. The Color Red
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Nice thread, Phat. Before Backspacer came out I went back and listened to all of PJ's albums just to get in the mood. Like you, I had sort of forgotten how good Yield really is. I was surprised how much I love the album, especially when listening all the way straight through. It's odd because I actually don't think the individual songs are as strong as some other albums, but together they make a wonderful experience.
1. Do The Evolution - Hands down, best track on the album. Top 10 PJ for me.
2. Low Light - Great song. This one wrecks me every time. 3. In Hiding - Great melody. Great lyrics. 4. Faithful 5. No Way 6. MFC 7. Brain Of J - On any given day #4-7 could be in any order. I go back and forth. 8. Given To Fly - Much better in context, but still never did a lot for me. 9. Wishlist - Great idea. Not as good as it could/should be. 10. All Those Yesterdays - Beatles-based pop. Fun. 11. Pilate 12. Pushe Me, Pull Me - #11 & 12 feel like B-sides for me.
13. The Color Red - I usually love the tiny experiments on PJ albums. Master/Slave, Pry, To, Arc, Wasted Reprise - love 'em all. This is really the track on a PJ album that I would classify as "filler." I really don't see the point. Even the hidden track is stronger (IMO).
1. Do the Evolution 2. Brain of J. 3. Given To Fly
Three classics of the record. Brain of J. is their most kick-ass punk rocker with an amazing chorus.
4. All Those Yesterdays 5. Low Light 6. No Way 7. Faithfull 8. In Hiding
Great songs, I still have to be in the right mood for In Hiding though.
9. MFC 10.Push Me, Pull Me 11.Wishlist 12.Pilate 13.The Red Dot
Meh. I'm still a bit surprised at the popularity of this one, considering how inconsistent it is (Given To Fly to Wishlist/Pilate to DTE to The Red Dot... hmmm, talking about going up and down quality-wise). I mean, it's a great record, but for PJ standards it is nowhere near their best.
No Way Given to Fly Faithful Do The Evolution Low Light
Good
Brain of J. Wishlist All Those Yesterdays In Hiding Push Me, Pull Me Pilate
Meh
MFC Red Dot
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On some days I'd put In Hiding in the 'Meh' pile as well. I don't know what people get so excited about with that song. It suffers from the same boring chorus syndrome as 'Gone', but somehow no-one's noticed.
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The color code : Excellent Great Good Average There's no bad songs on this album, not one song that i skip
Low Lightexcellent song, great build-up to the solo which is simple but efficient, one of the very best ballad they've written Brain of Jgood riff, great song, a tasty rocker Do the Evolutionthe allelujah parts, nothing more to add All Those YesterdaysI like how the song builds from the simple chords changes of the beginning to the whole thing in the end ("you've got time...") Given to Flyanother great riff, another great build-up Faithfullthe fragility in Ed's voice in the verse and the power when it comes to the choruses, the guitar bridge after the chorus, excellent work Wishlistthe beauty of it is its simplicity No Waythe guitar work is very powerful here with the variety of work done by the pair In Hidingcatchy chorus, good stuff Pilatea short song, good melody, as a non english, I think I'm not as shocked as some you seem by the lyrics MFCnot bad, could have been made better but I dig the chorus and the ebowed guitar stuff. There's also the guitar touches in the 2nd chorus that really remind of car sounds Push Me, Pull Me Experimental but it still has some catchy chorus The Color RedWhen you have vitalogy as your favorite album, you are not at all disturbed by this song
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I must add some stuff to my ranking.
Yield has a special place for me in the list of PJ albums
I was at the time more in blues rock after a metal phase in my high school years. I knew PJ mainly from the Vitalogy tape that my brother gave me. I also have watched the mtv unplugged and all the ten songs that were popular back in 1992. In 1998, I've finished college and was beginning to work so Yield, which, I think, is the maturity album for PJ, fitted right in for me cause I was also coming to maturity (at least, i thought so). I remember buying it and being mind-blown on the first listen when i went home with it. I went to the newsgroups (ampj, those were the times) and downloaded all the 98 shows that I could (I remember that there was a site where the main image was the famous leaning picture where you could also get all those boots). Since then, well, I've been a fan
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Top tier--these would be among the best tracks on any PJ record
DTE Given to Fly Brain of J Wishlist
Pretty Good All Those Yesterdays MFC
The rest of the record is pretty average, but nothing bad In Hiding Faithful Push Me/Pull Me Lowlight No Way Pilate
Except for red dot, which is awful
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Nice thread, Phat. Before Backspacer came out I went back and listened to all of PJ's albums just to get in the mood. Like you, I had sort of forgotten how good Yield really is. I was surprised how much I love the album, especially when listening all the way straight through. It's odd because I actually don't think the individual songs are as strong as some other albums, but together they make a wonderful experience.
