re: Pearl jams greatest song

Posted by sorantable

Member since Dec 2008

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:52 am to vuvuzela

quote:
In my opinion it's nothingman.

Posted by 14&Counting

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 11:17 am to sorantable

I of great ones already mentioned.

I will go ahead and add Footsteps and Indifference

Posted by Marciano1

Marksville, LA

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 11:57 am to vuvuzela

Nothingman

Posted by LSU alum wannabe

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 12:56 pm to 14&Counting

Black.

It's like Stairway to Heaven in that it is cliche. I have to be in the mood to hear it now, but it is greatness. And the MTV Unplugged version of it when I was about 19 years old was mind blowing for me.

Their best cover IMO is Masters of War. The version on YouTube where he is singing with Mike and GE Smith playing at a Bob Dylan anniversary thing is amazing. All that anger and emotion? It was 1992, what did he have to be that pissed about to draw from?

Posted by LSU alum wannabe

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 1:05 pm to Marciano1

quote:
Nothingman

This one gets a lot of love on here. Pretty much all of their depressing ones are greatness.

Even the new ones from Backspacer. The End and Just Breathe. Those are two AWESOME songs written by a guy who is well past his prime and his point of pop relevance. If Justin Timberlake could fingerpick and wrote that a song like that it would be massive. But a man pushing 50 (at the time) writes it? Not so much.

I love Seattle music and always feel so damned lucky that from all the great bands, pearl jam was the horse I picked. They never broke up and nobody OD'd and died. Sadly it took an OD to form the band.

Posted by Jonas

Northshore

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 1:50 pm to vuvuzela

At a live show: Porch

Posted by thetigerman

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 4:26 pm to JohnZeroQ

quote:
Black
Yellow ledbetter

Posted by urinetrouble

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 4:43 pm to vuvuzela

Black. The feels are so feely.

Posted by clooneyisgod

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 5:03 pm to urinetrouble

Loved Ten as a kid. Can't even listen to it now. But still like some of their other stuff.

Rearview Mirror
Hail Hail
In my tree
Lukin
Red mosquito
Get Right
Life Wasted
Sirens

Posted by Cdawg

TigerFred's Living Room

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 5:49 pm to vuvuzela

Marker in the Sand

Posted by ellunchboxo

Gtown

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 7:23 pm to vuvuzela

Release Me

Posted by LSU alum wannabe

Katy, TX

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 8:22 pm to ellunchboxo

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Release

A song sung to the dead dad you never knew.

It will go on forever.

Posted by TigerRanter

Louisiana

Member since Feb 2005

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Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:00 pm to LSU alum wannabe

Immortality
Hail, Hail
Corduroy
Untitled (Live on Two Legs)

Posted by pjab

Member since Mar 2016

5646 posts

Posted on 8/26/16 at 10:19 pm to CoachDon

Release is a great song. Man of the Hour is the one I have to skip over to not bummed.

Favorites:
Black
Nothingman

Great concert songs:
Corduroy
Mind Your Manners