This April will be 4 years since I last listened to Lightning Bolt.

My guess is you've held up alright.

Yep, I made a Ven mix for my PJ needs

This thread is for ranking Backspacer and Lighning Bolt, not for your snarky comments.

Something like this. But man, I’m really starting to forget the details on a lot of these songs. I mean I remember melodies and stuff, but it’s been forever since I’ve listened to most of these.

Amongst the Waves
Lightning Bolt
Johnny Guitar
Pendulum
Yellow Moon
Infallible
Speed of Sound
Force of Nature
Getaway
Mind Your Manners
The Fixer
Supersonic
My Father's Son
Sirens
Future Days
The End
Got Some
Gonna See My Friend
Let the Records Play
Just Breathe
Unthought Known
Swallowed Whole
Sleeping by Myself

Some unexpected love for Amongst the Waves. A tear is running down Stone's face right now.

It’s always been a favorite of mine, relatively speaking. Easily my favorite from Backspacer.

that's strike one, phatj

Nobody’s perfect

not here

I can't listen to any Backspacer songs anymore. I used to like GSMF but even that has aged poorly. There are maybe three on LB I don't skip, but that's it. Couple that with the fact that there's no new music on the horizon, and it makes me sad. At least ST has aged great for me.

I was talking to this younger dude the other night over Indian food -- he works in music PR -- and we got to discussing Pearl Jam. He's a big fan, too, but his FIRST entry point to the band was the self-titled record. He went back from there, jumped to Ten and then proceeded in chronological order. Anyway, he loves S/T. I mentioned that it was the first PJ record that I had any issue with and that it wasn't so much the songs but the sound/production. He didn't seem to have those same issues.

He didn't really talk about Backspacer or Lightning Bolt much. He referred to himself as "a total Yield kid."

RM has voted. Unthought Known you are the weakest link. Yellow Moon wins.

1. Yellow Moon 16
2. Amongst the Waves 24
3. Infallible 26
4. Johnny Guitar 30
5. Pendulum 33
6. Force of Nature 34
7. Lightning Bolt 38
8. The Fixer 38
9. Mind Your Manners 39
10. Got Some 43
11 Just Breathe 44
12. Sirens 51
13. The End 52
14. Future Days 55
15. Speed of Sound 59
16. Sleeping by Myself 60
17. Let the Records Play 62
18. Getaway 62
19. My Father's Son 64
20. Swallowed Whole 65
21. Gonna See My Friend 65
22. Supersonic 71
23. Unthought Known 73

Lightning Bolt 1 3 5 7 9 12 14 16 17 18 19 20 = 141 avg of 11,75
Backspacer 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 21 22 23 = 135 avg of 12,27

Lightning Bolt 16 26 33 38 39 51 55 60 62 62 64 65 = 571 avg of 47,58
Backspacer 24 30 34 38 43 44 52 59 65 71 73 = 533 avg of 48,45

1. Just Breathe
2. the shit i am taking right now
3. The rest of backspacer and lightning bolt

You must rank all 23 songs for it to count.

Give Backspacer a listen with that mix an RMer posted here a while back. It's pretty great.

I really worry about the tastes of this forum when Amongst the Waves has the second most votes.

Lightning Bolt also has a better average score than Backspacer.