The 93-98 powerstruggle is well documented, it's basically the only in band drama in PJ20.
Ed won and he's been the definitive PJ captain since Binaural, since S/T till LB his reign has become even stronger. But I think the band greatly benefitted from that powerstruggle.

I believe the band could benefit from this again, BS and LB were good record but not great ones. Ed needs a new struggle, but with Jeff this time around!

IMO the best songs om LB are: Getaway, MFS, Infallible, Pendulum and Yellow Moon.
Jeff wrote four of those and the other one is greatly based on his basslines. And it seems he has hit a new creative peak. Releasing Tres Mts in 2011 only months after his first solo record.

Since then he released an really fun side-projected that will release another one next year:



And one criminally underlooked solo-effort:



Seriously, that's one awesome record! Add his five best songs to those 5 LB tracks and BAM....another great PJ record where they really go in new directions.

So bring it on Jeff!!

When The Fire Comes is my favorite thing to come out of any Pearl Jam-related release (including everything by Pearl Jam) since Lost Dogs. By a decent margin, too.

Jeff has always been my favorite individual songwriter in the band. His songs just resonate with me on a different level.

Also, he was behind me in line at a sandwich shop a couple of years ago, and we ordered the same sandwich. We're pretty much besties.

the ten club sandwich?

This is a good post.

1234 5 against 555 against 1

Five to one. One in five.
No one here gets out alive.

They borrowed from than one already.

Here comes the hotstepper?

sure, why not

the GD version is better, as usual

Just listened to hotstepper. Pretty sure they lifted that one for WMA, so never mind