Taking the song I prefer from each slot

1. Gonna See My Friend
2. Mind Your Manners
3. The Fixer (sorry)
4. Johnny Guitar (actually, maybe not. why can't I just admit that i really love sirens)
5. Lightning Bolt
6. Infallible
7. Pendulum
8. Swallowed Whole
9. Let the Records Play
10. Force of Nature
11. The End

That would be a pretty great album.

This needs to be expanded to include Pearl Jam.

I really, really wish I had high quality copies of Cold Confession and Let It Ride so I can piece together the post Riot Act album that I want to listen to.

Pendulum
Severed Hand
Got Some
Parachutes
Marker In The Sand
Army Reserve
My Father's Son
Getaway
Sleeping By Myself
Swallowed Whole
Big Wave
Wasted Reprise
The End

. I'm gonna have a go at this later. Table Scraps: The Late Era PJ Comp.

I'm not going to do this anymore. I don't think any of the Backspacer songs stack up against these ones, and even the ones I like wouldn't sound right against them. There's a much fuller / less tinny production to these songs than the Backspacer ones.

Poor Backspacer.

Well, it kind of sucks.

It's a more consistent listen than LB. Not as many peaks but not as many troughs either.

1. Pendulum
2. Got Some
3. Getaway
4. My Father's Son
5. Just Breathe
6. Sleeping By Myself
7. The Fixer
8. Johnny Guitar
9. Force Of Nature
10. Yellow Moon
11. Infallible
12. The End

Something like this.

This ends up being a more consistent listen for me thus far. I never liked listening to supersonic very much, and speed of sound was a drag at first. I think this will end up trumping Backspacer for me, but I've had 4 years to develop attachments to most of those songs, so it's hard to tell.


I do think that Backspacer felt like a more cohesive listen, at least thus far.

That one sounds too different, though.

when I would make mix cds I'd double up records for everything after vitalogy. So No Code and Yield would go together and Binaural and Riot Act would go together. S/T never really fit with Riot Act or Backspacer.

01. Getaway
02. Got Some
03. Johnny Guitar
04. Sirens
05. Unthought Known
06. Pendulum
07. Yellow Moon
08. Amongst The Waves
09. Lightning Bolt
10. Mind Your Manners
11. Gonna See My Friend
12. Infallible
13. Speed Of Sound (demo version, not album version)
14. The End

1. Pendulum
2. Lightning Bolt
3. Mind Your Manners
4. Got Some
5. Infallible
6. Unthought
7. Just Breathe
8. Sirens
9. Getaway
10. MFS
11. Force of Nature
12. Speed of Sound
13. Future Days
14. Yellow Moon

I took a quick stab... I like an opener that's spacey like Pendulum and Can't Keep. Then, let's rock for a couple tracks, throw in something interesting, then some pretty stuff, then crank it up a bit, and then a gradual descent.

I know 14 is a bit list... but the BS songs were short so it should work.

Pendulum
My Father's Son
Lightning Bolt
Infallible
Speed of Sound
Yellow Moon
Getaway
Got Some
Sirens
Force of Nature
The End

If I did it this way ...

1. Getaway
2. Got Some
3. My Father's Son
4. Sirens
5. Lightning Bolt
6. Infallible
7. Pendulum
8. Supersonic (yep)
9. Speed of Sound
10. Force of Nature
11. Yellow Moon

O'Brien's take:

1. Unthougt Known
2. The Fixer
3. Lightning Bolt
4. Sirens
5. Amongst The Waves
6. Just Breathe
7. Force of Nature
8. Supersonic
9. Sleeping by myself
10. Future Days

Tried but I really don't want to do this.

what became really surprising after listening to lightning bolt is just how similar so many of these songs are. It's not that they feel like retreads. they don't (not to me). But it's rare we see pearl jam attempt another take on an idea in such close proximity. An attempt not to reprise a song, but to revise it.

GSMF and Getaway feel somewhat similar. Fast paced playful openers.

Got Some and MYM feel similar.

MFS and Got Some feel similar

Unthought Known, The Fixer, and Lightning Bolt feel similar.

While sonically different, Sirens is another attempt at Just Breathe. And just breathe and sleeping by myself sound related.

The end and future days feel similar.

Yellow Moon and Speed of Sound feel similar.

Lightning Bolt and Swallowed Whole and Force of Nature, in some ways, feel similar

LTRP and Supersonic are two songs about how great music is. LTRP and Johnny Guitar don't feel light years apart either.

Amongst the Waves and Sirens have some similarities.


Really infallible and pendulum are the only two songs on here that you can't really trace back to backspacer in somway. This is especially odd since pendulum was actually part of those sessions.