Vote for your favorite

Oceans

I hate voting against puzzles and games since I'm one of its bigger boosters, but it's not Oceans.

It could have been, though

Oceans

I'm throwing Soon Forget a bone here because it's catchy.

Puzzles & Games? This tourney includes demo versions of songs, eh?

if the demo is substantially different from the finished version, yes

Oceans is one of the few early era songs that is still pretty captivating.

WTF

Heh I kind of agree with him

I would like to send out a hearty FUCK YOU to all the people who think it's fashionable to dismiss Pearl Jam's first few years of output.

Just because there are lots of people out there who thought PJ broke up after Vitalogy and only know the early hits, and those people are really annoying, doesn't mean that Ten isn't one of the best albums ever.

If there's no Ten, there probably is no Yield.

umm

Does this band stay together for 4 more records if their first one never takes off?

Does this band make music if guitars aren't invented?

Fashionable? I just don't like their early stuff nearly as much as the middle period. Have some confidence in your own opinions.

I bet we still would've gotten Olé even if Ten was never made.

I don't think it's fashionable; I don't think anything pertaining to Pearl Jam is fashionable in any context, ever. But I do think it's consistently stronger, better-composed, more thoughtful, and more eclectic music. Surely the idea that angst and rage might be concepts that retain less appeal later in life isn't exactly radical thinking, is it?

That said, "Oceans" is an easy vote here. What a lovely song, with a niche in PJ's canon not unlike "Smile."

I could have stomached betterman losing to oceans.

au contraire, KD

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I actually have a shirt that looks identical to that, and no joke, my wife thinks it looks great on me. I wear it way more than I otherwise would.

Me too.