Here is your job Pj breaks up in 1995. reunites in 2011 goes in to studio to record album with all materal from 96-2011 what is the track list you would pick 13 songs no double albums
mine would be
1. longroad, those chord at the start of the song I think would really set a album off and it would be a whole band recording so more like the live version
2. comatose, simply here we are we can still do this
3. do the evolution,
4. grievance
5. nothing as it seams, hey that mike guy can still play
6. force of nature, they can't all be pearls
7. sad
8. just breath
9. man of the hour
10.unthought known
11.severed hand
12.evacuation
13. brain of j
album title would be Ole!

Yield has 13 tracks.......just sayin'

1. Do The Evolution
2. Hail, Hail
3. FaithFul
4. Love Boat Captain
5. Given To Fly
6. Smile
7. Off He Goes
8. Grievance
9. Insignificance
10. Rival
11. Slieght Of Hand
12. Arc
13. Man Of The Hour

1. the fixer
2. supersonic
3. sweet lew
4. gone
5. don't gimme no lip
6. come back
7. all night
8. force of nature
9. just breathe
10. thumbing my way
11. evacuation
12. I'm open
13. inside job

...... we wouldn't have to put up with the dead horse debate that is the drummer debate.


..... we wouldn't have to hear bitching about ed's hair plugs

.... they would have been ass kissed like Nirvana.

But by Vitalogy they still hadn't been cemented in as Grateful Dead live party band! -5 legacy points.

This was hard to do. So many great songs were left out. I tried to make a cohesive sounding album. This is what I came up with. If it had to have a title I'd call it "Evolution".

1. Severed Hand
2. Do The Evolution
3. Sad
4. You Are
5. Brain Of J.
6. Nothing As It Seems
7. Lukin
8. Present Tense
9. Education
10. Sleight Of Hand
11. Red Mosquito
12. Given To Fly
13. I Got Shit

1. Long Road
2. Hail Hail
3. In My Tree
4. Given To Fly
5. Education
6. I Got Shit
7. Man of the Hour
8. Red Mosquito
9. Do The Evolution
10. Sleight of Hand
11. Black, Red & Yellow
12. Nothing As It Seems
13. The End

I don't think i could do this, way too many songs i would feel bad leaving out

I found it really hard to leave off alot of my favorites in order to make come up with a cohesive album. leaving off In my tree and slieght of hand, but I only wanted a couple of themes not a album that was all over the map. I think for me Vs, Self titled suffer from this both a collection of great songs, but in listening to them I feel like I am listening to a mix tape. Where as with Backpacer Vitolgy Ten and Yield I see a story in those records a flow.
For me Just breath is a great book end to all that came before I always think of this as a counter point to Release. On one end you have a brooding young man. who wants to leave it all behind "release me" this pain is overwelming I want to let go. Then this same person a wiser older version takes the advise of Present tense and Just breaths I like to read the lyics of release then just breath and while I am sure it is unintentional there is a major contection. I guess it is put more simply like this "release me" Stay with me lets just breath" "never gona let me win " he wont be released. It is heavy stuff when I think of Just Breath in that context as if Ed is singing to his dad 20 years after the song he sang in release

1. Rival
2. Nothing As It Seems
3. In My Tree
4. Faithful
5. Smile
6. Grievance
7. MFC
8. Insignificance
9. Can't Keep
10. No Way
11. Of The Girl
12. Sleight of Hand
13. All Those Yesterdays

1. Long Road
2. Hail Hail
3. Faithfull
4. I Got Shit
5. Given to Fly
6. Sad
7. Just Breathe
8. In My Tree
9. Grievance
10. Red Mosquito
11. Severed Hand
12. Who You Are
13. The End

Any list that doesn't include GTF and I Got Shit would be insane.
After doing this exercise I realize that I like No Code a hell of a lot and really can't find many redeeming songs on Riot Act. No surprises there I guess.

Trying to offer a mix of all the records


Gonna See My Friend
Comatose
Hail Hail
Given to Fly
I Am Mine
In My Tree
Sad
Grievance
Force of Nature
Do the Evolution
Rival
Parachutes
Can't Keep

A lot of Riot Act would not have happened because there would have been no Roskilde 2000, keep that in mind.

I would like this album, stip.

A lot of everything would not happened.
Vedder would release most of his songs in a solo carrer, so would Stone in Brad.

IMO, Avocado is already a come back album.

Band would have never accepted Boom

you would be correct in doing so.

What I like about this is that you hit a lot of highlights from the post-Vitalogy work but you didn't do a pound for pound "best of" thing. There are some shitty tracks on there. Which makes it feel real.