What is pearl jam's best solo? A question sages and scholars have debated since time immemorial. A question that cuts right to the heart of the human experience. A mystery second only perhaps, to the identity of pearl jam's best drummer. A question we are finally about to answer.

Standard single elimination tournament rules. The passage under consideration within each song is included in the title. We are using a rough and loose definition of solo (or jam).

Voters are strongly encouraged to listen before voting.


Bracket can be found here

Nomination thread can be found here

Spoiler: show

thank you, Evenslow, for your help with the nominations

The Contestants

Alive 3:39-5:43
All Night 0:31-0:44
All Those Yesterdays 3:08 - 3:58
Animal 1:48-2:23
Anything In Between 2:02-2:35
Army Reserve: 2:41-3:36
Betterman 3:31 - 4:24
Big Wave: 1:53-2:22
Black Red yellow: 2:41-2:56
Brain of J 1:57 - 2:20
Breath 4:02-5:18
Breakerfall 1:46-2:10
Comatose 1:32-1:42
Come Back 3:38 - 4:30
Corduroy 3:42 - 4:37
Cropduster 1:19-1:32
Daughter 1:47 - 2:08
Deep 2:07-2:23
Down 2:04-2:45
Even Flow 2:56-3:33
Force of Nature 3:19-4:05
Garden 3:38-4:59
Get Right 1:26-1:50
Ghost 0:47-0:58
Glorified G 2:35 - 3:23
Habit 2:40-3:36
I Am Mine 3:10 - 3:30
I Got Shit 1:28-1:49
I Got Shit 3:14 - 4:15
Immortality 2:18 - 3:10
In Hiding 2:45 - 3:02
In My Tree 3:19 - 3:57
In The Moonlight: 2:17-3:06
Insignificance 3:47 - 4:25
Johnny Guitar 2:18 - 2:44
Last Exit 1:49-1:48
Leash 2:16-3:05
Let the Records Play 3:09-3:38
Life Wasted 2:22-3:54
Lightning Bolt 1:11-1:32
Marker in the Sand 3:29 - 4:20
MFC 2:01-2:24
Mind Your Manners 1:29 - 1:44
Not For You 2:36-2:52
Nothing As It Seems 1:50-2:16
Ole 1:43-2:00
Once 2:21-2:39
Porch 2:02-3:30
Present Tense 3:58-5:43
Rats 2:45 - 4:00
Rearviewmirror 4:08 - 4:40
Red Mosquito 2:43 - 3:04
Rival 3:11 - 3:35
Sad 2:44-3:03
Severed Hand 3:15-4:25
Sirens 3:33-4:01
State of Love and Trust 2:02-2:25
Swallowed Whole 2:37-3:05
Why Go 2:10-2:42
Wishlist 1:56-2:22
Yellow Ledbetter 1:49-2:32
Yellow Moon 1:03-1:21
You Are 3:30-4:15
½ Full 1:53-2:33

Voting starts tomorrow

When does the next round start?

tomorrow morning

Good. There haven't been any posts in this forum all day. Let's keep this thing rolling.

When does the best air guitar contest begin?

That wrapped up in January. It's gonna be a wait for the next tournament.

I'm in meetings all day. I should have voted last night.

It's kind of amazing how much more stacked the first half of round 2 is compared to the second half.

I will be busy tomorrow morning so I'm ending this round now.

Dammit! I just opened the thread to vote! I would've voted for Habit

Fuck. I really wanted Habit to move on. I'm more bummed by it losing here than any song during MM.

That solo is alright, but thank god it lost.

This is open through Sunday night unless we are averaging less than 10 votes per match, in which case open until Monday

leaving this open today

the Animal/I Got Shit result is quite surprising!

Stupid motherfuckers.

wow what the fuck