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And Artist/ Band of the Year Is . . .

12/4/06, 3:07 pm EST

You voted, we tabulated (it’s slow work with an abacus). The tallies are in and Pearl Jam takes the title of Best American Band of ‘06 by a wide margin. In second place we have Red Hot Chili Peppers. My Morning Jacket comes in at numero treis. Tied for fourth (and demonstrating the weird and wonderful variety of tastes y’all have) are the Strokes and Tool. Rounding out the mix at number five: TV on the Radio. Impressive! The final step of this little project is the one in which we ask you to submit your votes for awesomest Pearl Jam song so that we might give you a present in the form of a Best of PJ mixtape for your listening pleasure. Thanks for playing!


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Stuporfly | 12/4/2006, 3:10 pm EST

What? No Cowsills?!?!?

B-Man | 12/4/2006, 3:13 pm EST

The Hold Steady got robbed!

PJ’s Indifference is a nice little tune.

Sanchez | 12/4/2006, 3:37 pm EST

In my tree

Mono | 12/4/2006, 3:39 pm EST

Gotta go with “Immortality” — the version from Live at Benaroya is absolutely stunning!

vemrion | 12/4/2006, 3:39 pm EST

Gawd! I can’t believe Winger lost!!1

CRAB | 12/4/2006, 3:40 pm EST

GOTTA GO WITH BREATH

Mike | 12/4/2006, 3:40 pm EST

“Black” has to be on there. It’s their best. But it has to be a live version!! “Black” from the 7/11/03 Boston live show recording ought to do just fine.

Ved | 12/4/2006, 3:41 pm EST

“Go” (Vs.)

This is a killer rawk song!

Neds Fat Sister | 12/4/2006, 3:43 pm EST

Greivance

Alex | 12/4/2006, 3:46 pm EST

Severed Hand from the last album.

Rrowr | 12/4/2006, 3:47 pm EST

I think it says a lot about the state of American rock that a 15 year old band got “best band” and no one has suggested a song that’s newer than 10 years old to rep them.

Y’all need to get with the now, man. Even everyone here knows that Pearl Jam hasn’t done anything good in a decade.

Mark | 12/4/2006, 3:48 pm EST

Any list that doesn’t count The Black Crowes as the best band every year for 1990-2001 and 2005-2006 is a bunch of BS I tell ya!

anonymous | 12/4/2006, 3:50 pm EST

It’s spelled “tres”.

Jay | 12/4/2006, 3:51 pm EST

Education

baba o riley | 12/4/2006, 3:53 pm EST

I can really dig “who you are” off of no code… i think.

Zakkiante | 12/4/2006, 3:54 pm EST

Alive or Marker in the Sand

Strummergirl | 12/4/2006, 3:54 pm EST

Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers? What is it 1993 again? This feels just like high school.

heath | 12/4/2006, 3:55 pm EST

Present Tense, Porch, Love Boat Captain,

Dumb Homosapian | 12/4/2006, 3:55 pm EST

man, i wish kurt was still alive.

Ament | 12/4/2006, 3:56 pm EST

“Brain of J” (Yield)

Pearl Jam rocks!

johnnybegood | 12/4/2006, 3:57 pm EST

Must have Marker In The sand

awsome new song

Laura | 12/4/2006, 3:57 pm EST

Breath, Present Tense, Inside Job

Brian | 12/4/2006, 3:58 pm EST

Hmmmm…

Sad
Low Light
Breakerfall
Life Wasted
Come Back
Masters of War (2006 Version)
Present Tense
Thumbing My Way
Marker in the Sand
Parachutes

Please RS, don’t just throw Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy at us for the mix tape. They’re great albums but show some love for PJ’s “new” classics

Corduroyboy | 12/4/2006, 4:00 pm EST

I love this! The 06 Tour was incredible.

Kevin | 12/4/2006, 4:01 pm EST

“Big Wave,” “Life Wasted,” or “Marker In The Sand” from their newest, self-titled album.

Luke | 12/4/2006, 4:01 pm EST

its a good day. my 2 favorite bands are the top 2 on the list.. songs: Nothingman, Elderly Woman, Come Back, Given to Fly, and how can you not put Yellow Ledbetter?

Luke | 12/4/2006, 4:02 pm EST

its a good day. my 2 favorite bands are the top 2 on the list.. songs: Nothingman, Elderly Woman, Come Back, Given to Fly, In my Tree, and how can you not put Yellow Ledbetter?

c.addle | 12/4/2006, 4:03 pm EST

I Got Shit & Sad

Dave | 12/4/2006, 4:06 pm EST

I vote for a very moving, under-stated tune titled “Man Of The Hour”.

Goodbye for now

lala | 12/4/2006, 4:07 pm EST

Marker in the Sand
Light Years
In My Tree
In Hiding
All Those Yesterdays

1buj | 12/4/2006, 4:09 pm EST

Alive
Hard To Imagine
I Got Id

adam | 12/4/2006, 4:10 pm EST

the most awesomest pearl jam songs are:
black
severed hand
come back
alive

Christy | 12/4/2006, 4:12 pm EST

Hard to Imagine, Footsteps, RVM, Not For You

BrandonG | 12/4/2006, 4:12 pm EST

Three per album
1. Jeremy
2. Release
3. Alive
4. Indifference
5. Dissident
6. Rearviewmirror
7. courdoury
8. Tremor Christ
9. Last Exit
10. Hail, Hail
11. Red Mosquito
12. Lukin/Present Tense (they work together beautifully)
13. In Hiding
14. Do the Evolution
15. Wishlist
16. Nothing as it Seems
17. Insignifigance
18. Parting Ways (Live DVD version from touring band 2000, not album version, live is so much better.
19. Love Boat Captain
20. You Are
21. I Am Mine
22. Parachutes
23. Life Wasted
24. Inside Job
25. I Got id, not from an album, but must be included, one of their best, if not the.

Bobby Frenchfrie | 12/4/2006, 4:13 pm EST

Not For you.

Becca | 12/4/2006, 4:16 pm EST

Bestest song from “Pearl Jam”- Marker in the Sand.

Bestest songs from over the years:
In my tree, Leash, Sleight of Hand, Last Exit, Red Mosquito… i could go on and on…

Dave | 12/4/2006, 4:16 pm EST

Pearl Jam and Tool were the best rock shows of 06 for entirely different reasons.

Olivia | 12/4/2006, 4:17 pm EST

It’s impossible! Marker In The Sand, Bu$hleaguer, Porch, Dead Man Walking, Brother – and to the bloke that reckons PJ haven’t done anything good in a decade – the votes say it all!

“By faceless men, well, fuckers
He still stands”

BrandonG | 12/4/2006, 4:17 pm EST

Take off wishlist and put on given to fly.

Sean S | 12/4/2006, 4:18 pm EST

Porch

Mark(er) | 12/4/2006, 4:20 pm EST

1. Marker in the Sand
2. Low Light
3. Faithfull
4. Present Tense
5. Alive

Baba | 12/4/2006, 4:23 pm EST

Alive from Halifax, NS, Sept. 22, 2005.

A life-altering experience.

Matt | 12/4/2006, 4:24 pm EST

State of Love and Trust
Release
Why Go
Go
Comatose
Of the Girl
Save You

Trance | 12/4/2006, 4:24 pm EST

pearl jam sucks, eddie vedder is the most incoherent singer in the world. if i wanted to sing pearl jam for karaoke i would probably just gargle some water.

AK | 12/4/2006, 4:25 pm EST

What about Califone? Does anyone pay them any attention? Well, people should

boooshhh | 12/4/2006, 4:27 pm EST

LUKAS ROSSI 07!!!!!
BIG YOUR HELMETS

boooshhh | 12/4/2006, 4:27 pm EST

****BRING YOU HELMETS

Matty | 12/4/2006, 4:28 pm EST

Pearl Jam is the best live band I have ever heard. They are still amazing after all these years. EV is awesome and try playing guitar behind your head like Mike!

THEY ROCK!

boooshhh | 12/4/2006, 4:28 pm EST

AUGH
BRING ***YOUR HELMETS

casey | 12/4/2006, 4:28 pm EST

I Got Shit, Alone, In My Tree, Leash, Footsteps, Low Light, Given to Fly, Who You Are, Nothingman, Tremor Christ, Long Road, Black, Release, Rats, Indifference

kleh | 12/4/2006, 4:29 pm EST

>>>>why go

Shaun | 12/4/2006, 4:31 pm EST

Comatose
Brain Of J
Leash
Man Of The Hour
Sad

Mike | 12/4/2006, 4:39 pm EST

Breath
State of Love and Trust
Porch
Release
Inside Job
Footsteps

Seba | 12/4/2006, 4:40 pm EST

I got shit
Present tense
In hiding
Marker in the sand
Hard to imagine
Corduroy
Indifference
Undone

Ed Medfield | 12/4/2006, 4:42 pm EST

Jeremy

The latter half, instrumental part of the song is the best 2-3 minutes of recording Pearl Jam has ever done.

Bif | 12/4/2006, 4:45 pm EST

Porch

Keith | 12/4/2006, 4:46 pm EST

A few of my favorites:

Even Flow
Alive
Porch
Deep
Glor ified G
Rearview Mirror
Elderly Woman…
Cuorduroy
Better Man
Immortality
Hail Hail
In My Tree
Off he Goes
Faithful
All those yesterdays
Thin Air
Parting Ways
Love Boat Captain
I am Mine
Marker in the Sand

Big Dudee Roo | 12/4/2006, 4:48 pm EST

Off He Goes

Jeff | 12/4/2006, 4:49 pm EST

WOLFMOTHER or Mars Volta

hello | 12/4/2006, 4:53 pm EST

wolfmother isn’t american moron

Andrew | 12/4/2006, 4:54 pm EST

Do The Evolution
I Got ID
Yellow Ledbetter
Severed Hand

Provost99 | 12/4/2006, 4:55 pm EST

Hard to Imagine
Present Tense
Army Reserve
Breath
State of Love and Trust
Bugs
Sweet Lew

Brutus Beefcake | 12/4/2006, 4:57 pm EST

I got ID
Breath
Rival
Not For You
State of Love and Trust
Alone
Brother
Comatos e

Keith | 12/4/2006, 4:58 pm EST

I love both PJ and the Chili Peppers. But Pearl Jam’s self-titled album doesn’t even come close to competing with Stadium Arcadium. We weren’t supposed to vote on a band’s lifetime work, were supposed to vote on which band had the best album in 2006.

1979 | 12/4/2006, 4:59 pm EST

Smells Like Teen Spirit hahaha…

stip | 12/4/2006, 4:59 pm EST

Off he goes

Zach F. | 12/4/2006, 5:02 pm EST

Man of the Hour

Liz | 12/4/2006, 5:07 pm EST

Zach! yeah we did it! MotH. . .nice

I vote for sweet lew!1!one (kidding)

Seriously, In My Tree

yuppp!!!

Wes C. Addle | 12/4/2006, 5:14 pm EST

TO MANY TO NAME

rockstrsbaby678 | 12/4/2006, 5:22 pm EST

eddie vedder’s voice=hott sex. the rest of Pearl Jam=10x that

giorgio Lucchese (belgium) | 12/4/2006, 5:25 pm EST

I got shit, black, given to fly, inside job, immortality, animal, rvm,
rats, jeremy, comatose, life wasted,
i am mine, smile, in my tree, corduroy, fatal, man of the hour, long road, alive, spin the black circle, lukin, grievance, oceans(live!), release, wishlist, tremor christ, sad, footsteps, not for you and many many more…Pearl
Jam rules!!!

666 | 12/4/2006, 5:27 pm EST

PARIS HILTON!

PARIS HILTON!

PARIS HILTON!

PARIS HILTON!

max | 12/4/2006, 5:36 pm EST

jeremy.

jk

um… can’t keep

Rhiannon | 12/4/2006, 5:43 pm EST

State of Love and Trust
rearviewmirror
Man of The Hour

Ben.C.Addle | 12/4/2006, 5:49 pm EST

you love Pearl Jam: http://www.myspace.com/punksong7

PORCH
REARVIEWMIRROR
BET TER MAN
I GOT SHIT
WHO YOU ARE
GIVEN TO FLY
GRIEVANCE
CAN’T KEEP
BIG WAVE
U
DRIFTING
FATAL

BobbyL | 12/4/2006, 5:51 pm EST

Best PJ Song

Hard To Imagine

indifference

jared t | 12/4/2006, 5:52 pm EST

rearviewmirror

T Cell | 12/4/2006, 5:53 pm EST

Hold Steady were jobbed. PJ and RHCP haven’t been relevant to music in nearly 10 years. Must be weird to turn into what you use to rail against.

FWIW, Indifference or Yellow Ledbetter

alekz | 12/4/2006, 5:56 pm EST

severed hand

azwyldcats | 12/4/2006, 6:03 pm EST

Where were all the bandwagon jumpers during the No Code, Yield, Binaural and Riot Act days? Oh well, better late than never I suppose. Pearl Jam is the truth.

withoutrings | 12/4/2006, 6:05 pm EST

In Hiding

205! | 12/4/2006, 6:08 pm EST

Black
Yellow Ledbetter
Life Wasted
WWS
Present Tense
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter
Daughter
RVM
Nothin gman
In my Tree
Man of the Hour

Mato | 12/4/2006, 6:10 pm EST

Now, after this Top 5, why the fuck do you dedicate so many covers to pop or hip hop artists? Don’t you know already what good people likes?

Abookamongstthemany | 12/4/2006, 6:13 pm EST

I Got Shit
Tremor Christ
Release
Who You Are
In My Tree
All or None
Rearview Mirror
Whipping
Grievance
G one
Marker In the Sand
Garden
Down

Tester's Testies | 12/4/2006, 6:27 pm EST

Sad

bullets hurt | 12/4/2006, 6:29 pm EST

pearl jam??? how sadly narrow the vision of your voting readership. i thought they were good – in the 8th grade. anyway i guess their best songs are ‘plush’ and ‘arms wide open’.

Colin-io | 12/4/2006, 6:29 pm EST

ehm how about life wasted off of the new album!or gone!

after that we’re talking a shed load of amazing songs!that im not gonna bother listing!

charliemapleton | 12/4/2006, 6:36 pm EST

Artist:Busta Rhymes
Band:The Go! Team

CJ | 12/4/2006, 6:38 pm EST

Pearl Jam??????????
Why????

Billy | 12/4/2006, 6:43 pm EST

Severed hand

Ryan | 12/4/2006, 6:48 pm EST

Severed Hand

swineherder | 12/4/2006, 6:52 pm EST

i just saw Pearl Jam play in Honolulu, Saturday night. I’ve seen hundreds of hundreds of shows in my life (i’m kinda old), and i swear this one was one of the best. a great band on a great roll.

atomickidcup | 12/4/2006, 7:07 pm EST

severed hand
present tense

not4u10 | 12/4/2006, 7:07 pm EST

Inside Job
Footsteps
Sad
Green Disease
Grievance
Given to Fly
In My Tree
I Got Shit
Last Exit
Animal
Alive

crashedcar | 12/4/2006, 7:15 pm EST

Pearl Jam great band! How about unemployable or W.M.A. Funny how people are still upset that Pearl Jam is still around and good..quite a bit of jealous music fans

Darth Pop-Tart | 12/4/2006, 7:20 pm EST

LAST eXIT

Phil | 12/4/2006, 7:48 pm EST

Come Back and No Way

MC21 | 12/4/2006, 7:49 pm EST

Severed Hand

snoogins | 12/4/2006, 7:54 pm EST

uh…severed hand, gone, wws, marker in the sand, cant keep…theyre all within 10 years. maybe if you knew a newer song you would see people have been voting for them

devincarpenter | 12/4/2006, 7:54 pm EST

Bright eyes not even in the top three?! Wow.

World Wide Suicide

djmusicK | 12/4/2006, 7:56 pm EST

Porch (from 12-31-92 NYC bootleg)
Jeremy (from Atlanta 4-3-94 bootleg)
Brother(w/lyrics)
S mile
Go
Corduroy
Betterman(w/ It’s OK or Save It For Later tag)
Release
Footsteps
Why Go
Black (w/ We Belong Together ending)
Wasted Reprise/Life Wasted
Seven Years Gone/Words Seem Out Of Place/Fuck My in the Brain — Improvs
Out of My Mind

Actually, there are too many to name.

Scott | 12/4/2006, 7:57 pm EST

Present Tense
Daughter/(It’s OK)

snoogins | 12/4/2006, 8:00 pm EST

i will say this shows that pearl jam and rhcp are great bands that have longevity. it also shows how the music industry has tried to replicate these sounds but cant replicate the quality and longevity. im still waiting for a “movement” that is as relevant and can last more than 15 min.

snoogins | 12/4/2006, 8:01 pm EST

oh and this is “not for you”

Steve | 12/4/2006, 8:08 pm EST

I vote for “Given To Fly.” Such an amazing, beautiful song.

Sky Is A Landfill | 12/4/2006, 8:09 pm EST

Come Back
Daughter/It’s OK
Indifference
Faithfu ll

The fact that PJ got “Band of the Year” is just a testament to how much crap is out there right now, not to mention just how great this band really is.

Corduroy | 12/4/2006, 8:18 pm EST

Corduroy

Come Back | 12/4/2006, 8:19 pm EST

What!? No fair, Corduroy’s voting for itself. Oh yeah, Come Back hands down no contest…

robbie k | 12/4/2006, 8:24 pm EST

Anything off Yield…how bout “Brain of J”?

Guy | 12/4/2006, 8:27 pm EST

Yellow Ledbetter (live in glasgow version)

Anonymous | 12/4/2006, 8:35 pm EST

Breath

ell taliiii | 12/4/2006, 9:15 pm EST

yellow ledbetter, do the evolution,,brain of j, betterman, black,, love boat captain, (for the lyrics),, severed hand

rustyshackleford | 12/4/2006, 9:27 pm EST

Corduroy.

Black is a close close second.

Clem Halibut | 12/4/2006, 9:30 pm EST

Blood
Comatose
Animal
Go
N ot For You
Spin the black cirlce
Deep
Habit
Lukin
Gr eivence
Rival
1/2 Full
State of Love and Trust
Alone
Breath
Brain of J

BB King | 12/4/2006, 9:32 pm EST

1/2 Full
or
Red Mosquito
or
Yellow Ledbetter

marnr67 | 12/4/2006, 9:35 pm EST

i dont care if pearl jam won. they suck royal monkey cock. next to Coheed and Cambria they are america’s most overrated band.

Vic Cognac | 12/4/2006, 9:36 pm EST

How about….hmmmmmm…ummmmmmm.

wait……….ahhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhh

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh….. How about…..

Army Reserve !!!!

Boris | 12/4/2006, 9:38 pm EST

Comeback from the new album is pretty fitting

dj silly | 12/4/2006, 9:39 pm EST

severed hand
go
present tense
state of love and trust
immortality

Kash | 12/4/2006, 9:40 pm EST

Yellow Ledbetter, Do the Evolution, Black, or all of Vs.

master of puppets | 12/4/2006, 9:41 pm EST

severed hand
lukin
brain of j
blood
sad
porch

vitalogy | 12/4/2006, 9:42 pm EST

how about vitalogy, since it is the best album ever created

not for you
immortality
cordoroy
satan s bed
tremor christ

old school | 12/4/2006, 9:45 pm EST

since i am a fan of there first three albums

alive
porch
immort ality
animal
cordouroy
bett erman

Adam | 12/4/2006, 9:46 pm EST

State of Love and Trust
Rearviewmirror
I Got Id
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Nothingman
damn …where do I stop?

Laurens from Indonesia | 12/4/2006, 9:46 pm EST

The best band of 2006 is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Period.

yeaaaaaaastan | 12/4/2006, 9:48 pm EST

last exit
go
RVM
corduroy
porch
lea sh
rockin in the free world
indifference
brain of j.
mfc
untitled (live)
god’s dice
sometimes
in my tree
i got shit
hail, hail
daughter
elderly woman
LBC
life wasted
unemployable

Matt | 12/4/2006, 9:51 pm EST

porch, sleight of hand, can’t keep, i got id

back to basics | 12/4/2006, 9:53 pm EST

sorry indonesia been a big fan of RHCP from the get go. But there new album is not good. Although it is better then 90% of the garbage out there (nickelback, and the rest of the crap rock i keep hearing on the radio).

Marker in the sand
I got id
state of love

Mary V | 12/4/2006, 9:57 pm EST

RHCP is definitely my choice for band of the year…can’t wait until their 9 remaining tracks hit the net on the 19th. These guys truly deserve some recoginition!!! Stadium Arcadim is the best release since American Idiot.

meloncieguito | 12/4/2006, 10:00 pm EST

In Hiding!
That’s all Ive got to say…

Lizardjam | 12/4/2006, 10:16 pm EST

Porch.

tim | 12/4/2006, 10:29 pm EST

aye davanita

Missing Stipe | 12/4/2006, 10:38 pm EST

Where’s REM when we need them?

carlee | 12/4/2006, 10:40 pm EST

black.

JayNYC | 12/4/2006, 10:42 pm EST

OK, Pearl Jam? This explains a lot about the poster here.

scott | 12/4/2006, 10:50 pm EST

PEarlJam = the most vital yet grossly underated band of our time
RELEASE
ALIVE
WHY GO
BLACK
GARDEN
BREATH
REV IEW MIRROR
GO
RATS
LEASH
NOT FOR YOU
LAST EXIT
CORDUROY
BETTER MAN
PRESENT TENSE
IN MY TREE
SMILE
GIVEN TO FLY
FAITHFULL
BRAIN OF J
PARTING WAYS
SAVE YOU
THUMBING MY WAY
HALF FULL
WORLD WIDE SUICIDE
SEVERED HAND
MARKER IN THE SAND
COME BACK
INSIDE JOB

scottyt | 12/4/2006, 10:53 pm EST

“Awesomest” song off the self-titled album: “Severed Hand”

“Awesomest” song spanning their entire career: “Porch”

And to the people saying that Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers haven’t been relevent for 10 years…how exactly would you define “relevent?” If relevance is equal to Top 40 success, your idea of relevence is a sad and misguided one. They have been (and still are) making great music for the past 15 and 20+ years, respectively.

Also, although I am a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, “Stadium Arcadium” doesn’t quite equal “Pearl Jam.” Both have very good musicianship and melodies, but Anthony Kiedis’s lyrics pale in comparison to Vedder’s (and the other contributing band members on the album). With better lyrics and a little editing, Stadium Arcadium would be a near-masterpiece, but as it is, not quite.

Mike | 12/4/2006, 11:05 pm EST

From avacado:

Severed Hand

From ever:

Yellow Ledbetter

Allie | 12/4/2006, 11:08 pm EST

Dissident, Come Back and Inside Job, please.

MeddleDeal | 12/4/2006, 11:10 pm EST

THANK GOD Nickelback didn’t win…now that is HORRIBLE music!

Pearl Jam has a HUGE fanbase and I’m glad to be a part of it! :) Glad they also won too. FINALLY! Most underrated band around. People tend to forget that they put other albums out AFTER Vitalogy. This band makes music on THEIR own terms and not anyone elses. That is why they have such a huge fanbase.

Their self-titled took me a while to get into it, and absolutely LOVE it! I also love RHCP “Stadium Aracadium” as well. :)

But since we are discussing Pearl Jam songs…I have several:

I Got ID
Present Tense
Red Mosquito
Smile
Nothingm an
N ot For You
Marker In the Sand
You Are
Can’t Keep
All Those Yesterdays
Brain of J.
No Way
Do the Evolution
Indifference
Dissi dent
Thin Air
Parting Ways
Grievance

KwaKeeSirPeeNeeKu | 12/4/2006, 11:34 pm EST

Present Tense

nico1138 | 12/4/2006, 11:43 pm EST

From recent to classic:

-Comeback (PJ)
-Man of the Hour (Big Fish OST)
-Fatal (Lost Dogs)
-I Am Mine (Riot Act)
-No Way (Yeild)
-Smile (No Code)
-Courdury (Vitalogy)
-Indifference (Vs.)
-Deep (Ten)

I Hope they return to Latin America next year with the new album. last time was great!
The band and us singing along Ramones tunes…

zero | 12/4/2006, 11:52 pm EST

umm, the mars volta…

PJMONKEY | 12/4/2006, 11:55 pm EST

Greatest Band in the WORLD

PORCH
BLACK
IMMORTA LITY
IN HIDING
ALL OR NONE
SEVERED HAND

Seth P. | 12/5/2006, 12:30 am EST

yellow ledbetter

elderly woman

oedipus | 12/5/2006, 12:45 am EST

Off he goes….seriously, listen to it again

oedipus | 12/5/2006, 12:46 am EST

Off he goes…

seriously

Siddharth. | 12/5/2006, 1:06 am EST

• Long Road
• All or None
• Black (any live performance)

patrick | 12/5/2006, 1:40 am EST

masters of war (@ benaroya hall)!!!

Steve | 12/5/2006, 1:42 am EST

Yellow Ledbetter

PJ gets what they deserve | 12/5/2006, 1:47 am EST

Being a fan for so long, and to once again see them on top of the music lists, wow.
Faithful
Marker in Sand
Cant Keep
Hail Hail
Insignificance
Present Tense
Last Exit
I Got Shit
Corduroy
Whipping
Rearvie wmirror
Gone
Given to Fly
Leatherman

utopiajoe1 | 12/5/2006, 2:01 am EST

the greatest live band deserves a live “mixtape” with the perfect pj concert setlist:

preset–> throw your arms around me (ed solo)

of the girl
in my tree
interstellar overdrive –> corduroy
worldwide suicide
grievance
hail, hail
not for you
comatose
state of love and trust
untitled –> mfc
i got shit
severed hand
sad
rearviewmirror
–enco re break—
garden
leash
evenflow
breath
indifference
—2nd encore break–
life wasted
black
alive
baba o’ riley
yellow ledbetter

Thompel | 12/5/2006, 2:09 am EST

Smile

spencer | 12/5/2006, 2:18 am EST

i voted for rhcp but i respect the decision, everybody loves pearl jam.

Jarred | 12/5/2006, 2:41 am EST

1. Porch MTV unplugged..OR 08/29/91
– RKCNDY: Seattle Ed goes nuts
jumps in crowd. OR better yet
Pinkpop 92 Ed goes way way nuts
jumps off Camera boom into
crowd..holy shit.

2. Rocking In the FreeWorld circa
95 Australia Dave Grohl on
drums..enough said

3. Indifference same concert as
above can u say “goosebumps”.
4. Not for You. SNL 1994..must see
5. Oceans MTV unplugged.
6. Release
7. Black= saddest lost love song
ever.
8. I got Id
9. Masters Of War
10.Garden
11.Blood
12.Cord uroy Bridge School acoustic.
13.I Am A Patriot
14.Last Exit
15.Long Road
16.Nothing as it seeems
17.Of the Girl
18.Once
19.Rearviewmirror SNL 92
20.Save You
21.Seven Years Waiting Improv 95
22.Spin The Black Circle
23.Tremor Christ
24.You Are

I probaly missed about 50 other great pj songs…but oh well..okay rolling stone try not to shit the bed here get these songs and wear it.
L8

Nikaido | 12/5/2006, 2:43 am EST

I’m going to have to go with “Porch.”

diane | 12/5/2006, 3:03 am EST

im not sure yet i just started to check out this type of music….yes,im old….80’s gal

foxymop | 12/5/2006, 3:09 am EST

in hiding
breath
blood
present tense
no way
down
you
come back
….
damn… can’t chose, use every song!

Trent | 12/5/2006, 3:10 am EST

Pearl Jam lives on with their (well deserved) legacy, but I don’t believe they should be crowned “band of the year”. This only shows the majority of those who read and participate in Rolling Stone are Pearl Jam fans, which isn’t very well deserved. I enjoyed the new album. It was a good step backwards to their roots, which is something very few bands can capture with success. There is much more to take into consideration though. Many other brilliant albums were released in 2006 (some of which received unnecessarily poor reviews on this here magazine.).
Damn it Rolling Stone, back in the day you were the poster child of a changing generation and a well respected music magazine. Now about a third of the reviews you put out are worth shit. I can only theorize the pure reason of the decline in record sales. So much of the music that is released right now is simple product placement and cleavage. What we, the consumers, are receiving is a collection of rappers rapping about themselves and rockers complaining about their lives with some tits and ass to keep our eyes dancing and our ears closed. There is little heart and pure passion left in…what I guess you could call pop culture. iTunes has helped as well. Now that we have the means to download a single song for a dollar, there is no reason to buy a full album of filler for one or two tracks. If mainstream bands were making great complete albums, then this wouldn’t be a problem.
All I’m saying is Pearl Jam had a good album, but not a spectacular year. I find it unfortunate that RS has the voice and ability to skyrocket careers of many artists that deserve their songs to be played and remembered decades from now, but instead we get “the guy who won American Idol this season” on the front cover. (you see what I mean, I can’t even remember their names now) I take everything I read here with a grain of salt, because I know there is more to be realized outside of the pages of RS. I wish you critics would get your shit together, and criticize yourself and what you are doing to this art we all love.

Cupidoman | 12/5/2006, 3:16 am EST

I love the results. PEARL JAM ROCKS!!!! RHCP and The Strokes also are champs!!! I respect MMJ and Tool as well.

bobjones | 12/5/2006, 3:59 am EST

State of love and trust!!!

Unstrung | 12/5/2006, 4:14 am EST

I Got ID
Given to Fly
In My Tree

Roberta | 12/5/2006, 4:43 am EST

98% of PJ songs are awesomest.
Anyway, mmhmmh…
- Black;
- Fatal;
- Nothing as it seems.
(alphabetical order).

Rawk | 12/5/2006, 4:53 am EST

Long Road Long Road Long Road. It is supreme ultimate number one superbest.

jason | 12/5/2006, 5:12 am EST

breath
state of love and trust
do the evolution
all or none
even flow
no way
life wasted

The Real Mike McCready | 12/5/2006, 5:32 am EST

One from each album (including 2 from Lost Dogs):

Black
Go
Last Exit
Present Tense
In Hiding
God’s Dice
1/2 Full
Yellow Ledbetter
Hard to Imagine
Come Back

rozza | 12/5/2006, 5:48 am EST

black

Off My Tree | 12/5/2006, 5:51 am EST

In My Tree
Off He Goes
& Masters Of War (@ benaroya hall)

Reeferchief | 12/5/2006, 6:04 am EST

Sonic Reducer
Sleight Of Hand
Sometimes
Off He Goes
Comatose
Spin The Black Circle

Kim | 12/5/2006, 6:44 am EST

Black
Immortality
Footsteps

Alive
I Got ID

SKU | 12/5/2006, 6:53 am EST

RHCP ? buahaha seniors hahaha they sukcs

Ash | 12/5/2006, 7:02 am EST

Brain of J

Jarrod Lowe | 12/5/2006, 7:12 am EST

It’s EVOLUTION, baby!

Do the Evolution.

SoonForgotten | 12/5/2006, 7:20 am EST

Pearl Jam is the best hands down. And no band that comes up with goofy-ass titles like “Stadium Arcadium” should win anything, ever.

Army Reserve
Sad
Severed Hand
All Night
Marker in the Sand
Otherside

Kramer | 12/5/2006, 7:31 am EST

-Sad
-Do the Evolution
-Black

Maggie | 12/5/2006, 7:35 am EST

I really like Pearl Jam but mainly because of their older material.
I can’t really listen to their newest album, though I tried a couple of times.
Rolling Stone magazine really praised it and said it was their best album ever, and that they’re more mature, etc., but it was just a great disappointment for me.
I think Vs. and Ten were their best albums and I like a couple of other songs from other albums but those were the two albums I could just listen to all the way through.

boom | 12/5/2006, 7:35 am EST

sometimes
hail, hail
who you are
in my tree
smile
off he goes
habit
red mosquito
lukin
present tense
mankind
im open
around the bend

HENRY FLORES | 12/5/2006, 7:52 am EST

Pearl is the best band.
Long live to them!!!

HENRY FLORES | 12/5/2006, 7:55 am EST

ALIVE
NOT FOR YOU
EVEN FLOW
INSIDE JOB
STATE OF LOVE AND TRUST
BLOOD
SMILE
YELLOW LEDBETTER
BLACK
NOTHINGMAN

Steve | 12/5/2006, 8:22 am EST

Here’s 10 of my favorites from PJ:

State of Love and Trust
Blood
Not For You
Better Man
Smile
Low Light
Parting Ways
Save You
Life Wasted
Come Back

matthew | 12/5/2006, 9:15 am EST

Cant keep
State of love and trust
Evolution
Corduroy
Co motose
Hail hail
Elderly woman
I got shit
Go
In hiding
Crown of thorns
Porch
Black
Rearview mirror
Lukin
Baba Oriley
Alive

dave matthews | 12/5/2006, 9:17 am EST

warehouse

rockstar | 12/5/2006, 9:18 am EST

Pete Doherty!

Italo | 12/5/2006, 9:25 am EST

Severed Hand
Given to Fly
Insignificance
RVM
Save You
Footsteps
Present Tense
Mankind
Do the Evolution
Grievance

8)

St. Robinson | 12/5/2006, 9:26 am EST

Seriously, I like Pearl Jam….but people really need to get over them. They’re really not THAT good.

No Hold Steady?
No Drive-by Truckers?
Better way of putting it-no f*cking new bands? You guys sound like a bunch of new school baby-boomers, instead of the 60s/70s being the only time music was good, now its the 90s. I love PJ and RHCP but come on, there are plenty of new bands that put out bettter albums this year. I bet you all love Nickelback too.

Dwight | 12/5/2006, 9:28 am EST

I Got Id, In My Tree, Immortality, Present Tense, Do the Evolution, Of the Girl, Parachutes, Unemployable, Marker in the Sand, Come Back, Parting Ways

MojoPin | 12/5/2006, 9:33 am EST

Here are a couple obscure ones mixed in with some classics:

Angel
Alone
Yel low Ledbetter
Breath
Black
Rele ase
Better Man
Alive
Marker in the Sand
Corduroy

Bas P | 12/5/2006, 9:34 am EST

I got every record of the Pearl Jam catalogue, except for most of their bootlegs. But I like Pearl Jam most when they do their slower stuff, I guess my top 3 would be:

3.Hard To Imagine
2.Off He Goes
1.Nothingman

but also anything on the second disc of Lost Dogs and anything from Live At Benaroya Hall!

oh yeah | 12/5/2006, 9:36 am EST

Does anyone like Tremor Christ? Am I the only one?

oh yeah | 12/5/2006, 9:39 am EST

and “immortality” is great too.

Unstrung | 12/5/2006, 9:45 am EST

Tremor Christ is amazing too.

anonynannananamous | 12/5/2006, 9:49 am EST

Once
Even Flow
Alive
Why Go
Black
Jeremy
Oceans
Por ch
Garden
Deep
Release
Go

Animal
Daughter
Glorified G
Dissident
WMA
Blood
RVM

Rats
Elderly Woman
Leash
Indifference
La st Exit
Spin The Black Circle
Not For You
Tremor Christ
Nothingman
Whipping
Pry, To
Corduroy
Bugs
Satan’s Bed
Better Man
Aye Davanita
Immortality
Hey Foxymophandlemama, That’s Me
Sometimes
Hail, Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree
Smile
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Present Tense
Mankind
I’m Open
Around The Bend
Brain Of J.
Faithfull
No Way
Given To Fly
Whislist
Pilate
Do The Evolution
Untitled
MFC
Low Light
In Hiding
Push Me, Pull Me
All Those Yesterdays
Breakerfall
Gods’ Dice
Evacuation
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Thin Air
Insignificance
Of The Girl
Grievance
Rival
Sleigh t Of Hand
Soon Forget
Parting Ways
Life Wasted
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Severed Hand
Marker In The Sand
Parachutes
Unemployable
Big Wave
Gone
Wasted Reprise
Army Reserve
Come Back
Inside Job

that’s about the best, probably, I guess, I donno..

Stip | 12/5/2006, 9:50 am EST

Alive, Corduroy, Given To Fly, Do The Evolution, Betterman, Immortality, porch, release, I Am Mine, World Wide Sucide, Yellow Ledbetter, Down, Comatose, Indifference

Ryan | 12/5/2006, 9:52 am EST

GRATEFUL DEAD JERRY LIVES ON

Helen | 12/5/2006, 9:54 am EST

It’s just so tough to pick and this list would change every week BUT Black and Alive HAVE to be on there, being the classics that they are. Now for my own personal taste:

Yellow ledbetter
Long road
World wide suicide
Save you
Once
Indifference
In Hiding
Sad
Undone
Para chute s

well, trying to summarise my favourites is just impossible.

BrokeNeck Nathan | 12/5/2006, 10:34 am EST

Top Three:
1.) Elderly Woman Behind the Counter of a Small Town

2.) Thin Air

3.) Oceans

…I know they are not as rockin’ as most of their other stuff, but I feel that is why this band is legendary.

PMan | 12/5/2006, 10:37 am EST

Four best in order:
LONG ROAD, IN MY TREE, PRESENT TENSE, INSIDE JOB.

whiskeyforthemasses | 12/5/2006, 10:40 am EST

Black
WMA
Rearview Mirror
Last Exit
Nothingman
In my tree
Off He Goes
Pilate
in Hiding
all those yesterdays
Nothing as it Seems
Insignificance
I am Mine
Thumbing My way
Severed Hand
Come back

Kurdt Kobain | 12/5/2006, 10:55 am EST

Aniaml hands down the best Pearl Jam song ever.

D. Fenbaker | 12/5/2006, 11:04 am EST

How do you choose the best Pearl Jam song ? It’s an impossible task

Here’s some of my favorite songs at the moment

1/2 Full
Animal
Not For You
Rival
Comatose
All or None
Army Reserve
Parting Ways
Comeback
Whipping
Brai n of J
Faithfull
Satan’s Bed
Blood
Go
Deep
WMA
Once
Why Go
Greivence
Slieght of Hand
Inside Job
Life Wasted

M. Volpe | 12/5/2006, 11:05 am EST

Do the Evoloution !!!

Scott Stapp | 12/5/2006, 11:05 am EST

Arms Wide Open !!

Abraham Higgenbottom | 12/5/2006, 11:10 am EST

IT’S EVOLOUTION BABY !!!!!!!!!!!

Douchie | 12/5/2006, 11:11 am EST

Of The Girl

Eddie Vedder's beard | 12/5/2006, 11:14 am EST

Given To Fly
Wishlist
No Way
Of The Girl
Nothing As It Seems
Marker In The Sand

Sherry | 12/5/2006, 11:15 am EST

Yellow Ledbetter is one of the only songs that I stop whatever I’m doing, to listen to. It moves me in a way that I can’t describe. Love it.

The Dude | 12/5/2006, 11:16 am EST

“Arms Wide Open”??
Haha. What a jackass.

Harry Baulz | 12/5/2006, 11:17 am EST

Anything off the new album, since Pearl Jam is the best band of 2006 and their self titled album is the best album of 2006.

Amazing feat for a band that has been around for over 15 years !!!

They are as relevant to American Rock as ever. And they haven’t had to sell themselves out or compromise their integrity one bit.

Pearl Jam’s entire catalog is incredible and they are not only one of the greatest American Rock Bands ever…But one of the Greatest Rock and Roll bands perriod.

Viva La Pearl Jam

Present Tense | 12/5/2006, 11:23 am EST

Porch, Release, Not for you, Betterman, Nothingman, Fatal, No way, Light years, Inside job, Love boat captain, Dead man, Sad, Marker in the sand, Evenflow, ….

ok, I can’t do this anymore.
All their songs belong to this list.
Whatever your list will be, I’ll be glad listening to it.
Loooooove Pearl Jaaaaaam.
Yes, Best band of 2006 and Best band of all time.

Nads | 12/5/2006, 11:26 am EST

They were ONCE the biggest band ALIVE.But then they kind of went IN HIDING. But their true fans stayed FAITHFULL to the band as they knew they were still LIGHT YEARS ahead and could RIVAL anything else that was on the radio.

Caleb | 12/5/2006, 11:28 am EST

Should’ve been the Chili Peppers

Pearl Jam to me isn’t as good as they used to be and the Chili Peppers are getting better and better

Mr. Vorhias | 12/5/2006, 11:34 am EST

Hooray, TV On The Radio!

logandahog | 12/5/2006, 11:47 am EST

“In Hiding” in honor of Mr. Stone Gossard.
“Nothing As It Seems” in honor of Mr. Jeff Ament.

Neil Young's Pick | 12/5/2006, 12:22 pm EST

Let’s go with what got them here for most Awesomeist…Evacuation…Just fooling…

Alive.

Set List:30 Great ones.

Release
Sometimes
C orduroy
Faithful
Hail,Hail
Life Wasted
I Got Sht
Breath
Nothing As It Seems
Last Exit
Dissident
Porch
MFC
C an’t Keep
Comatose
Oceans
Presen t Tense
Army Reserve
GO
Insignificance
D o The Evolution
Gone
Elderly Woman/Small Town
Love Boat Captain
In My Tree
Marker In The Sand
Smile
Alive
Immortalit y
Indifference

Chorus:
WW Suicide
Evenflow
I AM Mine
Dead Man Walking
Black
Betterman
Kee p On Rockin’ In The Free World.

Detroit2NYC | 12/5/2006, 12:23 pm EST

Black, Throw Your Arms Around me, I got ID, Alive, Footsteps, All or None, Come Back, Porch, Given to Fly, Garden, Do the Evolution, I Am Mine, Sonic Reducer, Oceans, Rats, Leash, Rearview Mirror, Nothingman, Release….uh sorry, I could go on for hours! :)

Detroit2NYC | 12/5/2006, 12:24 pm EST

Some of my favorites:
Black, Throw Your Arms Around me, I got ID, Alive, Footsteps, All or None, Come Back, Porch, Given to Fly, Garden, Do the Evolution, I Am Mine, Sonic Reducer, Oceans, Rats, Leash, Rearview Mirror, Nothingman, Release….uh sorry, I could go on for hours! :)

Neil Young's Pick | 12/5/2006, 12:25 pm EST

I left off a great tune in Given To Fly because I’m still pissed that Jimmy Page made an issue out of it and then proceeded to sell out Kashmir to Puff Daddy of all people.

charliemapleton | 12/5/2006, 12:25 pm EST

Evenflow
Alive
Jeremy

Watchu know about that?

Brian | 12/5/2006, 12:29 pm EST

Caleb | 12/5/2006, 11:28 am EST

Should’ve been the Chili Peppers

Pearl Jam to me isn’t as good as they used to be and the Chili Peppers are getting better and better

++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++

What? Pearl Jam keeps getting better and better. The RHCP have put out 3 albums in a row that sound EXACTLY alike (4 if you count SA as 2 albums).
Pearl Jam wins in songwriting, creativity, live concerts, and just about everything else. The only thing the Chilis lead in are Top 40 Hits and songs about California. I get it…you’re from California, anything else to say?

el barto | 12/5/2006, 12:45 pm EST

i think that like other people say it first, you have to make a live mixtape of pj…
here are some options…
1. long road (virginia beach 00)
2. corduroy (gorge 05)
3. hail hail (santa barbara 03)
4. god’s dice (showbox 02)
5. animal (vma 93)
6. grievance (tampa 00)
7. nothing as it seems (polonia 2)
8. severed hand (snl 06)
9. in hiding (poland 2, 00)
10. given to fly (gorge 06)
11. daughter/it’s ok (jones beach 00 or virginia 00)
12. e-flo (moore theater 92)
13. tremos christ (detroit 00)
14. marker (astoria london, 06)
15. betterman (nyc 03)
16. big wave (san diego 06)
17. sleight of hand (polonia 2 00)
18. garden (manchester 00)
19. rvm (las vegas 93)
20. encore break
21. of the girl (san sebastian 00)
22. porch (las vegas 93)
23. alive (pinkpop 92 or seattle 2, 00)
24. once (verona 00)
25. black (off ramp 90)
26. small town (gorge 05)
27. leash (moore theater 92 or pinkpop 92)
28. fuckin’ up (paris-bercy 00)
29. ritfw (camden 03 or vma’s 93)
30. yellow ledbetter (hamburg 00)

some are left behind… i couldn’t put all the songs i had intended to put…
PJ IS AND ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE BEST ROCK BAND AND THE BEST LIVE ACT !!!!

Bertha Boomer | 12/5/2006, 12:51 pm EST

The Red Hot Chili Peppers ??
Are you on Crack ??
Stadium Acadium is Garbage !!
Can they be bigger sell outs ??

Pearl Jam Rocks !!

Deep
Why Go
Rats
Blood
Satan’s Bed
Not For You
Habit
Red Mosquito
No Way
Do the Evoloution
Rival
Evacuation

Greivance
1/2 Full
Save You
Comatose
Life Wasted

Neil Young | 12/5/2006, 12:54 pm EST

I got ID is a pretty good song. I play guitar on it too : )

Big Daddy K | 12/5/2006, 12:59 pm EST

Come back IS the song

Beavis and Butthead | 12/5/2006, 1:00 pm EST

Butthead: “Uh-Hey Beavis”

“Songs about California Suck”

Beavis: “He He yeah”

“The Chili blow Peppers Blow”

Butthead: “Uh…Pearl Jam’s cool”

Beavis: “He He..Yeah”

Big Daddy K | 12/5/2006, 1:00 pm EST

Come Back is brilliant!

K-Man | 12/5/2006, 1:01 pm EST

Come Back is brilliant……..in an Allman Brothers Band type way!

Odys Coltrane | 12/5/2006, 1:13 pm EST

Pearl Jam sucks! Their only good album was 10.

James | 12/5/2006, 1:17 pm EST

30 song setlist (instead of doing term paper research):

Life Wasted (made the new album!)
Given To Fly
God’s Dice
Severed Hand
Even Flow (Montreal 03)
Present Tense
Grievances
Deep
Whipp ing
Big Wave
Undone
Do The Evolution
MFC
Not For You (Montreal 03)
1/2 Full (NYC 03)
Daughter
I Got ID
Porch
Blood (Boston III 03)

All Or None
All Those Yesterdays
Man of the Hour
In Hiding
Unemployable
Insignif igance
Inside Job

All Night
Hard To Imagine (If I get one vote, this one is it)
Alive (Montreal 03)
Yellow Ledbetter (Ottawa 05)

Bevan | 12/5/2006, 1:53 pm EST

Wash
Present Tense
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Save You
Not For You
Given To Fly
Black (Unplugged Version)
Parachutes
Nothing as it Seems
Marker in the Sand

Pearl Jam is amazing.

Jeff | 12/5/2006, 1:59 pm EST

Wow!!!! I’m so proud of PJ – Been my favorite band for many, many years and it seems I’m not alone at all; Great to see this widespread respect for one of the only bands left who’s music is life altering. Seeing Pearl Jam is a religious, uplifting experience that everyone see at least once in their life (sort of like traveling to Mecca if you’re a Muslim!!)
Anyhow, favorites:
Why Go, Alive, Black, Leash, Indifference, Animal, Daughter, Spin the Black Circle, Immortality, Whipping, Yellow Ledbetter, In My Tree, Off He Goes, Red Mosquito, IN HIDING, Given to Fly, Do the Evolution, Brain of J, Soon Forget, Grievance, Leavin’ Here, You Are, I Am Mine, All or None, Life Wasted, Marker in the Sand, and COME BACK (a truly incredible song)

sllim | 12/5/2006, 2:08 pm EST

Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

Jerome Turner | 12/5/2006, 2:14 pm EST

Hey everyone…wow a great turnout for voting, I’m impressed with the masses…
So how about “Walking the Cow” as most awesomest.
Anyone remember that one?

See ya’ll soon…:)

Nathan | 12/5/2006, 2:53 pm EST

So, more people in America like My Morning Jacket than Tool huh? That’s a fucking disgusting reality.

DJ Diddles | 12/5/2006, 3:16 pm EST

ill pick one song from each album

Alive- (what other song not of the 70’s has a gnarly long awsome solo and is played on the radio awdatime)
Rearviewmirror
Yel low Ledbetter
Not for you
in my tree
do the evolution
light years (binaural is so underrated)
Love boat captain
man of the hour
Comatose
Hold On
Sad
F*ckin up

The Peppers Still are awsome
BloodSugarSexMagik is funktastik
and One Hot Minute is Underrated
There old stuff isnt all that good to be quite honest, some genuine good tunes but not until Fruciante and Smith came

Mindi | 12/5/2006, 3:32 pm EST

Yay PJ!!!
I can’t even begin to pick favorite songs.
Try to stay away from Ten tho, not that I don’t love it, but I think if people heard songs from something else they would fall in love with PJ too!
If I have to pick a favorite I guess it’s I Got Shit.
I’m sure I’ll be back and post more, LOL!!
Ok also have to add Red Mosquito, Present Tense, Sometimes, and Lukin, can you guess what I have been listening too???

clapton is god | 12/5/2006, 3:48 pm EST

whatever needs to be done to make you idiots get over My Morning Jacket I am willing and able to do.

manofthehour | 12/5/2006, 4:14 pm EST

People that say PJ hasn’t been relevant in the last 10 years should really borrow their last 4 or 5 albums and sit down, listen to the music and lyrics, then form an opinion.

TooMuchBlood | 12/5/2006, 4:53 pm EST

Off the top of my head, my fave 25 songs from the greatest band — really, defining what a band means in every way — ever to record and perform (note that four songs come from the new record, meaning that they’re still breaking ground):

Black
Corduroy
W MA
Given to Fly
In My Tree
World Wide Suicide
Do the Evolution
Whipping
Come Back
Animal
Hail, Hail
Present Tense
Love Boat Captain
Jeremy
In Hiding
Insignificance
Small Town
Indifference
Alive
Sev ered Hand
Off He Goes
Parachutes
Sad
You
On ce

Dakota | 12/5/2006, 4:56 pm EST

Rock on My Morning Jacket. Why must people bad mouth bands all the time? Just cause ‘your band’ didnt win doesnt mean the one ahead of them is shit. Its a fucking poll. Its good to see someone not so widley known such as My Morning Jacket to appear below national headlining acts like PJ and RHCP. MMJ are the most versatile and energetic and talented acts out there right now. I enjoy all of the bands that made it, and whoever thinks the last 3 Chili albums sound the same is crazy. With the exception of Stadium Arcadium, not my favorite, but By the Way and Californication are musical masterpieces.

World's Biggest Rock Fan | 12/5/2006, 4:59 pm EST

I think they have atleast 100 songs that are a true masterpiece. I’ll choose Do The Evolution since I just heard it on the radio!

LoveEdVed | 12/5/2006, 6:00 pm EST

When people say cliche things about songs changing your life . . . I smile because “Black” absolutley changed mine.

Brian | 12/5/2006, 6:07 pm EST

I’ll just recommend a couple (even though I love the entire discography).
New Jam: Parachutes
Classic Jam: State of Love and Trust

Matt | 12/5/2006, 6:12 pm EST

“Clapton is god”, you are probably going to have to kill me. My Morning Jacket, along with TV on the Radio, is one of the most innovative bands out there right now. And no other band has as much passion for live performance as they do right now. It is your comment that is idiotic, not the My Morning Jacket fans.

LoveEdVed | 12/5/2006, 6:28 pm EST

. . . and state of love and trust, life changing.

Best Pearl Jam songs: | 12/5/2006, 7:13 pm EST

Yellow Ledbetter
Immortality
Off He Goes
Corduroy
In My Tree
Sleight of Hand
Light Years
Nothing as it Seems
Nothingman
Rearviewmir ror
Black
Given to Fly
Do the Evolution
Wishlist
Betterman
1/2 Full
Can’t Keep
Life Wasted
Severed Hand
Come Back
Footsteps
Sad
Fatal

Best Pearl Jam songs: | 12/5/2006, 7:14 pm EST

and Alive of course. And even Flow & Porch & Daughter

alive | 12/5/2006, 7:35 pm EST

Can’t believe st. robinson is comparing pearl jam with nickelback. If you think they are the same type of band you have no clue about music. (It is like comparing Radiohead to coldplay but worse.)

hard to imagine
sad
go
help, help (ya that’s right not a typo)
insignificance
present tense

eddy | 12/5/2006, 7:45 pm EST

No matter how cold the winter, there’s the spring time ahead

killermongoose | 12/5/2006, 8:56 pm EST

Corduroy and In Hiding are the two best, although Inside Job is now up there.

Luke | 12/5/2006, 8:58 pm EST

i almost forgot about ‘throw your arms around me’, real good. Fatal as well. Given to Fly remains the best, and most beautiful.

uptodate | 12/5/2006, 9:00 pm EST

severed hand
state of love and trust
i got id
in my tree
animal

Natalina | 12/5/2006, 10:28 pm EST

Favorite Pearl Jam song…that is really tough…because they are my favorite band of all time…State of Love and Trust, Black, Go, Once, Red Mosquito, Brain of J, No Way, All Those Yesterdays, Hard to Imagine, Off He Goes, Parachutes…

Natalina | 12/5/2006, 10:29 pm EST

Oh yea, Grievance is one of my favs as well!

zwillam | 12/5/2006, 10:37 pm EST

in my tree
off he goes

ycartrob | 12/5/2006, 11:00 pm EST

clapton is god, if you move to a desert island so we’ll never hear from you again, then I’ll be over MMJ.

Owen H. | 12/5/2006, 11:16 pm EST

Sad
State of Love and Trust
Brain of J.
Not for You.
Immortality.

sean | 12/5/2006, 11:29 pm EST

The Raconteurs should have put their cd as a totaly live cd, and no band of 06 would be able to touch it.
Pearl Jam still around? hmmm interesting

Dieselking | 12/5/2006, 11:30 pm EST

Rearviewmirror

drew21 | 12/5/2006, 11:47 pm EST

Black
Small Town
Daughter/(It’s OK) [Live]
Given To Fly
Alive
Corduroy
Rearview mirror
I Got Shit
Footsteps
Off He Goes
Gone
Release
Betterman /(Save It For Later) [Live]

stevo | 12/5/2006, 11:56 pm EST

rearviewmirror
severed hand
hail hail
lukin
spin the black circle
animal

Jason | 12/6/2006, 12:23 am EST

I don’t really care for Pearl Jam, although I respect them. “Stadium Arcadium” is unbearably boring. My Morning Jacket is great, but what did they do this year? The Strokes made an unbelievably disappointing and commercially fledgling release this year. Tool’s only pretty good.

That leads me to TV On the Radio, who are the REAL best band of the year. I love “Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes”, but “Cookie Mountain” improves on it in every way. It’s a brilliant, complex album, and I really admired RS for rating it so high when it was released. “Wolf Like Me” is the most thrilling song of the year, too.

Other artists to consider:
The Hold Steady
Sunset Rubdown
Clipse

Joe R | 12/6/2006, 12:47 am EST

“Go”…best Pearl Jam song of all time.

top 10:
-Go
-Animal
-Off He Goes
-Hail Hail
-Faithful
-Evenflow
-Brai n of J
-Corduroy
-In My Tree
-Glorified G

Mono | 12/6/2006, 11:21 am EST

Gotta go with “Immortality” — the version from Live at Benaroya is absolutely stunning!

Chilli McNapsack | 12/6/2006, 12:24 pm EST

down with the powers that be… put your fist in the air and keep on keepin on…

Last Exit
Red Mosquito
Satans Bed
Lukin
Severed Hand

Matt | 12/6/2006, 12:31 pm EST

What did My Morning Jacket do this year? It seems, judging by this poll, they have probably at least doubled their fanbase this year, opening for Pearl Jam and their own headlining tour. They had a huge show at Bonnaroo and were at every other major festival. They also released probably the best live album of the decade, as well as the best Concert DVD of the decade. I’d say it was a big year. Jason, I agree with TV on the Radio. They would come in #2 in my book. I thought the entire top five were good picks, but RHCP would be at the bottom of those, because Stadium Arcadium just wasn’t that great.

Crashcow | 12/6/2006, 2:20 pm EST

Following Brian’s lead -
New: “Inside Job”
Old(er): “Given to Fly”

Oh, and Ben Harper released a fantastic album this year…

dedvw | 12/6/2006, 8:42 pm EST

Fatal

knitted | 12/9/2006, 4:52 am EST

save u is one of my favourites.

walking the cow,masters of war, throw your arms around me – these are NOT pearl jam songs, duh.

jonny375 | 12/16/2006, 4:54 pm EST

jonny814

Saulo (Brazil) | 12/19/2006, 9:42 am EST

Pearl Jam Rules!
Is the most important band of the last 15 years, and one of the best band ever had.
Excellent lead singer, Vedder vocal is great! The last rock star!

BK | 12/22/2006, 8:41 pm EST

Boy, I am so happy to see this! They so deserve it. Will this be out on hardcopy magazine coz I would like to purchase a copy….

Dipesh | 12/25/2006, 10:59 pm EST

Sleight of Hand. or, Alone… or..Get Right…

By the way,..I think RIOT ACT is their best album.. genius album,,,
Just listen to it attentively..you will love it…

marty man | 12/28/2006, 6:32 am EST

15 outstanding PJ songs from the last three albums:

Inside Job
Army Reserve
Unemployable
Save You
You Are
Get Right
Breakerfall
Insig nific ance
Marker In The Sand
Big Wave
All Or None
Of The Girl
Severed Hand
Comatose

Felipe (Chile) | 2/3/2007, 11:43 am EST

This is great, they deserve it =D

intheflesh? | 2/5/2007, 5:39 pm EST

Rrowr | 12/4/2006, 3:47 pm EST

I think it says a lot about the state of American rock that a 15 year old band got “best band” and no one has suggested a song that’s newer than 10 years old to rep them.

Y’all need to get with the now, man. Even everyone here knows that Pearl Jam hasn’t done anything good in a decade.

IDIOTIC WORDS FROM AN OBVIOUS IDIOT!!!

Raoul (Belgium) | 2/5/2007, 5:45 pm EST

Pearl Jam deserves this. They put on the best lives shows ever.

State of Love and Trust
Animal
Come Back
Inside Job
Present Tense
Faithfull
In My Tree

yahamita | 2/5/2007, 6:00 pm EST

AWESOME! It’s about time Pearl Jam got the recongnition they so deserve. They are the only band that is able to take me on an emotional rollercoaster ride through my soul just from hearing Ed’s emotional stories. this is one band that everyone must see live. The fan participation is incredible during live shows.

Celine | 2/5/2007, 7:27 pm EST

TREMOR CHRIST!
Garden
Corduroy
Imm ortality
I GOT SHIT!
PORCH!
SOLAT
Severed Hand

I have loved them for the last fifteen years and I will continue to love them forever…
Nothing’s more exciting than a Pearl Jam show…

rockymountainsteamclean | 2/5/2007, 10:59 pm EST

So many amazing songs, i could list em all…

old: release

new: love reign o’er me

bookmuse | 2/5/2007, 11:17 pm EST

Marker In the Sand
Tremor Christ
Release
Corduroy
Who You Are
Given to Fly
State of Love and Trust
Breath
Sad
I Am Mine
Grievance
I Got ID

RyFly | 2/5/2007, 11:19 pm EST

Great pick!

Release
World Wide Suicide
Severed Hand
Comatose
Given to Fly
Corduroy
Hail Hail
Save You
Come Back
Blood

and…
Encore Break, heh.

jonny20 | 3/5/2007, 12:42 pm EST

jonny9

JIMbO | 4/13/2007, 3:51 pm EST

Alive
Light years
Even Flow
Betterman
Nothing man
Immortality
Daughter
Gi ven to Fly
Yellow ledbetter

I’m in love with Eddie Vedder. We were but stones, his light made us stars.

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