Last kiss (Pearl Jam) (LP 3471 - 3472)

Pearl Jam  Lost Dogs: Rarities and B-Sides (CD, Epic Records, 2003) ****  

Pearl Jam  rearviewmirror (greatest hits 1991 - 2003) (CD, Epic Records, 2004) *****  

Genre: Rock

Places I remember: JB Hi Fi, Hope Collection

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Last Kiss (appears on both albums)

Gear costume: Spin The Black Circle (rearviewmirror)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Active compensatory factors: Two compilations to wrap up the Pearl Jam-a-thon. I love their classic rock sound, and their punk-ass attitude. Take on Ticketmaster? Sure - why not! It feels right. Gotta love 'em.

Lost Dogs is a double-disc collection of their best B-sides and other released (albeit in different versions) and unreleased rarities. AllMusic rates it because: the album benefits from what it chronicles: the loosest, hardest-rocking, most relaxed, and most intimate music the band cut. I agree. It's a fun collection.

Rearviewmirror I received from Lindsay Hope. I suspect it was Ashleigh's purchase. It's a superb two CD collection of all their best bits (titling it greatest hits - lower case - is them having a laugh).

The album's two discs are both devoted to different sides of the band's catalogue: the first disc, or Up Side, contains heavier rock songs while the second disc or Down Side features the slower songs and ballads.  

Where do they all belong? Taken together both sides of the band are presented brilliantly. Right. Time for a breather and then the P's continue.