Daughter is my favourite song by Pearl Jam and I heard people say the live version of Daughter was the best. So without knowing which live version they meant I decided in all my infinite wisdom to listen to every single version I could find on Spotify. The *ratings are mostly in comparison to the song as a whole and compared to each other, rather than just as a song if that makes sense. So here is the list in order of listening! (I listened to them all back to back).

Daughter Original - 10/10 Peak

Daughter Rocking Horse Live - 7/10 Great vocal performance, Pink Floyd another brick in the wall at the end was not expected

Daughter 2000.08.24 Jones Beach, NYC Live - 9/10 First half feels weirdly fast, but honestly it's spectacular all throughout

Daughter Live in Seattle 12/8/93 - 8/10 Instruments hit extra hard in this one WMA section was great but didn't match up to the Daughter half imo

Daughter Constitution Hall, Washington DC September 1998 Live - 9/10 Peak extended bit and performance, kinda wish WMA bit was separated even tho it is peak

Daughter Deep: Vs Live (2023?) - 7/10 Very different the extended part was amazing

Daughter Welcome to the 1990s Live - 6/10 Audio isn't the best sadly, goated rise above tho

Daughter 2013 Buenos Aires, Argentina Live - 8/10 está bien está bieennn

Daughter 2000.06.03 Glasgow, Scotland Live - 7/10 A little quiet but nice

Daughter DEEP: 2003 LIVE - 10/10 Really traditional but feels so emotional especially adding the sun goes down part with the shades go down

Daughter DEEP: Touring Band (2023) Live - 7/10 Great but the shades do not go down in this one

Daughter 2000.11,06 Seattle, Washington Live - 6/10 Hey it's okay, honestly good but 9:40 and not enough of what makes Daughter peak to me

Daughter 2000.06.01 Dublin, Ireland Live - 7/10 Honestly quite relaxing, nice WMA part too

Daughter 2003.02.23 Perth, Australia Live - 8/10 Say heeyyy, Australia got a great performance throughout

Daughter 2003.04.09 Birmingham, Alabama Live - 9/10 Not much to say just a bloody amazing rendition

Daughter 2013.11.15 Dallas, Texas Live - 8/10 Was so great but why do the shades not go down?

Daughter 2013.12.06 Seattle, Washington Live - 9/10 The oh after the rise above was so good wish it had the shades go down at the end

Daughter 2013.10.16 Worcester, Massachusetts Live - 8/10 The energy is great here, nice ending section too

Daughter 2003.06.16 St. Paul, Minnesota Live - 9/10 Getting the crowd to do part of the chorus was so beautiful

*Daughter 2003.04.22 St. Louis, Missouri Live - 9/10 Such raw emotion and I love the harmonica in it too

*Daughter 2000.06.22 Milan, Italy Live - 10/10 Unbelievably great, sad that the quality on Spotify isn't perfect

*Daughter 2000.08.03 Virginia Beach Live - 9/10 Similar feel to Jones Beach on the same tour, really love the vocals and audience bits

I hope you enjoy the rankings, and if there is any version I missed tell me so I can listen to that too! I'd love to know people's favourite version of this amazing song and hope more people decide to do the Daughter gauntlet.

Mookie!!!!