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What Is your All Time Favorite Pearl Jam Song And Why
angelbaby
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Hi everyone please tell me your favorite all time pearl jam song and why its your favorite....
I was born at night but it wasn't lastnight
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I'm Roma (ethnic Gypsy..we are an ethnic minority, not a lifestyle...and "Gypsy" is a slur) and often our folk are referred to as filthy rats. Much of what is in the song is what people say we are/do. But we "don't compare", hence why this is my favourite song.
Philly 1 and 4 (2009)
Newark (2010)
MSG 1 (2010)
Toronto 1 and 2 (2011)
Brooklyn 1 and 2 (2013)
Philly 2 (2013)
Greenville (2016)
Columbia (2016)
MSG 2 (2016)
Fenway 2 (2016)
EV NJPAC (2022)
MSG (2022)
Denver (2022)
The former has been with me for a few years and represents how I seem to be put-together and adjusting but in reality, everything that I've adjusted to is dysfunctional. But it's all I have, so it's 'home' to me. And besides the lyrical content itself, there's something so unbearably haunting and emotionally stirring in the melody and Ved's delivery that I can rarely listen to it and remain dry-eyed.
The latter has been with me almost as long as Nothing.... It represents how I feel about myself, my life and social dealings with other individuals (especially those of the opposite sex) in general. And in some way, it represents how I see Vedder and all that he's unknowingly done for me. I paid the price, never held you in real life.
They all remind me of my life, in one way or another
Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
I Got Shit is an obvious one (I don't like naming it I Got Id). Mostly because the lyrics seem to describe my feelings about a specific relationship I had.
Release, S.O.L.A.T and Off He Goes are part of this list also.
Black is amazing, it describes a relationship I once had. We never dated or anything, but I so wanted to. I don't think she ever saw me that way. "I know some day you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star. In somebody else's sky, but why? Why? Why, can't it be, why can't it be mine." I still have more feelings for her than I should. She's engaged to be married on 7/11 this year. We still talk over text message every now and then but we are not as close as we once were.
Inside Job really hits home because I was down in many respects of my life and this song describes to me what needs to be done first. You work on yourself first and everything else will fall into place. "I will not lose my faith. It's an inside job today. Holding on the light of night. On my knees, to rise and fix my broken soul. Again."
Thanks to Pearl Jam for all their works but especially for these two. I will cherish these two songs for all time.
Same for me, in exact same order
guess i have to put that on there too...workin on gettin a tree bending tatt.
will be glorious
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Release and Nothingman.
Release is one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard in my life...from the first note to the last, I can't help but sing, and just feel the emotion in every second of that track...I also feel like I can relate to it. Not in the way that a lot of other people can, by losing there father, but it just makes me think about my relationship with my own dad, and other family members that have been lost and feeling grateful that he's still around, and that I've had the chance to make the memories that I have, and ones that are to be made.
Nothingman...the song is just beautiful. I love the lyrics, the music, and the overall message. If you love someone, and they love you back...don't fuck it up.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
that could be my favorite quote
why..
just because its so damn cool
great lyrics, brilliant vocal, great riff, just a f****in classic rock song
That song, almost singlehandedly, saved me. In a period of my life where everything was black....it was the only hand that I felt was reaching out to me and could comfort me. It was the only thing I could relate to.
Quite simply, it's one of the biggest reasons I'm still here.
EV - St. Louis 7/1/11 ** Tulsa 11/19/12
The reason I love Black, and all of the others, is because I believe that all of these songs express feelings that I have had, in ways that I wish I could have expressed them myself.
After a friend died, I tried to think that he was in Heaven and that it was going to be awesome, but I couldn't help thinking what is said in Light Years: "And wherever you've gone, and wherever we might go, it don't seem fair, you seem to like it here."
Can anyone think of a better lullaby than Around the Bend?
And anybody that has ever felt down in a hole, like there was no reason to keep going and that there was nothing good that could possibly ever happen in the future after such bad things had happened, can relate to Present Tense. How beautiful are the first few lines, describing exactly what many people needed to hear in order to pick themselves up and give it another go, but describing it in such a way that was so simple, yet so beautiful that nobody ever thought to say it quite that way. "Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire? Leaning out to catch the sun's rays, a lesson to be applied..."
Every day I am thankful for a lot of things, but one thing that I always be thankful for is the fact that somebody introduced me to Pearl Jam. I think that anybody who listens to music for the right purpose is obligated by reason to love Pearl Jam (I believe the right reason to listen to music is to find some type of connection that comes with hearing a song that tells you that you aren't the only person with that feeling, whether it be happiness, sadness, fright, despair, anger, joy, satisfaction, etc.)
I am sorry that this is a long post, but it is a subject that I really got hooked into talking about. I have always said that it is amazing to me that somebody could write a song, like Black, that would cause people to say that it is part of the reason that they didn't kill themself. That is the most awesome thing I can think of-- that someone's words could be so powerful so as to help another person in their must vulnerable time.
I would love more than anything to some day be in a band like Pearl Jam, not for the money, or the fans, or all of those things (I won't lie, a ten million dollar record deal would be nice), but the thing that would touch me the most is if I was able to write a song that could help somebody in that big of a way.
I can't think of anything more powerful than music, and especially Pearl Jam music. Each song is "A lesson to be applied" in its own way. I hope everyone has been moved to tears by at least one song in their life time, that's what music is for. PEACE.
What's your favorite song angelbaby?
I love indifference. Who hasn't felt that before-- "How much difference, does it make?"
"And I fight back in my mind, never lets me be right
I got memories I got shit, so much it don't show..."
Can't Keep - Describes personally where I'm at right now. I love the lyrics...
"Forgive, every being
the bad feelings, its just me
I won't wait for answers, you can't keep me here..."
"I can see things so much clearer, not that you are in my Rear View Mirror."
Speaks volumes to me!!!!!
Ed's voice and the music are great, but the lyrics are the main reason why I love this song.
It's growing up just like me.
Thank you Eddie, Stone, Jeff, Mike and Matt for all the inspiration of my sincerely inspired life.
Damn skippy.