Songs Made Better By Eddie Vedder

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  • Pharaohs Son
    Pharaohs Son Posts: 62
    Smellyman wrote:
    it will be blasphemy to some here...but I think he does Baba and Reing o''er me better than Roger.

    evidence:

    http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=100431&p=2320152&hilit=could+blow+Daltrey#p2320152


    shhhh
    I wont say nothing to Roger....
  • Jeremys Spoken
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  • traveljunkie
    traveljunkie Posts: 663
    I've always said that there wasn't a song I didn't like better when sung by Eddie, but JT's live version of Millworker just came on and I may actually prefer it to EV's. :o

    HOWEVER, I think State Trooper is soooooo much better when Ed does it. I can listen to his version over and over and over.

    I often wonder how Hallelujah would sound if he did it. I can't see it being as beautifully haunting as the Jeff Buckley version, but I think it could be pretty special.
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  • Backspacer_Backer
    Backspacer_Backer Posts: 1,023
    i agree with most of these

    my favs:
    throw your arms around me
    save it for later
    baba
    love reign
    (really any who song - like daltrey, LOVE vedder) no offense to roger, it's just that vedder's voice does more.
  • sagapo1
    sagapo1 Posts: 186
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    Any Yousuf Islam (Cat Stevens) song ED sings is GREAT. I would realy love to hear Ed give "FATHER and SON" and HARD HEADED WOMAN" a try or just call Yousuf (cat stevens) ISLAM and have a benifit show. They have a lot to cover. I love Yousuf (cat stevens) Islam.

    I love Cat Stevens too. I took a class in high school (way back when) called "Contemporary Thought and Issue." We watched a film (I don't remember what film) but Cat Stevens did all the music for the movie. I asked my teacher after class..., "Who's the singer?" My teacher just smiled and told me to get his records.
    What is it about Cat Stevens? He puts me in a trance.
    Anyway, good choice.
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  • Fahka
    Fahka Posts: 3,187
    edited September 2009
    any song he covers is instantly better :) I've always been super partial to Throw your Arms, It's Okay, I got you and Know your rights...
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  • PushinPaint
    PushinPaint Posts: 434
    okay here is my list! get excited.

    Split Enz - "I Got you" -
    The Ramones - "The KKK Took my baby away"
    Sly and the family stone "Every Day People"

    if you have not heard the above 3, i recommend you listen to them now

    others:

    The boys are back in town, Save it for later, It's Ok, Hard Sun, Everyday (Buddy Holly), Rockin' in the Free World, Baba, Don't be shy, Golden State (John Doe)

    i love all of these songs, and they are played regularly wherever I am, either via Ipod or stereo.

    I really, really want to hear "I Got You" in person
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,578
    Anything that man sings or band plays is instantly better than any song.

    Will never forget when i heard the original version of Crazy Mary :cry::cry::cry:
  • say_hi
    say_hi Posts: 313
    I like the Dead Kennedys version of Bleed for Me better than the PJ version. :)
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    I would like to hear Ed do Lloyd Cole's song "I'm Gone." Lloyd does a heck of a job with it himself, but I think it would sound great coming from Ed, too.

    http://www.lloydcole.com/music/thenegat ... .html#play
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  • PJFAN13
    PJFAN13 Posts: 1,422
    Ed's voice is so wide ranging he could cover "C is for Cookie" and it'd be great! With that being said, I'd love to see him/PJ cover the following:
    - "Thirteen" - Danzig (also covered by Johnny Cash)
    - "Fade To Black" - Metallica
    - "Like a Hurricane" - Neil Young
    - "Wild World" & "How Can I Tell You" - Cat Stevens
    - "Velvet Alley" - Strung Out
    - "Angry Chair" - Alice in Chains
    - "Nebraska" & "Shut out the Light" - Bruce Springsteen
    - "Ripple" - Grateful Dead
    - "Nodody's Fault But Mine" & "In My Time of Dying" - Led Zeppelin
    - "Stargazer" - Mother Love Bone
    - "The Spirit of Radio" - Rush
    - "Holiday in the Sun" - Sex Pistols
    - "Judy is a Punk" - Ramones

    Think Ed and the band would blast these out!!!
    11.30.93~10.2.96~9.13.98~9.1.00~8.25.00~7.3.03~7.5.03
    7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
    8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
    11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
    2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
  • autumn
    autumn Posts: 191
    sagapo1 wrote:
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    Any Yousuf Islam (Cat Stevens) song ED sings is GREAT. I would realy love to hear Ed give "FATHER and SON" and HARD HEADED WOMAN" a try or just call Yousuf (cat stevens) ISLAM and have a benifit show. They have a lot to cover. I love Yousuf (cat stevens) Islam.

    I love Cat Stevens too. I took a class in high school (way back when) called "Contemporary Thought and Issue." We watched a film (I don't remember what film) but Cat Stevens did all the music for the movie. I asked my teacher after class..., "Who's the singer?" My teacher just smiled and told me to get his records.
    What is it about Cat Stevens? He puts me in a trance.
    Anyway, good choice.

    The film has to be Harold and Maude. I absolutely love it! Eddie has said that the movie Harold and Maude's soundtrack by Cat Stevens was inspiration for him writing the soundtrack for Into the Wild. If you've seen both of these movies, you will believe it.
  • sagapo1
    sagapo1 Posts: 186
    autumn wrote:
    sagapo1 wrote:
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    Any Yousuf Islam (Cat Stevens) song ED sings is GREAT. I would realy love to hear Ed give "FATHER and SON" and HARD HEADED WOMAN" a try or just call Yousuf (cat stevens) ISLAM and have a benifit show. They have a lot to cover. I love Yousuf (cat stevens) Islam.

    I love Cat Stevens too. I took a class in high school (way back when) called "Contemporary Thought and Issue." We watched a film (I don't remember what film) but Cat Stevens did all the music for the movie. I asked my teacher after class..., "Who's the singer?" My teacher just smiled and told me to get his records.
    What is it about Cat Stevens? He puts me in a trance.
    Anyway, good choice.

    The film has to be Harold and Maude. I absolutely love it! Eddie has said that the movie Harold and Maude's soundtrack by Cat Stevens was inspiration for him writing the soundtrack for Into the Wild. If you've seen both of these movies, you will believe it.

    Really? I'll have to look into this. It'll take me back to 1988. How could I not remember that title? I know the movie made an impression on me as well, I just don't remember the details as to why.
    Hey, thanks though.
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  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I was at the Chicago solo shows last year when he covered Hurt...out of all of the millions of songs in existence, that's the last one I thought he would ever cover, and he did it beautifully. This was my husband and I when we heard him play the first few notes of it: :shock: :shock:
    Seriously, the man could cover just about any song and I'd think his version was good. I've loved all the covers they've done so far.
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  • .lovethepj.
    .lovethepj. Posts: 119
    I know I'm a bit biased, but my friend and I were talking about this the other day...I have to agree that Ed's/Pearl Jam's covers are better and usually more rocking than the originals.
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  • candleofthought
    candleofthought Posts: 897
    I really enjoyed PJ's Zepplin cover of "Fool In The Rain" that they did with Robert Plant at the benifit in 2005.
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  • corduroykelly
    corduroykelly Posts: 668
    Pharaohs Son wrote:
    Let's try it.....
    What songs do you think that Edddie Vedder can cover and make better. He's made so many already but there is more to discover. in addition' what PJ song do you think is their best live performance (VENUE AND DATE)?

    My fav's

    Bob Dylan's Forever Young Boston 06
    I heard him singing U2's "Streets with no Name" on Bunny With Fangs website.

    Your out of your mind no way Eddie Vedder does any U2 better than Bono!
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I'm sure there are a bunch of songs that Eddie makes sound better that we haven't heard yet. He probably just sings them at home. :? :D
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  • corduroykelly
    corduroykelly Posts: 668
    Ok wrote:
    greenmanny wrote:
    I'm a James Taylor fan, but Ed makes Taylor's "Millworker" ten times better.

    couldn't agree with you more...wasn't even a fan of millworker until last year's nyc show and then found his other versions of it. he does a great job with it.

    You guys are crazy Eddie Vedder's Millworker can't touch James Taylor's. No one can match the originality of James Taylors voice he is a legend. Eddie Vedder's version is so plain. No one can sound better than James Taylor playing James Taylor. That's just trying to be so pro pearl jam and pro Eddie Vedder........
  • corduroykelly
    corduroykelly Posts: 668
    corduroykelly wrote:
    Ok wrote:
    greenmanny wrote:
    I'm a James Taylor fan, but Ed makes Taylor's "Millworker" ten times better.

    couldn't agree with you more...wasn't even a fan of millworker until last year's nyc show and then found his other versions of it. he does a great job with it.

    You guys are crazy Eddie Vedder's Millworker can't touch James Taylor's. No one can match the originality of James Taylors voice he is a legend. Eddie Vedder's version is so plain. No one can sound better than James Taylor playing James Taylor. That's just trying to be so pro pearl jam and pro Eddie Vedder........

    Not to mention Eddie Vedder strums the song on guitar because he's not as good as James Taylor on guitar to play it like James Taylor with the plucking!

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