The song that inspired you?

JerFlow48
JerFlow48 Posts: 15
edited June 2010 in Words and Music...Communication
My song is Alive especially the solo made me wanna play guitar and now I am. I have sort of a spiritual connection with PJ's music. PJ's music gets me through hard times too.
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  • 37pheet
    37pheet Posts: 433
    welll there r many but the 1st is release, just because i had alotta pressure on me back then, and it seemed to fit. also ewbtciast, cause that is the song i asked my wife to marry me to. there are more but those 2 stick out the greatest.
  • Mawky1103
    Mawky1103 Posts: 311
    Started listening to PJ 5 years ago. One and only reason i picked up a guitar., haven't put it down since, and still listening.
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    In Hiding Helps me pretty often...
  • SprockeTee
    SprockeTee Posts: 108
    Corduroy

    still inspires me to push on & not give up. there's a certain mixture of anger, stubbornness, the desire to not give in plus sheer audacity & gall that i love about it. all the while acknowledging that no matter what happens we'll still lose control and eventually what will be, will be.

    Everything has changed. Absolutely nothing's changed.
  • Backspacer_Backer
    Backspacer_Backer Posts: 1,023
    so many.

    it's funny you say Alive inspired you to play guitar OP. I was listening to SAD last night and thought, man I would love to learn to play that riff.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,387
    Given to Fly always gives me a runner's high. It inspires me to enjoy the moment. It's like I'm flying with the angels. It's the best feeling!
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • theoceansmademe
    theoceansmademe Posts: 1,132
    Dissidentman wrote:
    In Hiding Helps me pretty often...

    Me too...this song is incredible and I am so happy they played it on my birthday 2008 camden I.
  • JerFlow48
    JerFlow48 Posts: 15
    Well Alive did make wanna play guitar but I relate it to the lose of my father in a way. A lot of songs from PJ kept me going though some hard times.
  • BD302001
    BD302001 Posts: 10
    The first six songs off of Ten inspire me. The pure emotion in those songs was like nothing I have ever heard all those years ago when that album came out, especially Black. Greatest love song ever written. That one and Alive make you wanna weep. Why Go is great for its anger, as is Once and Jeremy. Even Flow is just total energy from the first note. Great question. Too bad it is not getting more responses. Hopefully soon.
  • shinmasaliu
    shinmasaliu Posts: 36
    edited October 2009
    Given to Fly when I wanna feel like the world is MINE!

    Love Boat Captain and Inside Job seem to pick me up when I'm low, most of the time.

    I am Mine is a good confidence builder for me too :D
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    This is, this is ... my ... last exit.
  • shinmasaliu
    shinmasaliu Posts: 36
    Sorry for double post!

    Black is the deepest and most passionate thing I've ever heard. Footsteps is also sung with such heart, such feeling, it deserves a mention.

    I agree with Once being for anger.

    State of Love and Trust really gets to me when I'm alone and messed up.
    This is, this is ... my ... last exit.
  • mutobart
    mutobart Posts: 32
    just few days ago I listened to Black in the car after very bad day. it helped me so much

    I also feel much better with I am mine and Given to fly
    2006 Prague 2012 Prague 2014 Vienna
  • reubensfingers
    reubensfingers Posts: 12
    Depends on the mood really.

    When I'm feeling a bit angry with the world "Grievance", "Blood" or "Why Go" always helps as does "Evolution".

    In a reflective mood then its got to be "Nothing as it Seems" or "In My Tree"

    The most emotive songs for me are "Black" and "Garden"

    The most uplifting song has to be "Given to Fly" that song leaves me feeling happy and makes me feel that I could take on anything.
    I know I was born and I know that'll I die but the inbetween is mine!

    Wembley 2000
    Wembley 2007
    Manchester 2009
  • Got a hard hard head
    Got a hard hard head Posts: 638
    I Am Mine is very uplifting and makes me get a grip of myself.

    Immortality is the second song (after I Am Mine) that sparked a real connection with Pearl Jam. It's the first time that I've felt about a band as if they are there for us and we are there for them (if that makes sense!).

    Thumbing My Way makes me realise how lucky I am and kind of teaches you how the littlest mistakes can cause the most regret.

    Given To Fly doesn't really need an explanation.
    It's gonna be a glorious day...
  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    Definitely Amongst The Waves for me.
  • shinmasaliu
    shinmasaliu Posts: 36
    KevDylan wrote:
    Definitely Amongst The Waves for me.

    It's quite uplifting isn't it.

    I've reserved this song for when I've given up alcohol heh...

    Be screamin' it from the rooftops :mrgreen:
    This is, this is ... my ... last exit.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Nothingman reminds me of a time I vowed I'd never go back to.

    Given To Fly has helped me so many times to get over so many things. It always gives me strength.

    Light Years didn't really mean anything to me until my Dad died 6 weeks ago. I'm having "We were but stones... your light made us stars" included in my tribute tattoo for him.

    Alive is a song that reminds me of good times. Although it's not a happy song, hearing it makes me realise that things will always get better.

    Just Breathe's line "I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love, Some folks just have one, others they got none" reminds me and makes me grateful of how many good people I have around me and how lucky I am to be loved the way I am.
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Grandad
    Grandad Posts: 2
    As a male, who was sodomized from the age 12 - 14 by my father’s brother. I’m now aged in the mid-late fifties; there are a plethora of songs that fit various stages of my life. However there are 2 songs that have really inspired me.

    Black
    To my way of thinking Black’s lyrics are the best depiction of the emotional feelings, of one that has been sexually abused as a child. This inspired me to delve deeper into PJ’s music.

    Rearviewmirror
    For years I sang along knowing that I somehow had to pluck up the courage to do the same, whilst being sceptical of the clearer, clearer bit. Eventually on the 31st of September 2003 I jumped in the car with Rearviewmirror on repeat went to the police station and made a statement. Outside the station after wards I lit a smoke lent against a garden bed when this strange tingling in my shoulders and neck a feeling a large weight had been lifted, and for the first time in 37 years I felt good about myself.
    (The court proceedings didn’t go to plan but I expected that! The prosecutor told me at the start he wouldn’t be prosecuting perpetrator because of his age. Even though the perpetrator pled guilty! It was all over in 2006.)
    It is now 2009 and to my astonishment I cannot remember what is in the statement of 2003 not one sordid detail. For that I’m truly grateful to all of you.

    Looking forward to seeing you live at Etihad Stadium on November 20
  • PASSION76
    PASSION76 Posts: 136
    WOW, that's a hard one so many PJ songs have inspired me to hang on through some pretty hard times especially REARVIEWMIRROR. PJ has also inspired me to never give up on my dream to be the best drummer i can be and also be true to myself.
  • alohajlj79
    alohajlj79 Posts: 2
    The reason I am and will always be a diehard PJ fan, even if I don't like all of their songs, is purely because of TEN. It came out when I was 13 and going through some heavy stuff and Alive and Release were two that felt like they were written for me. Not to mention Footsteps, on the Jeremy CD single....then Daughter..there is a pattern here if you follow :-) But I am now a hopeful and strong independent person and didn't let all that childhood crap hold me down or be an excuse. I probably owe it to their music. To this day, I listen to them as if it's the first time. Hard to explain, but easy to feel. They just simply rock! My life wouldn't be the same without their words, music and heart.

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