Writing a paper about a Pearl Jam song

ryanrunning

okay for my composistion class we have to write our final paper about two pieces of art and how one influenced the other. Our teacher told us the art could be in type, print, music, actual pieces of art. I decided that I was going to do it on a Pearl Jam song and its most direct influence. I was thinking either Yellow Ledbetter to Little Wing, or Given to Fly to Going to California. Which do you think I should do, or do you have any other songs that were directly influenced by another one I should think about doing.

pax

ryan

Stephen Flow

can you really write a lengthy paper about something like this?

jmuth

How bout Save You to Fuckin' Up

ryanrunning

It only has to be 3-5 pages double spaced, this is the shortest paper I've had to write all year and hardley understand why its my final, so I think I should be able to write at least 3 pages, using the songs in question as main examples and the underlying theme being copying musical styles or something like that

Gems and Rhinestones

Stephen Flow wrote:

can you really write a lengthy paper about something like this?

dude you can write a lengthy paper on any topic in the world. i could write a 30 page essay on why poop stinks if i wanted to.

ryanrunning

jmuth7098 wrote:

How bout Save You to Fuckin' Up

I see where your coming from but I'm not sold on it

inmytr33

this is such an easy paper. i wrote three pages on Alive for a media theories class. just start typing and you'll have 4 pages in no time.

ryanrunning

I have no doubt that itll be easy to write,just don't know which one to do/ if there are any interviews for either stating the basis of the song.

Joerock

I wrote a 6 pager on Jeremy earlier this semester

Tuolumne Mama

If you want, you can pm me what the connection between Little Wing and Yellow Ledbetter or Going to California and Given to Fly are saying to you as far as influencing one to the other. I can probably help you, with an analogy if I understood what line of reasoning you have going in tieing these songs together. I've taught English comp in the past and know a good deal about 60's and 70's music as well as PJ. Also it would be helpful to know your class (high school or college) level as well. Let me know.

theboxerorthebag

love your avitar!

ryanrunning wrote:

okay for my composistion class we have to write our final paper about two pieces of art and how one influenced the other. Our teacher told us the art could be in type, print, music, actual pieces of art. I decided that I was going to do it on a Pearl Jam song and its most direct influence. I was thinking either Yellow Ledbetter to Little Wing, or Given to Fly to Going to California. Which do you think I should do, or do you have any other songs that were directly influenced by another one I should think about doing.

pax

ryan

ryanrunning

theboxerorthebag wrote:

love your avitar!

ryanrunning wrote:

okay for my composistion class we have to write our final paper about two pieces of art and how one influenced the other. Our teacher told us the art could be in type, print, music, actual pieces of art. I decided that I was going to do it on a Pearl Jam song and its most direct influence. I was thinking either Yellow Ledbetter to Little Wing, or Given to Fly to Going to California. Which do you think I should do, or do you have any other songs that were directly influenced by another one I should think about doing.

pax

ryan

haha thanks

Veddernarian

Save you / Other side

SL116452

my opinion... the easiest one is 'Daughter' and 'Rearview Mirror'....

"the shades go down" to... "the shades are raised"

these two songs can definitely be interpreted as a "part 1" and "part 2" kind of thing.

A lot of good stuff between those two songs...

Veddernarian

Or how The Who's "Boris the Spider" inspired Pearl Jam's "Bugs".

ryanrunning

Veddernarian wrote:

Or how The Who's "Boris the Spider" inspired Pearl Jam's "Bugs".

lol I was just thinking that

Tuolumne Mama

Nevermind. It isn't.

Gems and Rhinestones

Tuolumne Mama wrote:

I may be wrong but isn't bugs a Tom Waits song?

your wrong

Paul Andrews

I'd be taking a different approach and looking for inspiration in Eddie's lyrics in a song and the text that influenced that. He is a very wide reader and gets inspiration from stories, characters, emotions etc.

Johnny Guitar from Picture on toilet wall?

JM55546

The easiest would be the article from the school in Texas (that's widely available) to Jeremy?

Either that or you could do the Howard Zinn / Down approach.

Paul Andrews

JM55546 wrote:

The easiest would be the article from the school in Texas (that's widely available) to Jeremy?

Either that or you could do the Howard Zinn / Down approach.

But would the initial news report be regarded as art?