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Pearl Jam songs for my Mum?

pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
edited January 2008 in The Porch
So my mum is like 60, and I made her listen to Black and No More the other night. I told her what they were about she got quite into it and quite emotional (granted she had about a bottle of wine)

She even asked "Who writes their music?" I said" oh they do, mainly Eddie." She couldn't believe that Pearl Jam even with their heavy music carried a message.

So I am looking for acoustic tracks because others would be too heavy for her. Have the boys ever done acoustic Alive? That would be a goodie.

My old man on the other hand is a hard one to crack. He often says the music I listen to "sounds like pigs at the slaughter house", or that "Eddie sounds like he has swallowed razor blades" My Dad is a good bloke don't get me wrong, but he doesn't like my music one tiny bit :(

So any help with suggestions for my Mum would be good.

Cheers.
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  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    pjfan31 wrote:
    (granted she had about a bottle of wine)

    :o sorry, this really made me laugh!!

    have you tried songs like Fatal or Elderly Woman? There's quite a few gentle ones she might like....
    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.
  • rvprvp Posts: 779
    Benaroya is mainly acoustic... and how about ITW?
    I tried that with my parents and had no luck!
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  • Fu_ManchuFu_Manchu Posts: 422
    Off He Goes!

    Alive was played on unplugged

    My mum is 60 next month and has a taken off me a copy of No Code, rearviewmirror, the Wembley 07 bootleg and rearviewmirror.
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    :o sorry, this really made me laugh!!

    have you tried songs like Fatal or Elderly Woman? There's quite a few gentle ones she might like....


    Not really, whenI was practicing putting a DVD together for her 60th, I made a practice one up putting Fatal on it with just a few photos of me, my sister and my mum. I will try again.

    I have thumbing my way on her mp3 player and you've got to hide ur love away.
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    rvp wrote:
    Benaroya is mainly acoustic... and how about ITW?
    I tried that with my parents and had no luck!

    Yeh she doesnt mind it, but she won't listen to it for long. I play it all the time. Maybe I should get her when she has had a few.
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  • fuckfuck Posts: 4,069
    Light Years, All Those Yesterdays, Off He Goes, Small Town, Thumbing My Way, Thin Air, maybe Nothing as it Seems, Parting Ways, Of the Girl, Fatal, Dead Man Walking, Strangest Tribe, Around The Bend, Immortality...

    I dont know, just look at Benaroya...
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    rvp wrote:
    Benaroya is mainly acoustic... and how about ITW?

    :D good call!
    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.
  • jonbond1779jonbond1779 London, UK Posts: 1,641
    One word - 'Wash' (Live gorge version)
    "Bring it back, to the clean form. To the pure form"

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  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    jonbond1779 wrote:
    One word - 'Wash' (Live gorge version)
    was there.....get chills everytime I play that.....wow....
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    My mum liked Thumbing My Way instantly.. I'd start there.
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  • Riot_RainRiot_Rain Posts: 348
    I played Nothingman to my Dad several years ago.

    It always reminds me of my parents, so.....

    He really appreciated it. Said "Those lyrics aren't bad" Guess it struck a chord with him too, eh ;)

    Thinking of my own Mum... How about: Oceans, Indifference, Daughter, Off He Goes, Thumbing My Way, Down, Fatal, Hard To Imagine, Gone, Inside Job.

    And then play her all of Ten.

    And all the rest.

    :D
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  • pc_loadletterpc_loadletter Posts: 164
    into the wild
  • jordn6971jordn6971 Posts: 675
    My Dad's favorite song is Man of the Hour
    My Mom's favorite song was I Am Mine, and she would have loved the Into the Wild soundtrack if she was around.:(
    "There was a band playing in my head, and I felt like getting high"
  • LedbetterusLedbetterus Posts: 592
    I'd say just hand her Benaroya or "the experiment" from Mansfield in '03.
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Thanks for the advice. I will load benoyra on her mp3
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  • ramborambo Posts: 170
    ide say lukin or blood
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    my mom loves their cover of 25 minutes to go off benaroya...
    every time we get in the car and i fish for some cds... "do you have that 25 minutes thinG?!"
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
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