A song that made a mark

Pap

I've always felt that great music is the soundtrack you live your life to, it's that song that you associate with a specific event in your life. For me it was the song Black that changed my taste in music. Actually it was the whole Live On Two Legs album but Black was the most affective. I was 10 years old when I "stole" the then cassette from my brother. I listened to the tape about 1000 times, always changing the side on cassette recorder when it hit the end. I just couldn't get enough. Vedder's voice was something out of this world. And it still is.

Do you have a song that made a mark in your life?

DangDang

"Whipping" left QUITE a mark.

:wtf:

InMyTree92

Not so much a song, but an entire album. Vitalogy would be its name. I can remember at this time having a shitty taste in music, creed, yes i said creed. but this one day for some reason I listened to this entire album from Last Exit to the still fucking crazy Stupid Mop and was just blown away and bought every other cd the next day. And im happy to say ive been creed free for 10 years now

Cradles Broken Glass

Small Town takes me back to high school. Small Town is still very dear to me, as well as Corduroy, Gone, and Sometimes. I'm in my mid-20's and I feel like I've finally grown up, it's taking me a long time to become myself. Also, Daughter is pretty much the official soundtrack of my life (I'm not sure where or when Ed met my mom,lol).

"I'll take the firmest path...oh, and I must refuse your test
A-push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know..."

vomikus39

So many have, but Present Tense comes to mind..

CantKeepMeHere

not a song but an album
Live On Two Legs

eric75surf

yes...rearview mirror...i feel it's about putting behind anything negative in your life...put the negatives in the rearview mirror and look to the front...I think we have all had situations in our life we had to endure...but couldn't fprgive

BSully

The song Tremor Christ continues to make a mark depending on what time of the day I hear it and how I am listening to it.
Playing it with all the lights off through head phones (not ear buds) is the best...

dimitrispearljam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaOO3rMWUk

OceanInDisguise13

Indifference....

DangDang

dimitrispearljam wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaOO3rMWUk

Ya know, this performance has also left a mark on me, now that you mention it.

Pearl Jam fanness grew very gradually on me, over years, and seeing this, especially this song (although I didn't see it until after 2000) was definitely a few "marked" steps up that very very nice ladder.

The most BIGGEST, that's right, of the Pearl Jam marks was when my husband got Yield, among other CDs from the library, and I couldn't hit "eject" for I'd say 8, 9 weeks.

I couldn't take F-er out.

I didn't check the names of any songs, I just let it play and play and play. Ironically, I didn't YIELD> Or did I?

staceycurci

Why Go hands down.....I got Ten for Christmas because I was blown away by Jeremy and Even Flow and I was blown away by the whole album but EXPECIALLY Why Go.....I had very strict parents who thought my listening to Pearl Jam, wearing combat boots and flannels was punishable....my mom burnt my boots, and I will never forget I had my bedroom walls lined like wallpaper with pj posters, among other musicians that I liked. Pearl JAm was mostly on the walls though. My mom came in and just took her hand down my walls and ripped everything to shreds......they ended up threatening to send me away somewhere but never did......I wasn't the cookie cutter little girl they wanted........so yeah when Ed sings, "She could play pretend, she could join the game boy, she could be another clone!" It really made a mark. thanks to anyone listening

thefixer9

Mine would have to be the album V.S. When I was a little kid, my parents would play that album for me in the car. Even though I was kinda too young to remember the song, I still liked them. Then I heard Alive I knew that I was hooked.

tremors

A lot of Pearl Jam songs have made a mark on me - at different times in my life, so much so that I sometimes find myself thinking 'when did so-and-so happen....?' Oh, yeah - Yield....1998!'

I can vividly remember walking with my Dad at a little music festival we were at - must have been in 1999 - and the subject moved to Pearl Jam, and I started trying to explain how much their music meant to me, and how much it had helped me through times of difficulty. Around that time 'Faithfull' was still making a big impression on me, and trying to explain something to my Dad (he wasn't really getting it) I started reciting the lyrics like a poem - for some reason when I got to the 'it's rare to come upon.....' line I just started welling up. I got really choked up!

There are songs from the early days which left a massive impression on me - having a very difficult relationship with a young woman who had suffered sexual abuse - the first time I heard 'Saying No' it was really quite scary - it was almost like Eddie was talking directly to me there - confronting parts of the situation, addressing me - 'When she says stop, you gotta stop, when he says go, you still gotta stop.....'. That was probably the first time I really took note of Eddie Vedder - and I've been taking what he has to say seriously ever since.

BALLBOY

Release especially when stoned & with headphones on.

dimitrispearljam

DangDang wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaOO3rMWUk

Ya know, this performance has also left a mark on me, now that you mention it.

Pearl Jam fanness grew very gradually on me, over years, and seeing this, especially this song (although I didn't see it until after 2000) was definitely a few "marked" steps up that very very nice ladder.

The most BIGGEST, that's right, of the Pearl Jam marks was when my husband got Yield, among other CDs from the library, and I couldn't hit "eject" for I'd say 8, 9 weeks.

I couldn't take F-er out.

I didn't check the names of any songs, I just let it play and play and play. Ironically, I didn't YIELD> Or did I?

this is the performance i said thats my favorite band for ever..

TJ25487

dimitrispearljam wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaOO3rMWUk

Great thread. I was thinking of so many songs and precious PJ moments when I saw D's beloved Unplugged Porch and am going to go with this one, or the whole Unplugged in general. I had just been infected by the PJ bug and when Unplugged came on live television and I was transfixed.

I still can't see how Nirvana or AIC's beat PJ's. For years I have been trying to be objective as hell comparing them and still see PJ's Unplugged as unbeatable. It would be like someone trying to tell me that someone else did a Beneroyal Hall concert more justice. Ain't gonna happen.

zarocat

Once

tremors

zarocat wrote:

Once

You're a great writer Zarocat - tell us more!!

St. John's Jeremy

zarocat wrote:

Once

Me too.
Brings me back to '91, when Smells Like Teen Spirit had just hit the airways.
It was within that week that a school mate give me a cassette that he'd dubbed four songs onto.
Once, Evenflow, Alive, Why Go. He says "These are the guys from Mother Love Bone. They're from the same place as Nirvana! lol

That week, I put my dimes and nickels together and bought my very own cassette. Played it a thousand times that first week. The explosion of Once was a perfect way to say "hi, we're Pearl Jam". And hearing Ten now... 20yrs later... takes me right back there!

zarocat

St. John's Jeremy wrote:

zarocat wrote:

Once

Me too.
Brings me back to '91, when Smells Like Teen Spirit had just hit the airways.
It was within that week that a school mate give me a cassette that he'd dubbed four songs onto.
Once, Evenflow, Alive, Why Go. He says "These are the guys from Mother Love Bone. They're from the same place as Nirvana! lol

That week, I put my dimes and nickels together and bought my very own cassette. Played it a thousand times that first week. The explosion of Once was a perfect way to say "hi, we're Pearl Jam". And hearing Ten now... 20yrs later... takes me right back there!

Once, right off the hop. It was and is a brilliant introduction. It gripped me tight when I first heard ten.