The song that turned you onto PJ

Brain-o-Jordan
Brain-o-Jordan Posts: 31
edited February 2011 in The Porch
Which song got you into Pearl Jam? if you weren't there when they started out.

i was born in 1989 so i first heard them at about age 7, i remember hearing Alive on the way to the mountains in my dad's beetle, but the one song i remember hearing that made me want to hear more is Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town.
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  • somestupidfuk
    somestupidfuk Posts: 60
    it was definitely Yellow Ledbetter for me!
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  • Brain-o-Jordan
    Brain-o-Jordan Posts: 31
    Yellow ledbetter is one of those songs that stick to you the first time you hear it, amazing.
  • somestupidfuk
    somestupidfuk Posts: 60
    Brain-o-Jordan wrote:
    Yellow ledbetter is one of those songs that stick to you the first time you hear it, amazing.
    so true. I remember the first time I listened to it all the way through and heard mike playing the end of the song, thats when i was hooked.
    Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them." -- Albert Einstein

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  • xsmytx
    xsmytx Posts: 162
    Evenflo for sure..I was 8 and that song and Bob Marley made me fall in love with music!
  • Brain-o-Jordan
    Brain-o-Jordan Posts: 31
    Bob Marley huh? i grew up with Pearl jam, and sublime mostly
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Rearviewmirror, especially the ending. That really got me hooked on them.
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  • mermelada_alucinogena
    mermelada_alucinogena Posts: 59
    ALIVE
    Love ain't Love until you give it up!
  • sacredyouth
    sacredyouth Posts: 69
    All of Ten. Listened to on cassette in my friend's powder blue Ford Fairmont to and from school my entire senior year of high school (91-92). I can remember thinking I had never heard anything like Peal Jam before. . . my love for this band has only gotten stronger over the years.
  • TightropeHigher
    TightropeHigher Posts: 135
    Age six, flipping through channels. caught "Jeremy" on MTV. Hooked ever since. I remember at first thinking the band was called Jeremy.
    -All that's sacred comes from youth.
  • AELARA
    AELARA Posts: 803
    Rearviewmirror, the favourite song of a friend of mine who loves PJ and introduced me to their music. Thank you Johnny!! :D
    I am mine!
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Seeing the Jeremy video in 92 went out and got Ten. The songs though then that hooked me were Once and Rearview Mirror, had some pent up anger issues ;)
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    SOLAT unplugged.
  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,986
    Do The Evolution.

    I'd borrowed Ten off a friend some months before, but didn't much care for it (BURN THE HEATHEN!!), and I saw the video for DTE back in the day when MTV played music videos. I didn't recognise Ed's voice as it sounded so different to Ten!

    Revisited Ten, loved it and then bought Live on Two Legs, and the rest is history. :)
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  • in_the_mud
    in_the_mud Calgary AB Posts: 494
    Brisk. wrote:
    SOLAT unplugged.
    The same here :)
    I was 15 and I remember we're watching it with my sister. Still one of my top 3 songs.
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  • CantKeepMeHere
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    Corduroy from Live On Two Legs
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  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    Hubby (then boyfriend) bought Ten and I think Jeremy really stood out first listening.
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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Evolution!

    "Why... because.... ITS EVOLUTION BABY!!" :D
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,093
    BLACK---husband played it on the jukebox in a bar
    instantly LOVED it.
    :D
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  • AELARA
    AELARA Posts: 803
    CantKeepMeHere wrote:
    Corduroy from Live On Two Legs

    I can see why.... I love it too...
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,866
    Black from Live On Two Legs (9 years old (born in 1988), back in 1998).
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