The song that turned you onto PJ

Umbertotamba

Angel......

It was on a bootleg I had at the time....constantly played it!!

Lost In Ohio

Elderly Woman, only because I was listening to Dave Matthews almost non-stop before that. Right after that, it was when the LO2L version of Elderly Woman was on radio. That radio hit took us into into Last Kiss being played on radio.

Before that, I was hearing Immortality on the radio, but didn't know what it was.

CaptainB

release, release, release. then one by one, each of the remaining songs on ten. i wore this cd out listening to it while playing the original madden on the sega genesis..... the greatest football game of all time.....except maybe for tecmo bowl:)

myra

Last Exit.
Because it is the opener to Vitalogy, which is the first record I got although I had never heard them before. Quite inspired to buy this record that day... It's been 16 years and I have never managed to recover from the addiction!

jfs5-10-10

Yellow ledbetter. cool story, I caught the end of it on the radio and thought it was so incredible. I was also incredibly baked. I knew it was pearl jam but I didn't know the song and just had to find out what it was. I was able to get a hold of the DJ on the phone and he hooked me up.
Played the hell outta that song. Now they're my favorite band of all time.

Thanks yellow ledbetter.

baldoallornone

Black...I heard it on the radio at age 12 back in 1993 and didn't stop bugging my parents to get me PJ memorbilla for holidays from there on.

helplessdancer

evenflow and i still really dig it

Chrisilein

Alive! I 1991 I read an austrian magazine which made ratings of new album releases! I saw an enthusiastic review of a new band called PJ and their debut album Ten! The rating was 5 of 5 stars. That was the reason for me to buy the album and Alive was the song that made me a fan!!

mvw

Right here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gQkbgkVtZo

Gibson

"Not for You" brought on the obsession.

Radio hits from "Vs." were very good.

"Ten" was an explosion that I didn't know how to handle as a 9 year old. If I was 15, "Jeremy" would have done it.

MS262715

Black did it for me. I was 18 or 19 when it was released. To this day, I can't turn off the radio in the middle of that song!

malcyrvs

Once, on a free cassette (remember those?) with a copy of The NME. Blew me away.

eeriepadave

I thought I replied to this thread but apparently I didn't. For me it was Alive! I saw the video on MTV and was hooked.

jrnyc

ten, right from the beginning. remember seeing the videos on MTV incessantly. Ed climbing up to the rafters.

arq

Alive

Dirty_Frank_Dahmer

Once baited me....... I burned through 3 cassettes of Ten. What hooked me for life was Breath from the Singles soundtrack. I would play and rewind over and over and over. Now almost 20 years later it's still me all time favorite.

Tangerine

Alive--14 when the video came out, hooked ever since.

The Waiting Trophy Man

even flow video. first time I ever saw/heard them. That was in the spring of 92. I got the album that summer.

aroundth3bend

alive. i said to my dad, 'hey i know that song!'

Spags

Deep. I just thought the storytelling was great in that song and made me pay attention to the rest of the lyrics on Ten, especially Black and Release. Felt like somebody had made that album for me, like they knew me. Was pretty incredible and still is.

kasedoug

I was 11 when Ten came out. Alive, Jeremy, and Even Flow sold me.

TJ25487

This sounds so cliche' but I gotta go with "Alive".

randallanddarcy

The first song I heard was in 1992. A friend lent me a cassette of Ten. It was ready to play at the start of side B. So whatever the 1st song of side B is.

Nothingman54

I was with my friend driving around smoking a fat doobie and he put on black, I think the cd was no fucking messiah.

pdalowsky

Heard Go and instantly was hooked

Nackers

my first ever concert was in Melbourne 98. They opened with "Release" and it absolutley blew me away!!!
ive been hooked ever since

staceycurci

First song that got my attention?....Jeremy, went out and bought ten (hey I was 10 when ten came out haha) listened to that album over and over and lined my bedroom walls with posters-I was hooked from the get go........song that got me hooked? - WHY GO

ONCE DEVIDED

Cannot remember the year .
but it was when the boys won all the awards for Jeremy.
I was at the time listening to Neil, Zeplin, floyd etc nothing modern was grabbing me at all. and basically ignored the grunge thang as being for da kids
at the end of the night they closed with Neil doin Rocking in the free world. It blew me away. you could see the energy these guys had. you could see how pumped they were playing with unkie neil.
bought 10 a few days later

How many times I drove the roads near home, volume up . screaming along .tears streaming . They fully connected with where I was at the time. I felt like I could (nif I had the talent) have written those words.
all the way through to now
IT STILL CONNECTS
thanks pearl jam for the company, thanks for my own personel soundtrack.

MaxGoldenrod

Heard Alive on the radio, liked it

Got the Singles soundtrack and heard SOLAT, liked it even more

Bought Vs. and heard RVM, loved it

Hook, line, and sinker.

jjflash

Alive....the video. Saw it on MTV back when they played videos (and back when I watched MTV). The song rocked my world me as did a lead singer in a Jordan jersey hanging upside down from the rafters. A buddy (Steve Miller to be exact. I'm forever indebted ) played the CD for me shortly thereafter, I went out and bought my own a copy the next day and the rest, as they say, is history.

As an aside...anyone remember if Alive was originally aired as part of MTV's "Buzzbin" collection? You know, those up-and-comer bands whose videos they fluffed a little extra? Seems like it was but I can't remember.