Which Pearl Jam song means the most to you?

Shyner

Future days. A-side
B side. Black

Pap

Feel like a question's forming...
And the answer's far...
I will be what I could be...
Once I get out of this town...

For the lights of this city...
They have lost all feeling...
Gonna leave 'em all behind me...
Cause this time...

I'm gone...

PB11041

At this point it is four - Daughter, Light Years, Smile and Future Days

My son passed away last year at age 13 after a life battling through a fairly rare form of epilepsy, it's assorted complications and a more recent development and diagnosis of Tachycardia (all three variations)

I never have been the parent that foisted the music on my kids, I have always let them both be about their own things. But occasionally when I'd play pearl jam, the one song he would routinely say liked was Daughter.   Which brings some pangs of irony, given his illness, which led to intellectual disabilities, which led to frustration and challenges as parents.  But ultimately, a lot of learning, perspective and becoming a better person.  So I very much listen to Daughter with a much different perspective and reverence the last year.

Light Years, speaks for itself, myself, my wife and our daughter have been given a lot of opportunity to see what kind of tremendous impact he had for such a young kid with so many obstacles.  A lot of people tell us all that we are really amazing, and that really only was because of his Light.

all the crooked hearts, they may die but in us they still live on...

Pap

^ So sorry for your loss my friend... I love the fact that you found a way to always remember him as a source of optimism and new hope through the music of your (our) favourite band...

letwaydown

Light Years 

jacquelynca

To pick one is really hard!  The album Vs literally saved my life  The songs Leash, Blood, Rearview mirror are my favorites from that album and have particular meaning to me when I was going through a really hard time mentally.  

Dilvish

Well for me it is the song Black.  Only because a few years before, my one true love did not want to be with me.  I know she is special.  I wanted so much to just be her special someone.  It took me a long time, and a lot of heartache to just be happy for her no matter what.  I turned 50 in January and met her again after almost 20 years, and the rush, the energy, the love is the same.  But I know she lights others sky now.   I wish it was mine, but I know that she is happy.

PJWGIII

Release, Better Man, Present Tense, Black, Inside Job, Rearviewmirror, Thumbing My Way, and so so many more.

iamkylehi

Most definitely Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town. I’m only 19 and I discovered Pearl Jam in my early high school days and I fell in love instantly. That song makes me feel so many different emotions and I never get tired of hearing it. 

Pap

^ Welcome friend!

iamkylehi

Thank you! I finally became a 10 Club Member and I’m glad I get to join this family of fans on a deeper level

Cristiano Feix

I got id is the It's a more powerful song I've heard.

cwoycheese

Tough to name one. These are off to top of my head. 

Low Light
Release
Long Road

cwoycheese

iamkylehi said:

Most definitely Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town. I’m only 19 and I discovered Pearl Jam in my early high school days and I fell in love instantly. That song makes me feel so many different emotions and I never get tired of hearing it. 

Like the song too...reminds me of where I grew up.  

rhanishane

At the moment I'm loving "come back" especially from the Berlin 2010 Youtube footage & 10 year anniversary of the Roskilde tragedy... I just love that version so much it has so much meaning. 
I wasn't able to listen to music for a long time.. I just turned 40 and went deaf in my mid 20's. Lucky for me i now have a cochlear implant as i am 100% deaf without it. I only have it on my left side and have about 95% hearing now. I was about 14 years old when i first heard Pearl Jam. Living in Australia and only hearing music with friends. Pearl Jam was the first and last music magazine i ever bought as a teenager and designed a CD cover for them in yr 9 graphics class. Ive been reliving the old Pearl Jam days and i still dress like a teenager and probably look like one too cause I'm tiny.  My family think I'm Pearl Jam obsessed and maybe i am  but they don't understand the nostalgia it brings to me listening to them. I've always loved the albums Ten, Vs & Vitalogy but i really do just love anything they create. Eddies Ukele album and soundtrack to "Into the Wild" as well... All absolute lyrical,  musical geniuses if you ask me. I'm just enjoying being able to connect with that sound again... don't ever take your hearing for granted!! 

Pap

If it's illegal to be in love...

ConorKavanagh

I will light the match this morning, so I won't be alone.

Danmartin93

I have suffered from depression most of my life, since I was a freshman in high school. Then at 19 I lost my right leg in a snowmobile accident. Depression took over my life and alcohol became my fix. I was in the lowest place in my life and Down became my anthem. 

One day the symptoms fade. Think I'll throw these pills away.
And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done.

I am now a couple weeks away from 2 years of sobriety. I am couple months away from 5 years post amputation. I have lost 70 lbs, workout everyday, bought a home. And Pearl Jam has been my light. 

Footsteps has always held a special place too. Even with no one to direct your anger at screaming. “If there was a reason, it was you!” Can really be healing. 

Glorified KC

Right now I'd have to say, "You Are."

https://uphereinmytreepjblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/october-10-2018-you-are-and-just-breathe.html

Pap

Right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzJu4r5vvo8