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Top 5 songs you got to hear that were the "holy sh^t" moment, the white whale

mattsl1983mattsl1983 Posts: 711
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Title says it all. Whether you've always just managed to somehow be at shows where the song wasn't played, or you caught a true rarity. This isn't intended to brag or anything like that..

1 Chloe/Crown
2 Sometimes
3 Brain of J
4 Immortality (yes took 12 shows for that one)
5 Red Mosquito

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  • veddertownveddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    1. Finally seeing PJ for the first time about 5 songs in and the intro to Corduroy kicked in. That was the moment I closed my dumbstruck open jaw, woke up and remembered that I wasn't just watching them on my TV.

    2. Favourite song is Sometimes, got it to start my second show and I still get goosebumps listening to it.

    3. Not one song but played back to back in Berlin on a beautiful night. Push Me Pull Me > Immortality > In Hiding was incredible.

    4. Manchester 1 2012, first ever Release and wow what an impeccable version.

    5. One night later, I knew Deep hadn't been played in Europe for a while but knew it was something special to hear it. Last time before that had been Rotterdam 1993!

    I had so much more going through my mind coming up with those. What amazing memories! Can't wait for the next show.
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

    Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
    Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
  • thuqthuq Posts: 26
    1&2: okc'13: Wash and Satans Bed
    Wash has been a rarity since the early days and was never close to seeing it. Satans Bed was my fave off of Vitalogy so waited almost 20 years to hear it live
    3&4: Wrigley: lowlight & crown of thorns: lowlight favorite song kept missing as crown
    5: bee girl: soundcheck at wrigley
  • GratefulJamGratefulJam Posts: 1,803
    SF 06 Red mosquito and Watchtower

    SB 06 Oceans, Balck

    SD 09 Parachutes

    Alpine 11 Wash and Reach Down and Stardog Champion

    Spokane 13 NAIS -> Footsteps

    Seattle 13 Let me sleep
    "thru extensive negotiations we managed to get the curfew moved back..... we still don't have any time to fu&k around...."

    LA II 06, SB 06, SF III 06, Kokua 07 Ed and Jack, Grant Park 07, EV Berk1 & LA 1 (nice job 10c), 08 DC, MSG1 &2, VH1 rocks, EV Bos II, EV NYC I & II, Milwaukee, EV Maui, EV Hono I & II, Chicago 09 I & II, LA 09 I & II & IV, SD 09 (my girlfriend hit the lottery, best concert of my life 10C rocks)KC 2010, STL 2010, Hartford. Boston, and MSG I & II "who goes around skinning cats anyway", PJ 20 2011 , Portland, Spokane, Seattle LA 2013, Home Shows + Missoula (fatal 👌)
  • Last-12-ExitLast-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    not necessarily my "white whale" but certainly my biggest oh shit moment was getting to hear getaway first live.
  • gotsome420gotsome420 Posts: 529
    Release (first time seeing the band and they opened with release.....my mind was blown)
    Chloe/crown
    Push me pull me
    Of the girl
    Bee girl
    Sad
    Breath
    Alone
    Footsteps


  • alwaysUalwaysU Posts: 82
    Wash Mansfield 08 (heard it twice since but was thrilled to get this one)

    Push Me, Pull Me, Rival and Undone Boston 10. This may have been the best show I've seen just edging out Boston 3 2003 and MSG 2 2010, not only was the set packed with rarities but they all sounded great. It wasn't about "crossing songs off the list" so you could say you've seen them, they played some really rare shit and you'd have thought they played those songs every night.

    All Those Yesterdays Boston 3 2003. I thought I kind of knew what they were going to play this show due to the "experiment," this was out of the blue for me.

    Fatal and Otherside Worcester 1 and 2, 2013. Two songs that I hadn't even
    considered the possibility of hearing, huge surprises on back to back nights.

    In Hiding Brooklyn 2 2013, my last real white whale song. Too many to name from PJ20, but I think In the Moonlight, Help Help and No Way really stood out.

    Rats Boston 1 2006, in the middle of
    the best second encore I've ever heard.

    I know it's far from rare, but I remember during the last 3 minutes of Alive in Albany 03, my first show, thinking how amazing it was that I had built my expectations so high for my first show, to the point where it would be unfair to expect the show to be everything I hoped it would be, and it had blown all of my expectations out of the water.
  • ladydocNYCladydocNYC Posts: 635
    Satan's Bed 12 shows in
    Chloe Dancer
    In Hiding, Deep, Off He Goes, Yremor Christ (all at Philly 3 2009)

    Other rarities that didn't mean as much to me personally: bee Girl; Black Red Yellow, parting Ways, Let Me Sleep, Thumbing My Way, Ghost
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,533
    1. Bugs- first time ever played at Philly 4
    2. Oceans- to open first encore Brooklyn 1
    3. Hold On- first time played Philly 3
    4. Slow Lukin- MSG 2 2010
    5. Little WIng (w/ lyrics) first time that I know of Gorge 2

    Others: Sweet Lew first and second time, Undone at Beacon Theatre 2008, Stardog Champion PJ20!!!, and I'm sure there are others
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • ManofthepresenttenseManofthepresenttense Posts: 259
    1. Patriot- ed solo to close the show augusta 96... wow!
    2. All those yesterdays and parting ways mansfield 03
    3 undone boston 10
    4 fatal worcester 1
    5 hold on wrigley
    NO TIME TO BE VOID OR SAVE UP ON LIFE, YOU GOT TO SPEND IT ALL!!!!!!!
  • karmadefectkarmadefect Posts: 806
    Release First of all I'd say the very first song I heard them play. 2006 Arnhem they opened with Release, I had goosebumps all over, it was magic. In 2012 I saw it again and then it opened the encore while I was just paying for drinks. Me and a friend were running back in all excited.

    Better man It's not a song I miss if they don't play it, but it always gets the crowd going, me included. In Rotterdam 2009 I was getting drinks and a friend saw me who was sitting in the back on seats that were in the floor section. I went to sit with him for awhile when they started playing Better man and the whole room starting singing and the vibe was amazing. From the back I could see everybody letting it go.

    In my tree Nijmegen 2010. I couldn't believe it when it started. This is for the people in the trees. Wow!!
    Until then I had only seen Lukin and Smile from No code. It got me going into a wild dance.

    Go/Animal combo While they were playing those two i was thinking it was a superb opening. I had just ditched the company that I was in. Because apart from a good friend there were some asses that were annoying me with their behavoir. I wasn't going to let that get the way of my Pearl jam experience so I left them. I remember feeling free on my own while Animal started coming from Go.

    So now the last one, Mmmh I could pick my first Once or my second. I could go with Wash opening, I could go with Given to fly or my first Yellow ledbetter or hearing Whipping or Glorified G. I'll go with something else though.

    Man of the hour Again I was coming back from getting drink during the encore when they started playing Man of the hour. I started rushing to get back to my girlfriend because she is a big Tim Burton fan and she wanted to hear that song.
    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • nevmilesnevmiles Ottawa, ON Posts: 1,363
    edited March 2014
    - Release in Toronto 2003
    - Chloe/Crown in Toronto 2011
    - RITFW with Neil Young in Toronto 2011 (not that hearing RITFW for the umpteenth time was the "wow" factor, it was the shit that almost nestled into my boxers when Uncle Neil walked out mid-song to play with them....) \m/
    - Nothingman in Toronto 2011 . . . hadn't heard it live since the Yield tour and was so pumped to get it that night.
    - Breath in Ottawa 2011

    .... oh yeah, and I should add the "Pearl Jam opening for themselves" pre-set in Toronto 2009. Was glad I got to the venue early that evening!
    Post edited by nevmiles on
    Barrie 08/22/98
    Montreal 10/04/00
    Toronto 10/05/00
    Toronto 06/28/03
    Kitchener 09/11/05
    Ottawa 09/16/05
    Toronto 08/21/09
    Toronto 09/11/11
    Ottawa 09/14/11
    Buffalo 10/12/13
    Ottawa 05/08/16
    Chicago 08/20/18
    Ottawa 09/03/22
    Nashville 09/16/22
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    edited March 2014
    Drifting
    All Those Yesterdays
    Undone
    Other Side
    Out Of My Mind

    And...
    Bugs
    Don't Gimme No Lip
    Hard to Imagine (in 98)
    Ain't Talking Bout Love
    Sweet Lew
    Alone
    I've Got A Feeling
    I'm Open
    Fatal
    Education
    Hold On
    Post edited by BinFrog on
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • nycratsnycrats Posts: 1,351
    Love boat captain alpine
    Alone hartford 13
    Present tense wrigley, wasnt expecting it after playing it previous show
    Philly 2 lat fall had two. Breath and mfc
    And number 1 will be if and when dirty frank
    '98: Camden 1 '00: JB2 '03: MSG1 '04: Boston 1 '05: AC1
    '06: Irving Plaza, East Rutherford 1 & 2 '07: Lolla '08: Camden 2, MSG2, Beacon
    '09 :Philly 1 & 2 '10: Buffalo, Newark, MSG1, MSG2
    '11: PJ20 1 & 2 '12: Missoula '13: Wrigley, BK2, Philly 1 & 2, Hartford
    '14: Ams 1 & 2, Cincy, St Louis, Detroit, Moline '15: Central Park
    '16 Philly 1 & 2, MSG 1 & 2, Toronto 1 & 2, Fenway 1, Wrigley 1
    '17 Brooklyn hall of fame ‘18 Fenway 1 '21 Jersey Shore '22 MSG  '24: MSG1, MSG2
  • Brain.of.JoshBrain.of.Josh Posts: 58
    The entire pre-set of Boston 3 2003. I don't know why there is no video of that set, anywhere.

    Can't believe that was 10 and a half years ago already.

    Going to all the Boston, Hartford and NYC/NJ shows over those 10+ years has given a lot of these. We are lucky up here.

    First leash and I've got a feeling in years. First parachutes, ain't talkin about love...
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,119
    edited March 2014
    Well I haven't been to that many shows, but:

    Release
    It's Okay tag
    Leatherman
    In Hiding
    God's Dice

    Still holding out hope for:
    Blood
    In My Tree
    I Am Mine
    Rats
    Parachutes
    ..... and a bunch more, lol
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • karmadefectkarmadefect Posts: 806
    BinFrog said:


    Out Of My Mind

    That would have been nice.
    As were most others on your list.
    But Out of my mind would have gotten me trippin' out of my mind.
    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • PP193448PP193448 Here Posts: 4,282
    Ghost -- Missouls 2012
    Waiting on a Friend (Stones cover)-- Pitt 2006
    Mother (Pink Floyd cover) -- Vancouver 2013
    Breath -- Seattle 2013
    Let me Sleep -- Seattle 2013
    2006 Clev,Pitt; 2008 NY MSGx2; 2010 Columbus; 2012 Missoula; 2013 Phoenix,Vancouver,Seattle; 2014 Cincy; 2016 Lex, Wrigley 1&2; 2018 Wrigley 1&2; 2022 Louisville
  • PJammer4lifePJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,656
    1)Breath PJ20 - finally after 24 shows
    2) Hungerstrike Santa Barbara 2003
    3) All Those Yesterday's LA 4 2009
    4) Who You Are PJ20
    5) Tie Breath LA2 2013/ Hungerstrike LA3 2009/ Hard to Imagine a Gorge 2005
    Bridge Benefit 1994, San Francisco 1995, San Diego 1995 1 & 2, Missoula 1998, Los Angeles 2000, San Diego 2000, Eddie Vedder/Beck 2/26/2002, Santa Barbara 2003, Irvine 2003, San Diego 2003, Vancouver 2005, Gorge 2005, San Diego 2006, Los Angeles 2006 1 & 2, Santa Barbara 2006, Eddie Vedder 4/10/08, Eddie Vedder 4/12/08, Eddie Vedder 4/15/08, 7/12/2008, SF 8/28/09, LA 9/30/09, LA 10/1/09, LA 10/06/09, LA 10/07/09, San Diego 10/09/09, Eddie Vedder 7/6/2011, Eddie Vedder 7/8/2011, PJ20 9/3/2011, PJ20 9/4/2011, Vancouver 9/25/2011, San Diego 11/21/13, LA 11/24/13, Ohana 9/25/21, Ohana 9/26/21, Ohana 10/1/21, EV 2/17/22, LA Forum 5/6/22, LA Forum 5/7/22, EV 10/1/22, EV 9/30/23
  • derbydavederbydave Columbus, OH Posts: 11,254
    edited March 2014
    Long Road - Seattle '96 (First song / First SHOW...what a prophetic song to get as your first song EVER!!)
    Oceans - Columbus '10 (First show in 7 LONG years!)
    Release - Alpine Valley '11 (BEST opener EVER & very special moment for me personally)
    Chloe / Crown - Wrigley '13 (My WHITE WHALE song...got it again in Seattle too!)
    Garden - Seattle '13 (17 years later...FINALLY finished off TEN in the SAME VENUE where it all started!!)
    Post edited by derbydave on
    '96: Seattle: Key Arena
    '98: Seattle: Memorial Stadium 1 & 2
    '00: Columbus: Polaris
    '03: Columbus: Germain
    '10: Columbus: Nationwide Arena
    '11: East Troy: Alpine Valley - PJ20 1 & 2 + EV Detroit
    '12: Missoula + EV Jacksonville 1 & 2
    '13: Chicago / Pittsburgh / Buffalo / Seattle
    '14: Cincinnati / St. Louis / Tulsa / Lincoln / Memphis / Detroit / Moline
    '15: New York City - Global Citizen Festival
    '16: Greenville / Hampton / Raleigh / Columbia / Lexington / Ottawa / Toronto 1 & 2 / Wrigley 1 & 2
    '17: Brooklyn - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
    '18: London 1 & 2 / Seattle 1 & 2 / Missoula / Wrigley 1
    '22: Nashville / St. Louis


    http://www.livefootsteps.org/user/?usr=170

  • FrumpyFrumpy Posts: 17
    Release - my first PJ concert and it was the opener. Such a great opener building and building. Just blew me away and love it now when i hear it.
    Present Tense - One i just really wanted and got it at my 3rd show. Was brilliant.
    Oceans - Was on the same bucket list as Present Tense and got it at the same show.
    Brother - Always loved the b-side and never expected to hear it. was BLOWN away when it kicked in.
    SOLAT - Always been a favorite and got it at my first show. They rocked the hell out of it.
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