Black - most depressing, yet most beautiful song

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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,997
    It makes me happy for what I have and sometimes take for granted
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  • barnburner13
    barnburner13 Princeton, Illinois Posts: 8
    "black" and "just breathe" are both tearjerkers for me...
    Nov 26, 1991 Normal, Illinois July 19, 2013 Wrigley FIeld
  • pbrm_pearljam
    pbrm_pearljam Amsterdam Posts: 38
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=1oZCjhSAzBk

    One of the best ever !! (for me though)
    See the path.....cut by the moon.....for you to walk on........

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  • The Oracle
    The Oracle Posts: 530
    dimitrispearljam said:

    best song in the history of music

    THIS :x
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    it's telling that the greatest works of art are often wrenched from a place of desperation. the low points in life give life to the most amazing expressions and this song goes down as one of the greatest works of art humanity has produced!!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    you can edit your posts after you've been banned?
    did you see me? i saw you.
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    Black reminds me of the loves I lost and how I felt at the time, it's so full of emotion for me, and it makes me so grateful for the love I have now....that I have found the man who I truly belong with....
    Music is my Religion and Pearl Jam, my Savior!
    Tattooed Dissident!
  • marilor
    marilor St Etienne, France Posts: 618
    Best song ever
    "We were but stones, ...Your light made us stars"
  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,321
    My least favorite song of the band's
    To quote the 10C from Newsletter #8: "Please understand we have a lot of members and it is very hard to please everybody. If you are one of those unhappy people...please call 1-900-IDN-TCAR."

    "Me knowing the truth, I can not concur."

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  • osteoblastic
    osteoblastic St Cloud, MN Posts: 47
    This was the first song I ever remember discovering on my own of PJ (my mom had played Ten a lot but that wasn't me playing the music). I taped it off the radio as soon as it came on, so I missed the first few seconds. But I remember listening to it while rollerblading around a graveyard by my house at probably 12 years old, and just being totally mesmerized by it.

    To this day it's one of those songs I can't just casually listen to. Like if it comes on the radio and my husband is talking to me, I have to either tell him to stop talking or I turn off the radio. It's also not on my PJ playlists, because I can't be cleaning the house and have it come on. It just emotionally hits me too hard. In a good way, but in a way that takes me out of my everyday too much to be watered down by everyday listening. Hope I get to hear it live some day :)
    I gotta say it now, better loud than too late. 2014-10-19 St Paul, MN
  • joseph33
    joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,341
    Of everything i just read,nobody could possibly know what Ed wrote this song. Their was a personal reason that i could very much relate too that could have been the inspiration. A break up? Absolutely. But the cause? Read between the lines and you will have your answer.
  • joseph33
    joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,341
    Of everything i just read,nobody could possibly know why Ed wrote this song. Their was a personal reason that i could very much relate too that could have been the inspiration. A break up? Absolutely. But the cause? Read between the lines and you will have your answer.
  • DreamyDan
    DreamyDan netherlands/belgium Posts: 83
    there is something about this song that must relate to something inside us all {well, everyone who's posted here...} and Eddie Vedder is a great songwriter/poet in that sense, if he can capture that deep feeling that we as a listener can feel, even when the first tones of the song are played...
    when i'm low, it'll make me cry, if i'm okay, it'll rouse my fighting spirit...

    all in all, it's a brilliant, beautiful, dark, amazing song... imho... :D
     
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,997
    Best song in their catalogue. I get chills everytime I hear it, whether its live or studio.
    severed hand thirteen
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  • aceblazer1
    aceblazer1 Posts: 32
    Hauntingly beautiful....MTV Unplugged version - just wow....
  • Versus13
    Versus13 Vancouver, BC Posts: 197
    dimitrispearljam said:

    best song in the history of music

    Pretty much!!
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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    shortstack said:

    you can edit your posts after you've been banned?

    no.....all original posts that flowed through from the old forum indicate "edited December 2013". At least I think so. maybe
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    The Oracle said:

    dimitrispearljam said:

    best song in the history of music

    THIS :x
    Little Wing is the most beautiful song... hate to be the PJ downer on this, but...
  • r00thless91
    r00thless91 Santa Ana, CA Posts: 43
    barnburner13 said:

    "black" and "just breathe" are both tearjerkers for me...

    Yup. Especially when your music is on shuffle and they play one after the other. What the hell, iPod?

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