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SpomenkaSpomenka Posts: 145
edited February 2004 in Words and Music...Communication
i am truly amazed to see how many people from all over the world listens and apreciates Pearl Jam. i always felt like an alien because no one from the people i know wasn't into them...
i wanted to know how did you learn about Pearl Jam and what was their first song you heard?

i was watching tv one day, borred to death, when i accidentally switched on a channel with a music show that i never watch. i was about to turn the tv off, when the song started... it was 'Insignificance'. right after it came 'Daughter' and then i saw the name of the bend in the left corner of my tv... i didn't like those songs, but there was something about them... something about the way there were sung, something about the music... 2 days later i went to the cd shop and i bought my first PJ cd...
and i love them ever since... i haven't heard all of their songs yet and i have never heard them live, but i hope some day i will

iwanted to share that with you..
what's your story?
:)
Pearl Jam pieces...

This is how I saw it one day: Insignificance at the Porch of Mankind

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  • KingJeremyTheWickedKingJeremyTheWicked Posts: 6
    my sister liked pj in their early days, and in 2001 i was on a trip in germany and had to spend my cash, i was in a music shop, and there were rows and rows of grey cd's which turned out to be the boots, i bought one... and the rest as they say, is history.
    ~If You Should Die Before Me, Ask If You Could Bring A Friend~
  • 04/20/200204/20/2002 Posts: 10
    back in 1995 i was a massive Basketball fan, bought a NBA basketball video called "NBA Superstars3" a video with different BBall players doing moves with music in the background. And Pearl Jam's "GO" was the song for Shawn Kemp's video clip. Never heard of them up untill then but been a huge fan ever since.
  • little_wishlittle_wish Posts: 532
    I met (my current bf) in college and he was talkin about Pearl Jam, saying about how brilliant they were and he loved their music.
    I didnt really get into them for a while, never heard anything, then he played a couple of tracks, Wishlist and DTE and I really loved em! Got Vitalogy and fell in love with it. Best fuckin album! Then Yield and so on.
    I'm still a really new fan but fuckin love what I hear... thanks to ||Release_Me|| for introducing me to them!
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    "The live shows? Well, that's church on Sundays"
  • smilehabitsmilehabit Posts: 88
    1999, yes I know Late starter, I was in my favourite local indie store. I knew the bloke working their that day, anyway I was looking for a band I had never heard before.

    So the bloke, called Carl, had just put this track on.
    It was Who You Are from No Code, i was instantly hooked. So he played the record from start to finish and I just sat with him listening to it. I was stunned that I did not own this record.

    So I bought it and as they say the rest is history
    Somtimes i know, sometimes i rise,sometimes i fall,sometimes i dont,sometimes i cringe,somtimes i live sometimes i walk,sometimes i kneel,somtimes i speek of nothing at all,sometimes i reach to myself dear god

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  • {[No_Code}]{[No_Code}] Posts: 4,059
    back in 1998

    i watched DTE video in a friends's house... was the first time :D
    So that is how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone. And your eyes must do some raining if you are ever going to grow. But when crying don't help and you can't compose yourself. It is best to compose a poem, an honest longing or simple song of hope.
    That is why I'm singing
  • shawnsmileshawnsmile Posts: 7
    when i was 10 years old, i used to listen to the rock show on radio 1. they did a poll for the best album's ever and pj's ten was in there, so the next day i bought it. it was just after vitalogy was released, and so soon after i bought that too. but, as iwas only ten years old, i didn't appreciate vitalogy as much as i now do....and although ten was my favorite album at the time, they weren't my favorite band.
    when no code was released, i really got into it, i was a bit older (about twelve!) but it was a cool record......at this time i hadn't even heard Vs.
    1998, i was 14 and yield was released....i hated it. i now love it, but at the time i thought they were trying too hard to 'rock out', but it is a masterpiece.
    the next record i bought was Vs when i saw it for cheap.....liked it first of all, but now i'd say it's my least fav....the drumming/sound of the drumkit grates me......next was binaural....the album that restored my faith in the band, i loved how much the band had evolved, and especially sleight of hand, the middle section is awe inspiring.!.....and then riot act which has some of my fav pj lyrics/music ever..........I LOVE PEARLJAM
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  • undoneoneundoneone Posts: 26
    It had to be around 94 or 95. When my cousin put on Jeremy and told me that it was about a kid he went to school with. I'm from Dallas and he lived in Richardson. Which is just right out side of Dallas, Tx. Then a friend gave me a tape of Ten and said that I would like it. I listened to it a lot, I don't know what would have become of me if I had never heard Alive. That song helped me get through a crazy childhood. "We're all still Alive" E.V. Dallas show

    E.V. Dallas show "This song is about a kid maybe some of you all went to school with." '00
    "I'm lost,I'm no guide, but I'm by your side." E.V.
  • wv_mtn_bikerwv_mtn_biker Posts: 1
    WOW....I'm starting to realize that I'm getting quite old in years!! I first started listening to Pearl Jam in the summer of 1991, following the release of Ten. A friend of mine and I were talking about them and he said he didn't know if he liked them because Ed, in his opinion, tried to act too much like Jim Morrison. I told him that I loved them and thought that it was a sound unlike anything that I had ever heard. Shortly after, I went out and got a copy of Temple of the Dog and then tried to find out everything I could about the band. I was 19 at the time and have since "grown up" with Pearl Jam. They seem to provoke the kind of great feelings I once had as a kid with many of their songs (music), right now specifically "Undone". It really is uncanny how their music always seems to accentuate many of my feelings and often gives me chills/goose bumps. I've always really wanted to meet them but kind of get scared thinking they may not be what I've built them up to be...funny reading the part on "Sweet Lew" in the Lost Dogs Jacket. Anway, in April of last year I saw Mike in a restaurant in Lexington, Ky. I was coming out of the bathroom and barely mumbled "hey Mike", and he actually heard me and said "hey, how's it going" back. That was kewl.....

    Mountain Biking is SOOOO much better with PJ in my head!
    ....hey, that's me next to the "T" in Message Pit.
  • dammajdammaj Posts: 8
    1st semester in college in south carolina. it was 1993 an i was into the deep house scene in toronto, but was in SC for an athletic scholarship and there wasn't anyway to go out to the clubs or bars and listen to what i wanted to.

    the internet wasn't as easily accessible as it is today so it would've been hard to bring down my turntables and vinyl into my dorm room!!!

    i was driving with this bird i knew down there and she says 'have you ever heard of PJ?'

    no i hadn't and she put a tape in the tapedeck -TEN- and the rest is history!

    but i gotta tell the truth i got more into STP after that. i really started into the PJ after NO CODE!!!
    is this on?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    I saw and heard TOTP's "Hunger Strike" first, then PJ's "Alive", in late 1991, through what was then MTV Europe. I actually attended PJ's first UK gig, at Southend Esplanade, in February 1992!!!!
  • theskyiscrapetheskyiscrape Posts: 69
    uh.. i listened to binaural
    em ot sselecirp si y c a v i r p
  • Obi OnceObi Once Posts: 918
    i had ten and vitology, liked both albums, but wasnt "a big fan" (except for even flow) than i saw them live in 2000 bought all albums within months.. and indeed the rest is history..
    your light's reflected now
  • PuckJamPuckJam Posts: 94
    I was 15 when ten came out and everything was vanilla ice and mc hammer and all music sucked then I'm hanging out at a buddy's house and he says have you heard this yet and played Even Flow. I went out and bought the CD and listened to it nonstop for months. I've been hooked ever since
  • AqualangAqualang Posts: 13
    I found about Pearl Jam from my brother when one day he was rehearsing with his band and I heard them play "Alive" then "Corduroy", "Jeremy", "Keep on rockin' the free world" .
    I immediately said to myself that I had to find more about this band. So even though I am a really new fan, Pj really lifts me up when i am down but can also touch me - the way Eddie sings, my god.
    So I am now running off to catch up with years of Pearl Jam music, hoping that they will one day visit the part of the world I live in. If only I could see them live!
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