What is The Most Emotional Song Eddie Wrote?

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  • Fabes
    Fabes Posts: 19
    Matt Lukin wrote:
    It was a song written about Layne Staley, and the title refers to the date that his body was found. You can find it on the second disc of Lost Dogs, a few minutes after the last track.

    Was this actually confirmed by anybody?
  • aDaughter
    aDaughter Posts: 12
    My sister was abused by her first husband. I always felt Betterman described her situation. First time I heard the song live after I found out, I was a wreck.

    Personally, getting over past shit, Daughter means a lot. It's amazing to me how he can write so well from the female perspective. Both those songs blow me away. Alive is and always will be my personal fight song!
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  • paulhealey
    paulhealey Posts: 27
    I forgot to mention, I Got Shit (ID). Thats a pretty emotional song too, also, Man of The Hour. They always get me thinking, very touching.
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  • 42002
    42002 Posts: 2
    Fabes wrote:
    Was this actually confirmed by anybody?

    its been said several times...
    http://www.epinions.com/content_117344931460
    The last track is a hidden track tacked onto the end of Bee Girl. Dubbed 4/20/02, it is the song Eddie Vedder wrote upon learning of Layne Staley's (of Alice in Chains fame) passing. Decided to be too personal to make it onto Riot Act, and at one point promised to never see the light of official release by Vedder, it is downright chilling to listen to ("the using, the using, the using takes hold!").

    http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2003/11/17/pearl_jam_scours_the.php
    http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=17099

    ... but i havent ever seen it confirmed by the band.


    but back to the topic, "4/20/02" and "I got ID" are the most emotional to me
  • loveboatcaptainsinge
    loveboatcaptainsinge Posts: 29
    To this day the line "I gather speed from you fuckin with me'" sends a chill everytime, given the song matter and what not. I've tried to control it but it happens everytime, that damn chill...
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  • 42002
    42002 Posts: 2
    VH1: Like the song you wrote for Layne Staley after he died of a drug overdose?

    Vedder: Yeah. It almost seemed like something we could have put out on the radio that week. It was called "4/20/02," which was the day I heard about it. We didn't release it because we had too many songs. We pared it down from 19 or 20 to create a piece ... if it's a boat you want it to float and not have too much weight.

    http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1458559/11072002/pearl_jam.jhtml

    there, now it has been confirmed by the band
  • Fabes
    Fabes Posts: 19
    Sweet, thanks.
  • TheEvolution
    TheEvolution Posts: 143
    Black for sure just watch him when they play it live he is so emotional
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  • ukn0urright
    ukn0urright Posts: 9
    i think release is pretty emotional
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  • eden
    eden Posts: 407
    Pearl_Jam_Necklace wrote:
    Release
    Black
    Once
    Agreed.

    Its Release thats no.1 I think.
    When he is literally screaming for his dead father to 'release him' towards the end
    his pain is palpable.
  • Innocent_Bystander
    Innocent_Bystander Posts: 615
    Sleight of Hand has been getting to me recently, think its very emotional.
    Mostly all of Ten is extraordinarily emotional lyrically and musically, with Black, Once, Release, Alive, and Garden.
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  • Coming back to life
    Coming back to life Posts: 401
    Let me sleep is a contender
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  • SwedishAussie
    SwedishAussie Posts: 2
    INDIFFERENCE IS BY FAR!!!!!!!
    I think that this is a suicide song and suicide is very emotional as in the effects it has on the person and his/her loved ones
    As soon as you're born you start to die
  • davo499
    davo499 Posts: 14
    def indifference

    but black and yl are close
    you've gotta hold on to your time
    till you break through these times of trouble
  • RVM86
    RVM86 Posts: 76
    BLACK.....there's so much emotion................RVM comes close
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  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    ISN wrote:
    corduroy is my favourite song.....I play it constantly.....he really seems to get places with it.....I feel something strong.....heh.....I love it....I can't express it......corduroy.....yes!!!!

    Yeah dude, I totally agree with you. Corduroy is such an amazing song, I just love listening to it. Especially the original version off of Vitalogy. The intro just gives you chills, I love the bass in the background of Eddie's guitar.
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  • usreeb
    usreeb Posts: 2
    It's freaky that it comes back to me now, but six years ago i was trapped in a terrible relationship and i remember how a friend of mine sat me down and played betterman. The lines..."she lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better man..." the story of my life...i think it's his most emotional song ever!
  • Flannel Shirt
    Flannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
    dirty frank
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  • monkeyman
    monkeyman Posts: 4
    Indifference, Corduroy, and Dead Man. He seems most tortured and powerful in these songs.
  • charlotte28
    charlotte28 Posts: 56
    Mine are Garden and Man of the Hour...and many many more after that!
    walk the bridges before you burn them down...

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