Do you remember when you first heard Pearl Jam?

peyotejam4ever

Oh Man! I was in 8th grade and I just got my first boombox cd player. My brother was in college and we would fight alot and we did not see eye to eye on many things. But one of the best things he ever did for me was when he brought home a copy of Ten and said play this. He left the cd and went back to college. He always asks me why the hell I listen to Pearl Jam so much? I just look at him and grin.

Gary Carter

i rember watching the alive video on mtv. one of my cousin give me a cassatte tape of ten.

Omarama

we had a left over audio file of even flow on our computer.i heard it and got interested.then dad mentioned he had a copy of ten and i could "give a listen but he didn't think it was startling" lol i remember hearing ten and thinking, shit this is amazing!!

Diluted_Soul

I think the first PJ song I heard was Do the evolution ever since then I was hooked. I never had a Song speak to me so much about the things I as well believed and thought it should be said. ALthough I was a little late for the whole PJ explosion, I still love the band and are by far the most amazing musicians and buisinous men in the world. True people to look up to, they make music for what it is. Kudos!

GreenMonkey

Yea I was in 10th Grade (1991??) and I saw the world premier of "Jeremy"; that just blew me away and I've been an advent fan ever since.

prytocorduroy

Mines dumb. It was in the late 90s and I remember watching WCW one day and seeing Chris Jericho come out (at the time his entrance music was an Even Flow cover). I loved it and started talking about how good it was and my friend was like, "you dumb ass, that's not original, it's Pearl Jam!" After he told me that I went out and bought Ten, and liked it a lot, but ever since I got Vs. PJ have been my favorite.

I always had known about Daughter and Betterman but never knew it was PJ. I have to say Even Flow got me hooked.

Eraserhead

I borrowed Ten from a friend of mine about 10 years ago. I hated it.

Somehow I ended up with a copy of it about a year or so later, and somethink clicked on the 2nd time of asking. A bit later, I saw the DTE video and I was hooked on getting more of their stuff, instead of them becoming one of those bands where you just have 1 or 2 albums of, but don't really appricate a great deal.

chris01

Like Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine, my introduction to Pearl Jam was the same for all three, my brother had them first.

conguita

I remember perfectly.
I was watching a portuguese tv show that with all sort of different video music.
I was recording "give it away" on my vcr, and they presented PJs Even Flow... my sisters boyfriend said "Oh, these guys are interesting" and i just left it recording.
i was 12, didn't like the music that much, but looked at eddie and said... "ok"....
the 2nd time i heard it, loved!! couldn't stop!!!

Clarissa

The first time I heard Pearl Jam was when I saw their Evenflow video on MTV, first the sound caught my eye, then Eddie Vedder climbing the ceiling, I still love that video & song. But Alive is one of the most important songs of theirs to me because, even though my story is not exactly the same as the songs, I can soo relate to it. I found out at the age of 12 that the man I believed was my father really wasn't, I didn't have a clue about my real biological father. It really messed me up for all of my teenage years & still even in my early 20's, but the first time I heard that song was the first time I had ever in my life found someone who understood my pain, so it means a lot to me.

MJSilvestri

Yeah I was a Junior in HS and I was managing a band my friends were in we had a deal were each week one of us would buy an album from a new band that we had heard of but never heard.

It was my turn and we went down to Trax On Wax to buy The Mother Love Bone Album which they did not have but they did have an album with a sticker that said features members of Mother Love Bone, so I bought that.

Brought it back to my friends basement and we listened to it like three times in a row and then on and off through out the rest of the weekend. I can just remember how much I loved it and how much Ten spoke to me right away and how I liked it more and more and on deeper and deeper levels each time...

darthvedder88

It was the year 1992 and I was 4 years old...I know, sounds rediculous, but it's true. This was the first time I had seen the music video for Jeremy, and for some odd reason, I thought it was really good, but I didn't know why. Throughout the year, I remember Jeremy being played on the radio off and on, and I can even recall hearing Betterman and Who You Are as well. But it wasn't until I entered high school as a freshman, that I really found out it was Pearl Jam. I was sitting in my recliner in the living room listening to music choice, and all of the sudden they played Pearl Jam's Even Flow. When I heard it, IT BLEW THE FUCK OUTTA ME!!! Soon afterwards I bought the album "Ten" and it changed my life. There, I gave my 2 cents...

Betterman77

The Alive video was just comming out back in 1991, I was in grade 8, thought thier music sounded so different than what was already out there, So when ten came out I bought it and the rest is history!!!!!

solat_girl

It was 1993 or 1994, saturday afternoon, me and my sister were listening to the radio and Even Flow began to play, I knew who they were because my sister was into them at that time, but I had never really heard one of its songs until that moment. I thought they were great and since then I've been a fan, my sister though isn't a fan since No Code.

New Orleans Dude

i only first heard them a year or two ago from a friend. i was born in 1990, so i didnt really hear them back then. now theyre one of my favorite bands

depopulationINC

I don't remember when I first heard PJ...but almost every song is now attached to a memory.

darthvedder88

depopulationINC wrote:

I don't remember when I first heard PJ...but almost every song is now attached to a memory.

I know how you feel man. WHY DID PPL HATE NO CODE?!!! So what if it was experimental?! It was still mindblowing!!

Carlos D

I was falling asleep listening to the radio and Elderly Woman came on.The 'hearts and thoughts they fade...' line was quite memorable I thought.This was also around the time of Riot Act so I heard I Am MiNE a little while after.And then I got Ten off my sisters a month later for Christmas and me and Pearl Jam lived happily ever after.......................................................THE END.

Carlos D

I was falling asleep listening to the radio and Elderly Woman came on.The 'hearts and thoughts they fade...' line was quite memorable I thought.This was also around the time of Riot Act so I heard I Am MiNE a little while after.And then I got Ten off my sisters a month later for Christmas and me and Pearl Jam lived happily ever after.......................................................THE END.

Carlos D

I was falling asleep listening to the radio and Elderly Woman came on.The 'hearts and thoughts they fade...' line was quite memorable I thought.This was also around the time of Riot Act so I heard I Am MiNE a little while after.And then I got Ten off my sisters a month later for Christmas and me and Pearl Jam lived happily ever after.......................................................THE END.

GummiBeer

was september of 91, i was watching Much Music in my brothers room. Even Flow came on, watched it. We looked at each other and said.....this is the greatest stuff ever. then we ran down stairs and went to a music store and bought my first Cd...I still have it