What does pearl jam mean to you???111

mexicanjammer111

yesterday i was watching the SVT and at the end the interviewer said to eddie that for a lot of people pearl jam means a lot; and he could not answer he was just in silence and i was wondering about that strong question and im ready to say: that they are an inspirational source for me their music has been with me through good and bad experiencies; and their lyrics have helped me to be a best human, and a best person; they mean everything for me; thanks pearl jam!!!!!!!!111

and for you?????????

Ms. Haiku

It's a long road trip, but sometimes I wish I would want to get out of the car.

mdigenakis

Great Band, they change up their sound frequently, and still remain great.
they remind me of a led Zeppelin, because they screw around with their sound. and like led zeppelin thy still sound great anyway.
i can't explain it well, their just great. it means something, you know?

Androgynous Mind

PJ is with me through thick and thin, the good and the bad. It is always there for me when I need it, any mood, any time, anywhere. I always have it with me and definately take full advantage of the melodical masterpices they have created over the years. They truly are amazing.

threecrookedhearts6

Androgynous Mind wrote:

PJ is with me through thick and thin, the good and the bad. It is always there for me when I need it, any mood, any time, anywhere. I always have it with me and definately take full advantage of the melodical masterpices they have created over the years. They truly are amazing.

My thoughts exactly...Pearl Jam has made me who I am today and I am more grateful than I can even express.

It's Evolution, baby.

Paint a Picture....

They mean that I never truly give another band a chance, because they are everything i need to hear. Deep, emotional lyrics that are never scared to confront the most contravertial (??? fuck i dont know about that spelling!) issues without getting childish or self absorbed, an amazing guitar pairing of Stone (all about the song shape and awesome) and Mike ( all about tearing ur fucking face off with a mind blowing solo and awesome), melodic and dynamic bass sounds from Jeff, the crisp chilled cymbal vibes coming from the back first by Krusen then Abbruzeze, and now the amazing heavy metal vibe of Matt, and of course THE Voice himself-)

imspinnin

Pearl Jam is my anchor....

deadnote

to me pearl jam just jams and thats pretty much a lot

FinsburyParkCarrots

In 1991, Pearl Jam meant, for me, escape from 1980s synth pop, permed hair cock rock, and watered down MTV soul with no swing. They offered good music, without the celebrity bullshit.

They still mean good music, without the celebrity bullshit.

goldrush

I'm going to be 30 next week and that means that Pearl Jam have now been with me for half of my life and that means a lot to me. Friends, enemies, girlfriends, jobs have all come and gone but PJ have been the one constant in the last 15 years.
I was in school when Ten came out and if you weren't a hair-metal or pop fan you weren't really anybody. I was one of a group of 3 or 4 friends who were into Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth at the time, anything remotely underground. I already owned the Green River cd and Soundgarden's Screaming Life ep but they weren't anything that special to me, they were just albums that I nicked off a cousin and quite liked. Alive and Teen Spirit both came along and changed everything. I think it was partly a teenage "I'm not liking Nirvana, they're too popular" sulk and partly the Green River/MLB link but I was instantly drawn to Alive and I've never looked back. (I still have the poster from the 12" single up in my spare bedroom)

ledvedderman

What does Pearl Jam mean to me?

I've sat here for about 15 minutes thinking about that very question. I think in some ways Pearl Jam has gotten through every twist and turn of my life over the last 7 years in one way or another.

When I graduated high school, the song on the way home from graduation could only be one: Given to Fly

When my grandpa passed away Pearl Jam summed it all up: Long Road, Thumbing My Way, Light Years, Release and many more (and since then Come Back)

When I would sit at the graveyard as the sun was going down I could hear Low Light in my head like that is what was supposed to be playing at that moment.

There are many more examples but to me Pearl Jam has not only shown me what true music is, but also shown me the beauty of the world. Who hasn't closed their eyes and been transported to the road to Harmony with the windows down, wind blowing in your hair, with Yield as the soundtrack.

While many people disagree with their politics, it motivated me. I don't agree with 100% of what Ed says, but it's taught me to pay attention and to be informed. I've since become very involved in the civic process. I've run a couple campaigns, run for office myself, and played political concerts. While I have always been political, Pearl Jam was the kick in my pants to get me passionate about it.

To me, Pearl Jam is getting in the car with your best friend and for a week and leaving the world behind. While we were best friends growing up, being at seperate schools seperated us, and the thing that kicked it all off again was Pearl Jam. Now, he's going to be the best man in my wedding next year. In 2003, two weeks after my grandpa died, I packed up and left it all behind with my best friend. We saw some amazing places. Some had to do with Pearl Jam, others didn't. It was the most amazing journey off my life.

I guess that pretty much sums up what Pearl Jam means to me, an amazing journey. It all started off with an MSG 98 bootleg, then blew up into this thing that takes a hold of you and you don't ever want it to end. There's never a sunrise/sunset without automatically thinking of "Low Light", whenever a soldier is killed in Iraq there's "World Wide Suicide", when I'm wiped out from another long commute "Sleight of Hand" will come to me. Whenever I take the chance to just look up at a blue sky there's "Given to Fly", and when I know I can't stay here forever and neither can anyone else there is "Paracutes".

Now I know why Ed couldn't find the words for describing what Pearl Jam means to him, I could easily do this for the next 3 days and still not come close to everyway Pearl Jam has touched my life.

cropdustdair

What does Pearl Jam mean to me? Everything.

deathbyawesome

This isnt just about pearl jam, but
Kurt Cobain is Jesus
Grunge is the church
and Eddie Vedder is pope

lukinfortrouble

PJ gives me something to look forward to...by that I mean I don't get to rock-out as much as I once did...now that I have a wife and kids the majority of my days are already spoken for but a new album is like opening day...an announced tour is an opportunity to dust off my Chuck Taylors and my rock concert pants (plaid of course) and arrange a series of carefully planned roadies with my old college buddies.

They give me something to look forward to...!

aoife

mexicanjammer111 wrote:

yesterday i was watching the SVT and at the end the interviewer said to eddie that for a lot of people pearl jam means a lot; and he could not answer he was just in silence

i think he just thought it was a retarded question which it is, i hate that kinda thing "what does it mean to you blah blah blah sentimental " i nearly get sick but then again im irish and we arent very sentimental people which is fucking brilliant if you ask me:)

Dae

There is a PJ song for every mood that I am. If I am feeling depressed, there is a song to help lift me, if I am feeling happy, there are songs to rock to, if there is housework to be done, PJ makes the time fly and actually enjoy cleaning the place up.....

Comatosed

I have always loved Pearl Jam, ever since a friend introduced me to "Black". I purchased all of their albums at the time (around the release of Vitalogy) and every album since. I dont think they have one bad song. Anyway, I had a pretty horrible childhood.....beaten daily by my mother and mentally abused (told I was a piece of shit and was never going to be anything, "I wish you were never born"). She even tried to kill me, when I was a baby, by drowning because I was crying too much when the soap was in my eyes and she was washing my hair. When I got my drivers licence I used to drive to the beach every night and just sit, cry my eyes out, contemplate suicide, watch the waves and listen to Pearl Jam. It was the only thing that made me feel better. I constantly wrote suicide notes, had no friends (because I gave all of my devotion to a girlfriend at the time who I totally and utterly loved....and she left me after 4 years) and just wanted to die. I planned on this particular night to just walk into the waves and never come back. I wrote the note to leave in my car and just as I was getting out of the car the chorus for "Alive" began on my stereo. The "ooohhh ooohhhh IIIIIIII'mmmmm stiiiilllll allllliiiiivvve" just got me. Ed's lyrics to this song mean a completely different thing to me than to him, i guess. Right at that moment I just started thinking....."I'm still alive at least. Things are shit, but things are a lot worse for other people. "And do I deserve to be....is that the question?". AND then I was thinking, do I deserve to be alive? "Of course I fucken do. Its my mother that doesnt. I wont give her the satisfaction".

I justed hopped back in the car and continued listening to Pearl Jam throughout the night. Crying myself to sleep in the car. That night was a life changing moment for me, because of Pearl Jam's music and Ed's lyrics. For that I am ever grateful......although "Black" still brings a tear to my eye every now and then (in relation to the ex that I mentioned). But my life couldnt be better now. To think......if I went through with my plans that night I wouldnt have the awesome life that I have now.

Years later, to remind me of how lucky I am to be Alive, and as sort of a thank you to Pearl Jam, I got the "Stickman" tattoo done on my shoulder (from the Alive single artwork). A lot of people tell me I'm stupid for getting it done...but they dont know the reason why...

Kushikushun

Comatosed wrote:

I wrote the note to leave in my car and just as I was getting out of the car the chorus for "Alive" began on my stereo. The "ooohhh ooohhhh IIIIIIII'mmmmm stiiiilllll allllliiiiivvve" just got me. Ed's lyrics to this song mean a completely different thing to me than to him, i guess. Right at that moment I just started thinking....."I'm still alive at least. Things are shit, but things are a lot worse for other people. "And do I deserve to be....is that the question?". AND then I was thinking, do I deserve to be alive? "Of course I fucken do. Its my mother that doesnt. I wont give her the satisfaction".

I justed hopped back in the car and continued listening to Pearl Jam throughout the night. Crying myself to sleep in the car. That night was a life changing moment for me, because of Pearl Jam's music and Ed's lyrics.

Beautiful story... I am glad you're still here to tell it.

Kushikushun

I am having the same trouble as Eddie had during the interview apparantly....cannot express it in words...

I'll give it a go: ...its like a friend that's always there running along with you, going crazy with you when you jump around your room, providing a shoulder when you need one, letting you cry without a word, making you laugh, you have deep conversations with about all that is life, you drink wine with while your feet are up the table and you stare of into the fire, provides you with a speeding ticket because its telling you to go faster ( ), travels to foreign places with you while giving you a sense of home, knows you better than you know yourself....

Nah, didn't work. Better to stay silent and let the music do the talking. I agree with Eddie.

ezekiels_oblivion

hm...pearl jam's music, and lyrics too, meant & are still meaning a lot to me; it's like a soundtrack of one period of my life; sort of reflection of my soul that is how I felt in that particular time, reflection of my thoughts...It is the kind of music that I'll always return to no matter what will I end up listening to probably because it was sort of part of me; who I was... aaaahhh I adore PJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jamal

Well ...

they make me cry, make me sigh
make feel their every note
they shed my tears, show my teeth
they are what they make me feel

they mean soooo much to me... but there are other bands who are almost as warm to my heart as they are (as there are : alice in chains, nirvana sometimes, 3doors down, eagle eye cherry) because of just a few of their songs that really touched me. They will never take PJ's place though.

They're better than beer and cigarettes, but what's even better ... PJ and beer and cigarettes

Thank you so much Pearl Jam, for now AND the past

kinetic

Ms. Haiku wrote:

It's a long road trip, but sometimes I wish I would want to get out of the car.

Yeah, exactly. Incredible depth, but they can be occasionally overwhelming, because the lyrics are just completely accurate at expressing feelings of love and joy and despair. So much despair. And it can be too much.

Androgynous Mind

Tom Quinn wrote:

There is a PJ song for every mood that I am. If I am feeling depressed, there is a song to help lift me, if I am feeling happy, there are songs to rock to, if there is housework to be done, PJ makes the time fly and actually enjoy cleaning the place up.....

Exactly. There is something for every occasion

Laney

Pearl Jam are my life...

josevolution

the music saved me i was drowning in a pool of bad 80's music and along comes this band and i heard release and i've been riding this incredible wave of music since thanks pj................

luxpjamer

Androgynous Mind wrote:

PJ is with me through thick and thin, the good and the bad. It is always there for me when I need it, any mood, any time, anywhere. I always have it with me and definately take full advantage of the melodical masterpices they have created over the years. They truly are amazing.

The toughts of every Pearl Jam fan...................................

Mookie1976

goldrush wrote:

I'm going to be 30 next week and that means that Pearl Jam have now been with me for half of my life and that means a lot to me. Friends, enemies, girlfriends, jobs have all come and gone but PJ have been the one constant in the last 15 years.

Same for me... Besides the fact that I turned 30 a couple of month ago...

I cant describe it in words... They are just so much bigger.

If its good music I am listening to it will go through my ears into my brain/heart/emotions.

Pearl Jam goes straight into my soul.

disconnected

A friend introduced me to Pearl Jam by let me listening to Black. Pearl Jam is what I am today. Since that day I just don't give a f&ck of what everybody else is thinking about me. That's it, I just can't express myself, sorry... I know in my mind what to say but I just can't turn it into words....

mumi

Comatosed wrote:

I have always loved Pearl Jam, ever since a friend introduced me to "Black". I purchased all of their albums at the time (around the release of Vitalogy) and every album since. I dont think they have one bad song. Anyway, I had a pretty horrible childhood.....beaten daily by my mother and mentally abused (told I was a piece of shit and was never going to be anything, "I wish you were never born"). She even tried to kill me, when I was a baby, by drowning because I was crying too much when the soap was in my eyes and she was washing my hair. When I got my drivers licence I used to drive to the beach every night and just sit, cry my eyes out, contemplate suicide, watch the waves and listen to Pearl Jam. It was the only thing that made me feel better. I constantly wrote suicide notes, had no friends (because I gave all of my devotion to a girlfriend at the time who I totally and utterly loved....and she left me after 4 years) and just wanted to die. I planned on this particular night to just walk into the waves and never come back. I wrote the note to leave in my car and just as I was getting out of the car the chorus for "Alive" began on my stereo. The "ooohhh ooohhhh IIIIIIII'mmmmm stiiiilllll allllliiiiivvve" just got me. Ed's lyrics to this song mean a completely different thing to me than to him, i guess. Right at that moment I just started thinking....."I'm still alive at least. Things are shit, but things are a lot worse for other people. "And do I deserve to be....is that the question?". AND then I was thinking, do I deserve to be alive? "Of course I fucken do. Its my mother that doesnt. I wont give her the satisfaction".

I justed hopped back in the car and continued listening to Pearl Jam throughout the night. Crying myself to sleep in the car. That night was a life changing moment for me, because of Pearl Jam's music and Ed's lyrics. For that I am ever grateful......although "Black" still brings a tear to my eye every now and then (in relation to the ex that I mentioned). But my life couldnt be better now. To think......if I went through with my plans that night I wouldnt have the awesome life that I have now.

Years later, to remind me of how lucky I am to be Alive, and as sort of a thank you to Pearl Jam, I got the "Stickman" tattoo done on my shoulder (from the Alive single artwork). A lot of people tell me I'm stupid for getting it done...but they dont know the reason why...

You made me cry.
I didn't have an abusive parent, but I do have a very very sad life story to tell.
I've been very depressed, but I kept on going...
And now I have a wonderfull life, and a lovely family.
Cheers to you men, you've been very brave, and have deep strenght inside.

mumi

Pearl Jam is not my life. Is my back door exit. In every way.
It's freedom, it's being my self, it's feeling life.
Sometimes I wonder if how I feel about PJ, and other felows PJ fans seem to feel, is how any fan of any band feels.
Because I think there's something else about this band that I can't put in words, something beyond, that feels like being embraced while being told "fly, high".
PS: I think this pit reflects how special this band is.

comebackwoman

I feel validated by their music...for every mood and every experience...there is a pj song that fits perfectly...they have gotten me through the best and worst of times...I'd be lost without pj