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Has the music ever helped you through something?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited May 2008 in The Porch
For me its hard to pinpoint one specific thing, Music, PJ's music, and others, have been there since 1991 and I dont see them stopping. I have been obsessed with indie rock and listened to it for 95 percent of the time for the last year and a half but PJ's music is still important

it helped me as a youngster dealing with feelings of abuse, anger, angst

it radicalized me, politicized me, my political and world view is to some degree influenced by PJ

it got me into other good bands, other grunge bands, bands that PJ championed (uncle neil, bruce, dylan, the who, the ramones etc...)

it has helped me currently when I am in my "finding myself" mode, No Code and Avocado are the perfect albums for such soul searching.

Its music that still has power over me, as I havent listened to them much in the past year and a half but now feel like I need to dust off my copies of the catalogue!

In short they have helped me through everything.
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  • camaroscamaros Posts: 1,003
    it helps me thru everyday.
    i like sound...
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    it's the only thing getting me from day to day right now (that and friends/family) but music helps me where there is no one to help me.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Long Road helped me find peace after my Grandmother passed...still does.
    "Music, for me, was fucking heroin." eV (nothing Ed has said is more true for me personally than this quote)

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  • Oceans11Oceans11 Posts: 67
    camaro's hood wrote:
    it helps me thru everyday.
    Ditto.

    PJ music helped me to keep my sanity through tough times in mid '90s.
  • thecorythecory Posts: 290
    i wrote a paper for my creative non fiction course about how the 90s grunge music saved my life. i won't bore you with it. it's a lot like eddie's storyteller thing about alive though
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    it helped me through highschool and most of the 1990's.
    ;)
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  • imissyoualwaysimissyoualways Posts: 353
    always.
    "We're heavily Hemingway inspired." -ed
  • triangleman12triangleman12 Posts: 193
    YES!!!! My sister was killed by a drunk driver last April. She was ONLY 26. Music has always been a huge part of my life, especially now during the healing process. Songs like "Long Road" and "Light Years" have new meaning for me now. My next tattoo is going to be the PJ stickman with wings and a halo with my sister's initials on it, to express how much she and music is and will always be a big part of my life. I'm going to 7 shows this tour, because I always wanted to "tour" with the band, if you will. What better time than NOW, because you never know . . . tommorow isn't promised to anyone.
  • StoneyChixStoneyChix Posts: 125
    OMG! PJ have helped me in soooo many ways...

    They helped me get through all the bullshit fightng that my parents did when i was younger..i'd turn up PJ just to block it out!

    They helped me SOOO much when my mum passed away and i didn't know what to do with myself..all i could do at the time was lie on my bed and listen to PJ on my cd walkman

    PJ help me on a daily basis just to get through the stresses of raising 2 kids who drive me nuts at times

    To put it in a nutshell if i didn't have PJ in my life , I have NO idea of how i'd get through my life..i listen to their music EVERYDAY!! and i am sooo thankful for what they have given us the fans..they are truly #1...
  • jdwyer02jdwyer02 Posts: 110
    It helps me realize that these guys play real music and are not sucked into the bullshit music world we are living in right now. Not that everything any other band does sucks but I believe that the state of music we are in currently blows!
    "Many people don't know what their life is worth. I do....70 Grand!"
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    I think you'll find that 99% of people on this board would respond "yes" to this. To some degree, music has helped all of us through some important time in our life or helped us face some obstacle. Heck, that's probably the reason most of us are here: You get attached to bands and music as it becomes important to you and starts to 'mean' something, whatever that may be. If I was a casual PJ fan, I would not be posting here. The music has gone beyond just being something that plays in the background. I can tie in dozens of songs to moments in my life.
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    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • OffHeGoes29OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    Its funny how some ablums mean more to you at different times of your life.

    Ten when I was a kid

    Vitalogy when I was a teenager

    No code for my early twenties

    Binaural is my current one

    I figure the others will fit when the time is right
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  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    right now it's helping me get through a messy breakup with my girlfriend.
  • MakingWavesMakingWaves Posts: 1,293
    thecory wrote:
    it's a lot like eddie's storyteller thing about alive though

    I know what you mean. In '92 I was 16 years old and within the span of a month we found out my dad was cheating on my mom and I had open heart surgery. Needless to say it was a tough time as young teenager but Pearl Jam's music got me through it, especially Alive. I loved it on storytellers when he said the part about the fans lifting the curse because that song definetly had a celebration type meaning to it for me.
    Seeing visions of falling up somehow.

    Pensacola '94
    New Orleans '95
    Birmingham '98
    New Orleans '00
    New Orleans '03
    Tampa '08
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    Fenway Park '18
    St. Louis '22
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Yeah it's helped me get through Spinbrett's posts.
  • MakingWavesMakingWaves Posts: 1,293
    triangleman12 wrote:
    YES!!!! My sister was killed by a drunk driver last April. She was ONLY 26. Music has always been a huge part of my life, especially now during the healing process. Songs like "Long Road" and "Light Years" have new meaning for me now. My next tattoo is going to be the PJ stickman with wings and a halo with my sister's initials on it, to express how much she and music is and will always be a big part of my life. I'm going to 7 shows this tour, because I always wanted to "tour" with the band, if you will. What better time than NOW, because you never know . . . tommorow isn't promised to anyone.

    Sorry to hear about your sister but I will just add this story to the reasons I love this band.
    Seeing visions of falling up somehow.

    Pensacola '94
    New Orleans '95
    Birmingham '98
    New Orleans '00
    New Orleans '03
    Tampa '08
    New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest
    New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest
    Fenway Park '18
    St. Louis '22
  • Evolution1Evolution1 Posts: 50
    It has helped me countless times! Through my late teens and early twenties Pearl Jam's music was my escape and I don't know how different it would have been without finding in Pearl Jam understanding of what I was going through. I felt like I wasn't alone.
    "I am the first mammal to wear pants....yeah"
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 92,738
    yep. for many, many year's. with out it ... ...
  • danedane Posts: 1,062
    Ten and Vs defines me as a teenager. Though I wasn't going through the same emotions as Ed wrote about, I was going through the same emotions as every other teenager does. Dealing with the fact that love can hurt, the rebelion against parents and society and that it's ok to have dark thoughts.
    Binaural helped me get over the Roskilde accident. I didn't know any of the victims. But it was/is so easy to identify with them and I was standing only a few meters from them. And just as they did, I fell down a few times, but got up and didn't really feel any danger. It might as well have been me........

    Great thread. Lots great stories inhere. Though sad, it's nice to see that ppl can find comfort in Pj's music and move on.
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  • LongerRoadLongerRoad Posts: 72
    certainly has...my son was born two months early and had to stay in the hospital for two months. Long Road (hence my name) helped me through that experience a ton. It was the first song we played in the car when we took him home. He's 3 1/2 now and he knows Long Road as "his song"...whenever he hears it, he says "this is my song."

    That whole experience took my appreciation for PJ to another level.
  • Lukin66Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    music helps me through everything
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • Sane MarySane Mary Posts: 223
    Yes
  • halszka123halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    Yes, sometimes this music replaced my family and gave me more safety than the last.
    It always feels like home
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    i think pj has helped me every week.....or at least every other week since i was 13. i'm 29 now.
    and it's not only their music, but pj stance towards the world that has really helped and encouraged me.
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

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