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What song got you into Pearl Jam??

ogre1213ogre1213 Posts: 400
edited April 2008 in The Porch
If you weren't old enough to appreciate the "grunge" era, what song got you to say "wow, this band is awesome i wanna hear some more"???

surprisingly for me it was nothing as it seems, then i realized cool i didnt know they also played daughter, and... its all history and music bliss since then

so what about everyone else?
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    I was a little young when grunge was really popular... I was like 8 when Ten came out, needless to say I still had it... (I got the Ten tape for xmas when I was 9)... Got Vs. when it came out... I liked them fine back then... but I wasn't hardcore into them until around Vitalogy and I think Corduroy was the song that got me hooked from there on out.
  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    I was part of the grunge thing, but I think when I heard Black, it put me over the edge. That's when I knew they were for real.
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  • superdeluxesuperdeluxe Posts: 119
    Oceans..

    A long long time ago.
  • Gold 26Gold 26 Posts: 676
    Not a song as such, it was the whole Ten album.

    When I was 14 in 1993 I had a record voucher with which I wanted to buy The Spaghetti Incident by Guns N' Roses (which incidently is rubbish) but I forgot I had it and paid cash. I then had to spend the voucher so looked in the rock section and just picked an album at random and there we have it....
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  • Big EdBig Ed Posts: 331
    daughter.
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  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    I tried out with "Welcome to the Jungle," but they thought I was too hard core to be in the band.

    Watch your modifiers; I kid.

    Honestly, I would say just Ten when I was in junior high 1992
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    Gold 26 wrote:
    Not a song as such, it was the whole Ten album.

    When I was 14 in 1993 I had a record voucher with which I wanted to buy The Spaghetti Incident by Guns N' Roses (which incidently is rubbish) but I forgot I had it and paid cash. I then had to spend the voucher so looked in the rock section and just picked an album at random and there we have it....


    Cool! You are lucky it wasn't a Nelson album or something.
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  • 1Vedhead1Vedhead Posts: 147
    Oddly enough - Love Boat Captain.

    But it was seeing them live for the first time that REALLY sucked me in..
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  • KertokovichKertokovich Posts: 193
    Alive was the first song I heard, my Freshman year of college, playing down the hall in some stupid Fraternity house. Thank God, for Pearl Jam not the frat house....got out of that asap. But yes it was Alive and I liked it so much I got the cassette, yes cassette and I remember just sitting in my vehicle just listening and reading the cool lyrics from the totally unique jacket. Then it was the whole album and the next and the next and so it goes.
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  • joebotjoebot Posts: 372
    My uncle came home after seeing them open for Keith Richards and the xpensive winos one new years eve and gave me the ten cassette and insisted I absorb this band. I did and that is how it begun.
    The band for me all time, no one else comes close.
  • MakingWavesMakingWaves Posts: 1,293
    I was a freshman in high school and saw Alive on MTV's 120 Minutes. I was in awe after hearing that song and went out the next day and bought the cassette.
    Seeing visions of falling up somehow.

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  • halszka123halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    I was 15 when Ten came... And I felt in love with Alive first...
    Actually, I don"t know what really means "Grunge Era", even i grew up with this kind of music (so known - Soundgarden, Alice.., Mother love bone, Stone Temple Pilots, and - my special - Temple of The Dog... i never listened Nirvana - it's the exception). So i'm not sure what is "really grunge" even now - i don't get it! But - say just we except Ten (most people think is the most grunge album of PJ), so, probably - i will chose "Rearviewmirror". It's my favourite song from the next album.

    It's funny - before PJ i listened Guns'n'Roses as someone who wrote here before. And this one:
    Gold 26 wrote:
    Not a song as such, it was the whole Ten album.

    When I was 14 in 1993 I had a record voucher with which I wanted to buy The Spaghetti Incident by Guns N' Roses (which incidently is rubbish) but I forgot I had it and paid cash. I then had to spend the voucher so looked in the rock section and just picked an album at random and there we have it....
    is so nice story... i like it!
    I have a little bit like this - when i try to collect all G'n'R video clips - then just flashed me in MTV "Alive" - so i have over 3 ours video tape of G'n'R clips and in the middle of the tape is "Alive". That video tape was the last one of G'n'R... I've never thought i could ever spend o much more time with music of a one band:)
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  • Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    Alive.
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  • hoopinmanhoopinman Posts: 294
    I remember the Alive video...but it was Black or Garden that really got me.

    Animal off of the Vs. Album killed me also...after that I was HOOKED!
  • Carlos DCarlos D Posts: 638
    I Am Mine.

    I remember I had just gotten into Nirvana and rock in general,I remember reading an article about how Nirvana's greatest hits was due ou the same week as Riot Act and its release date had to be altered because of that. That was November and I got Ten that Christmas...I think it was Yield that made me a dedicated fan though.
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  • tofatofa Posts: 51
    I was old enough to appreciate the grunge era, I just didn't at the time!! For me it was RVM that got me hooked.
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  • KertokovichKertokovich Posts: 193
    halszka123 wrote:
    I was 15 when Ten came... And I felt in love with Alive first...
    Actually, I don"t know what really means "Grunge Era", even i grew up with this kind of music (so known - Soundgarden, Alice.., Mother love bone, Stone Temple Pilots, and - my special - Temple of The Dog... i never listened Nirvana - it's the exception). So i'm not sure what is "really grunge" even now - i don't get it! But - say just we except Ten (most people think is the most grunge album of PJ), so, probably - i will chose "Rearviewmirror". It's my favourite song from the next album.

    It's funny - before PJ i listened Guns'n'Roses as someone who wrote here before. And this one:

    is so nice story... i like it!
    I have a little bit like this - when i try to collect all G'n'R video clips - then just flashed me in MTV "Alive" - so i have over 3 ours video tape of G'n'R clips and in the middle of the tape is "Alive". That video tape was the last one of G'n'R... I've never thought i could ever spend o much more time with music of a one band:)

    I actually went to the USe Your Illusion Tour show in OKC in Jan. or Feb. of 92, just before I heard Alive. Back then it was GnR, Tesla, and Public Enemy as some of my favoites of the time. Then it all changed with PJ
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    I loved it when Ten came out and they were one of my favorite bands, but I didn't fully become a PJ nut until I heard SOLAT for the first time. After I heard that song for the first time, I knew I was going to be hooked on them forever.
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  • KertokovichKertokovich Posts: 193
    I still like GnR's "Civil War" by the way, still appropriate as well.
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  • cippociappocippociappo Posts: 692
    In 2003 I started singing in a band, and my three bandmates were really into this band called Pearl Jam.

    I started to learn the songs... we've done a concert.... from that moment on they've become my drug!!!

    But I was too young when 10 came out!

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    EDIT: Eheh, forgot to mention.... the song that got me in?? SOLAT!!
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  • 75Tammy7575Tammy75 Posts: 18
    My ex husband was a huge Soundgarden fan so I refused to listen to any grunge back in the day. I am really a late bloomer but I would have to say Come Back off the last CD did it for me. Suddenly I couldn't get enough of PJ, or STP, or Soundgarden, or AIC....

    Dam my ex! He made me lose a lot of great music years.
  • stonegstoneg Posts: 1,940
    I loved Alive and Evenflow just sealed the deal for me.
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  • SuzieMSuzieM Posts: 113
    It was an evolution which started with Light Years (believe it or not!) then seeing them live from the mosh pit in 2000 (where I actually thought I was going to die because the crowd was quite aggressive). But what set me over the edge was Crown of Thorns (the live in Las Vegas 2000 version). Gave me goosebumps.
  • SnakeSnake Posts: 2,605
    Well, it all started with a friend. A friend and a radio... One day there was a song on the radio (it was Jeremy) of course I didnt know that, and my friend was saying it was a band called Pearl Jam, and they were really cool and all. SO! at the time I was really in to Green Day and so I was looking to expand my horizons, so I thought "Pearl Jam has sounded cool", so I looked them up on yahoo! videos to see a video before I got a CD. I watched Even Flow, I was like "Hey I remember hearing this song at some point, I really like this!" I thought it was awesome. So I asked my friend which CD to buy, he said "get Ten, it has all the good songs on it, like even flow and alive". So I got Ten.
    Even Flow is what got me in to Pearl Jam. Unfortunately they thought I was too young, and had to kick me out of the band. Incidentally I went to a concert the night I got Ten, and they covered Black.:D cool huh? Oh and also Im actually a bigger fan than my friend who introduced me to them. :D
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  • zootownzootown Posts: 666
    I remember the Alive video, which I liked and was impressed by, but then soon after the Even Flow video came out, and man, I was hooked right then...went out and bought Ten, and the rest is history.....
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  • drlovemonkeydrlovemonkey Posts: 394
    I was 20 years old and still listening to hair band music when my 17 year old sister told me to come check out a "real" band on MTV Unplugged. They had just started to play Porch..by the time the show was done, I was convinced that I had just witnessed greatness in the making.

    And 16 years or so later, it's my sister that I will be taking to the Hartford show.
  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    [size=+3]BLACK!!!!!!!![/size] :D
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  • nadja_veddernadja_vedder Posts: 291
    When I was 13 my friend gave me a Pearl Jam tape to listen to and it was the TEN album. When I first listened to the tape I thought it was too noisy (listening to POP music my whole life), but song after song I got used to the sound and Black starts playing, and that was it!!! To this day, Black is still my favorite song and that is the song that really got me into Pearl Jam.
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  • KertokovichKertokovich Posts: 193
    drlovemonkey wrote:
    I was 20 years old and still listening to hair band music when my 17 year old sister told me to come check out a "real" band on MTV Unplugged. They had just started to play Porch..by the time the show was done, I was convinced that I had just witnessed greatness in the making.

    And 16 years or so later, it's my sister that I will be taking to the Hartford show.

    That is so awesome. My friend who got me into them is now a District Judge lol, funny though I bet he would still go.

    I remember seeing that Unplugged and totally realizing what a truly special moment it was in the history of music. Don't mean to over sell it but that is how i felt and they have been with me ever since, from 19 to 35.
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  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    Evenflow and Jeremy were awesome when i first heard them, but I think it was really when I was finally able to understand how beautiful "Black" is.
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