What song got you into Pearl Jam??

75Tammy75

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.

stoneg

I loved Alive and Evenflow just sealed the deal for me.

SuzieM

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.

Snake

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.

zootown

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.....

drlovemonkey

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.

Lizard

[size=+3]BLACK!!!!!!!![/size]

nadja_vedder

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.

Kertokovich

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.

MichaelMcKevin

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.

ZLM

I remember hearing "Jeremy", "Once" and "Alive" a few years ago, but the song which really got me into Pearl Jam, only about 1 year ago, was "Black".

ZLM

GivenToCarve wrote:

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.

The same happened to me! (:

stylo17

"Black" when I was 14 or 15 y.o.

GR8Dane

Ten... the whole fucking album. Yes album.....

halszka123

Oklahoma PJ Fan wrote:

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

WOW! So You liked Tesla??? Just like me - and no one of my friends didn't even know who they were:)
And U know what I liked the best from GnRAND Tesla? Guitar! Five man acoustical jam and G'n'R Lies .... acoustic guitar... i have to admit it - i like it still, but not listen too much it

Schoki

W.M.A. Played it again and again and again and still playing it.

ledvedderman

The MSG II 1998 bootleg. I think "Wishlist" was the new song that really hit me besides all of the ones I had heard growing up.

prljmngrl

Black of course.

washedinblack91

i remember listening to pearl jam on the radio when i was a little girl because my mom refused to listen to disney soundtracks 24/7 one day driving around town "black" came on and i was particularly moved. i asked my dad for a pearl jam cd (after he said i wasn't allowed to get a godsmack cd, i went for the next best thing in my young, stupid, 12 year old opinion) and the rest was history

fugawzi

I just remember being a young kid, not even 10 years old, and liking just about every song on Ten and Vs.