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  • ZLMZLM Posts: 16
    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".
  • ZLMZLM Posts: 16
    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! (:
  • stylo17stylo17 Posts: 1,001
    "Black" when I was 14 or 15 y.o.
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  • GR8DaneGR8Dane Posts: 957
    Ten... the whole fucking album. Yes album.....
    Everybody made a movie....
    Everybody had a one line.....
    Everybody misses Andy....
    We'll be seeing him in no time.... Oh Yeah.....

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  • halszka123halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    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
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  • SchokiSchoki Posts: 5,072
    W.M.A. Played it again and again and again and still playing it.
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    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.
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  • prljmngrlprljmngrl Posts: 320
    Black of course.
  • washedinblack91washedinblack91 Posts: 3,078
    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 :D
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  • fugawzifugawzi Posts: 879
    I just remember being a young kid, not even 10 years old, and liking just about every song on Ten and Vs.
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  • eduardoeduardo Posts: 151
    once
    11.09.05 Kitchener
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    23.11.05 Santiago
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  • ogre1213ogre1213 Posts: 400
    wow ten was THE album ayy??
    Some die just to live
  • CorduroyboyCorduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    CORDUROY!!!

    When Ten and Vs came out, I really wasn't into Pearl Jam, mainly because everybody else was. Once Vitalogy hit the shelves and my neighbor bought it and I heard Corduroy, I was instantly hooked. Haven't been back to the other side since!
  • bharQbharQ Posts: 1,201
    i had maybe heard alive or even flow first but what got me hooked was SOLAT and Breath from the Singles soundtrack...... still to this day my favorite soundtrack
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  • stickman jaystickman jay Posts: 44
    liked pj the first time i heard them, but masters of war hook line and sinker still remeber that day smokein some home grown and just sat there an said shit play that song again, where did time go
  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Wash, a friend from Seattle in my Army unit returned from leave in 1991 with it on tape. I was 23 I think.
    "Music, for me, was fucking heroin." eV (nothing Ed has said is more true for me personally than this quote)

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  • WoodenHammerWoodenHammer Posts: 89
    I was 11 when Ten came out. Followed them as religiously as a pre-teen, and then through high school, could. Fell out of touch with them during the Binaural, Riot Act years...

    Then I caught a show in '06 and got back into them. After I heard Marker in the Sand, I got nostalgiac for that old PJ power chorus sound. I had this song in mind that had that "it" quality I remembered of PJ and wanted to find. Then when I came back and listened to Breath, that was it. That to me is PJ's sound. I know I may get a lot of flack for that, but that was it.
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  • ogre1213ogre1213 Posts: 400
    WoodenHammer wrote:
    I was 11 when Ten came out. Followed them as religiously as a pre-teen, and then through high school, could. Fell out of touch with them during the Binaural, Riot Act years...

    Then I caught a show in '06 and got back into them. After I heard Marker in the Sand, I got nostalgiac for that old PJ power chorus sound. I had this song in mind that had that "it" quality I remembered of PJ and wanted to find. Then when I came back and listened to Breath, that was it. That to me is PJ's sound. I know I may get a lot of flack for that, but that was it.

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  • MikeLammi23MikeLammi23 Posts: 109
    The opening riffs to Brain of J.

    My former barber was an old hippie, and always had music going when the place was empty. Luckily for me, that night, the place was empty. He put in "a new album" which turned out to be Yield.

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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Alive- was a casual fan.
    Yield- became a Jamaniac! February 3, 1998, I joined the family!
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • Pearl FloydPearl Floyd Posts: 7
    I was 10 when Ten came out. Fell in love with it right away. All the music from the early '90's seemed to help shape & mold the person that I am....soundtrack to my life!
  • 58823005882300 Posts: 813
    meistereder wrote:
    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.


    I was 18 when grunge hit so I was lucky enough to be right smack in the middle of it. I agree the moment I heard Black for the first time I got chill bumps and went numb.
  • Red_DotRed_Dot Posts: 1,454
    My sister had Glorified G playing in the car when I was young. I thought it was really cool, so she showed me Black!!!!
    need I say more.....
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  • Oceans11Oceans11 Posts: 67
    For me it was seeing Alive on MTV for the first time. I was blown away by this song and whole performance in this video. Been a proud fan ever since.
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,415
    early singles made me a fan, footsteps made me a PJ freak
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  • vedder.tenvedder.ten Posts: 44
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    It would be you..."
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I heard 'Ten' when it was realeased, but it wasn't until I heard 'Long Road' from the 'Dead Man Walking' soundtrack that I became a fan.
  • nutmeg81nutmeg81 Posts: 627
    something off Vs.....??!

    the older brother had it on cassette so borrowed it as i was 12 or 13 at the time and was amused by the artwork!!
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  • MikeMcSchenkerMikeMcSchenker Posts: 10
    I was about 13 and I bought "TEN" because of Alive, but the song that got me was Oceans.
  • quarterpastquarterpast Posts: 185
    When I was in middle school, my family moved to Georgia. We lived about 45 minutes from the nearest mall, so most of my time was spent in the woods with friends. We had this crazy alcoholic in the neighborhood who always had his radio at a thousand decibels out his back window and it would echo through the woods. This one song that kept coming on the summer before 8th grade was something I couldn't get out of my head! I didn't know the lyrics or who it was...so one day it came on when my older brother was around (he had a car and often drove off to places with actual civilization). He told me it was Pearl Jam but didn't know the song (later found out it was Yellow Ledbetter). That night I found a copy of Vitalogy sitting on my bed :)
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