What song got you into Pearl Jam??

Blind3

The video for "Alive".

nowayimfaithfull

daughter

offwego

GO-GO by WAM

harmless_little_f***

I bought Ten based on having heard 'Alive'... changed my life.

Surf Rider

ogre1213 wrote:

you know where i can hear it??

You got it. PM Sent.

LukinTimer

I was actually lucky enough to see them live before Ten was released, so it was really the live show that sucked me in.

But song wise.. yep, Jeremy started it.... Ten took it even further, and Rearviewmirror sealed the deal.

PearlyOceans

I was about 12 years old when my sister called me to her room. "You have to listen to this, it's so cool". She was in love with this guy who was into Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins etc. So ofcourse she thought it was cool too (she was like 16 years old). I really didn't listen to the music, but hey...she's my older sister, if she says its cool....it's cool. So I asked her to make a copy. It was a a cassette with Ten, some songs from Vs., a couple of Nirvana songs and Stairway to Heaven on it.
A couple of months later I put the cassette in my player and instantly fell in love with Garden. Soon I fell in love with the rest.

Funny thing is, after things didn't work out with this guy, my sister started to call the music crap. She still thinks it sucks :-)

FrankieJ

My first show (7/14/03) when I was 13 got me hooked.
The only song I liked before the show was Evolution, and thankfully they played it. It was the only song I came to hear. But I started digging the rest of the songs, and after I listened to the CD of the show a couple of times, I got really hooked on Corduroy.

So Evolution and Corduroy hooked me on PJ.

kh65

To me, PJ, "Ten" and Nirvana, "Nevermind" were like manna from heaven after all of the hairbands from the 80's. I was addicted to "Ten" from the get go. But "Black" did it for me. I know people say that a lot but there is a reason for it. It was like something special. "Alive" and "Jeremy" were everywhere and every douchebag knew only that. But the true fans know how great that album is. That song is the shit.

Fatal

Jeremy, back in 92 or whatever...but it wasn't so much the song as it was the video. I saw it and decided to pick up the cassette. Plugged it into my walkman on a Friday night and was just floored.

I've been in love ever since :-)

smile05

late 93,Daughter
Then realised who they was,and that they had a debut album.
Listening to Corduroy for the first time is still the peak.

Fender_Man

Release . A friend of mine had this on a compilation tape in his car. Couldn't get it out of my head for weeks until I could afford the Ten CD.

snipes824

i was very young when they first hit the scene so i didn't start getting into them until later in my life. alive, corduroy and given to fly... those type of songs really got me into them and made me want to hear more.

suncatchrzz

Alive~ late one night on 91x in SD as a "what'da think of this new song?Yea or nay?" I knew from that exact moment that I loved them. Strange how you just know, when you know huh???

bacchanal

18 in 1991.....moved to cali for the 1st time......heard alive/evenflow like my 2nd week in SD.....and that was it!!! lifelong fan

PaperPlates

Release got me hooked. It was like it was written just for me.





Thanks PJ!!

Gmoney

superdeluxe wrote:

Oceans..

A long long time ago.

dido

Gossard_Is_God

Daughter from Lo2L..the echoes, whistling and atmosphere at the end, oh how I love it

happy2behere

Release/Corduroy live together

PJISAJ

Studio PJ - Garden. Stolen my younger brother's tape and kept rewinding this song.

Live PJ - April 3,1994; same younger brother comes into room yelling PJ is playing Pink Floyd on the Radio (Daughter tag for that show)! I immediately threw a tape in and started recording. This was the 1st time I had heard PJ live and was blown away with how close they sounded to their studio recordings. On that tape I captured "Betterman" & "Satan's Bed", both of which weren't released until November 1994.