What song got you into Pearl Jam??

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  • Drew263
    Drew263 Birmingham, AL Posts: 602
    Alive...this actually really happened to me at 15. Heard Alive in late 91 when I was 17.

    Son, she said, have I got a little story for you
    What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a (fool)
    While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen...
  • Army & Navy
    Army & Navy Posts: 120
    I had the first 3 albums (Ten, VS, Vitalogy) but never got fully 'into them'

    No Code made me a fan, loved the more mellow side at that point.

    Then the Euro Boots (San Sebastian, London, Milan) pushed me over the top. I bought everything they ever released from that day forward.
  • shadowcast
    shadowcast Posts: 2,368
    Gold 26 wrote:
    Not a song as such, it was the whole Ten album.

    ....

    I agree with Gold 26
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    I was a little young for the grunge era, as I was either 7 or 8 when Ten was released. However, I did go through my older sister's albums and listen to them. She had Vs. and I remember liking Daughter when I first heard it, but it didn't immediately make me a fan. Then a couple years later when I first heard Better Man on the radio, I became addicted to that song and got Vitalogy. Vitalogy led to getting Ten and Vs., and from then on I was an addict.
  • vonnegutnaked2
    vonnegutnaked2 Posts: 43
    Kind of a prolonged love affair.

    I grew up in Indiana, listening to X103 and buying pretty much everything from every band on there (stupid Clear Channel controlling my life). So, I had Ten, Vs., et al. in my collection already. But Pearl Jam was hardly my favorite band and I rarely listened to any of them straight through. I even remember buying Yield right after it first came out and being like, "this is ok" (I know, I was completely ignorant).

    Anyway, Live on Two Legs came out and Elderly Woman was getting a ton of airplay on the X back my sophomore year in high school (98-99). I remember driving to school early one morning because our basketball team got together each morning to shoot free throws. I had the chorus stuck in my head. I was standing there shooting with a partner and I just kept humming it. Then, I realized the guy next to me was doing the same thing. I just couldn't get it out of my head. So, I went out that night and bought Live on Two Legs on CD and cassette (my car didn't have a CD player).

    I swear I listened to Elderly Woman two times a morning for about two weeks. Of course, I also found I loved the live versions (which I wasn't a bootleg guy obviously being a casual fan) of old favorites like Black and Corduroy so much better than the studio versions. Pretty soon, I'd worn that cassette out and I'd started going deeper and deeper into the old albums finding out that I loved a whole lot more than the big hits.
  • TEEJAM11
    TEEJAM11 Posts: 335
    I would say the TEN album.
    But the song that got me, and still love to this day is BLACK..............
    what a song, I really love when everyone sings it at a live show....
    It's really craze looking back thinking that I have been listing to PJ for 17 yrs..
    each album brings me back to a different stage in my life... craze shit...
    The funny thing is my wife asked me the other day, don't you get sick of listing to the same thing or band all the time? and I was like nope. My kids just started laughing at me and said I knew you would say that....
  • rearviewmirror89
    rearviewmirror89 Posts: 12
    When I was in middle school one of the guidance counselors that knew my family actually gave me a mixtape of what he said was "good" music in comparison to what I was listening to. It had Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. Even Flow was on there and it made me buy the ten album. Then I was hooked.
    Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love....
  • loladog1
    loladog1 Posts: 97
    black.... I eas in 8th grade....wow!
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  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    I remember hearing Jeremy somewhere during the grunge years when I was 8. I always remembered that song, when I was 13 i finally got a copy of Ten and the rest is history.
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,211
    ten

    porch

    then I bought Vs. and it was over for the rest of the music world
  • youareyours
    youareyours Posts: 53
    For me it was RVM...still one of their best live songs...can't wait for June!!!
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  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
    Baby Beluga
  • ogre1213
    ogre1213 Posts: 402
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    Baby Beluga


    whale song?!?!

    interesting!!
    Some die just to live
  • perk442
    perk442 Posts: 4
    I was in 6th grade, the only tape i had was counting crows-august and everything after. my older sister got VS for christmas. the cover looked cool so i took it. i went to bed, put it in my sony walkman and pushed play.
    the rolling drums that begin go had me hooked. then when animal came on right after. my life changed.
  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
    ogre1213 wrote:
    whale song?!?!

    interesting!!


    http://www.giventowail.com/tabs/?p=275&tabid=293
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Once!
    I was on a trip in 1992 back from Cedar Point that took foever because we broke down a bunch of times and a I lost a tape to listen to and a friend gave me Ten and I couldn't stop listening to the first song! I took the tape and the rest is history.
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • ogre1213
    ogre1213 Posts: 402
    perk442 wrote:
    I was in 6th grade, the only tape i had was counting crows-august and everything after. my older sister got VS for christmas. the cover looked cool so i took it. i went to bed, put it in my sony walkman and pushed play.
    the rolling drums that begin go had me hooked. then when animal came on right after. my life changed.

    nice story,

    welcome to the board!
    Some die just to live
  • ogre1213
    ogre1213 Posts: 402
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    http://www.giventowail.com/tabs/?p=275&tabid=293


    you know where i can hear it??
    Some die just to live
  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
    ogre1213 wrote:
    you know where i can hear it??

    I was only joking, but Ed did sing it at The Bridge School, I have it somewhere but not sure where. I'll try and upload it for ya when I get some time.
  • ogre1213
    ogre1213 Posts: 402
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    I was only joking, but Ed did sing it at The Bridge School, I have it somewhere but not sure where. I'll try and upload it for ya when I get some time.

    They won't fight back. I'm sure they know how. Means they love or are too proud.
    Some die just to live

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