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The song that turned you onto PJ

Brain-o-JordanBrain-o-Jordan Posts: 31
edited February 2011 in The Porch
Which song got you into Pearl Jam? if you weren't there when they started out.

i was born in 1989 so i first heard them at about age 7, i remember hearing Alive on the way to the mountains in my dad's beetle, but the one song i remember hearing that made me want to hear more is Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town.
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    somestupidfuksomestupidfuk Posts: 60
    it was definitely Yellow Ledbetter for me!
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    Brain-o-JordanBrain-o-Jordan Posts: 31
    Yellow ledbetter is one of those songs that stick to you the first time you hear it, amazing.
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    somestupidfuksomestupidfuk Posts: 60
    Brain-o-Jordan wrote:
    Yellow ledbetter is one of those songs that stick to you the first time you hear it, amazing.
    so true. I remember the first time I listened to it all the way through and heard mike playing the end of the song, thats when i was hooked.
    Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them." -- Albert Einstein

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    xsmytxxsmytx Posts: 162
    Evenflo for sure..I was 8 and that song and Bob Marley made me fall in love with music!
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    Brain-o-JordanBrain-o-Jordan Posts: 31
    Bob Marley huh? i grew up with Pearl jam, and sublime mostly
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    Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Rearviewmirror, especially the ending. That really got me hooked on them.
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    mermelada_alucinogenamermelada_alucinogena Posts: 59
    ALIVE
    Love ain't Love until you give it up!
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    sacredyouthsacredyouth Posts: 69
    All of Ten. Listened to on cassette in my friend's powder blue Ford Fairmont to and from school my entire senior year of high school (91-92). I can remember thinking I had never heard anything like Peal Jam before. . . my love for this band has only gotten stronger over the years.
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    TightropeHigherTightropeHigher Posts: 135
    Age six, flipping through channels. caught "Jeremy" on MTV. Hooked ever since. I remember at first thinking the band was called Jeremy.
    -All that's sacred comes from youth.
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    AELARAAELARA Posts: 803
    Rearviewmirror, the favourite song of a friend of mine who loves PJ and introduced me to their music. Thank you Johnny!! :D
    I am mine!
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    pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Seeing the Jeremy video in 92 went out and got Ten. The songs though then that hooked me were Once and Rearview Mirror, had some pent up anger issues ;)
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    Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,486
    SOLAT unplugged.
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    EraserheadEraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,839
    Do The Evolution.

    I'd borrowed Ten off a friend some months before, but didn't much care for it (BURN THE HEATHEN!!), and I saw the video for DTE back in the day when MTV played music videos. I didn't recognise Ed's voice as it sounded so different to Ten!

    Revisited Ten, loved it and then bought Live on Two Legs, and the rest is history. :)
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    in_the_mudin_the_mud Calgary AB Posts: 492
    Brisk. wrote:
    SOLAT unplugged.
    The same here :)
    I was 15 and I remember we're watching it with my sister. Still one of my top 3 songs.
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    CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    Corduroy from Live On Two Legs
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    ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    Hubby (then boyfriend) bought Ten and I think Jeremy really stood out first listening.
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    Evolution!

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    LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,069
    BLACK---husband played it on the jukebox in a bar
    instantly LOVED it.
    :D
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
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    AELARAAELARA Posts: 803
    CantKeepMeHere wrote:
    Corduroy from Live On Two Legs

    I can see why.... I love it too...
    I am mine!
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    PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,228
    Black from Live On Two Legs (9 years old (born in 1988), back in 1998).
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    unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Saw "Into the Wild."
    Loved "Hard Sun."
    Bought soundtrack. Thought, "this Eddie Vedder guy is amazing."
    Nephew says, "You know he's in a band, right?" (I didn't.)
    Bought "Ten." Immediately bought everything else.
    But the song that completely, totally hooked me was "Given To Fly" from "Live on Two Legs." And since then, so many other songs have sunk hooks into me that I am ruined for all other bands.
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    Paulina87Paulina87 Poland Posts: 3,300
    9 years ago Garden
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    PJSEMPREPJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    Alive
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
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    mcameronrocksmcameronrocks Posts: 321
    Alive got me started, I heard it on the radio. But when I picked up Ten, I was not a fan of anything else. At that point in my life, I was a hair band guy, so the power of PJ hadn't hit me yet.

    Then my buddy down the street brought over Dirty Frank and Alone. I revisited Ten and liked it much better.

    How I really got the bug was when Vs. dropped. Dave A. really got a hold of me with his funkiness...you know, unplugged, MTV music awards with Neil, SNL and Letterman...
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    unthought12unthought12 Posts: 64
    I always like Pearl Jam quite a bit, but once I heard Ledbetter, that was it. Lifer.
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    Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Your Mom's Posts: 17,954
    Corduroy....
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)

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    titchinellotitchinello Posts: 3,139
    was there from the start, but seeing the alive video from day 1 got me hooked, then got the album on import, because uk hadn't released it at that time.
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    demetriosdemetrios Canada Posts: 87,746
    BlAcK!
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    RiotZactRiotZact Posts: 6,204
    + 1 for ledbetter for sure!
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    Jurassic MarcJurassic Marc Posts: 152
    GO

    i remember playing with godzilla action figures to V.S. when i was real little.
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