The song that turned you onto PJ

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  • WhatWouldEddieDo
    WhatWouldEddieDo Posts: 55
    I would have to say it was Daughter.
    I was 13 and I remember I borrowed Vs from a friend and played it over and over. I remember I used to call my mom and tell her "Mom listen to this song, isnt it cool?!"

    Jam-Head for life! :mrgreen:
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Jeremy Video, i was literally like "Nirvana Ru.... ohh who's this?"
  • saltybiscuits
    saltybiscuits Posts: 3
    CantKeepMeHere wrote:
    Corduroy from Live On Two Legs

    +10000

    What a sick version of Corduroy - probably my favorite song to jam and sing when driving.
  • AmishGuy91
    AmishGuy91 Posts: 835
    Daughter around 96-97 after reading Dennis Rodman's book. Then bought Yield when it came out and was really hooked.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Better Man
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    May 2008, 15 years old: Heard Jeremy for the first time, and basically was like 'Holy crap...who is this?' I was amazed. And in short, the rest is history...
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  • pjsteelerfan
    pjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,905
    Garden
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,147
    the evenflow video is the first i remember
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • medSEAfan7
    medSEAfan7 Posts: 77
    Been a fan since the beginning, generally liking anything that came off of Ten (at the ripe old age of 8) and the moment I knew I would forever be a fan was when I saw the Even Flow video on MTV. I can still remember that first time I saw it, I was completely mesmorized!
  • Bathgate66
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  • GTO
    GTO Posts: 8
    Summer 2007, I was staring at my CDs and thought "What I really need is some good, straight-ahead, American rock and roll." I'm not sure why, but the first band that popped into my head was Pearl Jam.

    Went out to the record store (yep, I still go to record stores) and decided I'd get their most recent (Avocado, although I refer to it as Guac at my house), and one I'd never heard of before (Yield).
    The song that really did it for me was Unemployable. It sounds like the best song ever about cars and girls and summer, but when I got around to reading the lyrics I realized it was about far more important stuff than that.

    I've felt like a 14 year old girl at a Beatles show ever since. It's not that I don't listen to other bands, it's that I've been listening to PJ at least once a day since. That's not something I could say about any other band, ever.
    You should see what I'm picking up on the road - one fantasy after another.
  • evolvedmammal
    evolvedmammal Posts: 187
    1996 i was way into smashing pumpkins , my cousin gave me his copy of NoCode it looked interesting. i was amazed.. got rid of all my pumpkins cds and bought every PJ cd i could find i was only 11 when yield was released that just solidified my love for this band
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  • thefin190
    thefin190 Posts: 918
    Rearviewmirror. Hear it on the radio and I was hooked. I originally didn't like PJ's older stuff because I thought it was too slow. I also liked World Wide Suicide when it came out, and that's what got me to start looking into Pearl Jam. I really wanted to go to a Pearl Jam show, but I had missed the Gorge shows and was annoying the Pearl Jam nor EV did another Seattle show until late 2009.
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  • Gonzo1977
    Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    "Better Days" :lol::lol:

    Actually...it was "Alive"
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Brother of Ames wrote:
    1996 i was way into smashing pumpkins , my cousin gave me his copy of NoCode it looked interesting. i was amazed.. got rid of all my pumpkins cds and bought every PJ cd i could find i was only 11 when yield was released that just solidified my love for this band

    But Mellon Collie came out the next year? :? oh right, sorry forgot what website i was on.
    Good Move.
  • AtlantaJammer
    AtlantaJammer Posts: 2,611
    anonymouskelly wrote:
    it was definitely Yellow Ledbetter for me!


    Me as well. Even though I owned a cassette of Ten back in the day (I was only 9) I never knew who sang "box or a bag." :oops: Hadta ask someone and then my life was taken over by PJ.
  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,039
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  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    porch or alive- i dont remember
  • Ando
    Ando Denver Posts: 410
    We had a foriegn exchange student living with my Aunt and for Xmas he got VS. He kept it going most of the night and it was just different then anything i had heard. I loved it and went out to buy it the next day.
  • Illridethewave20
    Illridethewave20 Posts: 491
    hmm.I guess the whole VS. Album, but if I had to pick one song-Glorified G

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