The song that turned you onto PJ

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  • John Briggs 2008
    John Briggs 2008 Posts: 1,024
    Even Flow and Jeremy. Even flow mostly though.
  • ItsOKaye
    ItsOKaye Posts: 191
    A few years ago I wanted to get into some different music so I bought RVM Greatest hits because Id always liked "Alive" but didnt know much about PJ.
    The first two songs on disc 2 "Black"and "Breath" just blew me away....escpecially BLACK.

    I think it was mainly the feeling and words that went into Black that got me hooked. Eddies "Oooh,hoo" was so raw and emotional I couldnt stop listening to it. It kind of annoys me that he hums it nowadays ...mmm,mmm.

    Also the line " And now my bitter hands, cradle broken glass of what was everything" How poetic is that?!?

    I went out and bought every studio album after that and all the bootlegs and DVDs I could find. I now have over 2000 PJ/EV songs on my Ipod and never get tired of listening to them. :)
    Im so happy with my righteous self..
  • Brock Samson
    Brock Samson Posts: 328
    friend of mine played 'alive' for me winter of '91, went out and bought the cd the next day.

    **edit**
    oh, and if we're adding ages, i was just about a month shy of 20 when my buddy played that for me. thanks jason.
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  • TUTMAN08
    TUTMAN08 Posts: 82
    Betterman/Save it for Later from State College bootleg got me hooked. Then Eddie and Mike did Masters of War at the Bob Dylan tribute and I was hooked for good.
  • MikeLove
    MikeLove Posts: 67
    BLACK live 2000 Euro Boots
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  • Lone Wolf
    Lone Wolf Posts: 1,023
    Small Town 1994 Atlanta
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  • matabele
    matabele Posts: 277
    The Live at the Garden dvd. Hook, line and sinker!
  • keepnfaith44
    keepnfaith44 Posts: 677
    Always have been a fan since seeing them live for first time, Alive & Black were my two favorite songs, but first time I heard Yellow Ledbetter, I was a lifer!
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  • susannj
    susannj Posts: 696
    My sister first bought the Ten cassette (yes cassette :D ) when the Alive single came out. We used to share my mom's car driving it around and she would ALWAYS play it. When I finally heard Release I was hooked!
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  • brianwp
    brianwp Posts: 142
    Dating myself, but I was just out of college when Ten came out, liked Evenflow and Jeremy a lot but when I picked up the CD and heard Porch and Why Go I became an instant fan. Unfortunately, I didn't think to join the fan club until about 4 years later
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,738
    all of vs.

    ten was good, but listening to vs. on my walkman is what really got me

    but the kicker was hearing spin the black circle live at Randalls Island-havent been the same since
  • H.Chinaski
    H.Chinaski Brooklyn, NY Posts: 1,604
    evenflow i guess.
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  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    daughter!
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  • Trudstar
    Trudstar Posts: 112
    Alive
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  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,655
    Once.
    Nice shirt.
  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Alive ... I was going through a bad stage in life and was experiencing extreme insomnia.I used to watch t.v into the early morning.
    I was watching a music show called The Power Hour.The V.J. introduced new release video's ... Alive was the first one to come on ... I was mesmerised then realised I was crying.
    The next day I went looking for the single,no store had heard of Pearl Jam.An assistant in an independent music store offered to keep a look out for it and call me if it came in.
    I got a call two weeks later ... I carried that single around for a month and played it to as many people as possible.
    A small few got it .. most didn't .. Alive was the catalyst for me to get my self functioning again.
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  • jester59388
    jester59388 Posts: 150
    I'd have to say Alive. Saw them perfrom Alive and Porch on SNL. Stunned and amazed doesn't describe it. Then I caught Unplugged on MTV. Jammer for life ever since.
    a fool not a fucking god ....
  • DaveyG
    DaveyG Posts: 225
    I bought Ten in '08 (yes, I'm young) just because I remembered hearing the name Peal Jam when I was really, really little. I loved it and used to listen to it while I did my homework (except I always skipped Black, I know.) Even though I liked Ten a lot, it was when I heard Daughter on the radio I decided to buy some...excuse me..all of their stuff.
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,136
    Spin the Black Circle

    I did not like "Jeremy" for many years; it was so overplayed where I was living (Bay Area) that it was driving me crazy. I also preferred Nirvana at the time.

    I was very impressed by STBC -- so much energy and so different from Jeremy; I had to respect a band that could put out a song that sounded so different from the song that made them huge. I also really liked Betterman (I'm a girl, what can I say?).

    We moved to Seattle in '95, and of course PJ was everywhere. I would call us casual fans during this time -- did not need to work too hard to find PJ on the radio, LOL. We got into the band more after we left Seattle ( :(:cry::cry::cry::( ) , since we missed the city so much. Like the poster above, I would say that Live at the Garden pulled us in hook, line and sinker.

    For what it's worth, I like Jeremy much more now -- very solid song. :)
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