The song that turned you onto PJ

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  • Umbertotamba
    Umbertotamba Posts: 1,385
    Angel......

    It was on a bootleg I had at the time....constantly played it!!
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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,367
    Elderly Woman, only because I was listening to Dave Matthews almost non-stop before that. Right after that, it was when the LO2L version of Elderly Woman was on radio. That radio hit took us into into Last Kiss being played on radio.

    Before that, I was hearing Immortality on the radio, but didn't know what it was.
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  • CaptainB
    CaptainB Posts: 59
    release, release, release. then one by one, each of the remaining songs on ten. i wore this cd out listening to it while playing the original madden on the sega genesis..... the greatest football game of all time.....except maybe for tecmo bowl:)
  • myra
    myra Posts: 1,257
    Last Exit.
    Because it is the opener to Vitalogy, which is the first record I got although I had never heard them before. Quite inspired to buy this record that day... It's been 16 years and I have never managed to recover from the addiction!
  • jfs5-10-10
    jfs5-10-10 Posts: 326
    Yellow ledbetter. =) cool story, I caught the end of it on the radio and thought it was so incredible. I was also incredibly baked. I knew it was pearl jam but I didn't know the song and just had to find out what it was. I was able to get a hold of the DJ on the phone and he hooked me up.
    Played the hell outta that song. Now they're my favorite band of all time.

    Thanks yellow ledbetter. =)
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  • baldoallornone
    baldoallornone Posts: 211
    Black...I heard it on the radio at age 12 back in 1993 and didn't stop bugging my parents to get me PJ memorbilla for holidays from there on.
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    evenflow and i still really dig it
  • Chrisilein
    Chrisilein Vienna/Austria Posts: 3,922
    Alive! I 1991 I read an austrian magazine which made ratings of new album releases! I saw an enthusiastic review of a new band called PJ and their debut album Ten! The rating was 5 of 5 stars. That was the reason for me to buy the album and Alive was the song that made me a fan!!
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  • mvw
    mvw Posts: 1,706
    Right here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gQkbgkVtZo 8-)
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,672
    "Not for You" brought on the obsession.

    Radio hits from "Vs." were very good.

    "Ten" was an explosion that I didn't know how to handle as a 9 year old. If I was 15, "Jeremy" would have done it.
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  • MS262715
    MS262715 Posts: 6
    Black did it for me. I was 18 or 19 when it was released. To this day, I can't turn off the radio in the middle of that song!
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  • malcyrvs
    malcyrvs Posts: 89
    Once, on a free cassette (remember those?) with a copy of The NME. Blew me away.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 44,405
    I thought I replied to this thread but apparently I didn't. For me it was Alive! I saw the video on MTV and was hooked.
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  • jrnyc
    jrnyc Posts: 537
    ten, right from the beginning. remember seeing the videos on MTV incessantly. Ed climbing up to the rafters.
  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    Alive
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  • Dirty_Frank_Dahmer
    Dirty_Frank_Dahmer Albany NY Posts: 4
    Once baited me....... I burned through 3 cassettes of Ten. What hooked me for life was Breath from the Singles soundtrack. I would play and rewind over and over and over. Now almost 20 years later it's still me all time favorite.
    Whooo Hoooo !!!......... It's evolution baby!!!
  • Tangerine
    Tangerine Posts: 880
    Alive--14 when the video came out, hooked ever since.
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    even flow video. first time I ever saw/heard them. That was in the spring of 92. I got the album that summer.
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  • aroundth3bend
    aroundth3bend Posts: 61
    alive. i said to my dad, 'hey i know that song!'
    a wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw. delivered him wings, 'hey look at me now!'
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,077
    Deep. I just thought the storytelling was great in that song and made me pay attention to the rest of the lyrics on Ten, especially Black and Release. Felt like somebody had made that album for me, like they knew me. Was pretty incredible and still is.
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