What song got you into Pearl Jam??

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  • eduardo
    eduardo Posts: 151
    once
    11.09.05 Kitchener
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  • ogre1213
    ogre1213 Posts: 402
    wow ten was THE album ayy??
    Some die just to live
  • Corduroyboy
    Corduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    CORDUROY!!!

    When Ten and Vs came out, I really wasn't into Pearl Jam, mainly because everybody else was. Once Vitalogy hit the shelves and my neighbor bought it and I heard Corduroy, I was instantly hooked. Haven't been back to the other side since!
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    i had maybe heard alive or even flow first but what got me hooked was SOLAT and Breath from the Singles soundtrack...... still to this day my favorite soundtrack
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • stickman jay
    stickman jay Posts: 44
    liked pj the first time i heard them, but masters of war hook line and sinker still remeber that day smokein some home grown and just sat there an said shit play that song again, where did time go
  • beachdweller
    beachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Wash, a friend from Seattle in my Army unit returned from leave in 1991 with it on tape. I was 23 I think.
    "Music, for me, was fucking heroin." eV (nothing Ed has said is more true for me personally than this quote)

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  • WoodenHammer
    WoodenHammer Posts: 89
    I was 11 when Ten came out. Followed them as religiously as a pre-teen, and then through high school, could. Fell out of touch with them during the Binaural, Riot Act years...

    Then I caught a show in '06 and got back into them. After I heard Marker in the Sand, I got nostalgiac for that old PJ power chorus sound. I had this song in mind that had that "it" quality I remembered of PJ and wanted to find. Then when I came back and listened to Breath, that was it. That to me is PJ's sound. I know I may get a lot of flack for that, but that was it.
    We were but stones... Your light made us stars
  • ogre1213
    ogre1213 Posts: 402
    WoodenHammer wrote:
    I was 11 when Ten came out. Followed them as religiously as a pre-teen, and then through high school, could. Fell out of touch with them during the Binaural, Riot Act years...

    Then I caught a show in '06 and got back into them. After I heard Marker in the Sand, I got nostalgiac for that old PJ power chorus sound. I had this song in mind that had that "it" quality I remembered of PJ and wanted to find. Then when I came back and listened to Breath, that was it. That to me is PJ's sound. I know I may get a lot of flack for that, but that was it.

    im drunk... its nothing as it seeeeemmss the little thatya see its hooommmeee
    Some die just to live
  • MikeLammi23
    MikeLammi23 Posts: 109
    The opening riffs to Brain of J.

    My former barber was an old hippie, and always had music going when the place was empty. Luckily for me, that night, the place was empty. He put in "a new album" which turned out to be Yield.

    IT WAS ALL OVER FROM THERE!
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Alive- was a casual fan.
    Yield- became a Jamaniac! February 3, 1998, I joined the family!
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • Pearl Floyd
    Pearl Floyd Posts: 7
    I was 10 when Ten came out. Fell in love with it right away. All the music from the early '90's seemed to help shape & mold the person that I am....soundtrack to my life!
  • 5882300
    5882300 Posts: 813
    meistereder wrote:
    I was part of the grunge thing, but I think when I heard Black, it put me over the edge. That's when I knew they were for real.


    I was 18 when grunge hit so I was lucky enough to be right smack in the middle of it. I agree the moment I heard Black for the first time I got chill bumps and went numb.
  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    My sister had Glorified G playing in the car when I was young. I thought it was really cool, so she showed me Black!!!!
    need I say more.....
    Take me for a ride before we leave...
  • Oceans11
    Oceans11 Posts: 67
    For me it was seeing Alive on MTV for the first time. I was blown away by this song and whole performance in this video. Been a proud fan ever since.
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,022
    early singles made me a fan, footsteps made me a PJ freak
    severed hand thirteen
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  • vedder.ten
    vedder.ten Posts: 44
    Better Man
    "Don't come closer or I'll have to go
    Holding me like gravity are places that pull
    If ever there was someone to keep me at home
    It would be you..."
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I heard 'Ten' when it was realeased, but it wasn't until I heard 'Long Road' from the 'Dead Man Walking' soundtrack that I became a fan.
  • nutmeg81
    nutmeg81 Posts: 627
    something off Vs.....??!

    the older brother had it on cassette so borrowed it as i was 12 or 13 at the time and was amused by the artwork!!
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  • MikeMcSchenker
    MikeMcSchenker Posts: 10
    I was about 13 and I bought "TEN" because of Alive, but the song that got me was Oceans.
  • quarterpast
    quarterpast Posts: 185
    When I was in middle school, my family moved to Georgia. We lived about 45 minutes from the nearest mall, so most of my time was spent in the woods with friends. We had this crazy alcoholic in the neighborhood who always had his radio at a thousand decibels out his back window and it would echo through the woods. This one song that kept coming on the summer before 8th grade was something I couldn't get out of my head! I didn't know the lyrics or who it was...so one day it came on when my older brother was around (he had a car and often drove off to places with actual civilization). He told me it was Pearl Jam but didn't know the song (later found out it was Yellow Ledbetter). That night I found a copy of Vitalogy sitting on my bed :)
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