First PJ song what you ever heard

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  • PearlJamAdam
    PearlJamAdam Powhatan VA Posts: 33
    My first song was Once. My Mom bought me Ten on tape for Christmas. The song that got me hooked was Black. The rest is history. Thank you so much Mom I love you...
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,969
    alive..saturday night mtv..
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  • Sideways Snow
    Sideways Snow Posts: 37
    Jeremy on MTV at my grandparents' place, on their tiny guest room tv. "Wouldn't you please come join us and turn that thing off for once?" "Sorry, can't do that." :D
    We only had three tv channels at home, so watching MTV was pretty much all I did at the grandparents'...
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,969
    Sideways Snow wrote:
    Jeremy on MTV at my grandparents' place, on their tiny guest room tv. "Wouldn't you please come join us and turn that thing off for once?" "Sorry, can't do that." :D
    We only had three tv channels at home, so watching MTV was pretty much all I did at the grandparents'...
    mtv saves a lot of youth lifes around the global..
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  • barnburner13
    barnburner13 Princeton, Illinois Posts: 8
    Not sure if it was Jeremy or Alive...didn't like Jeremy at first, but loved Alive
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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Alive was the first song I heard, bought the cassette based on that song....then I put it in my Sidekick and found Release or it found me. Never had a song knock the wind out of me like that before or since, always my fav PJ song.
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  • jopetto75
    jopetto75 Posts: 397
    singles soundtrack
    breath and state of love and trust
    instant addict!!!
    until next time......
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,003
    Must've been Jeremy. I was only 5 at the time so I can't remember exactly haha.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,813
    Alive. Late 1991. I liked it....a lot. Then my buddy came back from a show where PJ opened for Chili Pepper and Pumpkins. He said PJ blew them away and I would love them. Bought Ten and have loved them since.
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    edited June 2014
    First heard was Even Flow and really liked it so I got the CD, but first "love" was Black....I was 12...and knew I would never be the same again....
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  • PP193448
    PP193448 Here Posts: 4,282
    Friend of mine in college got Ten cd when it first came out. He told me I had to borrow and listen to it cause he knew I liked RHCP, Janes Add, etc. Ran out immediately and bought my own copy. I actually never used the fast forward or reverse buttons listening to it. Played the cd all the time from start to finish. Loved every song. Blew my mind every time... And still does.
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  • marilor
    marilor St Etienne, France Posts: 618
    Dissident...I was 16....20 years ago now...
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  • lolobugg
    lolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,195
    1991 or 92... the video for Alive on MTV's BuzzBin

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  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    I remember Hunger Strike distinctly - WNEW-FM was am awesome radio station. Then i recall Pearl Jam winning for Jeremy; I thought they were so much younger than I; but I know now they are contemporaries. I bought Vs. so Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Corduroy & Dissident were the first songs that stuck with me (although I have my own mangled lyrics for the last two).

    Everything changed when Better Man was released; I had never felt such a personal and visceral connection to a song. It's so hard to explain the emotions that still come over me when i hear that song. To many it is just another over-played tune; but to me it is a narrative of my reality.. "He opens the door, she rolls over, pretends to sleep as he looks her over"; that causes chills to go down my spine. It's as if EV had found out my secret. No other song has ever touched me so deeply, by any band or artist. And I could do nothing but love the band for making me feel like someone understood.
  • TimoRitzen
    TimoRitzen Posts: 147
    I think it was Alive, back when I was in high school. They made a hardcore dance track out of the melody line. When I heard there was an original (Alive) I checked that out and loved it
  • joseph33
    joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,341
    It would have to be Even Flo or Alive. Whichever was first in the fall of 91.
  • DreamyDan
    DreamyDan netherlands/belgium Posts: 83
    Alive struck me the minute i head it.... that voice, that music...
    ten as an album touched me in a way only Nevermind did, a little while before...
    Black was the first PJ song to make me cry... that came from somewhere very deep...
     
  • r00thless91
    r00thless91 Santa Ana, CA Posts: 43
    The first pearl jam song I heard was Jeremy in 2001 when our tv broke and I tuned into the radio. Yup. Late bloomer.
  • dpiovera
    dpiovera Posts: 11
    edited September 2014
    Jeremy in 1994 or '93. I was either 10 or 11, just started playing guitar and writing my first very own songs. I went straight to plagarizing it. I watched it on MTV, it was a new thing in my country by then, cable TV and MTV. I remember getting freaked out with Eddie. Eddie scared me back then. But it was a great tune (specially for a bullied kid) , and only one chord, easy to play.
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  • JustaPJFan
    JustaPJFan Posts: 710
    Even Flow or Alive...

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