What songs got you through "it" ?

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  • belfast1
    belfast1 Posts: 788
    chikevin wrote:
    present tense.

    dunno if you've listened to the studio version in a while, but if you haven't....

    you should.


    yeah agree - present tense!!
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  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    I'd agree with "Alive". One I haven't seen anyone mention that always makes me focus inward is "I Am Mine". Like Ed said at Gorge I, "no matter what anybody says, you are yours". And Mikey's rift towards the end, for me, is really inspirational.
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    No Code. The whole album. It is my "get through" album.
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  • Outshined90
    Outshined90 Posts: 19
    Yellow Ledbetter. It got me through some major "its". Release always calms me down when I'm really pissed off, I love it. But more recently, Hard to Imagine help me a lot. It's just amazing.
    "Don't ever let the truth get it the way of telling a good story"
  • Boss302
    Boss302 Posts: 69
    Present Tense
    Alone
    Smile
    In Hiding
    Faithful
    And you may see me today
    with an illegal smile
    it don't cost very much
    but it lasts a long while
    won't you please tell the man
    i didn't kill anyone
    i'm just tryin to have me some fun
  • INSPIRED PUPPET
    INSPIRED PUPPET Posts: 2
    finally decided to join

    I've been taken to pj's GARDEN
    well, it/s been about 9 years from now
    and so it grows
    !!!!!
  • INSPIRED PUPPET
    INSPIRED PUPPET Posts: 2
    yellow ledbetter

    till I die
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    I posted in this thread before but forgot to add:

    I Got Shit
    I Am Mine
    Love Boat Captain
    Life Wasted
  • PJSEMPRE
    PJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    First, it was 'Alive'. Then came 'Black' (MTV Unplugged version was one of the biggest "it" moments).
    From there to now, there are plenty of "it" moments (Present Tense, Given to Fly, Immortality, Indifference, etc).
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
  • beegirl420
    beegirl420 Posts: 26
    right now in my tree and it's ok are getting me through it.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    you might wanna go buy him all the cd's they have out.
    here is a few tunes that are what your buddy would need.
    in my opinion.

    Black
    Indifference
    Light years
    Given to fly
    Wish list
    I am mine
    Nothing as it seems
    Yellow ledbetter
    RVM
    Not for you
    Garden
    Release
    Oceans
    Thumbing my way
    You are
    Do the evolution
    and many many more.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,372
    This morning wasn't a bad morning at all, kindof grey, a littl chill. A good morning, but when I heard Given to Fly I felt this surge of joy, and all of a sudden a good morning was a stupendous morning!
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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  • Derrick
    Derrick Posts: 475
    Corduroy:
    This song removes me from the world and takes me to a place where everything is ok. The opening bars/riffs grant an immediate reprieve from pain of any sort. It's quite phenomenal.
  • AnaPharma
    AnaPharma Posts: 27
    It depends of the "it" that I had to come through... but I just have to say that Pearl Jam are very therapeutic ;) it's their energy, the melody, the voice and that way only eddie has to let it all out... so here is my "survival kit" (lolol) in no particular order:

    Alive
    Black
    Fatal
    Other Side
    Sad
    Hard to Imagine
    Down
    Footsteps
    Wash
    Untitled (Live on 2 Legs)
    Untitled (I'm still here)
    Parachutes
    Come Back
    Alone
    Education
    Bee Girl
    Life Wasted
    Once
    Who you are
    Smile
    Present Tense
    Of he Goes
    Low Light
    Push me Pull Me
    I am Mine
    State of Love and Trust
    RVM
    Sometimes
    In my tree
    Wishlist
    Light Years


    and I'm sure there are a lot more... it really depends on the "it"... I just listen to them over, and over, and over again, and sing it outlound and cry (a lot!), and some parts of the lyrics just come to my mind... and finally I am at peace... *sigh* I absolutely ADOREEEE PJ's music... those guys are just amazing! More than words could ever say...
    And when everything is just fine in my life, I just listen to Pearl Jam over, over and over again ;P too! eheh
    "See the path cut by the Moon, for you to walk on"
  • Luciano
    Luciano Posts: 5
    There are just too many songs to mention that have gotten me through "it". But here we go...

    Black
    Alive
    Release
    Indifference
    Betterman
    Corduroy
    Nothingman
    Long Road
    Nothing as it seems
    Come Back

    These are just the ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
  • jeremy
    jeremy Posts: 409
    off he goes
    black
    come back
    alive
    present tense
    wishlist
    .....
    i'll guess ti never stops.....
    ''walk the bridges before you burn them down...''
    and always remember ''it's no crime to escape!!!"
  • MarylandTeacher
    MarylandTeacher Posts: 233
    humanlight wrote:
    What ever your "it" was.....what PJ song was there for you.


    I am trying to make a CD for a friend of mine that is depressed, and has some very troubling family issues, so I want the opion of the jamily.

    For me:
    Why go
    Alive
    Come Back
    Smile
    Better Man
    Footsteps

    Black...it should be at the top of the list.

    Mr. Bruno
    Dalai Lama—To say that humility is an essential ingredient in our pursuit of spiritual transformation may seem to be at odds with what I have said about the need for confidence. But there is clearly a distinction to be made between valid confidence or self-esteem, and conceit - which we can describe as an inflated sense of importance, grounded in a false image of self.
  • viviflu
    viviflu Posts: 122
    Is a funny thing, but english is not my mother language (and eddie... hmm... speaks sometimes inside his mustache) so sometimes songs give me goose skin before I seat down and listen to the lyrics...
    And this three songs really got me when I needed it. Pearl Jam is not music if you want to scape your problems though... is life soundtrack. If you want or feel like seating at the bottom and dig until the last atom of what is killing you, then go ahead.
    What you hear on the radio is normally happy or sad or devastating love songs. I think Pearl Jam is one of very few bands who manage to give music to the thousand other feelings, emotions and experiences we have in life, and that is probablly the reason what I love this band so much.
    Fighting fire with fire since world's birth, bumping into the same stone over and over again... and we call this evolution?
  • troubledsoulsunite
    troubledsoulsunite Posts: 25
    i'll go slightly outside of pearl jam and say that for me its crown of thorns. regardless of who's singing it, this song just helps me get through those tough times.
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    i cant pick a song. Its like picking a favorite child. I was turned onto grunge in the early 90's by an older cousin. I saw him at family gatherings as he was about to head to see Pearl Jam and Nirvana and Alice. I dreamed of moving to Seattle.

    All of the music of the 90;s was and still is the soundtrack to my life, to my youth.

    It was music that was pure and raw.

    I was going through it in the 90's and still am. And through it all, Pearl Jam and all the grunge bands have been there for me.

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