What does pearl jam mean to you???111

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  • Posts: 148
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    It's a long road trip, but sometimes I wish I would want to get out of the car.


    Yeah, exactly. Incredible depth, but they can be occasionally overwhelming, because the lyrics are just completely accurate at expressing feelings of love and joy and despair. So much despair. And it can be too much.
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  • Posts: 520
    Tom Quinn wrote:
    There is a PJ song for every mood that I am. If I am feeling depressed, there is a song to help lift me, if I am feeling happy, there are songs to rock to, if there is housework to be done, PJ makes the time fly and actually enjoy cleaning the place up.....

    Exactly. There is something for every occasion
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Posts: 5
    Pearl Jam are my life...
  • Posts: 31,626
    the music saved me i was drowning in a pool of bad 80's music and along comes this band and i heard release and i've been riding this incredible wave of music since thanks pj................
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Posts: 837
    Androgynous Mind wrote:
    PJ is with me through thick and thin, the good and the bad. It is always there for me when I need it, any mood, any time, anywhere. I always have it with me and definately take full advantage of the melodical masterpices they have created over the years. They truly are amazing.

    The toughts of every Pearl Jam fan...................................
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • Posts: 51
    goldrush wrote:
    I'm going to be 30 next week and that means that Pearl Jam have now been with me for half of my life and that means a lot to me. Friends, enemies, girlfriends, jobs have all come and gone but PJ have been the one constant in the last 15 years.

    Same for me... Besides the fact that I turned 30 a couple of month ago...

    I cant describe it in words... They are just so much bigger.

    If its good music I am listening to it will go through my ears into my brain/heart/emotions.

    Pearl Jam goes straight into my soul.
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  • Posts: 2,875
    A friend introduced me to Pearl Jam by let me listening to Black. Pearl Jam is what I am today. Since that day I just don't give a f&ck of what everybody else is thinking about me. That's it, I just can't express myself, sorry... I know in my mind what to say but I just can't turn it into words....
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    Comatosed wrote:
    I have always loved Pearl Jam, ever since a friend introduced me to "Black". I purchased all of their albums at the time (around the release of Vitalogy) and every album since. I dont think they have one bad song. Anyway, I had a pretty horrible childhood.....beaten daily by my mother and mentally abused (told I was a piece of shit and was never going to be anything, "I wish you were never born"). She even tried to kill me, when I was a baby, by drowning because I was crying too much when the soap was in my eyes and she was washing my hair. When I got my drivers licence I used to drive to the beach every night and just sit, cry my eyes out, contemplate suicide, watch the waves and listen to Pearl Jam. It was the only thing that made me feel better. I constantly wrote suicide notes, had no friends (because I gave all of my devotion to a girlfriend at the time who I totally and utterly loved....and she left me after 4 years) and just wanted to die. I planned on this particular night to just walk into the waves and never come back. I wrote the note to leave in my car and just as I was getting out of the car the chorus for "Alive" began on my stereo. The "ooohhh ooohhhh IIIIIIII'mmmmm stiiiilllll allllliiiiivvve" just got me. Ed's lyrics to this song mean a completely different thing to me than to him, i guess. Right at that moment I just started thinking....."I'm still alive at least. Things are shit, but things are a lot worse for other people. "And do I deserve to be....is that the question?". AND then I was thinking, do I deserve to be alive? "Of course I fucken do. Its my mother that doesnt. I wont give her the satisfaction".

    I justed hopped back in the car and continued listening to Pearl Jam throughout the night. Crying myself to sleep in the car. That night was a life changing moment for me, because of Pearl Jam's music and Ed's lyrics. For that I am ever grateful......although "Black" still brings a tear to my eye every now and then (in relation to the ex that I mentioned). But my life couldnt be better now. To think......if I went through with my plans that night I wouldnt have the awesome life that I have now.

    Years later, to remind me of how lucky I am to be Alive, and as sort of a thank you to Pearl Jam, I got the "Stickman" tattoo done on my shoulder (from the Alive single artwork). A lot of people tell me I'm stupid for getting it done...but they dont know the reason why...
    You made me cry.
    I didn't have an abusive parent, but I do have a very very sad life story to tell.
    I've been very depressed, but I kept on going...
    And now I have a wonderfull life, and a lovely family.
    Cheers to you men, you've been very brave, and have deep strenght inside.
    Uno es dueño de lo que calla
    y esclavo de lo que habla.
  • Posts: 662
    Pearl Jam is not my life. Is my back door exit. In every way.
    It's freedom, it's being my self, it's feeling life.
    Sometimes I wonder if how I feel about PJ, and other felows PJ fans seem to feel, is how any fan of any band feels.
    Because I think there's something else about this band that I can't put in words, something beyond, that feels like being embraced while being told "fly, high".
    PS: I think this pit reflects how special this band is.
    Uno es dueño de lo que calla
    y esclavo de lo que habla.
  • Posts: 7,271
    I feel validated by their music...for every mood and every experience...there is a pj song that fits perfectly...they have gotten me through the best and worst of times...I'd be lost without pj
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
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    mumi wrote:
    PS: I think this pit reflects how special this band is.

    I agree totally with you on this! Since I first started reading here I really liked the people...ok some can be irritating, but still put smiles on my face. Its an open atmosphere here..thanks everybody!
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  • Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    i too can't put it into words, but i will say this...........

    knowing tons of people feel the exact same way about Pearl Jam as do, helps me feel like i belong. we all relate to PJ in about the same way. it makes me feel like i fit. when 98% of the time i don't fit in.

    i'm going to stop before i start crying.........
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • Posts: 3
    I got into pj when I was 15 I love to think back to those carefree years of my life, being in my late twenties now I have alot more stresses and worries than I did in the early 90's. Pearl Jam always lets me reflect on that, and I always feel much better after listening to those older songs, and I'm proud of them for sticking through the years and still busting out new songs, with the sound that I've loved for so many years. Thank you Pj.
  • Posts: 256
    I have been a PJ fan since the release of ten, I have all their albums and as a student their poster was up my wall for years. Although I have always listened to their music, the show in Arnhem last August caused a change. I had not felt that much alive as during and after the shows for years. The music touches my heart and soul - for better and worse. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it brings peace....
    My friends do not understand me - although they enjoyed the concert very much as well, they are not as inspired (or rather crazy) as I am. It is good to meet similar spirits here on the board!!!!
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  • Posts: 468
    ok im not great with words and i've spent ages trying to do justice to how i feel about pearl jam with a combination of letters and full stops (which is impossible) Anyway here goes:

    I put on a pearl jam album and it lifts my conscience. I'm free. I appreciate everything around me so much more - friendships, nature and art. Before, i couldn't see from all the cobwebs in my mind. Now i'm alive and want to savour every moment and whatever distractions this modern life has thrown at me are no longer relevant.

    kind of like being stoned...
  • Posts: 123
    A band that makes great music and (seems to be) a group of very nice guys that care about their fans
  • Posts: 13,471
    mumi wrote:
    Pearl Jam is not my life. Is my back door exit. In every way.
    It's freedom, it's being my self, it's feeling life.
    Sometimes I wonder if how I feel about PJ, and other felows PJ fans seem to feel, is how any fan of any band feels.
    Because I think there's something else about this band that I can't put in words, something beyond, that feels like being embraced while being told "fly, high".
    PS: I think this pit reflects how special this band is.

    exactly how i feel too :o

    thankyou
    wah
  • Posts: 570
    Pearl Jam is about still getting goose bumps when you hear songs that you have heard a million times.
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    Comatosed wrote:
    I have always loved Pearl Jam, ever since a friend introduced me to "Black". I purchased all of their albums at the time (around the release of Vitalogy) and every album since. I dont think they have one bad song. Anyway, I had a pretty horrible childhood.....beaten daily by my mother and mentally abused (told I was a piece of shit and was never going to be anything, "I wish you were never born"). She even tried to kill me, when I was a baby, by drowning because I was crying too much when the soap was in my eyes and she was washing my hair. When I got my drivers licence I used to drive to the beach every night and just sit, cry my eyes out, contemplate suicide, watch the waves and listen to Pearl Jam. It was the only thing that made me feel better. I constantly wrote suicide notes, had no friends (because I gave all of my devotion to a girlfriend at the time who I totally and utterly loved....and she left me after 4 years) and just wanted to die. I planned on this particular night to just walk into the waves and never come back. I wrote the note to leave in my car and just as I was getting out of the car the chorus for "Alive" began on my stereo. The "ooohhh ooohhhh IIIIIIII'mmmmm stiiiilllll allllliiiiivvve" just got me. Ed's lyrics to this song mean a completely different thing to me than to him, i guess. Right at that moment I just started thinking....."I'm still alive at least. Things are shit, but things are a lot worse for other people. "And do I deserve to be....is that the question?". AND then I was thinking, do I deserve to be alive? "Of course I fucken do. Its my mother that doesnt. I wont give her the satisfaction".

    I justed hopped back in the car and continued listening to Pearl Jam throughout the night. Crying myself to sleep in the car. That night was a life changing moment for me, because of Pearl Jam's music and Ed's lyrics. For that I am ever grateful......although "Black" still brings a tear to my eye every now and then (in relation to the ex that I mentioned). But my life couldnt be better now. To think......if I went through with my plans that night I wouldnt have the awesome life that I have now.

    Years later, to remind me of how lucky I am to be Alive, and as sort of a thank you to Pearl Jam, I got the "Stickman" tattoo done on my shoulder (from the Alive single artwork). A lot of people tell me I'm stupid for getting it done...but they dont know the reason why...
    that made me cry man. Good on you for getting thru your childhood. I,too was abused. My stepdad raped me as a 6yr old and been thru so much more. Pj have been with me for ten yrs and i credit my life to them aswell. The music explained so much and i felt like i wasnt alone. Yea,were still alive,and we farken deserve to be
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • Posts: 82
    Pearl Jam means a million things to me but i dont expect anyone to be that interested...

    to me Pearl Jam isnt just a band, its the only friend i can count on to be there for me, no matter how many mistakes i make in life or what the circumstances are. Pearl Jam is a little bit like a life coach...plus its nice to listen to. i feel they are always with me, and maybe they arent a guide but they are by my side. sometimes i think Pearl Jam is part of my fate or destiny and that i couldnt have avoided it if i wanted to. its the defenition of good music, no fluff, what you see is what you get... Pearl Jam to me is love for every living thing. its understanding, compassion, strength, individuality, independence, reality, evolution and life in itself. like many others, i dont think i would be alive if not for Pearl Jam's music. i love this band with my whole heart, not for who i think they are or what i think they would be like if i met them. simply because they were the only ones who helped when i needed a miracle and taught me how to live and be happy. thanks guys!
    “I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything.”
    -Eddie Vedder

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