do you remember...

sj.brodie
sj.brodie Posts: 468
edited February 2008 in Words and Music...Communication
...the first time you heard the song 'rearviewmirror' and how you reacted? I will NEVER forget the first time i heard it. It must have been around 2000-2001 and i saw a live performance on MTV and was just hooked. I'd heard 'Alive' and 'Evenflow' before and thought they were cool but this song was just something else - the sincerity of the lyrics, the drumming, the energy. I didn't catch the title of the song but i knew i had to hear it again. When I described the song to an older friend and pj fan he thought i was talking about 'go' so i went out and bought Vs.

I'll never forget the second time i heard it when i was skipping through the tracks and finally came to rearviewmirror(track 8) The riff came straight back to me. THAT'S IT!!! After that, Vs very quickly became my favourite album to listen to through my school years even though nobody else listened to the band or had only heard 'Ten' Beleive it or not, Ten was the last album of them all i purchased. I think Vs will always be my favourite for the memories and especially for Rearviewmirror. It's a shame i had to discover it a decade later than most.
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  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    Nice story, I can't remember what happened to me the first time I heard reviewmirror but I agree with you Vs is my fav album....
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    dancing in stillettos in the snow...

    First heard PJ "Even Flow" on top of Cypress Mountain in Vancouver - it was a mountain biking race I went to watch with my husband..and it was blasting over the PA system and I was all "duhhhhhhh". It literally stopped me in my tracks and I stood agog on this mountain with the ocean below and this song dancing in the air...

    Then later we saw a couple of little bear cubs climb a tree, and then we took off because the mother bear must have been neaby since she sent them up the tree...they were so darned cute!!
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  • deadnote
    deadnote Posts: 1,678
    i remember bloods bassline leading into rvm
    set your laughter free

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  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    pearljamgirl07 wrote:
    Nice story, I can't remember what happened to me the first time I heard reviewmirror but I agree with you Vs is my fav album....
    Vs is definitely my favourite and I think it always will be!!! :D
    I'm hoping this next album can at least match it though :)

    I can still remember the first time I heard 'Alive' it was being played for the first time on JJJ (an Australian radio station) and I was blown away!! Have been hooked ever since.

    Gawd that was SOOOOOO many years ago......feels like yesterday :o
  • dee10
    dee10 Posts: 3
    VS is the best album and my fav by far
  • Fahka
    Fahka Posts: 3,187
    Yeah man... its like an epiphany everytime i was introduced to something new by pj... rear view was no different.
  • Unbelievable21
    Unbelievable21 Posts: 35
    Honestly, the most reaction came out of me the first time I heard State of Love and Trust. That ending solo fits SO well. And the line "And the barrel shakes, and, a-directly at my head. Help me, help me from myself!") Amazing song!

    ...Don't get me wrong, Rearviewmirror is an amazing song, but State of Love and Trust, for me, just one of those songs that, when you first hear it, you notice that you can't help but smile at it's awesomeness.

    It State of Love and Trust was a human, I'd gladly be it's slave.
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    i felt the same as i feel today. POWERFUL!:)
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  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    Unbelievable21 wrote:

    It State of Love and Trust was a human, I'd gladly be it's slave.
    WOW!!!
    hmm... well i agree with U. State... is "thest" song of songs! I suppose there wasn't and there won't be ever better song
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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,121
    great story
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  • CitizenRick
    CitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    RVM is the one song that represents everything Pearl Jam....

    The attitude...the lyrics...the energy...getting away from bullshit. The punk power chords mixed with Mike's noodleing leads...Ed's melodic chorus...the bridge breakdown...the bridge buildup...and the soaring ending that seems to almost spin out of control.

    What I'm trying to say is HOLY SHIT! this song is the quintessential Pearl Jam song IMO.

    Watch the SNL version...and prepare to get goose bumps!
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • sachinc
    sachinc Posts: 117
    I remember seeing the video for jeremy and thinking:
    'this band are incredible'
    I still do.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    sorry sj, a bit off topic, but every time I see the thread title to this thread it gets me singing Flame Trees ~ Cold Chisel. :):o

    Do you remember nothing stopped us on the field in our day

    oh and I don't remember the details of the first time I heard rearviewmirror, but I do recall it made me sit up and pay attention.
    NOPE!!!

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  • Stupid Bug
    Stupid Bug Posts: 11
    la que al principio tenia la necesidad de escuchar fue last exit, la version en vivo de live at the garden
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    on my way to see a guy i had serious lust for, which was a problem since i was married at the time. :o but the good news is, i'm now married to HIM, so i guess it all worked out in the end. let's just say, i saw things so much clearer after that day.
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