My brother passed away in July 2018 from cancer at the age of 43. He and I went to almost 20 Pearl Jam shows together. They played Fenway Park that September - my first PJ show without him. I was already on an emotional edge. Release was the second song they played that night, and tears flowed almost immediately. But when 40,000 fans sang, "I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me. I'll hold the pain. Release me," it became a moment I'll never forget. Thanks for doing this one, Geebz.
I was one of the 40,000 fans with you there at Fenway that night. My eldest brother died when I was 8. He was the reason why I grew up loving Pearl Jam. 90% of my memories with him include his blaring Pearl Jam in the background... He was there with me that night, as was your brother with you. In our hearts
That song live is a religious experience. You can feel 10s of thousands of people release their pain together. If a show opens with that song, I know it will be special
Like Jung states throughout many of his works, consciousness is a battle between the polarity of things. Life is imperfection in its most perfect form.
I wait up in the dark for you to speak to me, makes me cry every time. Seen PJ a few time when living in Seattle. We who lost our fathers, through divorce and then died before any resolve, this is our song. Why do young girls and boys suffer so much with father absence...
Geebz Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar) never get the recognition that they deserve. Great musicianship. 🤙
A great singer and lyricist can only excell with musicians able to provide him/her the perfect canvas/soundscape to 'dance' on. To me, this holds for most of my all time favourites: Pearl Jam, Tool and The Gathering. One exception: Devin Townsend, who is entirely individually capable of producing the soundscape for his songs.
Nice one. It was Stone and Jeff's band in the beginning, and the others joined later. They were the band leaders. There's always an assumption that the lyricist is the leader of the band.
This song ALWAYS makes me tear up. I can feel Eddie's pain and strain with his dad regardless of having my dad in my life the entirety of my existence. Eddie really pulls them heart strings.
This album found me on a summer as a 12 year old when my family was falling apart and my father was always out of town working and my mother was miserable and started drinking. I was a metalhead and huge Metallica fan at the time. Also a horrible chapter with the worst, most sadistic psycho bully in my life to this day. But this album stayed in my Walkman and I would listen to it over and over and over again because it just made me feel better. Metal let me get my anger out, but I was just so angry all the time that it wasn't really helping anymore. I needed something different and I found it in this album. It was okay to feel sad and not so tough. It was okay to explore my emotions and let it all out instead of just the anger. So yeah, this album has a special place in my journey through life.
Good to see a new Pearl Jam - Release reaction!!!!! There are very few of them, and I love them all. No exception here. Release is pure emotion. Masterpiece of music art.
Very powerful song about father/son relationships. The fact that Eddie never knew his father, and only found out after he died that was around the periphery of his home life, but not as "dad". That loss of opportunity to get to know him was crushing. That's where a lot of the force of his creativity in the early years came from. Amazing stuff.
Sound track of your life. Love that. As it definitely hits home as I have a sound track of my life that exponentially expands. Only a few things have melted my face. Music definitely sends me there but ends up being a relief of tension in my soul.
"Ten" has got to be one of the best albums of all time. Every song is so pure - each one so musical, and thematically so powerful. Thanks for reviewing this track Geebz.
I'm almost surprised you've never run into Eddie as he lives in Hawaii most of the time and also really likes to surf though I'm sure hes at some private spot or something like that
I'm a Tool fan, but Pearl Jam is credited by ME as the first to free me and my radio from the 80s crap back in the early 90s and have remained my favorite band, with the Hip, to date. Was always an Ed fan but when I finally got to see them LIVE in 03 or 05 and twice again recently I realized that they're SO MUCH MORE than that amazing voice. McFREAKENCREADY, Jeff and the amazing Stone. Mike melts faces and minds several times every show. What a BADASS. Plus he's done and attempted to do so much for friends battling addiction through the years. Wiked awesome Man
My father passed away in 2019 after a short illness, this song breaks me when i hear it the lyrics in the second and third verse are so me and my father. His friends say i’m myself but so like my father, thank you for this reaction and your emotion big love to you man ❤
Thank you for being so open and honest with your feelings and connection with and through this song!! It holds the same powerful, sometimes sad and other times, happy feelings and memories of my dad as well!! Most of the time I bawl like a baby through it. And I used to have a choc lab, Mazie. And when this song would come on, she would instantly get up, (even from a dead sleep) and come and put her head in my lap because she knew it made me cry! She was SOOO smart, and I miss her terribly too!! My dad told me about the times when he was younger and had the chance to go to Hawaii and surfed!! He told me about the Bonzai Pipeline and the red tide and how cool it was to surf in it at night. He said it looked like neon lights that outlined the waves and drops of water when it splashed. That must've been really neat to see!! I'll think of that when I hear the song now, and think of the good times he lived and try not to cry and make it something sad, because it really is an awesome jam!! Thank you again for sharing your experience and how the song makes you feel!! Another Pearl Jam song that really moves me is, "I Am Mine".
My father was a paranoid schizophrenic and he haunted me for years until I learned he passed in 1999. The conflict of emotions I have over that relationship is certainly what becomes alive for me in this song.
Pearl Jam is my favorite band of all time and this song never fails to give me chills, but the live versions are out of this world. The emotion conveyed in this song has continued throughout their career. Anyone who hasn't listened to any of their newer stuff, check out their self-titled album from 2006. The song Come Back specifically is another tear jerker. This band just does not disappoint and I'm so glad to see them here.
Much respect and thank you for sharing your emotions. As you said, music is a channel of emotions. Happy, angry, sad, reflective, etc. It is such a healthy tool to ride that wave of emotion and smile or cry or scream. This song gets me on an emotional level too and Eddie does a wonderful job expressing HIS emotions in this song. That's what made this entire album so incredible. So, to anyone reading this comment, don't be shy to ride the wave of emotion where it takes you. It is the most powerful tool, at our disposal, to get to know ourselves on a deeper level.
This was an awesome album of its time , during the grunge era there were many perfect albums written from STP's Core , Soundgarden's Superunknown , and pretty much every Nirvana album when that " I'm still a teen factor" feeling was awesome , I'm 40 and my daughter is 8 and loves your channel (since I'm going backwards in your playlist it will make since soon if she want's me to say she wrote something) but yes i think this and Jeremy had tons of impact on us in the 90's.
To add to this, I'm sure you're familiar with the song, but "Man of the Hour" that they did for the movie Big Fish is a great one to add to the "father"-type songs to chill to.
This very cathartic song began as a droning riff guitarist Stone Gossard started playing. The rest of the band started forming the track, and Eddie Vedder walked up to the microphone and poured out the words that would make up most of the lyrics. It was a very emotional song for Vedder, who was thinking about the pain and loss he had been through: he found out as a teenager that the man he thought was his father was actually his stepfather, and his real father died before they could connect. Eddie realized that the song had a similar meaning for his bandmates, who were still dealing with the death of Andrew Wood, who was the lead singer in Gossard and Jeff Ament's band before they formed Pearl Jam
Makes me ache for that time in life. I was 23 years old when this album dropped. Perfect age at the perfect time to be a fan of heavy music as the various genres splintered off from the radio rock. Seeing live shows from bands like this in small venues as often as a broke young American man could... before they became too big.
I suppose it's the fact that Eddie, Layne, Chris, Kurt all sang with conviction that brings me to tears 25 years after hearing this song for the first time. Remember when things used to matter? That motivates a different kind of feeling, and it's painted in the music.
To this day, no album has ever moved me as much as this one. From beginning to end it is faultless and haunting, it has remained with me for decades. Thanks again for sharing! 🌺🌺🌸 Aloha.
Pearl Jam is another of my favorite bands. Radiohead, Tool, you are covering my favorites. Pearl Jam are so good to their fans. I seen them 20 years ago, and they released albums for all their shows. I still occasionally jam to the CD of the concert I went to. Release Me is a Vedder song. It's pretty well known that Eddie had a complicated relationship with his family, and had a lot of father issues. Fun fact Vedder refused to put the lyrics to Release Me in the Ten CD book because the lyrics were so personal to him. That so much of this song is built off of one chord(D), is Pretty fucking cool. Another fun fact the album was named Ten after the number of a NBA player named Mookie Blaylock. Mookie Blaylock was also the name of the band before they settled with Pearl Jam. Pretty sure they just liked the way Mookie Blaylock sounded. Say it a couple times. It might make you chuckle lol (might have to be stoned).
Thank you so much for this. The most overwhelming chills overcame me during the line, "I'll ride the wave where it takes me," and those chills were sustained for the remainder of the song. Incredible song. Absolutely incredible.
You really need to do Wooden Jesus by Temple of the Dog.. Chris Cornell's vocals is amazing and the adding of percussion and instruments throughout tje song is great..
This album and the one that followed it from Pearl Jam are such a big part of my teen years. This song and Black are both a big part of my “soundtrack of life.” Thanks for hitting this song.
Gday from down under Mr Decomposer 🤙Please do a reaction to Do the evolution by pearl jam...life long fan and favourite of mine, love what you do dude keep up the great work from 1 coffee lover to another
How can you not love this song?! It closes out one of, if not the, greatest album ever created. Such a powerful song with so much emotion, loved the reaction. Alright!
There are no words to describe the moment, the feeling and the memories that you brought me with this reaction, my wife passed away almost 9 years ago, from leukemia, and it has been difficult to take my son alone safely everything I can and know. Our songs were marked for eternity, and they are really one of our soundtracks of life. THANKS!!! for these almost 15 minutes that became a trip to the past and that made me relive these wonderful times that will mark me forever, Thanks for everything.
Tears my friend are natural with Release, stamps this "reaction video" as one of a few genuine ones, in a pile of fakes. I can see myself in your reactions to this song, with the correlation to your father. All the best sir 👍
In my younger days I owned this album on a cassette tape, then on a vinyl. All of the popular songs were on side A. Side B of this album is the most under rated set of songs ever. Side B needs more love! Anyways it's a freaking incredible album!
It’s always a pleasure sharing these moments with you. The light of your soul shines bright and it always helps to make my day just a bit brighter. Thank you for that.
This is one of my favorite all time Pearl Jam songs. I spent much of my teens and twenties with unmanaged chronic pain and clinical depression, and this song was always one of my deep musical refuges in the bad times. Thanks for doing this one. 👍
@@VaguenessOn I definitely am, but I will spend my entire life loving the music that supported me during that time. If you are lucky, living through extended hardship and pain allows you to develop a deep empathy for your fellow man. I am past being bitter and angry, although I spent years taking those feelings out on myself. At this point, I am so grateful for the insight and appreciation my experiences have given me. I just hope everyone who has lived through what I have are able to find their way through it without losing themselves for too long. Thanks for the comment. 💖
Thank you for sharing and not being afraid to be vulnerable. I really admire that in a man. Looking forward to your reactions in the future. Love and peace.
If you haven't ever listened to a live concert version of this song you owe it to yourself to do so. It is like an entire arena of people belting out an emotional release all at once. Immediate goosebumps. Release or Black have to be the best PJ songs to be part of live because it feels like everyone in the entire place is singing just as emotionally as Ed.
Love Pearl Jam. They were my first real concert back in high school. Good times! Thank you for being so open and vulnerable. Music is the ultimate language. It touches everyone.
It’s amazing to me how forgotten the Seattle scene is. I get some don’t like deeper emotions but come on that music meant something, there was weight to it.
This was a great review. A favourite PJ song. Thank you for being human and vulnerable. Takes a lot of courage to do that on a platform like this. Agree with everything you said. Take care!
Yeah man. This is a hard one. Not the amazement of the song, but the journey and pain this can take anyone on. I first heard this in 2004, yes some years after it first came out. I was in 10th grade. My mom had breast cancer. She survived. Fast forward 14 years and she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died 1.5 years later. I listened to this song the night she died. I’ll never forget, age 15, age 29. And now age 32.
I absolutely agree with you. I always hear people say “ music that inspires me”, but my saying has always been “music that transports me” because all of the music and songs that are special to me take me back to a place and time where I can close my eyes and almost be there again. It’s so amazing to have something like that in our lives that illuminate particular memories, music is truly something special.
I first heard this album when I was 15 (circa 1998) and this song really stood out to me the first time I heard it. That riff and that chord progression really hit me on an emotional level.
Music is why im alive. Listening to pain in songs that i can relate to. That's why i never suggest the songs i love the most because they're full of pain, emotions and depressing. Even the upbeat stuff i listen to is made by people who've been through trauma.
Thank you, Geebz. Thank you for taking us on a little personal journey thru music with you today. Watching the emotions flow thru you as the music moves you is something special. That in itself is a very personal thing, at least for me. This is everything I love about music and what you do to help bring to light why certain notes, chords, progressions, rhythms, etc, even without lyrics, can do a real number on me. Keep doing what your doing, man. Much respect.
My dad showed me so much great music. I'll never forget riding in the car with him when I was around 13 years old and he explained the meaning behind this song. I lost him 11 years ago and I really miss him. Pearl Jam was also my first concert because of him. I'll never forget any of that. I hope he can still see me.
My heart breaks for you. So brave to to cover such an emotional song on camera. Sending love your way 💖 Landslide and Cats in the Cradle get me every time.
I'm not crazy about the song, but this might be your best video yet. I love that you felt comfortable sharing some very personal history with us here, seeing your emotional side was really touching. Thanks for all you do, Geebz. You're a good one.
This entire album is the foundation of my formative years, and this song in particular tears my heart into pieces. I don't think any of the "grunge era" style vocalists can hold a candle to Eddie. Hugs to you regarding your father - I'm glad you have some good memories. Cherish them ❤️
Hey man, appreciate the depth and honesty of all your explorations but particularly this one, that's what keeps everyone coming back. Explore the key of D and E(motion) with the Key of Geebz. Some stuff to take offline and to hit the waves with, and come tell that story when you're ready - a lot of caring folks on this end as I can see in the comments. This is 'Desert Island Disks' material as mentioned on Twitter.
Geebz seeing the emotions this track brought to you was such a personal thing to share. Thank you for the vulnerability and showing humanity. You mentioned Black at the start of the video, please do that song some time. Speaking of sound tracks of our lives, I listened to this song driving to the funeral of my muse that taught me to play guitar in 1999 after he took his own life. He was an amazing guy, we surfed, we jammed, I always looked up to him and not a day goes by that I don’t think of him. Mahalo
For me, 'Ten' is a perfect album. I will never get tired of hearing it. Even songs I've heard a million times on the radio - Alive, Even Flow, Jeremy, etc... They just don't get tiresome like so many other bands' songs do.
Would an Eddie/Maynard duet be too much to ask or is that so much emotion your head would explode. Thank you, Geebz. I have been so enjoying your videos.
I get emotional by this song too. It's one of my favorites, but it makes me sad. Makes me think about my dad who left me and my brother at 4 and 6 years old. Then we subconciously tried to make him proud of us for the next 15 years. Until I realized there was no point. My brother still hasn't given up on it.
My brother passed away in July 2018 from cancer at the age of 43. He and I went to almost 20 Pearl Jam shows together. They played Fenway Park that September - my first PJ show without him. I was already on an emotional edge. Release was the second song they played that night, and tears flowed almost immediately. But when 40,000 fans sang, "I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me. I'll hold the pain. Release me," it became a moment I'll never forget. Thanks for doing this one, Geebz.
I understand your loss, I lost my sister in April of 2018. This song is so special.
That was a heartbreaking read Kevin. Sorry for your loss dude.
I lost my mom at 19 yo from cancer , i know the hurt.
Sorry for your loss.
I was one of the 40,000 fans with you there at Fenway that night. My eldest brother died when I was 8. He was the reason why I grew up loving Pearl Jam. 90% of my memories with him include his blaring Pearl Jam in the background... He was there with me that night, as was your brother with you. In our hearts
The whole album is a masterpiece.
To me, the best song on that album is Garden.
It's one of the few vinyls I have that I'm super proud of. I love this album.
Agreed 👍💯
One of the greatest debut albums of all time.
@@qriminal1648 Absolutely, that's been my belief for year
That song live is a religious experience. You can feel 10s of thousands of people release their pain together. If a show opens with that song, I know it will be special
This song will always stay with me
Thanks for opening up. There's a lot of stories in the comments. There's often nothing more therapeutic than music.
‘Without music, life would be a mistake’.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ain't that a fact!
Man of the Hour is a song about a father and son relationship by PJ. Good stuff
It's hard to surf a calm ocean. Not all things that make us great are positive.
Well said my friend.
Like Jung states throughout many of his works, consciousness is a battle between the polarity of things. Life is imperfection in its most perfect form.
A calm sea never made a good sailor
@@niksomerford Sixty-three and I've never heard that before. Very well put.
This song takes me to spiritual transcendence
From day 1 my all time favorite Pearl Jam song. THE BEST concert opener EVER.
I have my own father issues. This song makes me cry. Every fucking time. Pure powerful emotion.
It’s a very special song, I agree completely..
Eddy’s vocals on this track are unbelievably good.
I wait up in the dark for you to speak to me, makes me cry every time. Seen PJ a few time when living in Seattle. We who lost our fathers, through divorce and then died before any resolve, this is our song. Why do young girls and boys suffer so much with father absence...
Geebz Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar) never get the recognition that they deserve. Great musicianship. 🤙
I'd love to see Geebz dive into Mad Season.
A great singer and lyricist can only excell with musicians able to provide him/her the perfect canvas/soundscape to 'dance' on. To me, this holds for most of my all time favourites: Pearl Jam, Tool and The Gathering. One exception: Devin Townsend, who is entirely individually capable of producing the soundscape for his songs.
Nice one.
It was Stone and Jeff's band in the beginning, and the others joined later.
They were the band leaders. There's always an assumption that the lyricist is the leader of the band.
Stone Is the master of acoustic Guitar ....his style Is a Banger.
This song ALWAYS makes me tear up. I can feel Eddie's pain and strain with his dad regardless of having my dad in my life the entirety of my existence. Eddie really pulls them heart strings.
I always imagine my own father passing away and hearing this song. I think I'd be crushed.
Probably one of the best debut albums ever released, and in my opinion a classic from start to finish.
this album was saying release me
Honestly, it has to be the best one.
Don't even have to limit to debut albums. This is simply one of the greatest albums ever in my opinion :)
Yes my first CD..my fav album ever.. masterpiece every songs
This album found me on a summer as a 12 year old when my family was falling apart and my father was always out of town working and my mother was miserable and started drinking. I was a metalhead and huge Metallica fan at the time. Also a horrible chapter with the worst, most sadistic psycho bully in my life to this day. But this album stayed in my Walkman and I would listen to it over and over and over again because it just made me feel better. Metal let me get my anger out, but I was just so angry all the time that it wasn't really helping anymore. I needed something different and I found it in this album. It was okay to feel sad and not so tough. It was okay to explore my emotions and let it all out instead of just the anger. So yeah, this album has a special place in my journey through life.
What a song . ❤️
Liked before I even heard you speak. This is one of the greatest albums ever, of all time. This song, wow does it hold some awesome memories.
IMO this record and Zeppelin’s freshman release are the two best freshman releases OAT.
I played this song during a therapy session where I was symbolically speaking to my dad who passed away 15 years ago.
Music is my love language
Just when I thought that I couldn’t love Geebz any stronger. Boy was I wrong.
Teared up. Needed it. Thank you, my man.
He's such a beautiful man, isn't he. Nobody can fake that kind of authenticity, in real life or behind a screen.
My new favorite reviewer. Thank you for your knowledge and realism.
Good to see a new Pearl Jam - Release reaction!!!!! There are very few of them, and I love them all. No exception here.
Release is pure emotion. Masterpiece of music art.
Very powerful song about father/son relationships.
The fact that Eddie never knew his father, and only found out after he died that was around the periphery of his home life, but not as "dad".
That loss of opportunity to get to know him was crushing. That's where a lot of the force of his creativity in the early years came from.
Amazing stuff.
Sound track of your life. Love that. As it definitely hits home as I have a sound track of my life that exponentially expands. Only a few things have melted my face. Music definitely sends me there but ends up being a relief of tension in my soul.
This album is a masterpiece. All the tracks are great IMO. Garden always was my favorite
LOVE Garden!!!
"Ten" has got to be one of the best albums of all time. Every song is so pure - each one so musical, and thematically so powerful. Thanks for reviewing this track Geebz.
The note he holds the "D" note, always reminded me of the OM sound used during meditation.
Sound of the universe!!
Yes!
And he can hold the notes for so long while still singing so strongly. That's some serious lung power.
The entire track...even the hidden segment at the end, the guitars blending their notes and volume swells with Eddie's voice is genius...
Thank you
I'm almost surprised you've never run into Eddie as he lives in Hawaii most of the time and also really likes to surf though I'm sure hes at some private spot or something like that
I can tell something has hit you hard man. Stay strong and keep doing what your doing! We all love the old decomposer. 👍😁
I'm a Tool fan, but Pearl Jam is credited by ME as the first to free me and my radio from the 80s crap back in the early 90s and have remained my favorite band, with the Hip, to date. Was always an Ed fan but when I finally got to see them LIVE in 03 or 05 and twice again recently I realized that they're SO MUCH MORE than that amazing voice. McFREAKENCREADY, Jeff and the amazing Stone. Mike melts faces and minds several times every show. What a BADASS. Plus he's done and attempted to do so much for friends battling addiction through the years. Wiked awesome Man
This song has pulled me back from the edge over and over. Thank You.
I never had a father.
My father passed away in 2019 after a short illness, this song breaks me when i hear it the lyrics in the second and third verse are so me and my father. His friends say i’m myself but so like my father, thank you for this reaction and your emotion big love to you man ❤
Always makes me cry for my father every time. I've seen them twice and are my favorite band. Eddie's word are beautiful.
Thank you for being so open and honest with your feelings and connection with and through this song!! It holds the same powerful, sometimes sad and other times, happy feelings and memories of my dad as well!! Most of the time I bawl like a baby through it. And I used to have a choc lab, Mazie. And when this song would come on, she would instantly get up, (even from a dead sleep) and come and put her head in my lap because she knew it made me cry! She was SOOO smart, and I miss her terribly too!! My dad told me about the times when he was younger and had the chance to go to Hawaii and surfed!! He told me about the Bonzai Pipeline and the red tide and how cool it was to surf in it at night. He said it looked like neon lights that outlined the waves and drops of water when it splashed. That must've been really neat to see!! I'll think of that when I hear the song now, and think of the good times he lived and try not to cry and make it something sad, because it really is an awesome jam!! Thank you again for sharing your experience and how the song makes you feel!! Another Pearl Jam song that really moves me is, "I Am Mine".
My father was a paranoid schizophrenic and he haunted me for years until I learned he passed in 1999. The conflict of emotions I have over that relationship is certainly what becomes alive for me in this song.
You know Eddie was a surfer, right? I'm thinking you must've known that. He brought that flow and that depth.
Pearl Jam is my favorite band of all time and this song never fails to give me chills, but the live versions are out of this world. The emotion conveyed in this song has continued throughout their career. Anyone who hasn't listened to any of their newer stuff, check out their self-titled album from 2006. The song Come Back specifically is another tear jerker. This band just does not disappoint and I'm so glad to see them here.
Much respect and thank you for sharing your emotions. As you said, music is a channel of emotions. Happy, angry, sad, reflective, etc. It is such a healthy tool to ride that wave of emotion and smile or cry or scream. This song gets me on an emotional level too and Eddie does a wonderful job expressing HIS emotions in this song. That's what made this entire album so incredible. So, to anyone reading this comment, don't be shy to ride the wave of emotion where it takes you. It is the most powerful tool, at our disposal, to get to know ourselves on a deeper level.
This was an awesome album of its time , during the grunge era there were many perfect albums written from STP's Core , Soundgarden's Superunknown , and pretty much every Nirvana album when that " I'm still a teen factor" feeling was awesome , I'm 40 and my daughter is 8 and loves your channel (since I'm going backwards in your playlist it will make since soon if she want's me to say she wrote something) but yes i think this and Jeremy had tons of impact on us in the 90's.
Haven't even watched it yet, but this is my FAVORITE Pearl Jam song ever! Masterpiece!
To add to this, I'm sure you're familiar with the song, but "Man of the Hour" that they did for the movie Big Fish is a great one to add to the "father"-type songs to chill to.
@@nathantackett7854 great song
This very cathartic song began as a droning riff guitarist Stone Gossard started playing. The rest of the band started forming the track, and Eddie Vedder walked up to the microphone and poured out the words that would make up most of the lyrics. It was a very emotional song for Vedder, who was thinking about the pain and loss he had been through: he found out as a teenager that the man he thought was his father was actually his stepfather, and his real father died before they could connect. Eddie realized that the song had a similar meaning for his bandmates, who were still dealing with the death of Andrew Wood, who was the lead singer in Gossard and Jeff Ament's band before they formed Pearl Jam
Makes me ache for that time in life. I was 23 years old when this album dropped. Perfect age at the perfect time to be a fan of heavy music as the various genres splintered off from the radio rock. Seeing live shows from bands like this in small venues as often as a broke young American man could... before they became too big.
I wait up in the dark...for you to speak to me
Crushes me every single time...
I suppose it's the fact that Eddie, Layne, Chris, Kurt all sang with conviction that brings me to tears 25 years after hearing this song for the first time. Remember when things used to matter? That motivates a different kind of feeling, and it's painted in the music.
To this day, no album has ever moved me as much as this one. From beginning to end it is faultless and haunting, it has remained with me for decades. Thanks again for sharing! 🌺🌺🌸 Aloha.
Pearl Jam is another of my favorite bands. Radiohead, Tool, you are covering my favorites. Pearl Jam are so good to their fans. I seen them 20 years ago, and they released albums for all their shows. I still occasionally jam to the CD of the concert I went to. Release Me is a Vedder song. It's pretty well known that Eddie had a complicated relationship with his family, and had a lot of father issues. Fun fact Vedder refused to put the lyrics to Release Me in the Ten CD book because the lyrics were so personal to him. That so much of this song is built off of one chord(D), is Pretty fucking cool. Another fun fact the album was named Ten after the number of a NBA player named Mookie Blaylock. Mookie Blaylock was also the name of the band before they settled with Pearl Jam. Pretty sure they just liked the way Mookie Blaylock sounded. Say it a couple times. It might make you chuckle lol (might have to be stoned).
Thank you so much for this. The most overwhelming chills overcame me during the line, "I'll ride the wave where it takes me," and those chills were sustained for the remainder of the song. Incredible song. Absolutely incredible.
The fact we can hear the ocean while you are talking is perfection. Keep it up!
Woah you’re right
This song actually releases me everytime I hear it
You really need to do Wooden Jesus by Temple of the Dog.. Chris Cornell's vocals is amazing and the adding of percussion and instruments throughout tje song is great..
I have been asking for him to do Temple of the Dog for months now so...we can hope it is on his list lol.
Friday the 16th marks the 30th anniversary of the album so now it might be the best time to do it!
This album and the one that followed it from Pearl Jam are such a big part of my teen years. This song and Black are both a big part of my “soundtrack of life.” Thanks for hitting this song.
Gday from down under Mr Decomposer 🤙Please do a reaction to Do the evolution by pearl jam...life long fan and favourite of mine, love what you do dude keep up the great work from 1 coffee lover to another
How can you not love this song?! It closes out one of, if not the, greatest album ever created. Such a powerful song with so much emotion, loved the reaction. Alright!
Played this song at my father's funeral 23 years ago. Instant tears on every listening
There are no words to describe the moment, the feeling and the memories that you brought me with this reaction, my wife passed away almost 9 years ago, from leukemia, and it has been difficult to take my son alone safely everything I can and know. Our songs were marked for eternity, and they are really one of our soundtracks of life. THANKS!!! for these almost 15 minutes that became a trip to the past and that made me relive these wonderful times that will mark me forever, Thanks for everything.
Tears my friend are natural with Release, stamps this "reaction video" as one of a few genuine ones, in a pile of fakes. I can see myself in your reactions to this song, with the correlation to your father. All the best sir 👍
In my younger days I owned this album on a cassette tape, then on a vinyl. All of the popular songs were on side A. Side B of this album is the most under rated set of songs ever. Side B needs more love! Anyways it's a freaking incredible album!
Laying your pain and emotions out on the table for all to see is an astonishing act of bravery.
We were right there with you on that wave today. 🖤
It’s always a pleasure sharing these moments with you. The light of your soul shines bright and it always helps to make my day just a bit brighter. Thank you for that.
I often wonder if Pearl Jam knew they were recording the greatest album in modern rock history when they made this.
I have "I hold the pain, release me" tattooed on my hands... Pearl Jam has impacted and changed my life for the good and made me a positive person :)
This was one of the first CDs I ever bought, had the tape too. This song has always been my favorite on the album. So damn amazing.
This song is just perfection. The whole album is insane. The emotion this evokes is incredible
This is one of my favorite all time Pearl Jam songs. I spent much of my teens and twenties with unmanaged chronic pain and clinical depression, and this song was always one of my deep musical refuges in the bad times. Thanks for doing this one. 👍
Hope you’re doing better Kim.
@@VaguenessOn I definitely am, but I will spend my entire life loving the music that supported me during that time. If you are lucky, living through extended hardship and pain allows you to develop a deep empathy for your fellow man. I am past being bitter and angry, although I spent years taking those feelings out on myself. At this point, I am so grateful for the insight and appreciation my experiences have given me. I just hope everyone who has lived through what I have are able to find their way through it without losing themselves for too long. Thanks for the comment. 💖
@@kimstelly9480 I feel and felt the same way you did and do. Music is soul power , without it what's the point of anything.
Thank you for sharing and not being afraid to be vulnerable. I really admire that in a man. Looking forward to your reactions in the future. Love and peace.
One of my favourite PJ songs. It comforts me. When you don't hear instruments but emotion, color, scene, pictures...
Live version of this is unreal. One of my favorite songs of all time. Crazy emotion.
This song does this every time.
If you haven't ever listened to a live concert version of this song you owe it to yourself to do so. It is like an entire arena of people belting out an emotional release all at once. Immediate goosebumps. Release or Black have to be the best PJ songs to be part of live because it feels like everyone in the entire place is singing just as emotionally as Ed.
Music is such a powerful thing! Pearl Jam got me through some tough time's. Peace and love to you!
After the crappy 80's "hair bands" this album restored my live for rock n roll.
Was cool to experience the song with you Geebz. Thanks for sharing
Love Pearl Jam. They were my first real concert back in high school. Good times! Thank you for being so open and vulnerable. Music is the ultimate language. It touches everyone.
It’s amazing to me how forgotten the Seattle scene is. I get some don’t like deeper emotions but come on that music meant something, there was weight to it.
A lot of people are afraid to face their emotions, hence drowning them out with alcohol, drugs and loud, mindless club music.
This was a great review. A favourite PJ song. Thank you for being human and vulnerable. Takes a lot of courage to do that on a platform like this. Agree with everything you said. Take care!
Yeah man. This is a hard one. Not the amazement of the song, but the journey and pain this can take anyone on. I first heard this in 2004, yes some years after it first came out. I was in 10th grade. My mom had breast cancer. She survived. Fast forward 14 years and she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died 1.5 years later. I listened to this song the night she died. I’ll never forget, age 15, age 29. And now age 32.
Stay strong Bro
Top of my list on my soundtrack of life. Thank you for this video and thank you for being real, genuine , and human. 🤝
I absolutely agree with you. I always hear people say “ music that inspires me”, but my saying has always been “music that transports me” because all of the music and songs that are special to me take me back to a place and time where I can close my eyes and almost be there again. It’s so amazing to have something like that in our lives that illuminate particular memories, music is truly something special.
I first heard this album when I was 15 (circa 1998) and this song really stood out to me the first time I heard it. That riff and that chord progression really hit me on an emotional level.
Music is why im alive. Listening to pain in songs that i can relate to. That's why i never suggest the songs i love the most because they're full of pain, emotions and depressing. Even the upbeat stuff i listen to is made by people who've been through trauma.
Thank you, Geebz. Thank you for taking us on a little personal journey thru music with you today. Watching the emotions flow thru you as the music moves you is something special. That in itself is a very personal thing, at least for me. This is everything I love about music and what you do to help bring to light why certain notes, chords, progressions, rhythms, etc, even without lyrics, can do a real number on me. Keep doing what your doing, man. Much respect.
My dad showed me so much great music. I'll never forget riding in the car with him when I was around 13 years old and he explained the meaning behind this song. I lost him 11 years ago and I really miss him. Pearl Jam was also my first concert because of him. I'll never forget any of that. I hope he can still see me.
My heart breaks for you. So brave to to cover such an emotional song on camera. Sending love your way 💖
Landslide and Cats in the Cradle get me every time.
This and Black..... EVERY SINGLE TIME
I'm not crazy about the song, but this might be your best video yet. I love that you felt comfortable sharing some very personal history with us here, seeing your emotional side was really touching. Thanks for all you do, Geebz. You're a good one.
Gosh darn it.... In crying my eyeballs out😭
This entire album is the foundation of my formative years, and this song in particular tears my heart into pieces. I don't think any of the "grunge era" style vocalists can hold a candle to Eddie.
Hugs to you regarding your father - I'm glad you have some good memories. Cherish them ❤️
Hey man, appreciate the depth and honesty of all your explorations but particularly this one, that's what keeps everyone coming back. Explore the key of D and E(motion) with the Key of Geebz. Some stuff to take offline and to hit the waves with, and come tell that story when you're ready - a lot of caring folks on this end as I can see in the comments. This is 'Desert Island Disks' material as mentioned on Twitter.
the fear inoculum song had my face melting right before this video🤯
Geebz, you're having a day, my dude. This is not a song i could ever forget, but i definitely don't listen to it enough. Thanks for this.
Geebz seeing the emotions this track brought to you was such a personal thing to share. Thank you for the vulnerability and showing humanity.
You mentioned Black at the start of the video, please do that song some time. Speaking of sound tracks of our lives, I listened to this song driving to the funeral of my muse that taught me to play guitar in 1999 after he took his own life. He was an amazing guy, we surfed, we jammed, I always looked up to him and not a day goes by that I don’t think of him.
Mahalo
Thank you for sharing your time with us Geebz
For me, 'Ten' is a perfect album.
I will never get tired of hearing it. Even songs I've heard a million times on the radio - Alive, Even Flow, Jeremy, etc... They just don't get tiresome like so many other bands' songs do.
Would an Eddie/Maynard duet be too much to ask or is that so much emotion your head would explode. Thank you, Geebz. I have been so enjoying your videos.
Thanks for opening up. Beautiful song. Means so much to me.
I get emotional by this song too. It's one of my favorites, but it makes me sad. Makes me think about my dad who left me and my brother at 4 and 6 years old. Then we subconciously tried to make him proud of us for the next 15 years. Until I realized there was no point. My brother still hasn't given up on it.