Legends HATED OVERNIGHT Fame SO MUCH...REFUSED to PROMOTE New Song..Still Hit #1 | Professor Of Rock
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- It was Pearl Jam against the world when they were working on their follow up album to Ten that sold more copies that even Nirvana Nevermind in the early 90s. But as Eddie Vedder and co prepared for VS. their sophomore offering, they were tired of fame. They had planned on ten doing so well and they refused to do promotion of the album in terms of music videos etc… The album still hit #1. The signature song from the record called Daughter would actually start out with a different name and lyrics but Eddie Vedder really sunk his teeth into its message about child abuse and learning disabilities.. which had never been covered in a massive single before. Up next the story fo a 90s masterpiece.
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes we have covered Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Buddy Holly by Weezer, Zombie by The Cranberries.
Today we are covering one of Pearl Jam’s signature song...their sophomore record Vs. Daughter
By 1993, Pearl Jam was arguably the biggest band on the planet. Riding the cultural tsunami of the media-labeled grunge movement, their debut album Ten had been a breakthrough smash. One that would become a defining landmark of Generation X ever after. Just months after Ten’s release in August 1991, the floodgates of Seattle rock were blown open by Nirvana’s album Nevermind, which reached #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart. Following in their wake, Pearl Jam’s debut landed on the album charts on January 4, 1992. And by the second half of 92 Pearl Jam had become a key player in the cultural and musical shift that was taking place.
Almost a year after its release, Ten reached #8 on the Billboard 200 album chart and would go on to peak at #2 for four weeks. It would spend a total of 264 weeks on the Billboard charts. By February 1993, US sales of Ten surpassed Nirvana’s Nevermind and continued to climb, on its way to selling 13 million copies in America the biggest album of the genre. . Although to the world at large, Pearl Jam’s rise to the top may have seemed like a triumph, from the band’s perspective it was almost tragic. Poster-boys for the disenfranchised, Eddie Vedder, and his Seattle counterpart Kurt Cobain were labeled as voices of a generation. But their music was never meant to achieve that end.
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest rock album of the 90s?
Dookie by Green Day. Possibly Enema of the State by Blink-182.
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club;
Melissa Etheridge - Yes I Am;
Eric Clapton - Unplugged;
Alanis Morrissette- Jagged Little Pill.
Dulcinea - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Superunknown- Soundgarden
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
August and Everything After- Counting Crows
Mad Mad World -Tom Cochrane
Musical Chairs -Hootie & the Blowfish
Real Life -Simple Minds
Afraid of Sunlight-Marillion
Sunsets on Empire -Fish
I'm sure not a lot of people would choose these records but they remain among my favorites from the 90s.
Frank Black 1993
Luxuria - Beast Box 1990
Killing Joke - Pandemonium 1994
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic 1996
Portishead 1997
My dad was stationed in Korea when this album came out. I remember going to the PX every day after school, hoping to see its release. The day it came out, I remember a soldier in front of me grabbing a copy of the CD and yelling out, "Bam!" His enthusiasm mirrored my own. I bought it immediately, and couldn't wait to get it home to listen to. I had a Walkman for cassettes, but only had a CD player in my bedroom. After finishing my homework, I grabbed the lyric sheet and followed along with every song. It was pure magic.
I wanna go back to those days, when you mainly discovered music through record stores and CDs.
Eddie Vedder is a legend and it makes me heartbroken for him when you think of all the fellow musicians and friends he's lost to suicide or drugs including Chris Cornell. I was 11 or 12 when Daughter was released, struggling with a learning disability, and mentally abusive parents so this definitely hit home. I've since cut ties with my folks and it still hits home.
In June '95 I was driving home from the hospital at 4am after the birth of my little girl. "Claire" by The Rheostatics was played followed by PJ's "Daughter." We had just named our new daughter, Claire. That blew my mind. Thanks Prof.
You have another daughter named Amanda, after Monday’s song?
I have to strongly give props to Vedder and Pearl Jam... Regardless of the subject, they weren't using their songs as a gimmick or as an attempt to exploit the subjects their songs brought forth... Honestly, I always commended them for using their platform for at least raising awareness and stirring up dialogue! Personally think that's incredibly huge...
The Ten record in my opinion is PERFECT. Pacing, tone, song structure. It’s just a masterpiece.
Agreed!
The whole album!
The concept of an "album" seems all but lost today.
Agreed. Fantastic.
@@treyhudson73 it’s almost as if music has come full circle back to when an album wasn’t a thing and it was all about singles.
Since you mentioned that "Daughter" closes with the shades going down, later in the album "Rearview Mirror" closes with the shades being raised. Iirc the band is vague on the subject, as they always are, but it's hard not to think that the songs must be linked especially since "Rearview Mirror" is about a person escaping an abusive situation.
Whenever you make an episode on a Pearl Jam song I get reminded of a project I'm working on for 8-9 years now, which will immediately motivate me to get back to it to tinker around for some extended time, and hence not commenting on said video at all. Given the scale and frequency of my comments on your videos, and my crazy love for PJ this is really more than ironic. But now, I feel, has come the time to put an end to this stupid pattern and instead document the current result of all my hard work of the last few years:
After discovering the amount of live music by PJ on RUclips I fell completely in love and decided to craft for myself a sweet little live album by them. Since this was around 2013/14, "Backspacer" was released in 2009, the band wouldn't release a new album until 2013, and 2011 was "PJ 20 Ten" it will be hardly surprising that most of the stuff I discovered, that had an acceptable quality was from around 2009-12. So I ..., hrm, would have collected tons of music, cut 1-3 hr audio files into single songs, edited volume + speeches, listened to maybe 20 versions of "Alive" and "Black", hundreds of other songs and versions, and decided for which song and version to put on said live album, but since this doesn't work and is most likely even illegal I actually didn't do that but collected a completely imaginary album.
No 2 PJ concerts have exactly the same setlist, so there were actually dozens, maybe even hundreds of songs to chose from, which led to some pretty hard choices. That I decided to simulate a complete PJ concert with encores and stuff did help, but hardly. Many great songs are missing, but there's nothing I can do about it. Even the speeches I incorporated might get kicked out, but we'll see about that.
So here is my personal theoretical bootleg PJ live album, as of right now. I call it:
WORLDWIDE CROWD CONTROL
LIVE 2009-12
01 Release - Boston, MA 05/17/10
02 State Of Love And Trust - Arras, France 07/03/10
03 Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy - La Plata, Argentina 11/13/11
04 Hail, Hail - Universal City, CA 10/07/09 The song is followed by a speech that had to be heavily edited. It's quite funny, so I might keep it.
05 Garden - Philadelphia, PA 10/28/09
06 The Fixer - Hartford, CT 05/15/10
07 Smile - Boston, MA 05/17/10
08 Footsteps - London, England 08/18/09
09 Dutch Speech - Amsterdam, Netherlands 06/26/12 Eddie speaking Dutch is just "leuk". He tells the audience that this is the 12th time that PJ is in the Netherlands, that they are giving the first rock show ever in the venue they are in, asks the crowd to destroy it together with them (I think) and tells them, that he will speak English for the rest of the night because his Dutch is shit. I lost track of the song this belongs to, so I put it here as a seperate entry.
10 Lukin/Not For You - Amsterdam, Netherlands 06/26/12
11 Sad - Vancouver, Canada 09/25/09
12 Even Flow - Berlin, Germany 08/15/09 Before the song starts Eddie is executing the "Everyone 3 steps back" routine. No PJ concert is complete without that, so it will stay. After it he introduces the band, which might have to go.
13 Black - New York, NY 05/21/10
14 Wash - Amsterdam, Netherlands 06/27/12
15 Given To Fly - Arras, France 07/03/10
16 Animal - Melbourne, Australia 11/20/09
17 Betterman - Boston, MA 05/17/10
18 Alive - Berlin, Germany 06/30/10
Encore 1.
19 Why Go - Boston, MA 05/17/10
20 Rats - New York, NY 05/21/10
21 Half Full - Prague, Czech Republic 07/02/12 Before the song Eddie talks about flags, which would have a nice continuity with a later speech, so it might stay.
22 Army Reserve - New York, NY 05/20/10
23 Got Some - Venice, Italy 07/06/10 Italy is beautiful, and there are about 40,000 people at the concert. Might stay, might go.
24 Daughter - Berlin, Germany 08/15/09
Encore 2.
25 Porch - New York, NY 05/20/10
26 Unthought Known - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 11/06/11
27 Do The Evolution - Prague, Czech Republic 07/02/12
28 Nothingman - New York, NY 05/21/10 After the song Eddie tells how he once in Germany raised his right hand during the song and everyone else followed him. "Oh $hit!"
29 Insignificance - London, England 08/18/09
Encore 3.
30 I Got Id - Christchurch, New Zealand 11/29/09 "I should tell you... I woke up this morning to...there was violence on TV. As per usual, but...Violence on TV. But this time it was, uh... It was some... Parisians getting their French a$$es kicked by the, uh, by the All Blacks!" I guess I'll keep that, it's pretty Rock 'n' Roll.
31 Rival - Boston, MA 05/17/10 Eddie before the song again talking about flags. Continuity!
32 Keep on Rockin' in a Free World - Berlin, Germany 08/15/09 Before the song Eddie says in German, that they played this song many times already, but never in Berlin, and he thinks it is important to change that.
33 Indifference - New York, NY 05/20/10 Eddie introduces the band over the music. There's no way to get rid of that.
This was obviously a song to end the concert, but since the audience was so great PJ had actually one more curtain call and performed
Encore 4.
34 Yellow Ledbetter - London, England 08/18/09
Hidden track:
35 Portugal, Portugal - Oeiras, Portugal 07/10/10
Cheers!
Eddie Vedder and pearl jam have a truly astonishing musical legacy and by doing things their own way and delivering amazing live shows and excellent albums for over 30 years they deserve to be legends
For sure. Thanks George!
They’re just amazing people.
@Super Nostalgia Why, thanks! I try to grow my 🧠 every day.
@Super Nostalgia You know, I hate to admit this. This is not to offend anyone on here. BUT I always found their time period in music to be such a sanitized wasteland. Nothing really interesting of sorts. Seems like the only dominant genres were rock and roll and doo-wop, maybe aided a little bit by country. A lot of the songs from the 50s up to the early 60s I mostly find forgettable and bland. HOWEVER, there are a few classics from that period that I treasure e.g. Ben E. King’s Stand By Me, The Drifters’ Save the Last Dance for Me, The Tokens’ Lion Sleeps Tonight.
@Super Nostalgia I love me some Frank Sinatra now and then, but not all the time. There’s no doubt he was a hugely popular legend though. The early 60s period, before the Beatles took America by storm, is what I am talking about in terms of forgettable music. I do love Can’t Help Falling in Love by Elvis, such a classic.
Their songs have so much meaning and still ROCK !
Love watching your videos on Pearl Jam. You really carry depth with their videos you make. It's evident they've moved you too. For those of us who love that band it's truly appreciated.
Love a band that fights fame instead selling their souls to chase it. Pearl Jam was a welcome addition to the music scene. I know they are labeled Grunge, but they are so much more.
Boston, Kansas, Pearl Jam. It's been a great week for you, Professor. Thanks again for all you do!
Thanks Roger. We're always trying.
Prof’s doing a great job on honoring some of my favorite bands that are underrated and never really got their dues.
That was one of your best vids, heartfelt and genuine, well done
I was waiting until you covered Ten, the album I still hear today. Now 46 this album helped me in overcoming some deamons
When Ten came out it was like a tsunami. It took over everything. It was my first year of university and you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing these amazing songs. Discount clothing stores were never so popular as everyone wanted to dress like Eddie and Kurt. It still takes me right back there whenever any song from Ten comes on. It was an amazing year. My brother has seen Pearl Jam over 30 times. He’s told me they’ve never played the same set list twice. 🙏🏼to all of those legendary Seattle/grunge bands.
Such a classic album. Pearl Jam and Eddie are legends.
I admire their music. But more than that, I have the utmost respect for their integrity.💥🔥 ❤️💗💞💕❤️🔥💥
Thanks for all of the PJ content, Adam. My favourite band by far, and it’s always appreciated.
Keep up the great work.
I listened to this album so many times and never understood the lyrics and or the song daughter. You have finally filled the void!!
Thank you for addressing the unfair, "voice of our generation" label that got applied to Nirvana and Pearl Jam. They both wrote authentic songs about important topics, but as a fan I never idolized them. I loved their songs, and I always felt that many fans focused on the messenger more than the message.
To put Eddie Vedder or the band above the message, is to do a disservice to their art and more importantly to the social commentary their art conveyed.
Their whole point was, don't pay attention to us, just listen to what we're saying because it's important.
Thanks Jeff.
Well stated . 👍
You nailed it. Sometimes songs will teach you very important lessons in life. Do not skip those lessons.
I love Pearl Jam. Still my favorite band. This was a great episode. Brought tears to my eyes.
This was not my Era of music, so I never got into Pearl Jam. I appreciate this insight; it gives me a good perspective into their popularity. Thanks, Adam. I hope you're having a spectacular day.
Thanks Jill!
Not mine either
Not my Era of music, either. What I love are the decades of the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. My Era ended in the early 90's with the emergence of Grunge and Rap.
@@stephenhanft1226, yep, I'm a '60s, '70s and '80s gal, myself. Best. Music. Ever.
Yea - They BLOW; 15 albums - 3 good songs
Great reflection on this gem. Thank you. ❤
Love your daily content Professor
Thanks Michael!
Thank you, great coverage of Daughter
I was busy having and raising a child in the 90’s but fell in love with Eddie Veder and Pearl Jam’s music after the movie “Into the Wild.” I still feel like I am catching up on and appreciating their music.
Do it!
Listening to some Pearl Jam is a great strategy for me to cope with hard times.
Pearl Jam is so amazing for their time, still absolutely a relic of a band. They have so much going for them in the grand scheme!
I couldn't agree more. Thanks RC32
Such an awesome band.
Why do you think they were soooo amazing ??? They sounded like all the other boring grunge acts of the time ...
I always felt that Rearviewmirror and Daughter are connected. Both are songs about abuse - Rearviewmirror is a survivor leaving the abusive situation behind. And it has clear lyrical connections in reference to the hand holding her down and “finally the shades are raised,” suggesting that the game is up, the abuse is exposed and the light has come in at last.
“I gather speed from you fkn with me / Once and for all I’m far away / Can hardly believe, finally the shades are raised… raised… / Saw things so much clearer / once you were in my Rearviewmirror”
I always felt RVM was about Eddie’s final confrontation with his step father during his parents’ divorce. Eddie was around 16 and his step father was much bigger than him. Allegedly, his step father broke down his locked bedroom door, threw Eddie down the stairs, and held him on the floor in a choke hold until he submitted. Then kicked him out of the house. Eddie and his girlfriend at the time, who witnessed it, went straight to the cops and filed a report but his step father got it suppressed during the divorce proceedings (he was a lawyer). This was around the same time he found out that his real father was dead and he moved back in with his mom in Illinois.
Eddie’s never spoken about it publicly and his step father denied it ever happened so who knows, but when you listen to RVM it makes total sense to me.
Thank YOU Professor, for keeping it alive. ✌🤘
My personal favorite song from Vs. is "Old Woman Behind The Counter Of A Small Town" -- followed closely by "Corduroy". Although they technically weren't singles, the college and Alt Rock-oriented stations that I listened to in the early and mid '90s played them regularly, nonetheless.
Corduroy off Vitalogy is my favorite song of theirs for sure. Elderly Woman id sing as a lullaby to my kids.
@@maxdawson2948: Thanks for correcting my memory on the title of "Elderly Woman..." and which album "Corduroy" came off -- oldtimers be gettin' the besta me
@@shruggzdastr8-facedclown Of course. Your heart loving it is all that matters. I feel older every hour.
That's a great reference at the end to the Killers, you are really good at this. Pearl Jam was my favorite growing up and the Killers is my favorite now, thank you for seeing the continuity of the ethos of Rock
I had both CDs. Loved both albums respectively. I loved them because of their differences from other bands at the time. They felt more real. Thank you for this one. Brought back great memories of the time. Much love from Florida.
This was a turning point in my life. I had been sober for a few years and, while listening to this CD, photographed a b’day project for my dad. I hade seen Colorado and decided this is where I would live. All the music of this era was a soundtrack to the most important year, up to that point. Everything I have done since, I will tie into this time. All the music off of Versus points to this time.
I have so many albums from Pearl Jam. They didn't want fame, but they sure deserved the attention they received. They dominated the 90's and beyond. I hope to hear more from them in years to come. They truly are legends.
Truly.
You just can’t help but love them. Pearl Jam Forever! ❤
At that time I was addicted to the 80´s in a very crazy way. The thing is that JUST when I was starting to understand and joy the 80´s - everything vanished...the 80´s were reduced to a few sad night shows in the radio stations. In such a stage, I started to use only vinil and compact records and I stteped aside of all the 90´s mainstream. It was stupid, I know, but I was deeply in love with the 80´s. Only some 90´s numbers called my attention, like for example "Smashing Pumpkins" or "Toad the wet sprocket". Through the years a leraned to love the 90´s too, and all the other decades to be honest. Only an 80´s lover could understand my story.😂
Actuality, Pat Benatar did Hell Is for Children in the early 80s, and Suzanne Vega did My Name is Luca in the mid 80s, so songs about child abuse were done way before Pearl Jam.
Pat actually did the first song on child abuse on an album.
There are hundreds of them. Janie’s got a gun Aerosmith. , candy man, siouxie and the banshees. Cousin Kevin, The Who, ... etc. etc.
Hell is for Children is powerful.
Pearl Jam has been a huge part of my life over the years. I saw them live 9 times. I used to listen to them religiously. Still listen to them often. I was 14 when they were on SNL and I knew immediately what Eddie was up to when he revealed the K on his shirt. The grunge movement happened right as I was becoming a teenager, so I hold those days dear. We really did have some incredible music to grow up with.
I agree.
They’re my favorite out of the Big Four, in my opinion.
What with Vedder always trying to virtue signal his indie music street cred, that "K" on his shirt might also have been a reference to Seattle indie label, K-Records, which many Seattle and wider Pac-NW Alt Rock artists and bands of the '80s and early '90s era got recorded by before SubPop came along.
I was definitely more Pearl Jam than Nirvana fan. Just couldn’t get into Nirvana for some reason, though I did like the Unplugged album. Really liked Eddie Vedder’s voice and poetic lyrics kinda remind me of Jim Morrison.
Being the same age as Eddie and the late Chris Cornel. The alternative music really hits me. I was into punk and new wave as a kid, but the first time I heard Smells like teen spirit, Alive, and Rusty cage, I was hooked and looking for all these bands from Seattle. I guess now I'm listening to Indie music to get my fix from new bands.
It’s sad how out of the Big Four frontmen, Eddie is the only one still with us. 😢
90's Seattle sound is like ordered and melodic punk music to me
Another great post!
Thanks!
I was never a fan of Pearl Jam; however, this episode of PoR gave me a new perspective on a band and artist I misunderstood.
Professor of Rock! As a 30 something year old who yearns for older music, I am curious if you have listened to “Young the Giant”… while definitely more “Indie” than Rock or Grunge, I think they deserve a lot of love for being true to themselves in a time when most music sounds so alike. I am pretty sure I have watched 99% of your videos but I don’t believe they have been covered before, if I am wrong I apologize! Thanks as always for your amazing videos!
When I heard Daughter, my initial reaction was WHOAH, how does he know..?! I thought he was singing about my life. It was torture getting through school with my mother not understanding my ADD. A lot of beatings, verbal, and emotional abuse... I went on to college, (I paid for years), career, children, but I no longer have a relationship with her. When she comes up in convo even today. I just hear (don't call me daughter, not fit to)
A lot of scars
I’ve been to I don’t even know how many PJ shows. The best daughter tag is Dead Moon’s It’s Okay by far. Ed’s charisma and ability to get the ground to sing is unmatched. They have mastered the call and response with an audience.
"The shades go down..." ---Daughter
"Finally the shades are raised" ---Rearviewmirror
One of Cracker’s first two first wide-ranging albums: Cracker and Kerosene Hat. The other three they did that decade are really good, too.
This is for me their best album. The songs/songwriting and production is phenomenal. Dave Abbruzzese’s drumming makes this album. Just elevates everything to the thermosphere.
I remember going to a high school keg party and in typical fashion everyone was hanging out with whatever clique they were in and elderly woman behind the counter in a small town came on Z rock and there wasn’t one person at that party who wasn’t singing along. It was pretty cool feeling that their music affected everyone no matter what tribe you were in.
Eddie Vedder is one of the voices of his generation who always took on tough subjects and wrote the best emotional lyrics. VS was the perfect follow up to Ten. I can relate to Daughter throughly because I grew up in an era of spare the rod spoil the child attitude in school where if you were doing poorly they thought they could beat learning into you. Many of Pearl Jam's songs are a tough ride because they ring true on subjects that can be painful. Great episode professor. Give us more Pearl Jam and 90s music, there is some great music in that era
Very well said.
In elementary school I would usually get in trouble on first offense for things like copying other students’ work, yelling in class, and distracting others. It felt really harsh, but it loosened as I got older. We still have strict rules nowadays, but at least I don’t get in trouble anymore. Pearl Jam really struck gold with this masterpiece.
Daughter is a song I hear the most on the radio to this day.
I still remember Jeremy coming on the radio on the rare occasion we got a few minutes of radio time for “good behavior” when I was in Basic Training. I absolutely loved that song, and it’s still one of the best written IMHO. I was a GenX-er through and through, but Ten was far and away my favorite album, above anything by Alice, Soundgarden, Nirvana, et al.
Daughter was the first Pearl jam song I ever listened, and it hooked me forever.
I saw PJ on Sunday at the Lightlight , the day after SNL...
Ah, the 90s. My favorite decade in rock music!
I remember hearing "Daughter" for the first time. I was driving home thru the New Mexico desert at 2 a.m. The song came on the radio. "Don't call me daughter, not fit to..." scratchy from a dashboard speaker under in pale moonlight. It gave me goosebumps and tears in my eyes, not even sure why. Amazing experience. Next day I bought the VS and TEN albums.
The picture will remind me…
I'm a child from the 60,s loved that style of rock , and I've seen it constantly change, pearl jam and the grunge Era were the voices for a generation, they gravitated to the original rebel against the man , Neil Young, now should the grunge Era which is over 30yrs old , be considered classic rock , rock from any Era is still better than today's cgi autotune lip sync dance moves money grabbing garbage
I remember Pearl Jam on the MTV awards. Eddie Vedder said I'm glad the song won; now we don't have to play it anymore."
Now that song has a real message. I should have thought of it in yesterday’s poll.
Great song.
I remember that SNL performance. It was actually an extra extended feature on that episode. I didn't understand the k at first and then a minute later it dawned on me. But that was one of the most memorable performances of SNL. At least from my perspective. I have never seen Pearl jam but they are on my bucket list.
I can relate with Daughter, the abuser was father, told I was too stupid to educate because of dyslexia. I'm the only one who has a significant amount of a university education. Too stupid to educate? I think not.
Boy, I wish that the Seattle Sound would come back! It took me awhile to understand it and then fell in love with it!!
One of my most memorable musical moments was in 1990 when my band was one of three bands picked by KGB Radio in San Diego to perform with the top alt rock band band called Bad Radio…they were great and the singer was Eddie Vedder just months before he left for Seattle. Always an amazing experience to see greatness in progress.
Wow, cool! Was he a really nice guy?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 yes he was. Unknown to many, he also enjoyed surfing and associated with Kelly Slater and others.
Fantastic job professor 👏
Such an epic album. Both Ten and Versus were the soundtrack of my high school years, and Pearl Jam spoke to me far more than Nirvana did. The funny thing is I still have a hard time recalling what was a single and what wasn’t because I just listened to the albums over and over.
For what it's worth - I heard about Zenni on this site and this past month bought a pair of prescription glasses. Quite satisfactory for about one third the price.
Pearl Jam and especially Ten were an intricate part of my senior year in high school. The grunge movement of the early 90’s changed my life in a way that has echoed through the last 30 years, I will never forget how their music makes me feel. NEVER!
Packed with so many great messages and life lessons, Ten is truly an album for the ages.
I first heard about Pearl Jam when they were the opening band for The Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins.I remember finding a review at the time for Ten in Rolling Stone or Spin that was 4/5, basically saying it was a great debut, but a bit samey. At the concert they were amazing and I was quite impressed with this band that I had never heard of before. Still when I subsequently heard my friend's copy of Ten I was reminded of that review, the songs just felt a bit samey.I definitely don't mind anytime a Pearl Jam song comes on the radio, they are gereat songs, but I can't imagine listening to their album start to finish.
I appreciate learning about Pearl Jam, however as someone who grew up with 1980s music, I find it hard to relate to or listen to music by Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc due to the vocals and music. It isn't so much the subject matter even as I've heard music on different topics though arguably I prefer positive music or at least music that is about a survivor.
I think I understood at least 2 words Eddie sang, but at least the band left me with the memory of those days of my youth.
Thanx for this Prof 👍
I'm not so knowledgeable with this genre, being a disco head D.J. from the late 70's to mid 80's. 😁 I only know this stuff from a biker bar I used to hang out in 🚲
My favorite band from the Grunge Era was Soundgarden, followed by Alice In Chains, and Nirvana, (although they were sadly cut short)! RIP Kurt, RIP Layne, and RIP Chris!!!!
One of my favorite songs by PJ is Black. I love how it builds. It’s so emotional.
I just moved to Seattle in 1992 and it was a fantastic place to be all the coffee houses all the people walking around and the live shows were amazing I remember going to the shows and seeing all these great music Acts I remember seeing Pearl jam right before ten was released and it was just a great time to be alive I really don't think that Pearl jam thought their music would impact everybody the way that it did and I also remember that either the media or the record label I'm not sure which we're trying to make it look like Eddie vedder was a lot younger than he was there was a publication or something on MTV about Eddie vedder being 20 years old but the truth was he was 27 years old and he was not originally from Seattle he was flown in from San Diego to audition for the band and that's when the Pearl jam all came together
When I was a teenager, whenever I got into an argument with my parents I would BLAST DAUGHTER BY PEARL JAM!! ☮️💜🎵🎶
This was my first CD when I first finally got a CD player. Pearl Jam was my favorite band throughout the 90s.
I always roll my eyes at these self important rock stars, who hate the main stream so much, but certainly didn't mind the mansions and sports cars.
None of the pearl jam members ever had mansions or sports cars. EVER
They all say they hate fame, to look cool.
Going from nothing to one of the biggest bands in the world so quickly would destroy a lot of people.
Most of the Seattle bands had a punk ethic of sorts as well so fame was difficult for them to handle.
It’s funny. I didn’t even remember which songs were singles on Vs. I did exactly what you always say, I was in high school listening to the album, start to finish, on repeat, in my room, so they are all sort of equal to me. I always say my favorite Pearl Jam album is No Code. And it is, even though I get a lot of flack for that. But Vs and Yield are right up there.
My friends grandmother use to call him Eddie Vader . She said that's how good he looked before he turned to the DarkSide . Which she would pay to see 👀 that on the big screen! This was 1990-1. George Lucas even said that hearing about her comment led to inspiration. So when they came to Las Vegas in concert I made sure she got great seats 💺
A combo of Darth Vader and Eddie Vedder?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Hey Lilly 👋 sorry I haven't gotten back with you. I've been going to bed around 5:30-6:15 nearly every day. I would wake up to watch The Professors video then go back to sleep 💤 if I'm lucky enough.
@@constipatedinsincity4424 Good thing you’re getting a lot of rest!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Not enough
@@constipatedinsincity4424 Sleep as much as you can, you need it!
My nephew got me listening to Pearl Jam, I told him "I will not enjoy this '. Well, I was wrong. Really love Better Man and Jeremy.
Jeremy Delle, the youth from the song, lived about 30 minutes from us.
Thanks Marcus. Good insight.
Love Better Man.
I loved how atmospherical TEN was. More psychedelic. They just went for straight rock n roll that faded me out
You know your old when pearl jam was considered modern rock, 1st grade our teacher let us play this new bands album at lunchtime, the Beatles
Ten cam out for midnight release in my college town. I had never seen ANYthing like those lines down the street before. The next time I would see that kind of fervor was when the last of the Harry Potter books came out almost 20 years later.
I grew up in Seattle, but came late to the Grunge scene, mostly because I was away in Japan at the time. I bought Weird Al's "Smells like Nirvana" before I ever bought the Nirvana album.
However, I do have a first-run "Five Against One" Cassette *and* the untitled first run CD of "Versus."
My last band used to play Animal and it was, by far, our most popular song to play.
Never saw the snl show, I stopped watching snl back when I lived in a van down by the river. It seemed people either really liked Pearl Jam or hated them, not much in between about them. I enjoyed their music but never bought any of their albums. It is sad when an artist gets so they hate their own music because it becomes popular.
As I understand it, part of the reason they stopped doing music videos was because the video for Jeremy was considered "too graphic", and edited down to be "less controversial". Can't say that I blame them, as the edited version really changes the meaning of the song and video. This is what happens when record companies get too damned involved with artistic expression.
If PJ had released Indifference as a second single, I feel it like it would've hit a higher level on the charts overall, and the album would've been more broadly accepted at that time.
What PJ has done is create a lifelong soundtrack for many listeners. And through it all, they did the one thing that made them, and our generation... they did what they wanted in music.
Essentially, while we might be labeled GEN-X, our music in the mid-90's should've given us a new moniker... Generation "Fuck off".
Sadly, i never got a chance to see PJ live due to the fact that on my area (Tampa), wheelchair seating has always been obstructed views, tucked off into the corner... so I never had a chance. Hopefully one day, being physically crippled will not mean you are placed in an area that hides you from enjoying all aspects of concerts.
Pearl Jam first record was released before Nirvana's Nevermind. It just took longer and great word of mouth from PJ's live shows to catch on.
Honestly - I don't like PJ's music, (w/exception of Daughter - A GREAT SONG); EVedder (in my opinion) is a...fill-in-the-blank. Aside from this, and to all PJ 'lovers' - Great class a usual Prof !!!
Vs's WMA is a usually overlooked song that's equally provocative and politically driven. Abbruzzese's drumming on the track is mythical as well
I saw PJ live twice. The first time was possibly the best show I’ve ever witnessed. The second show was a pile of garbage. Eddie kept stopping the show to rant about politics. Fuck that. I see entertainment to escape. Not get lectured to.
The only album that I ever went to a release at midnight to get a copy. On a cassette no less. A CASSETTE I say! But I was there.
When you sign the big deal, you’ll have to pay the piper.
I have to admit I hated the Grunge invasion of the early '90s, but I did really like Pearl Jam. I slowly started to like Grunge. Pearl Jam opened my eyes to it. In fact when I did a custom paint job on my S-10 with a violet pearl coat over red (looked pink in the bright sunlight and purple under streetlights) I called the color "Pearl Jam". That's how much they inspired me. Never to be forgotten. Thanks for sharing this story!
Thanks Mike! Very cool.
I wonder if Pearl Jam had a color to their name themselves. 🧐
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 They would probably prefer my second custom pearlcoat paint creation: Blue pearl over black. Much darker, more their style. Going to use that one on my '70 Nova.
@@mikemcgown6362 Ooh, that sounds like it would be beautiful!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It is. I shot it on a '77 Camaro and it looked pretty awesome, in my opinion. I've done a few different pearlcoat paint jobs and they all turned out better than any metallic jobs.
Pearl Jam was and is one of my favorite bands. And Eddie Vedder is, in my opinion, one of the greatest rock singers and songwriters in rock history.
I'm right there with you.
He’s such a legendary singer.
Nevsr know about the band's policy until decades, but I didn"t questioned about no videos or whatever, the songs from Versus and everything since then always stay in our heart. Our radio always regularly promoted PJ new albums/singles.
It's called reverse psychology. Appear to hate the limelight and get all the limelight.
My grade school nickname came from this band. Years after that I only had 10 on CD. Until one day, about a decades ago. A Pearl jam fan must have passed away. Cuz I found pretty much their whole collection on CD at a salvation Army and bought them all. Just another part of my 7,777 CD collection.
“Life Wasted” still sounds pretty great today….
Dead moons It's ok is by far my favorite daughter tag.