I went to high school with Eddie Vedder (then Eddie Mueller). He was on the surf team and in drama club (my sister did 3 plays with him and he was an insanely good actor). Eddie was the only person at our school who could be a surfer, a drama geek, be voted Most Talented his senior year and still be the most casually cool guy in school with one of the hottest surf chicks as his girlfriend. Always legendary.
@@Savssmiles We went to San Dieguito High School in Encinitas. He was class of 82, I was 83. Clayton Liggett was the drama teacher and a big influence on Eddie, so much so Eddie came back to Encinitas about 15 years ago to attend Mr. Liggett's funeral.
@@adriansullivan5201 what an awesome story. So that’s north SD. I grew up a couple of hours from there and lived there off and on and have family and friends in PB. Sounds like he’s a real one to go back and pay tribute to his teacher. A lot of people think he’s from Seattle bc of the grunge scene. Can’t believe he’s already past 50! Time sure does fly
Maynard from "Tool" once said we should listen to music first, to feel a song few times, before reading the lyrics. I think it's the best way with rock/metal songs imho.
That would be great if they listened to it alone and not in front of an audience for the first time. I enjoy lyrical breakdown more than them just listening to the song 100% of the time. This is for every reaction channel ever. If you don't spend the time and effort with the audience on say "your favorite song, that you have been waiting for" it almost feels insulting. We won't ever see their second or third time experiencing the song. We won't see them understanding it or connecting with the lyrics, if all they do is "listen" to it once on the channel. So in my opinion, I don't think your opinion applies to these videos. I also think the quality of their vids go down infinitely when they don't look at the lyrics after. I hate it.
Rock/metal and especially prog metal and grunge usually have a lot going on, a wall of noise, extra little touches here and there that can distract from listening to the lyrics for the first few listens. I think that's even more extreme for the uninitiated or newer listeners.
Lex if you heard Eddie sing Black now you may hear that aged smoothness like zztop. That video is from the mid 90s. That's a different Vedder than now. He still has a voice that is layered with so much emotion.
His whole world ended when she left. She was his 5 horizons. The center of his world. Kids were laughing and playing but he is still sad. And cant get over her.
I can fully relate to that crushing feeling so damn hard, life is a chaotic tragedy and experience and we carry those memories even in a evolved state those things remain engrained deep In you when it was something so deep meaningful and impactful in your heart and soul and connections with people that may have changed or disappeared it’s really crazy and emotional to think about but also bittersweet and interesting to reflect and reminisce like joy mixed with sadness and somber tones that’s real shit right there
“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life. I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky. But why? Why can’t it be mine?” This line itself sums it up perfectly
Facts!! It's so cathartic.... I swear it has to have helped thousands of people through the last 30 yrs..... it always helps to know you're not alone in what you're going through! SO GLAD Eddie and the guys agreed to release it!!! :)
My bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything! My favorite part is when he says I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why not mine!
I always find it interesting when people listen to a new song like they're watching a new movie... sitting there feeling lost, trying to gather the plot, feeling like they're missing out on "what's going on" if they can't understand or hear the lyrics. I feel like your first time needs to just be soaking in the sounds and the music as a whole, not trying to fully understand every aspect of the lyrics, but getting ideas about it, puzzle pieces you begin to piece together. Like movies, a lot of the time you don't even understand what's going on until you've watched them the second or third time. Especially movies or music that's worth a damn.
LOL I'm just thinking of all the Pearl Jam super fans hearing, "it's like Male Taylor Swift" and then having veins pop in their foreheads from the rage
Omg!!! I'm one of those 30yr long "serious" Pearl Jam fans and I literally inhaled, choked on and spewed my freaking coffee everywhere when he said that!!! I swear the vein was popping out of my head in disgust AND.... pure HYSTERICS!!!! I was laughing so hard yet REALLY annoyed with it at the same time!!! PRICELESS!!! 😂🤣😂🤣👏👏
I love Pearl Jam and don't have a problem with that description at all. If you took all the pain and heartache from Swift's entire catalog and condense it down to its purest form you would end up with Black.
😂🤣😂🤣 That was awesome and HYSTERICAL!!! 👏👏 Someone really needs keep a record of the things that come out of her mouth and publish that shit!!! "His voice is like bacon".... C'MON!!! That is pure gold!!! 😂🤣 Love it!!! ❤😎
Superb performance by Eddie - one of the best of his generation. Sadly, he is the last of what was considered the "big four" still with us. All I can say is please keep safe and well, Eddie and RIP to Chris, Kurt and Layne, you are all sadly missed.
@@bothellkenmore I hear what you're saying but first... music is cathartic and healing! What genre or Era doesn't matter at all!! As long as it moves and touches your soul, it's all good!! Second, I don't don't think Dave/The Foo Fighters are really in a separate category..... 1) Dave was a member of NIRVANA!! One of the top 4 greats of Grunge 2) No matter how you spin it... "Grunge" IS ROCK and the Foo Fighter are Rock too!! Glad Dave and the guys have helped you through!! Peace and light friend... :)
@@tinagilbert8902 Well I guess I was trying to preemtively block peaople who were going to say he wasn't on par with those 4 singers but Dave undoubtedly had an influence then on the sound and carries the flag now for sure. He also does these amazing colabs with all the greats and his side projects with Josh Homme are amazing like Them Crooked Vultures and part time in Queens of the Sone Age.
I seriously love how lex's mind works. The descriptions are epic. And I really respect Brad going on this journey through the music with her. Love y'all's channel and thank you
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life ,I know you'll be a star, In somebody else's sky But why, Why, Why can't it be Oh can't it be mine?" Those words made me cry uncontrollably after the end of a very long relationship...
I think everyone who knows this song and has had a bad breakup sobs to this song at some point. I’ve considered for 30 years getting that lyric tattooed on my body. It is such a powerful song and lyric.
this song and yellow ledbetter is driving on a empty back road cruising at 60 with the windows down and its about 70 degrees outside, thats what this is to me.
Keep in mind break up songs aren't always about a man or a woman, but about their break up with their inner masculine or inner feminine energy, their loss of masculine driven mindset or female intuition, a loss of faith in God/Goddess, their Inner G/Energy. Often time people don't understand the Divine Mission of Self Love and Unconditional Love, The 'State of Love and Trust' (another Pearl Jam song, about life's journey being "busted down to pre-tests). There are intensely spiritual meanings to the core of these songs.
Eddie put so much emotion in this song because it was so personal to him after his divorce and you can tell she meant everything to him. You can feel his pain when he sings about his lost love . I have heard so many songs about lost love but none can compare to Eddie singing "Black".
“Now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything “🥺. So much pain just in that one line. Eddie’s vocals in this song reflecting love, pain, anger, regret. One of my top 3 live vocal performances ever.
"Sounds like bacon greese in a milk carton"!? Now that's gotta be a 1st foe any reaction to this song. Thats a new level of weirdness, and my wife calls me weird!?
"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in someone else's sky..." gets me every time, good thing it comes at the end cause have to watch through teary eyes after.
I think I get some what of Lex was describing about the song. It is like the band is playing and the sound is a gentle soft swirling around the singer, Eddie Vetter, there is sorrow and loss. Then when Eddie sings it is gritty with anger and angst in dealing with the pain of love lost. Together with the layers and poetic story telling makes for such a beautiful song.
Def one of the best live vocal performances you'll ever hear. So good. I constantly go back and listen to this one. I don't know how he ends up sounding better live, it's always just so much more emotion.
This song is so epic, I grew up in the 90s, this was some of the music that introduced poetry to a different social class that may never have experienced people expressing their emotions this way. PearlJam had an awesome sound and that attracted people from everywhere but then we were blown away at the lyrics, the depth and substance is meant to be interpreted in your own way, apply the lyrics to your own part life experiences and almost every song can have deep personal meaning. Yes, the lyrics have the bands true meaning and intent, but they encourage you to experience their music in your own personal way. God damn poetry here.
Im like Lex. When hearing a song for the first time its the instruments that speak to me the most and the singer is just another instrument conveying an emotion and melody. The message comes later. I swear there are songs i've listened to for over 30 years that are so good musicaly I still dont know al the words too.
It's been the same for me my whole life. My ear is attracted more to instrumentation.. I'm sure that's common though. But I've been actively trying to pay attention to lyrics for the last couple of years. I started to discover that I like songs that I normally wouldn't like due to instrumentation, and I've also discovered that some of my favorite songs have lyrics/message that I can't support. If that makes sense.
I feel/see the texture of voices too, Lex. Eddie's voice, to me, is a big blackish-brown bearskin rug (without the head). I see it laid out flat in front of me, but feel it wrapped around me,. It's soft and warm, and the and the grit in his voice is the rough texture of the pads on the bear paws. lol His voice is one of my very favorites.
Lex’s descriptions of sound are priceless. You guys need to compile all of her descriptions along with pictures of your confused looks/reactions, Brad, into a book. Bestseller.
Eddie definitely means every word he sings, I love how Lex can visualise music and how it feels, a sure sign that she'd make a good musician. It's all about how it feels. A lot of musicians I've played with down the years describe music as colours, something I never understood being colourblind, I hear notes as emotional characteristics, learning music theory kinda destroyed the mystery but helps put names on the feelings that each note emotes,
The whole colour as notes thing is probably true for them. Some people have synesthesia which can create associates between unrelated things. Associating colours with days of the week, sounds with colours, music notes as colours etc. Some experts think some of the classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven had synesthesia, they literally could hear music and visualise colours, so when they wrote a symphony it was like painting a canvas for an artist.
@@henrique88t I can't help but analyse how music is constructed now, whereas before I started learning music I listened to music for what it felt like, it's just looking at the same thing from a different perspective I suppose, I just miss feeling like the audience, now I feel like I've read the script so I get the plot before the end of the movie.
@@Kipperbob I don't really see it that way. To me it's like learning a language. After a while, the grammar rules fade and it goes back to being intuitive and second nature, but now way sharper.
C'mon now Brad, Lex makes perfect sense! You need that philosophical and poetic touch that she has that's all ;) He's smooth, tasty, colourful and rough at the same time, that's the summary I got from her and it's a perfect description of Eddie Vedder ;D
The whole bacon conversation really detracted from Eddie pouring his tattered heart out in front of our eyes. I was in the live... and that chat really went all bacon, then went straight to hell lol. I still love you both
Everyone has to read lyrics to his songs. I've listened for 20 years and only know half of what their lyrics are. Makes them fun to sing, as you can't mess up! 😊
There was a comedian who had a hilarious skit about how you can't understand shit. There's one song in particular he made fun of. I'll have to go find it. I think it was Jim Breuer.
@@kutark Probably Yellow Ledbetter. Even Eddie doesn't know the lyrics; he makes them up on the fly so they are different every time, though they are always on the same topic.
LOL I get you girl. Eddie voice is the bits of bacon left in there with all that warm yummy slick feel. It's something bitter with the warm savory flavor.
Pearl Jam is one of the most amazing bands of all-time there's music Still hits today like it did when it was new he has a voice that is so cool and raspy.
I always interpret this song, especially this performance as a person destroyed by a breakup and the “yeah, yeah no do-do-dodo-dododo” is him going crazy in his mind.
That's the beauty of music. When writing many artists like to use substances to take the journey. They are often not trying to beat a theme into you, but rather let you take that journey however you think and feel. Emotion is what makes a great tune.
❤🤘 (Sometimes you need the Eddie-to-English dictionary for Pearl Jam. But he puts so much Emotion into it, you still feel everything, even if you can't understand the lyrics! 🤣)
Hey, oh Sheets of empty canvas Untouched sheets of clay Were laid spread out before me As her body once did All five horizons Revolved around her soul As the earth to the sun Now the air I tasted and breathed Has taken a turn Oh and all I taught her was everything Oh I know she gave me all that she wore And now my bitter hands Chafe beneath the clouds Of what was everything Oh the pictures have All been washed in black Tattooed everything I take a walk outside I'm surrounded by Some kids at play I can feel their laughter So why do I sear Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin Round my head I'm spinning Oh, I'm spinning How quick the sun can, drop away And now my bitter hands Cradle broken glass Of what was everything All the pictures have All been washed in black Tattooed everything All the love gone bad Turned my world to black Tattooed all I see All that I am All that I'll be, yeah Uh huh, uh huh, oh I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be Oh can't it be mine
A Pearl Jam song you've got to hear is "Given To Fly." I'd describe it as waves crashing on the shore. In my opinion it also has Mike and Eddie's greatest guitar work.
I instantly thought of Bacon when Brad asks about Eddies voice and I shit you not Lex be like “Bacon Grease Container” SAME WAVELENGTH
Yessss!!!! 😁🙌🤯
@@BradAndLex I Know...
Smooth but gritty I agree
Lol shut up
Y'all are weird. Lol.
Shout out to the girl that broke his heart and gave us this masterpiece.
His high school sweetheart
The women that broke his heart need more recognition. If not for her Pearl Jam wouldn’t be here
Nobody broke his heart. Most pop songs are from the writers imagination and has nothing to do with anything that happened in the real world.
@@GeneralApathy7490 it’s not a pop song, and this is from a real experience
@@GeneralApathy7490 that was a very sure statement from someone who clearly doesn't know.
I went to high school with Eddie Vedder (then Eddie Mueller). He was on the surf team and in drama club (my sister did 3 plays with him and he was an insanely good actor).
Eddie was the only person at our school who could be a surfer, a drama geek, be voted Most Talented his senior year and still be the most casually cool guy in school with one of the hottest surf chicks as his girlfriend.
Always legendary.
Always nice to hear when legends are genuinely good people!
Great Story!! Thx!! 😀
What part of San Diego?
@@Savssmiles We went to San Dieguito High School in Encinitas. He was class of 82, I was 83.
Clayton Liggett was the drama teacher and a big influence on Eddie, so much so Eddie came back to Encinitas about 15 years ago to attend Mr. Liggett's funeral.
@@adriansullivan5201 what an awesome story. So that’s north SD. I grew up a couple of hours from there and lived there off and on and have family and friends in PB. Sounds like he’s a real one to go back and pay tribute to his teacher. A lot of people think he’s from Seattle bc of the grunge scene. Can’t believe he’s already past 50! Time sure does fly
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, you'll be the star in someone else's sky, but why can't it be mine"... thats some beautiful shit.
Wow .. you hit it .. it is so beautiful ..
My favorite verse in the whole song 💕
i started scrolling and hit this comment right as he sang that line. and i agree
My absolute favorite line 💕
That line hits me every. single. time. And him crying out "we belong together!" right after... so much pain longing desire regret... 😥💔
“My bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything”… such as beautiful heart wrenching line 💔🦋
"Someday you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, why, why, can't it be Mine!" gets me every time!
too bad they didn't get it.
@@3idraven714 Its such a perfect line
Maynard from "Tool" once said we should listen to music first, to feel a song few times, before reading the lyrics. I think it's the best way with rock/metal songs imho.
Agree
No doubt. PJ lyrics (kinda like Tool) take time to set in.
That would be great if they listened to it alone and not in front of an audience for the first time. I enjoy lyrical breakdown more than them just listening to the song 100% of the time. This is for every reaction channel ever. If you don't spend the time and effort with the audience on say "your favorite song, that you have been waiting for" it almost feels insulting. We won't ever see their second or third time experiencing the song. We won't see them understanding it or connecting with the lyrics, if all they do is "listen" to it once on the channel. So in my opinion, I don't think your opinion applies to these videos. I also think the quality of their vids go down infinitely when they don't look at the lyrics after. I hate it.
Rock/metal and especially prog metal and grunge usually have a lot going on, a wall of noise, extra little touches here and there that can distract from listening to the lyrics for the first few listens. I think that's even more extreme for the uninitiated or newer listeners.
I agree that's how I do it. Far more organic that way, but that's not what gets reaction channels views.
Lex's visual interpretations of what she hears is priceless, as is Brad's reactions to the explanations. Whats crazy is that I understand her.
Facts!!!!!! ive never heard anything described like that ,its low key refreshing in a weird way lol
I just love how she thinks!🥰🥰
Lex if you heard Eddie sing Black now you may hear that aged smoothness like zztop. That video is from the mid 90s. That's a different Vedder than now. He still has a voice that is layered with so much emotion.
Brad: "So Lex, what does it sound like?"
also Brad: *instant regret*
ded 😂😂🤢
I fucking love her explanations though. She really pulls you into her mind, it's crazy.
"What's the song about?" (wanting to get into some deep analysis).
"I dunno, I just like the sounds"
That's so classic, I'm that way too.
His whole world ended when she left. She was his 5 horizons. The center of his world. Kids were laughing and playing but he is still sad. And cant get over her.
Yep. We know
I can fully relate to that crushing feeling so damn hard, life is a chaotic tragedy and experience and we carry those memories even in a evolved state those things remain engrained deep
In you when it was something so deep meaningful and impactful in your heart and soul and connections with people that may have changed or disappeared it’s really crazy and emotional to think about but also bittersweet and interesting to reflect and reminisce like joy mixed with sadness and somber tones that’s real shit right there
“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life. I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky. But why? Why can’t it be mine?”
This line itself sums it up perfectly
That’s beautiful ain’t it? How many have loved that hard before?
This is one of the best live performances by a frontman. Such emotion Eddie put into this.
This is great but rod stewarts unplugged is still the best, just saying
I know some day you'll be a beautiful star in somebody else's sky, but why can't it be mine......just gorgeous lyrics.
This song is every break up I've ever had wrapped into a sorrow filled beautiful package.
Facts!! It's so cathartic.... I swear it has to have helped thousands of people through the last 30 yrs..... it always helps to know you're not alone in what you're going through! SO GLAD Eddie and the guys agreed to release it!!! :)
Yup, couldn't agree more
Perfect description.
Absolutely.
YEP perfectly put!!
It’s called Grunge. Gritty bacon grease may be the best description 30 later that I’ve ever heard
My bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything! My favorite part is when he says I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why not mine!
I’ve howled those lines to the night sky on my knees with tears in my eyes
...it's that third WHHHHYYYYYYYY??! that just fukken wrecks my heart every. time.
Sh!t, I'm getting misty just *writing* about it, man
Pretty sure that’s everyone’s favorite part, including mine.
@@jeffreyflynn9106 Dude. Same. Those feels...
I am almost 99.5% that is everyone’s favorite part of the song as well since it’s so impactful😭✊🏼
I always find it interesting when people listen to a new song like they're watching a new movie... sitting there feeling lost, trying to gather the plot, feeling like they're missing out on "what's going on" if they can't understand or hear the lyrics. I feel like your first time needs to just be soaking in the sounds and the music as a whole, not trying to fully understand every aspect of the lyrics, but getting ideas about it, puzzle pieces you begin to piece together. Like movies, a lot of the time you don't even understand what's going on until you've watched them the second or third time. Especially movies or music that's worth a damn.
LOL I'm just thinking of all the Pearl Jam super fans hearing, "it's like Male Taylor Swift" and then having veins pop in their foreheads from the rage
Omg!!! I'm one of those 30yr long "serious" Pearl Jam fans and I literally inhaled, choked on and spewed my freaking coffee everywhere when he said that!!! I swear the vein was popping out of my head in disgust AND.... pure HYSTERICS!!!! I was laughing so hard yet REALLY annoyed with it at the same time!!! PRICELESS!!! 😂🤣😂🤣👏👏
I love Pearl Jam and don't have a problem with that description at all. If you took all the pain and heartache from Swift's entire catalog and condense it down to its purest form you would end up with Black.
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody's else's sky, why can't it be mine"
"I'LL SLASH YA TIRES!! (We belong together!)" -Lex 😂😂
😂🤣😂🤣 That was awesome and HYSTERICAL!!! 👏👏 Someone really needs keep a record of the things that come out of her mouth and publish that shit!!! "His voice is like bacon".... C'MON!!! That is pure gold!!! 😂🤣 Love it!!! ❤😎
Superb performance by Eddie - one of the best of his generation. Sadly, he is the last of what was considered the "big four" still with us. All I can say is please keep safe and well, Eddie and RIP to Chris, Kurt and Layne, you are all sadly missed.
AMEN!! :)
Dave Grohl is a seperate category but his music has helped me cope of the loss of the others.
@@bothellkenmore I hear what you're saying but first... music is cathartic and healing! What genre or Era doesn't matter at all!! As long as it moves and touches your soul, it's all good!!
Second, I don't don't think Dave/The Foo Fighters are really in a separate category.....
1) Dave was a member of NIRVANA!! One of the top 4 greats of Grunge
2) No matter how you spin it... "Grunge" IS ROCK and the Foo Fighter are Rock too!!
Glad Dave and the guys have helped you through!! Peace and light friend... :)
@@tinagilbert8902 Well I guess I was trying to preemtively block peaople who were going to say he wasn't on par with those 4 singers but Dave undoubtedly had an influence then on the sound and carries the flag now for sure. He also does these amazing colabs with all the greats and his side projects with Josh Homme are amazing like Them Crooked Vultures and part time in Queens of the Sone Age.
As is Chester Bennington
This song still causes physical damage to my soul.
Andrew Mc Waters same man same
🥲
I’m in a happy relationship and I cry acting like we are divorced 😂 sad ass song
I seriously love how lex's mind works. The descriptions are epic. And I really respect Brad going on this journey through the music with her. Love y'all's channel and thank you
WELL SAID!!
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life ,I know you'll be a star, In somebody else's sky
But why, Why, Why can't it be
Oh can't it be mine?"
Those words made me cry uncontrollably after the end of a very long relationship...
One of my favorite lyrics ever, Eddie captured that sadness in words so perfectly. I tear up every time to that passage still to this day.
Two decades and still reminds me of what it's like to be human.
I think everyone who knows this song and has had a bad breakup sobs to this song at some point. I’ve considered for 30 years getting that lyric tattooed on my body. It is such a powerful song and lyric.
this song and yellow ledbetter is driving on a empty back road cruising at 60 with the windows down and its about 70 degrees outside, thats what this is to me.
Lex to Brad: “You know what I’m sayin’?!”
Brad to Lex: 🤷🏻♂️
buddyguy's punching way above his weight
I completely understand what her is saying!! She is saying there is a smooth sound or tone and yet gritty.
It's like honey with a bit of harsh whiskey added in. Then just for a garnish, some hot sauce around the edges. That's how I see his voice.
Keep in mind break up songs aren't always about a man or a woman, but about their break up with their inner masculine or inner feminine energy, their loss of masculine driven mindset or female intuition, a loss of faith in God/Goddess, their Inner G/Energy. Often time people don't understand the Divine Mission of Self Love and Unconditional Love, The 'State of Love and Trust' (another Pearl Jam song, about life's journey being "busted down to pre-tests). There are intensely spiritual meanings to the core of these songs.
Eddie put so much emotion in this song because it was so personal to him after his divorce and you can tell she meant everything to him. You can feel his pain when he sings about his lost love . I have heard so many songs about lost love but none can compare to Eddie singing "Black".
The girl in this song was a high school girlfriend of Eddie’s. It wasn’t a divorce
"Oh no, it's probably like a death song and I'm gettin' lit again!"--One of the funniest things anyone has ever said. Love you guys.
Fortunately, I think it's allowed when it's a mere breakup song. ;p
Now I can’t stop imagining opening up containers in my grandma’s fridge and hearing Pearl Jam coming out. God rest her soul.
This felt like Lex was trying to make Brad understand "mom is making mac and cheese sounds"
“Now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything “🥺. So much pain just in that one line. Eddie’s vocals in this song reflecting love, pain, anger, regret. One of my top 3 live vocal performances ever.
"Sounds like bacon greese in a milk carton"!? Now that's gotta be a 1st foe any reaction to this song. Thats a new level of weirdness, and my wife calls me weird!?
"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in someone else's sky..." gets me every time, good thing it comes at the end cause have to watch through teary eyes after.
She's so lovely and spontaneous, and he's so stoic, then, breaks into a huge smile. It's what draws people to their channel I'm certain.
Lex's mind is wild.... Her sound discussion was crazy
I love how you two comment on these old videos. I love it! Keep it up!
Legends!! Eddie always sings from the heart!!! One of the great voices ever!!!
Bacon grease container... and sand... Damm man, you´re lucky to share your time with this girl.
This song is one that builds up and then crashes on top of you like a wave.
90s grunge, red plaid flannels tied around your waste, jeans, work boots, dark lipstick. 🙌
I think I get some what of Lex was describing about the song. It is like the band is playing and the sound is a gentle soft swirling around the singer, Eddie Vetter, there is sorrow and loss. Then when Eddie sings it is gritty with anger and angst in dealing with the pain of love lost. Together with the layers and poetic story telling makes for such a beautiful song.
This song is about letting go, one of the best songs ever
I think it’s more about NOT letting go
I feel like I just watched a relationship end lmao. The dude looked so mad while the girl was groovin.
This unplugged live performance is the absolute best of its series. This PJ show absolutely sold me and I have been a hardcore fan till this day!
Lex is totally right Own the sound, bacon grease baby!!
Def one of the best live vocal performances you'll ever hear. So good. I constantly go back and listen to this one.
I don't know how he ends up sounding better live, it's always just so much more emotion.
My favorite Pearl Jam song. I got to meet them and they're all so nice
This song is so epic, I grew up in the 90s, this was some of the music that introduced poetry to a different social class that may never have experienced people expressing their emotions this way. PearlJam had an awesome sound and that attracted people from everywhere but then we were blown away at the lyrics, the depth and substance is meant to be interpreted in your own way, apply the lyrics to your own part life experiences and almost every song can have deep personal meaning. Yes, the lyrics have the bands true meaning and intent, but they encourage you to experience their music in your own personal way. God damn poetry here.
These MTV unplugged performances were events back in the 90s. People watched it like the super bowl. Best part of the 90s.
Im like Lex. When hearing a song for the first time its the instruments that speak to me the most and the singer is just another instrument conveying an emotion and melody. The message comes later. I swear there are songs i've listened to for over 30 years that are so good musicaly I still dont know al the words too.
It's been the same for me my whole life. My ear is attracted more to instrumentation.. I'm sure that's common though.
But I've been actively trying to pay attention to lyrics for the last couple of years. I started to discover that I like songs that I normally wouldn't like due to instrumentation, and I've also discovered that some of my favorite songs have lyrics/message that I can't support. If that makes sense.
Yep. I never knew what they were saying in this song before. It didn't matter. Sometimes discovering the lyrics can ruin your experience of the song.
Same🤟
I feel/see the texture of voices too, Lex. Eddie's voice, to me, is a big blackish-brown bearskin rug (without the head). I see it laid out flat in front of me, but feel it wrapped around me,. It's soft and warm, and the and the grit in his voice is the rough texture of the pads on the bear paws. lol His voice is one of my very favorites.
Lex was literally unplugged 😅💀 Eddie's voice is unique, He's a master of his instrument.
Lex nails it, every single time… and she’s so damn cute!
Probably my favourite heartbreak song of all time, the depth of emotion and Eddie's voice is beautiful
I have been waitingggg for this one
Lex’s descriptions of sound are priceless. You guys need to compile all of her descriptions along with pictures of your confused looks/reactions, Brad, into a book. Bestseller.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why can't it be mine? Makes me tear up every time
Lex, you're probably a musical genius and don't even know it🤘
I agree! She feels it! Def a musical empath!
Oh she kills me. I am dying.lol. bacon grease in a round plastic container.... Omg! Hilarious. I do love her. Keep up the good work. Love u guys.
Eddie definitely means every word he sings, I love how Lex can visualise music and how it feels, a sure sign that she'd make a good musician. It's all about how it feels. A lot of musicians I've played with down the years describe music as colours, something I never understood being colourblind, I hear notes as emotional characteristics, learning music theory kinda destroyed the mystery but helps put names on the feelings that each note emotes,
The whole colour as notes thing is probably true for them. Some people have synesthesia which can create associates between unrelated things. Associating colours with days of the week, sounds with colours, music notes as colours etc. Some experts think some of the classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven had synesthesia, they literally could hear music and visualise colours, so when they wrote a symphony it was like painting a canvas for an artist.
Learning music theory somewhat kinda enhanced the mystique for me, though.
@@henrique88t I can't help but analyse how music is constructed now, whereas before I started learning music I listened to music for what it felt like, it's just looking at the same thing from a different perspective I suppose, I just miss feeling like the audience, now I feel like I've read the script so I get the plot before the end of the movie.
@@Kipperbob I don't really see it that way. To me it's like learning a language. After a while, the grammar rules fade and it goes back to being intuitive and second nature, but now way sharper.
Yeah Eddie’s got a really warm, rich, syrupy voice with a strong grit.
It’s like sliding over the sand at the bottom of a lake of maple syrup.
C'mon now Brad, Lex makes perfect sense! You need that philosophical and poetic touch that she has that's all ;)
He's smooth, tasty, colourful and rough at the same time, that's the summary I got from her and it's a perfect description of Eddie Vedder ;D
Hahaha and OMG!!! You just nailed it!! That's Eddie to a T!!!! LOVE IT!!! ;) ;)
I love you girl bacon grease knowledge testimony is the bomb analogy. 🤙⚘⚘⚘
Still get goosebumps hearing this song.
Every *single* time! 🖤
Bacon grease is the best description I have ever heard of! Sweet!
The whole bacon conversation really detracted from Eddie pouring his tattered heart out in front of our eyes. I was in the live... and that chat really went all bacon, then went straight to hell lol. I still love you both
You could tell she really liked it, despite the comedy fest. That stream had me laughing my ass off.
Agreed.
I love Lex. But...
I feel bad that they don't even have a clue yet. Keep listening and it will POP. Thank you for the video guys!
Everyone has to read lyrics to his songs. I've listened for 20 years and only know half of what their lyrics are. Makes them fun to sing, as you can't mess up! 😊
There was a comedian who had a hilarious skit about how you can't understand shit. There's one song in particular he made fun of. I'll have to go find it. I think it was Jim Breuer.
@@kutark Probably Yellow Ledbetter. Even Eddie doesn't know the lyrics; he makes them up on the fly so they are different every time, though they are always on the same topic.
@@MrTyler918273 yep that was it
Not me! I know every single lyric and moan he makes in this version! My all time favorite! ❤️👏
I didn't need lyrics for this song
He says both better half AND Bitter Hands. AND yes its a death... of a deep relationship.
Lex’s description of the sound! If she’s never used psychedelics, she’s an unqualified genius.
LOL I get you girl. Eddie voice is the bits of bacon left in there with all that warm yummy slick feel. It's something bitter with the warm savory flavor.
Pearl Jam is one of the most amazing bands of all-time there's music Still hits today like it did when it was new he has a voice that is so cool and raspy.
I always interpret this song, especially this performance as a person destroyed by a breakup and the “yeah, yeah no do-do-dodo-dododo” is him going crazy in his mind.
Arguably one of the most profound break-up songs ever recorded man.
Lex you are by far my favorite female reactor, I bet you would be a riot to chill with and listen to music all night
Where else can you find reactions that have comparisons to ZZ Top, Taylor Swift, and bacon grease all in 1 video?
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EPIC!!!!!!!
Too funny
What!!?? 🤣 that was an amazing description!!
Favorite PJ song, this one is especially badass because of the emotion Eddie displays. This is a classic.
Lex "Bacon grease container"
Brad "Oh, come onnnn"
lol
Love it. You guys are the best.
I feel you, Lex. I totally get the visuals that you see. Keep it up!
brad, as confused as ever haha. "IT MUSY MAKE LITERAL SENSE!"
lol great stream. Bacon grease. Never change, Lex.
"oh no it's a death song and I'm getting lit" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 same, lex, same 🤣🤣
ahh...Pearl Jam...I will never forget that stagedive from Eddie at Pinkpop '92!!
That was epic
@@PriestessOfNothing it really was!
That's the beauty of music. When writing many artists like to use substances to take the journey. They are often not trying to beat a theme into you, but rather let you take that journey however you think and feel. Emotion is what makes a great tune.
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(Sometimes you need the Eddie-to-English dictionary for Pearl Jam. But he puts so much Emotion into it, you still feel everything, even if you can't understand the lyrics! 🤣)
Eddie isn’t even singing the song, he’s just FEELING it at you, with great force.
If you guys havent done it yet, "Jeremy" is an absolute must!
They haven´t done it yet. I´m sure it will be their next Pearl Jam reaction.
I love the full variety of what you guys will do s reaction video.
Hey, oh
Sheets of empty canvas
Untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me
As her body once did
All five horizons
Revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed
Has taken a turn
Oh and all I taught her was everything
Oh I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands
Chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by
Some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin
Round my head
I'm spinning
Oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands
Cradle broken glass
Of what was everything
All the pictures have
All been washed in black
Tattooed everything
All the love gone bad
Turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see
All that I am
All that I'll be, yeah
Uh huh, uh huh, oh
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Oh can't it be mine
I miss the Unplugged MTV concerts so much.
Eddie's voice is deep, and has a round, smooth but gravely timber to it.
Like bacon grease
Eddies voice has been described as a bellow... the more you listen the more you hear it.
A Pearl Jam song you've got to hear is "Given To Fly." I'd describe it as waves crashing on the shore. In my opinion it also has Mike and Eddie's greatest guitar work.
"my bitter hands, cradle broken glass of what was everything"
This whole concert is amazing!
Always feel like Eddie gives off a 'Shroom vibe. Very Organic, very Chill and a good trip for All
Their album "10" is greatness 🙌
Ya'll are hilarious 🤣
It sounds like ART CLASS.