What song is your "gateway drug"?

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What song is your "gateway drug"?

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My husband just called Black his "gateway drug" into Pearl Jam. What would be yours?
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haha that's cool.

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Black. Absolutely.
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Evenflow as an MTV buzz clip is what got me started
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Yellow Ledbettah
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Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:Evenflow as an MTV buzz clip is what got me started
me too. i remember the day i became enamored with that song. a friend and i had walked to our little town's independent music store so he could buy sir mix-a-lot on cassette. i guess the day was all about the best seattle had to offer.
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Jeremy was my first taste... been hooked ever since.
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Jeremy's mine too.
Not at all impressed w/ Alive & Even Flow at first, actually ragged on them at the time. Then Jeremy hit it big & I really liked it but still didn't buy Ten. I was at a friend of mine's and he was cleaning up his room and held up the cassette and said "this is a really good tape, not a bad song on it". On his advice I bought it and never looked back.
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even flow was mine
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I was working at a record store at the time and got an advance copy of ten and Alive did it for me
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alive
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Daughter.
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alive, i think. black too.
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Jeremy pulled me into the record store. Porch kept my attention.
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Nothing as it seems
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Corduroy, specifically as the opening track on Live on 2 Legs.

I remember buying the CD on a whim, knowing of Pearl Jam but never being much of a fan. Threw the disc on and was just blown away by the whole set. It was the perfect album for me to buy at that time - I had been listenning to a lot of "git-vocs" and needed something to kick me in the head. It worked.

And if that version of Corduroy was my gateway drug then the rolling drums on gtf was a mainline into my musical central cortex.
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Alive...


last two minutes of Alive...
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Alive made me a fan, but that VMA performance with Neil made me a superfan.
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