What song is your "gateway drug"?

[Hatfield]

alive

This pulled me in to.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

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.

LOL, all the music i owned at the time was MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Bell Biv Devo, Beastie Boys License to Ill, GnR Appetite, and Def Leopard Hysteria all on Cassette, so i know for me PJ changed my life because i actually started to like real music from that point on( though i do feel good about having my beastie boys tape since like 88).

[darth_vedder]

This is what did it for me:

[Farmer John]

Daughter.

[EJ]

Alive pulled me in, Black kept me there.

[lowlight79]

Life wasted, I Got shit, Severed hand. Last Exit.

[yofismom]

Nothing as it seems

Seriously? Do tell!

I mean I love that song but interesting that it took a relatively deep cut to pull you in.

By the way, "seriously" is actually a serious question b/c ever since I learned that people have multiple usernames ( i was so naive!), I'm not sure if I'm hearing a real person or experience, or the opinions of some character someone has made up. I kinda don't like that. Is there at least some honesty behind the personae? But I digress...

I'm also suprised there have been no smart ass riffs on the title of the thread. I thought it would draw more attention. Thanks knee tunes for the props. You used to be someone else, right?

[yofismom]

Anyway, carry on...

[mray10]

Even Flow. The video especially was what got me.

[Monkey_Driven]

Wishlist perked my interest in the band (listening to it on a friend's Walkmen on the bus), but Light Years was the drug.

[warehouse]

evenflow was the first one i heard

[davidsatelle100]

Evenflow started it

Release has me hooked since

[Sigerson]

I'm only 21 so I wasn't into Pearl Jam's music during their heyday. I'd heard the popular singles and liked them fairly well but the song that really grabbed me was Off He Goes.

[Fuck You Jobu]

This is what did it for me:

Man I miss that energy by Jeff and Mike.

[Fuck You Jobu]

Evenflow.

[Norah]

Nothing as it seems

Seriously? Do tell!

I mean I love that song but interesting that it took a relatively deep cut to pull you in.

NAIS isn't a deep cut, it was the lead single off the albuim and got a fair amount of radio play in the months leading up to/following the release of Binaural. If you were born in the late 80s it makes perfect sense that that would be the song to pull you in.

[nah]

Nothing as it seems

Seriously? Do tell!

I mean I love that song but interesting that it took a relatively deep cut to pull you in.

NAIS isn't a deep cut, it was the lead single off the albuim and got a fair amount of radio play in the months leading up to/following the release of Binaural. If you were born in the late 80s it makes perfect sense that that would be the song to pull you in.

i bet angus likes pink floyd.

i got a feeling was the first song on a casette a friend made followed by black, oceans and then could've lied and breaking the girl. we played it non stop while painting houses freshman year at umass. i got more work done when i got a feeling was playing.

[Thurman Murman]

Jeremy

[BurtReynolds]

Even FLow or Alive.

[Angus]

Nothing as it seems

Seriously? Do tell!

I mean I love that song but interesting that it took a relatively deep cut to pull you in.

By the way, "seriously" is actually a serious question b/c ever since I learned that people have multiple usernames ( i was so naive!), I'm not sure if I'm hearing a real person or experience, or the opinions of some character someone has made up. I kinda don't like that. Is there at least some honesty behind the personae? But I digress...

NAIS isn't a deep cut, it was the lead single off the albuim and got a fair amount of radio play in the months leading up to/following the release of Binaural. If you were born in the late 80s it makes perfect sense that that would be the song to pull you in.

i bet angus likes pink floyd.

i got a feeling was the first song on a casette a friend made followed by black, oceans and then could've lied and breaking the girl. we played it non stop while painting houses freshman year at umass. i got more work done when i got a feeling was playing.

-The 'Angus' character is as close to my actual personality as you can get. There's no roleplay or hiding behind an internet character. I think the few people I have actually met would testify that. It's also been my one & only username ever since I started RM'ing, now probably more than a decade ago. This is my username because I used to play in a high school rock band, where we played some Led Zep/Sabbath/AC/DC covers and I used to dress up like Angus Young.

-I first started getting into 'rock music' in 1999. I was 15. So I'm not from the late 80ies, born in Dec 1983, but compared to lots, it took me a while to get into this music thing. Californication is the first album I ever bought. Some time later, a fried gave me a copy of Ten. He was the only one in my class who could copy cd's then. I liked it a lot and ordered a Pearl Jam poster, along with RATM hoodie and a Nirvana poster. These 3 items are my first band merchandise I've ever bought. But spring 2000 was when I became a major Pearl Jam fan. I was working in my dad's company during the summer holidays (easter holiday in April 2000) and suddenly heard this song which was the new single then, with this deep voice, with this amazing guitar. I can't really describe it, but it overwhelmed me. I went to buy Binaural the same day and planned to go and see them that summer (which they cancelled after Roskilde...). To this day, Nothing as it seems is still in my top-5 Pearl Jam songs and out of all the highlights of the Amsterdam II show last summer, hearing NAIS again is definitely up there.

-As to Pink Floyd: I don't know. Wish You Were Here & Dark Side are amazing records. But I've never gotten into the band to go and explore deeper.

-I have never played NAIS on guitar.

If any more questions, please do not hesitate.