pearl jam songs keyed to specific important memories

[stip]

Given how important the band is to me I dont actually have a ton of these:

The Mind You Manners single came out as my dog was dying and so i blasted thay constantly on the way to and from the vet. Worked out a lot of sadness and anger.

River Cross will forever be associated with feeling overwhelmed and hopeful by early covid

Future Days was a lullaby song for my younger daughter

And Dream a little dream from uke songs for my older- that may be it


others?

[VinylGuy]

mm good idea. I have a lot i guess but i need to digest them more.

River Cross definitely with the pandemic, specially with that Ed live version he did on that telecast. But i also think of my dog that passed away two years ago, not sure why it makes me think of her

[Monkey_Driven]

I Am Mine when I was a teenager going through a lot of stuff (trying to find myself in a small isolated town, the deaths of two of my friends, 9/11 uncertainty, etc.)

I'll post more as I think of them...

[LoathedVermin72]

Ten is the first music I ever remember hearing. Like as a toddler.

[wease]

Unemployable. I received the album from the 10C the Friday before release date. Listened to it all weekend. I was fired on Monday.

[Monkey_Driven]

DotC - dancing around the house with my 2.5 year old son in the weeks after it came out, it felt like a revelation the band could release such a great song

Gigaton in general during the pandemic trying to navigate work from home and caring for the kid. A lot of late night runs to clear my head with it on the playlist.

[blueviper]

Retrograde - Gigaton came out a few months before my dad's passing and this song's was catharsis on dealing with that and the world of early COVID

[Tj]

Kind of a heavy topic for sure, and somewhat to personal. A female that is really important to me for the entirety of my life. Could have been the central character in Why Go and Daughter. I was 18 in 94 I guess she was 28. But rewind 10 years she left a really bad situation she came back 6 years later. The fast forward to 2002 -2014. We were estranged going reunite with here at a restaurant Elderly Woman came on the radio

Having a Son in 2010, Unthought Known's lyrics really stood out as a wish for him .

After being diagnosed with lymphoma at 26 I was at Seattle Nov 6th Daughter it's OK, but just it's OK over and over. Oh BTW 3 weeks later I found out I was misdiagnosed by some stupid Fuck. True story

There is alot more actually. This year I lost 2 people I really adored. So Won't Tell Wreckage and Upper Hand have been really pivotal in the healing process for my entire family.

2014 I was diagnosed with a really crappy disease with no cure and a fairly poor prognosis. So yeah Sirens and Future Days got me through at the time I had a 4 year old .

This year 10 years later with him by my side at Seattle night 1 Alive Low Light became almost heaven sent. I could remember thinking to those days in 2014 will this life last long enough for me to be remembered by my child.

[stip]

wow. glad you had those songs and are still here!

[digster]

I don't know if I tend to have that many songs tied to a very specific moment, but I definitely associate albums with settings, with being in a certain place and time and how it felt living there. Probably the two most potent memories I have associated with albums are with Riot Act in 2002, which seemed tailor-made for a cold, dreary winter in post-9/11 NYC. Gigaton is similarly stapled to a very particular moment in time in the same city, but in 2020, with everyone at home and going for walks for 2+ hours with headphones in, with that record being one of the albums in very heavy rotation.

[Kevin Davis]

Given how important the band is to me I dont actually have a ton of these

Same, and I think it actually makes a lot of sense -- the music we listen to the most in our lives leaves its mark on a lot of experiences, and is much less likely to be connected to singular events than other music that only existed in our lives during a brief, highly specific moment. Two songs I heard incessantly in 1996 were "Hail Hail" and "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla — and even though I’ve listened to “Hail, Hail” way more throughout my life, Dishwalla provokes a much stronger memory response -- sitting in my best friend's living room, watching MTV, eating popcorn and frozen pizza and learning to play guitar and talking in Beavis and Butt-Head voices.

I do have general time/place connections to most of Pearl Jam's albums, similar to digster, but not necessarily specific songs, and not in the way that I think the original post is looking for.

Also, Tj — glad you’re still here with us, man.

[Jaeti]

I guess I have a couple. The Gigaton/Covid synergy was very real. My wife and then-two-year-old bolted Brooklyn to come live with her parents in Western Mass. DOTC speaks so well to the sudden new routines we all fell into ("every tomorrow is the same as before"), which for us was an evening happy-hour stroll around the neighborhood with the kid in a stroller and wine or beer in our hands.

Once the weather warmed up a bit, the wine-and-beer strolls became wine-and-beer in my in-laws backyard, kicking a ball around with my son. My son also developed a surprising affinity for Quick Escape around then, so the "living life on the back porch" line always takes me back to a very specific sense of place.

I think the one that fits this thread best though is Strangest Tribe. In the late winter of 2000 I was just about to get together with my one serious college girlfriend. She was technically still with someone else who was at school in another state, but we were always spending late nights in each other's room, staying just on the platonic side of things. But there was a night in her room at a point in time when we both clearly knew and were acknowledging how things were about to change for us. I had download Strangest Tribe to her computer at some point and played it that night with Winamp set on "repeat." She fell asleep on me in her bed, and I just laid there listening to the song over and over again for hours feeling like the galaxy was mine.

[joostone]

I lost my virginity while Lukin was playing, when we were done we listened to the rest of the song....

Oooh memories...

[Ello Sailor]

Tripping balls, after adventuring in the wild we retreated to our lodgings and threw on Live at the Garden. "You Are" hit me like a ton of bricks. The speaker setup was really fucking good. Sorry Trag, I don't remember the specifics. I was blown away by the clarity of the layers.

So yeah, You Are = chilling with Uncle Cid.

[knee tunes]

Unemployable. I received the album from the 10C the Friday before release date. Listened to it all weekend. I was fired on Monday.

wease

[wease]

Unemployable. I received the album from the 10C the Friday before release date. Listened to it all weekend. I was fired on Monday.

wease

What? It’s absolutly what happened. Only job I’ve ever been fired from.

The owner was being investigated for bribing officials for military contracts and he was scrambling trying cut any threads he felt were threatening his case. So, on Monday morning he sent in a crew of 4-5 dudes to just clean our office out. They took all our computers files, file cabinets, almost everything. I was left with a desk and chair. Then about 8-10 months later, he was found guilty of all counts along with the military dude he was bribing. He was sent to federal prison where he died of lung cancer.

Here’s his appeal:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/ap ... 06-07.html

[knee tunes]

Unemployable. I received the album from the 10C the Friday before release date. Listened to it all weekend. I was fired on Monday.

wease

What? It’s absolutly what happened. Only job I’ve ever been fired from.

The owner was being investigated for bribing officials for military contracts and he was scrambling trying cut any threads he felt were threatening his case. So, on Monday morning he sent in a crew of 4-5 dudes to just clean our office out. They took all our computers files, file cabinets, almost everything. I was left with a desk and chair. Then about 8-10 months later, he was found guilty of all counts along with the military dude he was bribing. He was sent to federal prison where he died of lung cancer.

Here’s his appeal:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/ap ... 06-07.html

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