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Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 1:49 am
by warehouse
Matters wrote:“I can’t see, I just stare” calls back to The Who’s Tommy, a character who is blind and also abused by a family member.
this line is gross and so is eddie vedder
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 1:55 am
by Matters
warehouse wrote:Matters wrote:“I can’t see, I just stare” calls back to The Who’s Tommy, a character who is blind and also abused by a family member.
this line is gross and so is eddie vedder
At least it’s not about spirit cooking.
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 2:39 am
by Matters
Really enjoyed the podcast. My favorite part was hearing you talk about the “preverb” on Even Flow. I also had never heard that terminology and the use of it on the album is a big reason why the Even Flow on Ten is my favorite version of the song.
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:01 am
by epilogue
Maybe it's not prostitutes. I think I based that on "backstreet lover". But like you said, wease, that could mean something else.
This thing has been in my mind for so long, it's hard to remember where the ideas can't from.
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:05 am
by epilogue
Wherever these things came from pre-date the Internet for me. Maybe it's in an article or a book somewhere?
*shrugs*
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:22 am
by Jorge
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 10:56 am
by warehouse
he's picking up hookers and killing them in 'once', i thought this was common knowledge
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 1:03 pm
by lvc
epilogue wrote:My memory or understanding was that the mother actually sexually abuses the guy. "They bang" but it's not necessarily consensual (Alive). It's that abuse that makes him go out and hire hookers and murder them (Once). And then he gets caught and gets put on death row (Footsteps).
Of course, none of this matters. It's all a game of telephone and ethereal. But I was wanted to make sure my "memory" of the story wasn't totally off. If everyone else knows it the way the pod presents it, than my take is fucking stupid.
So would that make Eddie Vedder's "Dead Man" the fourth song in the triology? Kind of like the 4th Bourne movie?
And then the cover of "25 Minutes to Go" would be the 5th song. We're close to having a whole sequel trilogy. What is Pearl Jam's afterlife song?
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 2:41 pm
by wease
lvc wrote:epilogue wrote:My memory or understanding was that the mother actually sexually abuses the guy. "They bang" but it's not necessarily consensual (Alive). It's that abuse that makes him go out and hire hookers and murder them (Once). And then he gets caught and gets put on death row (Footsteps).
Of course, none of this matters. It's all a game of telephone and ethereal. But I was wanted to make sure my "memory" of the story wasn't totally off. If everyone else knows it the way the pod presents it, than my take is fucking stupid.
So would that make Eddie Vedder's "Dead Man" the fourth song in the triology? Kind of like the 4th Bourne movie?
And then the cover of "25 Minutes to Go" would be the 5th song. We're close to having a whole sequel trilogy. What is Pearl Jam's afterlife song?
Angel
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:16 pm
by epilogue
wease wrote:lvc wrote:epilogue wrote:My memory or understanding was that the mother actually sexually abuses the guy. "They bang" but it's not necessarily consensual (Alive). It's that abuse that makes him go out and hire hookers and murder them (Once). And then he gets caught and gets put on death row (Footsteps).
Of course, none of this matters. It's all a game of telephone and ethereal. But I was wanted to make sure my "memory" of the story wasn't totally off. If everyone else knows it the way the pod presents it, than my take is fucking stupid.
So would that make Eddie Vedder's "Dead Man" the fourth song in the triology? Kind of like the 4th Bourne movie?
And then the cover of "25 Minutes to Go" would be the 5th song. We're close to having a whole sequel trilogy. What is Pearl Jam's afterlife song?
Angel
Other Side
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:20 pm
by epilogue
Nice pull!
That Cameron Crowe article is definitely at least a part of what I'm remembering.
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:31 pm
by lvc
epilogue wrote:wease wrote:lvc wrote:epilogue wrote:My memory or understanding was that the mother actually sexually abuses the guy. "They bang" but it's not necessarily consensual (Alive). It's that abuse that makes him go out and hire hookers and murder them (Once). And then he gets caught and gets put on death row (Footsteps).
Of course, none of this matters. It's all a game of telephone and ethereal. But I was wanted to make sure my "memory" of the story wasn't totally off. If everyone else knows it the way the pod presents it, than my take is fucking stupid.
So would that make Eddie Vedder's "Dead Man" the fourth song in the triology? Kind of like the 4th Bourne movie?
And then the cover of "25 Minutes to Go" would be the 5th song. We're close to having a whole sequel trilogy. What is Pearl Jam's afterlife song?
Angel
Other Side
Done.
Now we need to work on a prequel trilogy. What's the over/under on Pearl Jam covering Ants Marching in the near future?
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Fri July 11, 2025 3:53 pm
by warehouse
lvc wrote:epilogue wrote:My memory or understanding was that the mother actually sexually abuses the guy. "They bang" but it's not necessarily consensual (Alive). It's that abuse that makes him go out and hire hookers and murder them (Once). And then he gets caught and gets put on death row (Footsteps).
Of course, none of this matters. It's all a game of telephone and ethereal. But I was wanted to make sure my "memory" of the story wasn't totally off. If everyone else knows it the way the pod presents it, than my take is fucking stupid.
So would that make Eddie Vedder's "Dead Man" the fourth song in the triology? Kind of like the 4th Bourne movie?
And then the cover of "25 Minutes to Go" would be the 5th song. We're close to having a whole sequel trilogy. What is Pearl Jam's afterlife song?
Release
i think Ten has a similar story to the Mamason story, so I think Release is the end of it.
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Thu July 17, 2025 4:01 am
by Leatherhead
I got it. It's Daughter.
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Thu July 17, 2025 11:23 am
by epilogue
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Thu July 17, 2025 12:04 pm
by Ello Sailor
Where I'm from I think it's "Alive". "Better Man" would be close behind, with "Last Kiss" third.
"Daughter" is better than all of those but it's not quite as popular.
Rangi, what do you think?
Re: What is Pearl Jam's signature song?
Posted: Thu July 17, 2025 1:50 pm
by Kevin Davis
I think "Alive" is probably it across the board. I think the band has some sense of this too, based on how they've built setlists around it over the years.
I've gotta think that most people's gut answer to this question (for most artists) is probably the correct one. I need to listen to Jorge's new podcast still but I'm curious to know how often that initial kneejerk instinct turns out to be the final conclusion.