What song is your "gateway drug"?

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Evenflow. MTV. Seems like 21 years ago.

And any ranking of the singles begins and ends with Cliff Poncier.
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darth_vedder wrote:
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darth_vedder wrote:Rank the singles!
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The song I guess that pulled me in was Nothing as it Seems. I know I had heard Ten at home earlier, but Binaural was probably the first record I went out purposefully to buy for myself. After that, I heard Ten and Vitalogy, which my dad owned, and then went through the catalog in order. So I was all caught up by the middle of 2000.
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Nothing as it seems. I was late to the party.
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I remember when i first heard "The Fixer." That changed everything for me.
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pnjguy wrote:I remember when i first heard "The Fixer." That changed everything for me.
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darth_vedder wrote:
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darth_vedder wrote:Rank the singles!
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Heard Betterman in the car.

Me: "Is this Hootie and the Blowfish?"
Friend: "No, it's Pearl Jam".

Bought Vitalogy the next day.
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Citizen Dick wrote:
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darth_vedder wrote:Rank the singles!
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I think I was better than Bridget.... she was high for most of the shoot.
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Given to Fly on the PJ20 trailer...
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Blenheim Augustine wrote: Me: "Is this Hootie and the Blowfish?"
Friend: "No, it's Pearl Jam".

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that one or Crazy Mary, 'can't remember.
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I'm surprised no one has said this yet but my gateway song to not only Pearl Jam, but Soundgarden, was Hunger Strike. As soon as I identified the players, I bought the all 3 cassettes through Columbia House Record Club.

I believe I just dated myself. :oops:
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Alive. I was 17 and I heard that solo. After going through a decade of hair metal, this was so full, new, and awesome.
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doone wrote:I'm surprised no one has said this yet but my gateway song to not only Pearl Jam, but Soundgarden, was Hunger Strike. As soon as I identified the players, I bought the all 3 cassettes through Columbia House Record Club.

I believe I just dated myself. :oops:
I used Columbia house and bmg for a ton of my cds back in the day
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I was intrigued by the lyrics.
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I started both my cassette collection and later my CD collection through Colombia House and BMG subscriptions. The first three CDs I ever purchased were Vitalogy, STP - Purple, and Nirvana - Unplugged in 1994. I was 14 years old. It took me a few years to re-purchase all my cassettes on CD, but eventually I did. Then in the late '90s I got sucked into the MiniDisc "fad" for a while. I still have a copy of Vs. on MiniDisc to this day! HAHA!
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Yeah I got so much of my stuff from BMG in the 90s. 12 CDs for a fucking penny!
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