Pearl Jam Writing Credits by Album

[nustang70]

I compiled all the writing credits per album and figured I'd share it with you all. I've always loved that the entire band contributes to the songwriting process. So, here are the breakdowns. Note: This is just music writing credits, not lyrics; I gave equal partial credit if more than one person was credited with writing the song; and I didn't include the weirdos like Stupid Mop.


_________________Ten__Vs.__Vitalogy_No Code__Yield_Binaural_Riot Act_Avocado_Backspacer
Jeff Ament---------------32%--21%---17%-----13%---------23%----23%-----23% ---------17% ---------9%
Stone Gossard---------50%---38%---22%----20%----------31%----26%-----16%---------21% --------26%
Mike McCready----------2%---17%----8%-----13%----------23%-----3%-------1%---------25%--------12%
Eddie Vedder------------14%---18%--49%-----44%----------15%---41%-----34%---------33%--------45%
Matt Cameron--------------------------------------------------------------------8%-----23%-----------4%----------8%
Dave Krusen--------------2%
Jack Irons-----------------------------------------------9%-----------8%
Boom Gaspar--------------------------------------------------------------------------------4%
Dave Abbruzzese----------------6%----4%

[stip]

so stone's been fairly constant since vitalogy, it seems

[Lounge Lizard]

I compiled all the writing credits per album and figured I'd share it with you all. I've always loved that the entire band contributes to the songwriting process. So, here are the breakdowns. Note: This is just music writing credits, not lyrics; I gave equal partial credit if more than one person was credited with writing the song; and I didn't include the weirdos like Stupid Mop.


_________________Ten__Vs.__Vitalogy_No Code__Yield_Binaural_Riot Act_Avocado_Backspacer
Jeff Ament---------------32%--21%---17%-----13%---------23%----23%-----23% ---------17% ---------9%
Stone Gossard---------50%---38%---22%----20%----------31%----26%-----16%---------21% --------26%
Mike McCready----------2%---17%----8%-----13%----------23%-----3%-------1%---------25%--------12%
Eddie Vedder------------14%---18%--49%-----44%----------15%---41%-----34%---------33%--------45%
Matt Cameron--------------------------------------------------------------------8%-----23%-----------4%----------8%
Dave Krusen--------------2%
Jack Irons-----------------------------------------------9%-----------8%
Boom Gaspar--------------------------------------------------------------------------------4%
Dave Abbruzzese----------------6%----4%

Great post

[stupidmop]

What's mikes 1% on riot act?

[LetMeSleep]

What's mikes 1% on riot act?

Isn't Save You a group effort?

[harmless]

Yeah I seem to remember Mike was involved in 'Save You'. Well, it's about him isn't it? It's sort of an Inside Job prequel.

[bada]

Stone should always have the highest %.

[epilogue]

Stone should always have the highest %.

Yes.

[epilogue]

Yeah I seem to remember Mike was involved in 'Save You'. Well, it's about him isn't it? It's sort of an Inside Job prequel.

People always say that, and it's probably true. But how do we know it's about Mike? Where did this "knowledge" come from?

[iceagecoming]

Yeah I seem to remember Mike was involved in 'Save You'. Well, it's about him isn't it? It's sort of an Inside Job prequel.

People always say that, and it's probably true. But how do we know it's about Mike? Where did this "knowledge" come from?

There's a pic of Mike smoking on the opposite page of the lyrics in the album sleeve, so maybe we were all just sub-consciously swayed by that.

[harmless]

No idea really, I'm just going on what I heard around the time.

[Citizen Dick]

Yeah I seem to remember Mike was involved in 'Save You'. Well, it's about him isn't it? It's sort of an Inside Job prequel.

People always say that, and it's probably true. But how do we know it's about Mike? Where did this "knowledge" come from?

There's a pic of Mike smoking on the opposite page of the lyrics in the album sleeve, so maybe we were all just sub-consciously swayed by that.

It's not. It's about Jack. I don't have anything concrete to link to so feel free to take this with the massive spadeful of salt that you have to with anything on the internet that doesn't link to evidence, but on the 2003 tour Ed basically came out and said that to a couple of fans without dropping the name 'Jack'.

There was some VHS footage of the encounter that I saw back in the day... the things I remember him mentioning was that it was somebody very important to the band who he hadn't actually seen in a long time... and that that person had been struggling. Later he alluded more strongly to them having been in the band. He used some sort of distinctive phrase to describe how their friendship had temporarily diverged and then he used the identical phrase a night or two later in a radio interview when asked a direct question about Jack Irons.

He also made it clear though that the lyrics were intentionally vague enough to be read a few different ways for different relationships/friendships etc.

[verb_to_trust]

No wonder Mike and Jeff probably dislike BS the most out of the whole band ....

[B]

There must have been an easier way to convey this information.

[WaitingForBluey]

Albums where Stone has the most writing credit... Ten, Vs and YIELD. That pretty much speaks for itself.

[VinylGuy]

Save You is a great song. Ill listen to RA tomorrow on vinyl, as it should be.

The transition from Cant Keep to Save You is as good as Sometimes/Hail Hail.

[Thenews15]

Ed needs to get his percentage down to about 20%. He just isn't a dynamic song writter. Doesn't use the talents of the band members as much with his style of music. He doesn't make his teammates better to use a sports analogy. He's like Carmelo Anthony, doesn't bring the level of the guys around him up. He's a great player and a stud, but it's one on one basketball...And Ed has mad some amazing songs for PJ, but I think he's better at the solo gig nowdays for his style of music.

[CitizenByron]

Ed needs to get his percentage down to about 20%. He just isn't a dynamic song writter. Doesn't use the talents of the band members as much with his style of music. He doesn't make his teammates better to use a sports analogy. He's like Carmelo Anthony, doesn't bring the level of the guys around him up. He's a great player and a stud, but it's one on one basketball...And Ed has mad some amazing songs for PJ, but I think he's better at the solo gig nowdays for his style of music.

sorry have to disagree. hands down ed is the most consistent and the most diversified songwriter in the band. sure, there are clunkers, but here's the guy that's done porch to elderly woman to immortality to off he goes to i am mine to the present day with something like just breathe. his style is just so diverse and strong no matter what the style. again, i'm not defending every song the guy has written, but he's the strongest of the band.

mike is the most unoriginal, derivative songwriter in the band and that may sound like a slam, but it's not. his songs tend to be poppy and largely a take on someone else's riff whether it's Social D or Hendrix or Kiss or whatever. He writes some great songs that I love but they are concurrently kinda shallow.

jeff is the most obtuse writer in the band. he's almost too out there. stuff like pilate or sleight of hand are cool but they are more in my mind attempts at high art. that's not to say he can't write a hit, a la jeremy. but he's the most "artsy" in the band.

i could go on, but in the end what i think makes the band great are all these personalities working together and i like this post because it's interesting to see the wealth of each member's contributions and how that produced that particular album.

[stupidmop]

sorry have to disagree. hands down ed is the most consistent and the most diversified songwriter in the band. sure, there are clunkers, but here's the guy that's done porch to elderly woman to immortality to off he goes to i am mine to the present day with something like just breathe. his style is just so diverse and strong no matter what the style. again, i'm not defending every song the guy has written, but he's the strongest of the band.
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Those are all similar acoustic based songs though, to me anyway. Not exactly diverse. To me he's the easiest when it comes to guessing who wrote what.

The answer is always more Jeff. No singing though.

[dimejinky99]

Know what would be cool to accompany this?
A breakdown album by album of who wrote what, track by track.
I've always wondered.
Ed and to a far lesser degree, Stone are the only two whose songs I can identify.