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  • This song always gives me chills and makes my eyes water. I f'n love Pearl Jam songs.

  • BEST BEST BEST FUCKING BEST...

  • fucking best song ever

  • 19 people are too heavy to fly now!!

  • great song from great band

  • Niceee

  • Anyone knows 'Going To California' from Led Zeppelin? Listen to it, it might surprise you...

  • @wuls666

    No surpise at all, this is a part of music and Art history, search for "led zeppelin plagiarism" and you will understand what I mean.

  • @wuls666 Yeah so it has a similar melody? So what? I am willing to bet you would do well in this modern day and age of patent pissing. *OH IT HAS MUSIC IN IT! PATENTED! YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING SIMILAR UNLESS YOU PAY UP! *

  • @wuls666 true. never crossed my mind! You can think of Given to Fly as the spiritual and more profound version of "Going to California". Ah I love Pearl Jam

  • yo, camera guy, mike mccready was there, too. :P

  • Fuck yeah!!

  • whats with the Justine biebers haircut ????????

  • @Granini400 What's up with your fucking comment?

  • everytime i hear this song, I feel very very amazed how it's absolutely epic. Where did Eddie get the verse "a wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw????" Amazing!

  • @willxxi1 He probably has been knuckled by a few aggressive waves throughout his lifetime as a surfer...no doubt an epic song tho

  • Like a fist to the jaw ... (wow)

  • it dosnt matter what language u speak, this song is the FUCKING shit, if this song inspires you give a thumbs up

  • te amo eddie llevame a volar alto!!!!!!!!!!!

  • uuuh...thank you

  • great song. reminds me of the led zep song going to california.

  • I can FLY whit this song :)

  • No one has his voice

  • Am I the only who thinks he makes reference to Jesus from 2:30 to 2:45? I know it's unlikely being Pearl Jam, but man!

  • @dudebjj no your not the only one... i think that too

  • 1:36 is what music is all about !!!

  • @a8127 sorry but your wrong... 0:00 to 4:14 is what music is all about :)

  • Muito bom, só poderia ser pearl Jam

  • THANKS PEARL JAM TO PLAY THIS SONG TONIGHT AT LIMA,PERU!!

  • I think I've watched this video 706, 889 times.

  • Jack Irons really invented an original and amazing fills in this song. Legend of a drummer and totally underrated!

  • Matt Cameron is awesome but Jack Irons absolutely kills it on this song. "Yield" is the PJ album I forget about, rediscover and then listen to nonstop for weeks on end. It seems fresh and exciting every time.

  • Does anyone know why there isn't any profanity in this version? Does he not sing that part anymore?

  • Show sempre PJ !

  • Frauds, Flyin Frauds...

  • This band is seriously, one in a million

  • This song is magic!

  • Well,CLEARLY Eddie Vedder was Given To Fly :)

  • i like how all of the covers you see of this song are played completely unlike the original...kinda bugs me....=/

  • sounds incredible, same time it sounds like an incredible lie. so it all sounds conflicted.

  • Los mejores!!!! Qué gran banda! Les tengo un gran cariño, preciosas letras!!! Ya quiero verlos en Perú!!!!

  • @kicchoi Yo me voy alla desde LPB solo para verlos!Una de mis bandas favoritas de todos los tiempos!Se que el viaje valdra la pena! :)

  • AWESOME!!

  • nov 18th can't wait!!

  • Awesomest song ever pipls

  • 15 people are too heavy to fly!

  • greatest american band of this century

  • This is the way the drums are SUPPOSED to be played on this song!

  • @ouluvme2 YES!!! I quite like Mat's take on it on Live on Two Legs, but over the years he began playing it too fast.

  • @Catfaceization Don't get me wrong, I think Matt's awesome, but I could never get over him as Pearl Jam's drummer. His playing style just fits into Soundgarden's sound much better. I thought Pearl Jam sounded better as a whole with Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons. Its seems like Pearl Jam plays faster to fit into Matt's drumming style. I still love it. I'm just saying that it sounded more like Pearl Jam with Dave and Jack.

  • @smp894 Yo! Thats pretty much how i feel. Its all subjective though. Some people probably prefer Matt as Pearl Jams drummer. far enough too.

  • it's a shame that the original track doesn't have this drum take!!!!

  • Jack Irons=Legend

  • They censored the best part. You know, the part where Eddie says "well FUCKERS, he still stands."

  • @RockChalkNation1 I like that he never sang fuckers in this take. While that part is indeed brilliant, I don't think it would have fitted with this take of Given to Fly.

  • 15 people actually. Mehh.. Who cares about them.. This song wrawks!!

  • This song cant be made better.

  • This song is eternal.

  • the higher we soar the smaller we appear to (the 15) people who cannot fly.

  • 'oly moly - i havent heard anything this good for years. "the wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw"

  • 15 people are not giving their love away... =S

  • I understand Kapisczur staement. But.and its its a but, i personally cant give PJ a dislike. True Im a a wee bit drunk here, but I cant do a dislike. This song lifts me.

  • Spectacular. I love Eddie's I'm so weird facade. He's a true blue rock star.

  • I can't believe how drummer play this songg....he's fucking amazingg!!!!! I can feel the emotion blasting out of the drum...!!!

  • Now that's how the drumming should be - JAMMING for Pearl Jam!

  • I have a problem with my audio, only goes up to 100 %

  • @soulrebelroots: There is no volume on any existing device that can create a volume loud enough to do this song justice.

  • Proper Leg' ends!! Long live Pearl Jam!! Oh Yeahh!!! :D

  • Dear retards of the world,

    Given to Fly sounds nothing like Going to California. Get it through your fucking heads. They are NOTHING ALIKE. Not at all. They are both good songs, but they sound nothing alike, so stop comparing them. Next time someone says "Sounds like Going to California" on a Given to Fly video, I will throw a burning baby at a puppy, kick a flower in the balls, and punch myself in the face.

    /Rant

  • Amazing Jack Irons. Amazing song. Amazing PEARL JAM.

  • kinda reminds me of Norm MacDonald

  • Matt needs to learn from this.

  • @OfficialTribe haha agreed. 

  • @OfficialTribe No kidding! Matt's like a brick mason behind them now.

  • Think what you want, you are entitled, but its not exactly the same..if you know music or play you can hear and feel the difference. Its "influenced by" I'll agree with that but not exactly the same. Mz K

  • Jeff Ament at 1:37, that gets me...you can tell he's feeling the music in his soul...this is my all time fav PJ along with all their other songs..lol

  • "...the love he receives is the love that is saved"....gets me everytime.

  • Goddamn! I love Pearl Jam :D

    

  • "I'm surprised no one has mentioned it sounds like....". LOL Your more than a few years late with that breaking news... They talked about their influences and how it may have had an impact on this song years ago in interviews.. All current day recording "artists" have influences..that is how music evolves..in 20 years we may be saying hey this sounds just like "______" from Pearl Jam about some other band..

  • @mzk123ify Man, one thing is being influenced by a band and something completely different is ripping off a song.

    BTW, what I meant with "no one mentioned before" is that I didn't see it here on the comments. I'm not a PJ fan so I don't know about the previous discussion. I just started to read the comments on the video ant it seemed that nodoby noticed it.

  • 14 people are are faceless men

    Well fuckers, he still stands.

  • Sorry, but this is a rip off from Led Zeppelin's "Going to California". The chords progression and the vocal melody are almost exactly the same. They are even in the same key.

    It's weird that no one mentioned it before. I guess PJ fans are not big LZ fans.

  • @Iszil Mate its been mentioned plenty of times. Mike even admitted he got idea from that song. But they are still different and still great songs. Musicians take ideas from their inspirations all the time. Thats how music grows. I love both song! Even if they do sound similar

  • @Iszil probably 90 percent of mike mccready's riffs are switched up riffs from artists that influenced him heavily (most notably the who, led zep, and hendrix) .. he admits it

  • @Iszil I am a big fan of both bands, first led then Pearl jam, and I love both musics! They are great!

    Did u hear thank you with pearl jam and robert plant in vocals?

  • @Iszil sorry, but your observation is a rip off of observations made 10+ years ago. the words and the ignorance are almost exactly the same.

    it's weird that no one mentioned it before. i guess morons are pretty easy to ignore : )

  • @Iszil Led Zeppelin has ripped off many of groups...damn near stole music from black blues musicians. I'm sure someone has mentioned that...sh*t, Stone even mentioned it by saying that Muddy Waters line after Mike says he hopes they don't sue.

  • Awesome!!!!

    Amazing!!!

  • Awesome!!!!

    

  • This is for me the most exciting song I have heard. They make me fly.......

  • Pearl Jam,The Best Band Ever Lived!!!!

  • pearl jam is the best band EVER!!!

  • mucha chimba de video musica sonido pearl jam lo maximo >_<

  • who else is in love with this song <3

  • Favourite Pearl Jam song.

  • this song is so beautiful, reminds me my young soul...

    from south america chile, thank you pearl jam, be have for making these sounds my band sound

  • great song

  • 1:36 is what music is all about

  • jeff is so great!!!thank you, God, for Jeff Ament!!!

  • the guitar part looks so much like led zeppelin´s going to california

  • @Contrabando5cordas In 60 years of Rock & Roll we have heard almost everything again and again dear friend...There is no such thing as "parthenogenesis" anymore...(look it up, It's a greek word...)

  • i saw them in new orleans maybe a year before the storm and the whole band including eddie sounded as good or better than the album. only band ive seen like that so close to the album.

  • and teach me how to HIGH too?

  • how can anyone say that PJ have plagiarized the song from Led Zeppelin? cmmon!

  • esta cancion csm me hace ver a dios...

  • i really love this song

  • Jack Irons is so good here, way better than matt's.

  • mexico.......a toda madre..!!!

  • those 13 will never fly. 

  • I've gave 13'th thumb down and so fuckin' what? Is it so important, that there is 13 thumbs down, or 20, or 200? WHY is it so important? WHAT does it change in this song, in Pearl Jam's music in PJ's clip? Do u really care 'bout some thumb down?

    I'm Pearl Jam's Fan and I adoree almost every single piece of music. And if I have learned anything from Eddie's lyrics - Don't worry about the stupidities.

    Peace

  • @Kapiszczur After several seconds of inner debate, I have decided that your thumbs down means little to me. In fact, it is equal in meaning to me as you are. However, I feel obligated to call you out on your unnecessary dickishness. However, I'm certain with all the things you have learned from PJ's music, your superior level of douchebaggery will allow you to overcome this and take it in stride. You're wrong. Something did change...it was the score.

    It's Jammers 1 - Douches 0

  • @lathumpipe I tried to feel you with empathy, but it's hard to feel like an idiot. You never know if u r idiot.

    If u r idiot, u'll never believe, that you're, 'cause when idiot realise to himself, that he's an idiot - he's not an idiot from this very point anymore. But "however" idiot can't realise - that he's an idiot, 'cause he is an idiot. So being and idiot is not temporary. You can read books, learn great poems, have in mind wonderful quotation...But deep down there you will always be idiot

  • @Kapiszczur Wow...I stopped reading that retarded babble about 34 idiots in. Worst response ever? I believe so.

    Anyway, suck my balls. Tell your mom hello for me.

  • @lathumpipe my mom were so happy! thank you.

  • @Kapiszczur i gave you 13 thumbs down for your attempt at English grammar

  • @Kapiszczur gayyyy....

    

  • The best lyrics ever!

  • Who let 12 Justin Bieber fans in ??

  • Incredible song. What beautiful lyrics at the beginning "Don't let it get you down. You know, still give your love, just give it away". Sends chills down my spine seeing such a great example of the human experience and the connection we all share. We all want to be loved, and to give love. =D

  • damn i love Jack on drums

  • Did 12 ppl vote thumbs down just to piss me off........

  • jack irons owns on this song......sorry matt......

  • Do you know what I like in Eddie ? This that he sounds same in studio or concert or even better.He is just example of very good singer who can sing everything ;)

    Eddie you rock.Imo it's his best image.

  • Damn, that song so fucking great

    Without a doubt my favorite son of pearl jam

  • I love this song so much, I have been on the verge of tears so many times while listening to it, and for the last few months my greatest ambition has been to go to a PJ show and hear it live. I'd probably soil myself but still :P

  • If you don't know what freedom means... just listen to this song.

    Pearl Jam is timeless.

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  • Of the best songs from Pearl Jam! What a amazing beautiful lyric !

  • What a song !!!!......... and what a lyric !!

  • Truly one of the best american bands out there!! 

  • its like hearing a new better jimi hendrix song amzing PEARL JAM BEST BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • who s that man, in the beginning of the song ??

  • @Roel9331 their lead guitarist Mike McCready

  • @sunshinetenshi  thanks !

  • @sunshinetenshi  thanks ! he looks so strange or i was drunk :)

  • they are forsure one of the best but also this footage is awesome.. i wonder what was the year....

  • @armandsalu 1998

  • haha Jeff totally Looks like fred derst here!!! NOOOOOOO!

  • they just made me taste freedom.... and i still feel a shiver

  • What kind of world we live? Where Justin Bieber is more popular than this.. so beautiful

  • @pedrohrc91 are you fucking joking me??? youre an idiot. in a year everyone will be like"bieber who?" pearl jam is timeless, and has more fans worldwide than that fag ever will

  • @badbrains409 Jesus, chill out. He only pointed to the fact that Justin Bieber gets more press than Pearl Jam. That's the point. Pearl Jam is everlasting, but there always will be some pop crap at times to be pushed to hysterical teens. Do you remember Backstreet Boys. They were the hype when Yield was released. That's the way it goes. Don't need to be harsh when somebody speak their minds based on true facts, right?

  • jack irons is sooo good

  • 11 people dont deserve to live

  • @notyetman 12

  • @notyetman Including you according to your standards, being intolerant is the worse disease of all, I love Pearl Jam but I won't get mad if the rest of the world hates it, actually it will make feel better, being unique and tolerant is a wonderful thing, there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends, over anything!

  • @notyetman now 3 more

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  • love this!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 12 years ago....i m feeling old..wow my god!

  • In memori of mi father Carmelo.

    descansa en paz.

    p.d 26/022010

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  • and some times is seen a strange spot in the sky, a human being that was given to fly...

  • love this song... love this band,, the best ever!!!!!

  • Grande Música

  • well fuckers...he still stands

  • i love all about pearl jam...all their albums...their lyrics...their attitude but this is the period i love the most.....this album plus no code...the middle period

  • For the others, just a song. For me, a lifestyle. (Para outros, apenas uma canção. Para mim, um estilo de vida).

  • What is he saying between 26 and 30 sec.?

  • The best band ever and their best song. Incredible.

  • i love love love this song! :)

  • Great Band

  • teh best band in this days!!!

  • Refreshing to seePearl Jam playing as I have always expected them, wish I can see them play this song at the beach in Huntington beach Calif.

  • @MLammi2314

    Glad you found them

  • na zawsze w moim sercu

  • A melhor banda do mundo!!!!!!!

  • this is like the musical version of Joseph Campbell's hero monomyth. My favorite Pearl Jam song!

  • Honestly don't hear a lot of similarity to "Going to California." Not even when it's played unplugged.

  • @DullTorpor I totally agree with u, what's all that fucking fuss about this song is a ripoff of "Going to California". Fucking insane!!

  • @raylo993 its similar but also completely different, so all of the haters should shutup lol

  • @Annonymus121 Let's put it this way, Stone was probably inspired by Led Zeppelin when he was composing this song.

    It is quite ludicrous to label this song as a ripoff of "Going to California".