Awesome album, fantastic song...When I was in high-school I went to Italy to visit my brother and ended up walking around the Vatican (including the Sistine Chapel which had just finished being restored) listening to this album over and over =)
hope Eddie does not still think he come's from a monkey or some monkey business other than them!!! love love love the vocals though!!! amen Oh yeah if anybody says Jesus is not 'son of God' tell them son = 48 + God = 26 = 74 Jesus 74 and if they still say something like Jesus is not 'messiah' well that ='s 74 too!!! a1 b2 c3... from my song 'Good News' surely needed now!!! love love love
When PJ released this as a single from Vitalogy I thought they had lost their minds. I was like "are they intentionally trying to alianate their fans?" the first time I heard it on the radio. Then it grew on me little by little, untill I loved it ten years later. Pretty brave to release such a weird song (at the time) as a single...
Ransom paid the devil...he whispers pleasing words..Triumphant are the angels if they can...a get there first...Little secrets tremors...turned to quake...The smallest oceans still get...big, big waves...
Best Pearl Jam song. I loved Vitalogy, but sadly they never made a truly great album after that one. They've made good albums, but not fantastic albums like the first three. But I'm still waiting...
I thought I heard that PJs first album 10s music was for the most part written before vedder joined..?...He just added lyrics..hell I dont know. I do see a massive change on all the following cds after 10. But change is good and this song and this cd is brilliant!
I clearly remember this as the first track I heard on a warm summers night in Adelaide when this was realeased on the radio at midnight - and being blown away by it. Loved those days & think some of their best tracks can be found on this album
Anyone know of any other PJ songs similiar to this either in literal meaning or sound. I'm just gonna put this out there i've never really been impressed by PJ's music despite the fact they nail the pillars of a good band bein that there's good guitar, drum, n vocal work but for some reason they just never made it for me, except for this song. I think this song is vastly better than really anything else i've heard of their's. To me most their music reminds me of a relatively generic rock band.
What can you say? I saw these guys in Dallas many moons ago and as the crowd was going wild, I stood up as high as I could and just watched in awe, this wonderful powerful voice belt out these songs that just, how do you describe it touch you at your core? I don't know I stood there not like a fool dancing about ,but looking at a legend in his own time .A Bob Marley perhaps, an Eric Clapton..Hummm??
they pretty much hit their stride on vs, peaked at no code...and had a ray of hope on the self titled... now eddie is the new Don Mclean...shame really.
@twolizards27 I would ask anyone who is a fan of any Pearl Jam music to revisit their body of work, a lot of their songs are like a very fine wine, that must have time to breathe (by repeated listening) on the palette. I reserve judgment on a new album until I've really let the songs steep in for a while. Then it's like something rare and beautiful and magical happens, and the music becomes a part of you, in a way, part of the narrative of your life... lol, maybe I'm just an uber-fan
Pearl Jam was the dopest band of the 90's, which was the dopest decade of the century. Vitalogy was way ahead of it's time...musta listened to the album hundreds of times as a youngster.
Eddie is clearly a great vocalist, with a substantial martyr complex, but not too much of an egomaniac.
THeir early drummer was great, and they could get others. The bass playing is competent.
In my estimation, what this band truly lacks is inspiring guitar players. I never hear a really, reaaly good rock riff come out of these guys. Even the first 2 records which were good were zeitgeist. Evenflow is the best riff I ever heard come out of them.
pearl jam was never grunge it was the media label the band..how the fuck when 2 different guiatrist mike mcreedy the lead is more blues with lil heavy metal riffs, stone gossard plays with rythm and punk rock riffs. listen to records its not grunge.... its hard rock
@crs78 exactly. how can you put this in the same catagory as Nirvana, which is more punk than anything else. Alice in Chains? Soundgarden? the music dinosaurs that coined the term "grunge" were mentally retarded.
@norcalirob1978 How can you call Alice in Chains grunge? They were more of an accoustic sound band, like Days of the New. Then Soundgarden has more of a pearl Jam feel, I guess that's why Chris Cornell picked up Vedder for the Temple of The Dog album. I think we coined the term "Grunge" not them.
How can anyone call anything grunge. I never coined it, never use it. It's those big haired pussies over at MTV that call it grunge. Those dinosaurs are all dead now, or what's left of them have all moved back into their old folks homes. Fuck em.
@Ekyvvsaq Mudhoney is punk. I don't give a fuck what Mark Arm said in a letter responding to some magazine fuckhead who called Mudhoney "Grungey". You don't know shit about anything beyond wikipedia. Fuck off.
Alice in Chains was str8 glamrock out of LA...they moved North to capitalize and influence the grunge scene... there are funny old videos of Staley and Cantrell with hairspray and spandex.The music industry sold "GRUNGE" as a brand and they sold many types of music under that title. Neil Young did alot to start the craze that has been spun and distorted to be distortion, flannel layers & long dirty hair.Generation X is a similar stereotype that is considered to contain a % of grunge type people.
@crs78 good point. Look at "mankind" by Stone Gossard, off No Code, it's the only time that I know of where Eddy isn't the lead singer, and it's got a completely different feel to it, but it remains Pearl Jam.
i heard this song for the first time in a really long time today and forgot how awesome it is....had to come over to youtube and hear it again and again
there are young alternative bands now, not necessarily hugely grunge influenced, that might be lumped in with grunge had they been around in the early 90's even though they migh have their own sound
Actually, i don't think it all 'died with kurt'. Look at all the other great bands that kept that spirit alive-the no bullshitprettyshit jus' truth, man. Were still buying Cracker albums.....and PJ....and
from listening to vitology the 1st time round and disliking it i've come to love it, and this song in particular is now a favourite of mine. Exellent climax too :)
@DimePeril I was the exact same, the first time I heard the album I was about 14 and I'd only heard TEN before that, I was shocked tha PJ could relase something as bad as that but after hearing it 2 or 3 times more I fell more and more in love with it... another PJ classic...
@DimePeril When I first started listening to this album back in 1994, I always skipped this song on my Sony Discman. One day I listened to it, and now it's one of my favorite songs on the album as well.
This is, to me, response to Cobain's criticism of their radio-friendly fare up to that point....and yeah...the guitar chords are very reminiscent of "White Album" fare.....I like the dischordance myself....and the lines/progressions which wander apart and back together ......
I've always seen this song as the moment that a man breaks down under the pressure of physical existence. The 1st and 2nd verse are leading up to the point where he chooses to "drop the line..and put his faith and love in tremor christ" He gives up and needs help. So he grabs the most popular answer in our society...christ. Eddie is not a fan of religion...as any PJ fan knows.
To me, this song has always been about lies and deception catching up to you ("little secrets turn to quakes"), how strong your faith is in life, and the never ending battle from each individual choosing between good and evil and the decisions you make in life. JMO
("ransom paid the devil, triumphant are the angels if they can get there first").
("I'll decide, take my time, not my life, wait for signs, believe in lies, to get by, its devine")
This whole album is a masterpiece and I am going to get hung for my next comment but Vitalogy was to Pearl Jam like Paranoid was to Black Sabbath, it was just simply breathtaking...
It's amazing to see the different tones and hues that Pearl Jam was capable of. Reaching into a darkness that many other bands never came out of unscathed, to me, was simply brilliant...
@DevilDiablo13 Couldn't agree more.. I'll do you one better, both Vs. and Vitalogy are both better albums that Ten; even if they weren't as sonic or dynamic. Vitalogy is their masterpiece, and it was one of the top 3 albums of the 90s.
Its funny how the drummer for this album was from the Chili Peppers. I always feel this song and some of this album has sorta a "funk" vibe to it. Also, I feel that this is Pearl Jam's "odd" sounding album. From the packaging to the album itself it looks and sounds like it was made in a haunted house. Almost as theres something going on behind these songs. Spoooky ;o) .. Great stuff
speaking as a writer of musical lyrics............songs may have a general idea of what they are about but sometomes it's just WORDS that you think sound cool........just enjoy the song if you like it, the meaning is special for each listener...when you analize it, it fucks it up for everyone else.
"the meaning is special for each listener". You said it bro. What matters is what each individual makes out of the song. Each one could have a different perspective of the song and that is OK. That's why I do not agree with Nirvana's IN BLOOM.
How does analyzing song lyrics eff it up for everyone else? It is fun and interesting to hear what people think a song is about. If everyone had the same take or was quiet about their opinions how would we learn anything?
its gonna be hard to explain it all in this youtube box byt ill try....
Eddie is using christianity and Christ as metaphors for infedility in a relationship......i think at around the vitaolgy era eddie was getting stalked by girls and they were breaking into his house and stuff...
the first verse..."winded is the sailor drifitng by the storm...wounded is the organ bloodied on the shore"
The sailor is the man (eddie) going out and getting sucked into the world of sex.and the organ is his love
that he leaves on the shore....the use of the word organ signifies that she is a part of his body that keeps him alive...and now shes bleeding...:gorgeous was his saviour...sees her drowining in his wake".....she loves him so much she enters the water to get him back...."daily taste the salt of her tears but a chance blamed fate"....: he knows he hurts her...tastes her tears....but the chance of other woman, he convinces might be his fate...."a chance blamed fate"..such a fucken good line...
the chorus....."little secrets tremors....turned to quyakes..the smalled oceans still get big big waves..."
this is the most brilliant part............the whole chorus is a metaphor for making a girl orgasm....or the ecstacy and divinity of having sex with a woman....and tying in with the religious theme...."tremor christ means how HEavenly and divine it is to be having sex or as is commonly described sex is a a way of being closer to god"
The end bit "ill decide....take the dive..." I think i
i think is a stra9ight shot at christinity...."take my time , not my life...wait for signs...believe in lies...to get by.....its divine" but i think it could also mean the women who get obsessed with eddie at this time..."ill decide(eddie decides what happens), take the dive, take my time, not my life (hell do what he wants, she can have his time but she cant have him)....
if u look at this interptetation with reference to Bugs and Satans Bed and Not For You.....it all kinda makes sence...
I sold this album in college for beer money. Was I insane? I guess I didn't appreciate then what I do now! I want it back!!!!! I forgot about this song! Awesome. PJ is awesome.
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if there was a real Jesus I promise you it wasn't just the Jews but the government that was after him to, because he thinks hes better then us I think its bullshit they way its been hacked up into nonsense over the years.Back in the time when hit man was a normal job they had to have him crucified which is hard to believe but possible still theres alot of garbage floating around in your bible that the vatican to consume in controlling fashion, if Jesus was real he wouldn't be down with that.
Awesome album, fantastic song...When I was in high-school I went to Italy to visit my brother and ended up walking around the Vatican (including the Sistine Chapel which had just finished being restored) listening to this album over and over =)
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hagstein 1 week ago
last album I bought of pearl Jam's, graduated from h.s. a year after this one came out, great album!!
dennisjr77 2 weeks ago
Those lyrics still make me jealous....I wish I'd written them.
liveecarbme 1 month ago
pearl jam is the soundtrack of my life... dont know what i would do without 'em! thanks, pearl jam!
nybakg 1 month ago 2
wow this song is like WOW
maria203100 1 month ago
still my favorite Pearl Jam album
paranoidandroid3232 2 months ago 3
I remember(barely) getting high as a teen to this song. It would echo through our ears & body on repeat for hrs.
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pedroalvesmkt 2 months ago
AMOO ESTE TEMA!!!!
faniavedder 2 months ago
Im gonna get thumbed down for this but... Vitalogy and and No Code are better than Ten
DonnerParty1000 3 months ago 8
Does this remind anyone else of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band at parts?
khalilsajadi 3 months ago
pearl jam are connected to nirvana through music theory not style
biner01 3 months ago
awesome bassline.
hazel10987 4 months ago
apoteosico
GermanLunaP 4 months ago
Listen....
DirtyBoots100 4 months ago
I love the vibe of this album.
blackcrow6667 4 months ago 2
This riff is like mantra or something.
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hope Eddie does not still think he come's from a monkey or some monkey business other than them!!! love love love the vocals though!!! amen Oh yeah if anybody says Jesus is not 'son of God' tell them son = 48 + God = 26 = 74 Jesus 74 and if they still say something like Jesus is not 'messiah' well that ='s 74 too!!! a1 b2 c3... from my song 'Good News' surely needed now!!! love love love
misterdeeeep 5 months ago
When PJ released this as a single from Vitalogy I thought they had lost their minds. I was like "are they intentionally trying to alianate their fans?" the first time I heard it on the radio. Then it grew on me little by little, untill I loved it ten years later. Pretty brave to release such a weird song (at the time) as a single...
BoxingBaard 5 months ago
@BoxingBaard It wasn't released as a singleon its own, but as the backside of the "Spin the Black Circle" single.
pjokkenroll 5 months ago
I hated this album at first, But Now i appreciate and love it
Unbozzings 5 months ago 2
One of my favorite Pearl Jam albums ever ...and in general !!! OK and I am done gushing over pearl Jam now
TheBacon35 5 months ago
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This song is AWESOME!!
AdamCito2010 5 months ago
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AdamCito2010 5 months ago
Love Vitalogy..This is RAW Pearl Jam!
JM13121 6 months ago
man to think i didnt like this album at first >.<!!
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kirkraymusic 7 months ago
amazing song
djabthrash 8 months ago
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This is the only Pearl Jam song I can stand...everything else SUX!!!!!!!!!!
zoogad 8 months ago
this song was kicking my ass in 1994, after not hearing it for years..it still kicks my ass!
jovanna242 8 months ago 3
Ransom paid the devil...he whispers pleasing words..Triumphant are the angels if they can...a get there first...Little secrets tremors...turned to quake...The smallest oceans still get...big, big waves...
SAMKREATOR 9 months ago 14
@SAMKREATOR amazing
gcolie 7 months ago
@gcolie yes indeedy :)
SAMKREATOR 7 months ago
Probably THE Masterpiece of all Pearl Jam's Albuns.
SquallMonteZ 9 months ago
HANDS DOWN THERE BEST SONG EVER!!!!!!!!!
iLLMiLLz978 9 months ago
Eddie has it wrong about 'believing in lies' but a classic inspiration vocally!!!
love love love
misterdeeeep 9 months ago
Best Pearl Jam song. I loved Vitalogy, but sadly they never made a truly great album after that one. They've made good albums, but not fantastic albums like the first three. But I'm still waiting...
pjokkenroll 9 months ago
@pjokkenroll yeah, the first three are magic.
omegalen 5 months ago
does it matter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PanicMerchant1 9 months ago
I thought I heard that PJs first album 10s music was for the most part written before vedder joined..?...He just added lyrics..hell I dont know. I do see a massive change on all the following cds after 10. But change is good and this song and this cd is brilliant!
thebailey67 9 months ago
one of my favourite album ever.....
holoki 1 year ago
beautiful
emilyavey 1 year ago
so visual. so epic. this album easily my fav. this song easily my fav on the album
almostalive2009 1 year ago 2
I have always thought this song would fit in perfectly on The White Album.
andycane1 1 year ago 20
grande PEARL JAM!!
guidto12 1 year ago
I clearly remember this as the first track I heard on a warm summers night in Adelaide when this was realeased on the radio at midnight - and being blown away by it. Loved those days & think some of their best tracks can be found on this album
SandmanOz 1 year ago
Anybody that doesn't like this is seriously fucked up in the head.
LUVstufflikepandas45 1 year ago 2
well done mate
mud6952 1 year ago
god that's good :x
vademax44 1 year ago
Anyone know of any other PJ songs similiar to this either in literal meaning or sound. I'm just gonna put this out there i've never really been impressed by PJ's music despite the fact they nail the pillars of a good band bein that there's good guitar, drum, n vocal work but for some reason they just never made it for me, except for this song. I think this song is vastly better than really anything else i've heard of their's. To me most their music reminds me of a relatively generic rock band.
mrbigroundballs1 1 year ago
What can you say? I saw these guys in Dallas many moons ago and as the crowd was going wild, I stood up as high as I could and just watched in awe, this wonderful powerful voice belt out these songs that just, how do you describe it touch you at your core? I don't know I stood there not like a fool dancing about ,but looking at a legend in his own time .A Bob Marley perhaps, an Eric Clapton..Hummm??
tanya77449 1 year ago
this is my favourite album!!!!!!!!! I consumed the cassette and listened to it reading my favourite book: they both have a particular taste to me!!!
imperatori11 1 year ago
@imperatori11 I'm just so darn curious, wich book is it?
Jurianug 1 year ago
@Jurianug nothing special, "the talisman" by Stephen King & Peter Straub
imperatori11 1 year ago
the best song ever made period
fxb1989 1 year ago
they pretty much hit their stride on vs, peaked at no code...and had a ray of hope on the self titled... now eddie is the new Don Mclean...shame really.
twolizards27 1 year ago
@twolizards27 I would ask anyone who is a fan of any Pearl Jam music to revisit their body of work, a lot of their songs are like a very fine wine, that must have time to breathe (by repeated listening) on the palette. I reserve judgment on a new album until I've really let the songs steep in for a while. Then it's like something rare and beautiful and magical happens, and the music becomes a part of you, in a way, part of the narrative of your life... lol, maybe I'm just an uber-fan
Ehsona 1 year ago
@Ehsona Yeah, I suspect you are an uber fan lol. I'll never disrespect pearl jam, they are incredible. BUt I miss the feel of their earlier work :(
twolizards27 1 year ago
Pearl Jam was the dopest band of the 90's, which was the dopest decade of the century. Vitalogy was way ahead of it's time...musta listened to the album hundreds of times as a youngster.
afkbrb123 1 year ago
such a vivid song. you can see the imagery so well in the lyrics, in the music.
musicismylife442 1 year ago
pearl jam at bonnaroo 2008 was massive ;) best show of the festival
lactatingwalrus 1 year ago
thank you isaac8399
parksfriend10 1 year ago
Mean! Have not heard this for years!!!
NZRep15 1 year ago
understand your apples to oranges bevildiablo13....
cglawrence 1 year ago
Puts his faith in......BBBadass
Ed Vedder, you kick ass!
BBBadass 1 year ago
god HEAVIER than normal aye, LOVE his voice!!! GO VEDDER!!!
bennyTenny11 1 year ago
God I love Vedder's voice on this song, especially when he gets to the chorus.
bettylovescows 1 year ago 3
Huh, this song really was much better than I remembered...
Temastar 1 year ago
Eddie is clearly a great vocalist, with a substantial martyr complex, but not too much of an egomaniac.
THeir early drummer was great, and they could get others. The bass playing is competent.
In my estimation, what this band truly lacks is inspiring guitar players. I never hear a really, reaaly good rock riff come out of these guys. Even the first 2 records which were good were zeitgeist. Evenflow is the best riff I ever heard come out of them.
TheRealCritique 1 year ago
obviously you have never had the pleasure to see or hear them live...
nypj 1 year ago
pearl jam was never grunge it was the media label the band..how the fuck when 2 different guiatrist mike mcreedy the lead is more blues with lil heavy metal riffs, stone gossard plays with rythm and punk rock riffs. listen to records its not grunge.... its hard rock
crs78 1 year ago
@crs78 exactly. how can you put this in the same catagory as Nirvana, which is more punk than anything else. Alice in Chains? Soundgarden? the music dinosaurs that coined the term "grunge" were mentally retarded.
norcalirob1978 1 year ago
@norcalirob1978 How can you call Alice in Chains grunge? They were more of an accoustic sound band, like Days of the New. Then Soundgarden has more of a pearl Jam feel, I guess that's why Chris Cornell picked up Vedder for the Temple of The Dog album. I think we coined the term "Grunge" not them.
silverness320 1 year ago
How can anyone call anything grunge. I never coined it, never use it. It's those big haired pussies over at MTV that call it grunge. Those dinosaurs are all dead now, or what's left of them have all moved back into their old folks homes. Fuck em.
norcalirob1978 1 year ago
actually, Mark Arm invented the term, sorry...
Ekyvvsaq 1 year ago
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norcalirob1978 1 year ago
@Ekyvvsaq Mudhoney is punk. I don't give a fuck what Mark Arm said in a letter responding to some magazine fuckhead who called Mudhoney "Grungey". You don't know shit about anything beyond wikipedia. Fuck off.
norcalirob1978 1 year ago
@norcalirob1978
But Mark Arm has been in other bands than Mudhoney, and besides, do you have som e sort of Tourette's? Try to be more kind to strangers...
Ekyvvsaq 1 year ago
Alice in Chains was str8 glamrock out of LA...they moved North to capitalize and influence the grunge scene... there are funny old videos of Staley and Cantrell with hairspray and spandex.The music industry sold "GRUNGE" as a brand and they sold many types of music under that title. Neil Young did alot to start the craze that has been spun and distorted to be distortion, flannel layers & long dirty hair.Generation X is a similar stereotype that is considered to contain a % of grunge type people.
b761 1 year ago
@b761 you just know it all
eatmyfun 6 months ago
@crs78 good point. Look at "mankind" by Stone Gossard, off No Code, it's the only time that I know of where Eddy isn't the lead singer, and it's got a completely different feel to it, but it remains Pearl Jam.
silverness320 1 year ago
Actually, I would say grunge is a mix between blues rock (like Led Zeplin) and punk. Nirvana was much more punk than any other grunge band.
Ekyvvsaq 1 year ago
Good song!
pman1018 1 year ago
never really a huge pearl fan, but this song is amazing. in my opinion , their best.
1000DAYSINSODOM68 1 year ago 2
i heard this song for the first time in a really long time today and forgot how awesome it is....had to come over to youtube and hear it again and again
rutlandblue23 1 year ago
there are young alternative bands now, not necessarily hugely grunge influenced, that might be lumped in with grunge had they been around in the early 90's even though they migh have their own sound
acehead0987 2 years ago
Pearl Jam isnt grunge, theyre whatever they FCkn feel like they just happened to fit in with the grunge scene when it was big
acehead0987 2 years ago
song is one of the best!
Need2JustLove 2 years ago
waiting for signs!!!!!!!
johnnyshock151 2 years ago
i love this song.. it has been my all time fav...
orenju 2 years ago 2
Actually, i don't think it all 'died with kurt'. Look at all the other great bands that kept that spirit alive-the no bullshitprettyshit jus' truth, man. Were still buying Cracker albums.....and PJ....and
etuberalism 2 years ago 2
from listening to vitology the 1st time round and disliking it i've come to love it, and this song in particular is now a favourite of mine. Exellent climax too :)
DimePeril 2 years ago 30
this song was actually the only one that caught my attention back when it cam out.
but by then, grunge was over, kurt had died, i was moving on to other things. it was a hard time to embrace a new pearl jam record.
but yeah, this is a banging track
loknloll 2 years ago
@DimePeril I was the exact same, the first time I heard the album I was about 14 and I'd only heard TEN before that, I was shocked tha PJ could relase something as bad as that but after hearing it 2 or 3 times more I fell more and more in love with it... another PJ classic...
evenenough 1 year ago
@evenenough same wasnt a fan first listening of most of it but when i really listened to it it just found a true cord in me
alsitte 1 year ago
@DimePeril When I first started listening to this album back in 1994, I always skipped this song on my Sony Discman. One day I listened to it, and now it's one of my favorite songs on the album as well.
FixFalcon 5 months ago
@FixFalcon - For me this was an immediate LOVE. I have had this song with me since i first heard it. CD, Walkman, Ipod, iphone... LOVE THIS SONG.
neoarchangemon 1 month ago
@DimePeril Exactly my sentiments.
captainspiwtf 5 months ago
this song is creepy and that's why i liked it
starsweet4 2 years ago 2
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shawnmr100 2 years ago
una poesia.......
maudit0082 2 years ago
This is, to me, response to Cobain's criticism of their radio-friendly fare up to that point....and yeah...the guitar chords are very reminiscent of "White Album" fare.....I like the dischordance myself....and the lines/progressions which wander apart and back together ......
mooseelkdog 2 years ago 3
i used to think that if kurt was still alive when this was released, he'd probably like it :)
starsweet4 1 year ago
Exactly!! ;-)
mooseelkdog 1 year ago
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kurt was a fag Love killed him and his name belongs nowhere near Vedder's!
fatkubei 1 year ago
The intro sounds like the Beatles' 'She's a woman'
luuuk11 2 years ago
I've always seen this song as the moment that a man breaks down under the pressure of physical existence. The 1st and 2nd verse are leading up to the point where he chooses to "drop the line..and put his faith and love in tremor christ" He gives up and needs help. So he grabs the most popular answer in our society...christ. Eddie is not a fan of religion...as any PJ fan knows.
erocker2020 2 years ago 2
To me, this song has always been about lies and deception catching up to you ("little secrets turn to quakes"), how strong your faith is in life, and the never ending battle from each individual choosing between good and evil and the decisions you make in life. JMO
("ransom paid the devil, triumphant are the angels if they can get there first").
("I'll decide, take my time, not my life, wait for signs, believe in lies, to get by, its devine")
("puts his faith in love and tremor christ")
MaximumPower01 2 years ago 9
sorry for sounding like an idiot, but what does JMO stand for?
Germanjorge 2 years ago 6
Just my opinion. :)
MaximumPower01 2 years ago 4
lool thanks
Germanjorge 2 years ago
no its not creepy...
redproxy15 2 years ago
The song always kind of freaked me out. It's scary.
Beerlejuice 2 years ago 4
yes i agree, it has a kind of scary feeling to it, very nice climax...
FrankMustaine 2 years ago 3
This whole album is a masterpiece and I am going to get hung for my next comment but Vitalogy was to Pearl Jam like Paranoid was to Black Sabbath, it was just simply breathtaking...
It's amazing to see the different tones and hues that Pearl Jam was capable of. Reaching into a darkness that many other bands never came out of unscathed, to me, was simply brilliant...
DevilDiablo13 2 years ago 60
@DevilDiablo13 I know I'm going to get hung for THIS comment but I think the biggest genius in creating this piece of gold is the producer.
BitchinnShoes07 1 year ago 2
@BitchinnShoes07 - I totally agree with you....
DevilDiablo13 1 year ago
@DevilDiablo13 Couldn't agree more.. I'll do you one better, both Vs. and Vitalogy are both better albums that Ten; even if they weren't as sonic or dynamic. Vitalogy is their masterpiece, and it was one of the top 3 albums of the 90s.
sprji77 1 year ago
@DevilDiablo13 Whoever you are... I'm in love with you.... lol Any fellow Jammer, is soul mate to me, and those words were poetry to my ears.
Ehsona 1 year ago
@Ehsona - the words within the song are crazy-beautiful when you actually "listen" to what they're saying...
DevilDiablo13 1 year ago
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in cite full
doceddie90 1 year ago
@DevilDiablo13 nailed it. thank you.
doceddie90 1 year ago
@DevilDiablo13 1994 was their best time musically in my opinion
Annonymus121 1 year ago 2
@Annonymus121 - Well said... I would agree that for music, it was a very good time indeed...
DevilDiablo13 1 year ago
@DevilDiablo13 I agree, but als othe first album was a bomb!
abysss24 1 year ago
@DevilDiablo13 please don't EVER compare effin Black Sabbath to Pearl Jam!
Heresieskin 8 months ago
@Heresieskin Sabbath are a legendary band
BadAssMotherFckers 7 months ago in playlist pearl jam
Its funny how the drummer for this album was from the Chili Peppers. I always feel this song and some of this album has sorta a "funk" vibe to it. Also, I feel that this is Pearl Jam's "odd" sounding album. From the packaging to the album itself it looks and sounds like it was made in a haunted house. Almost as theres something going on behind these songs. Spoooky ;o) .. Great stuff
ColorsBright 2 years ago
eddie veder is the devil, he told me in a chatroom once.... lol im just yankin ya'
MasterVee69 2 years ago 2
i thought abruzesse drummed for most of vitalogy?
Regset 2 years ago
He did?? I am not sure. I always recall Irons during Vitalogy. By the way, abruzesse is my favorite Pearl Jam drummer. mmmmmmm rearview mirror mmmmmm
ColorsBright 2 years ago
Nope it was Dave, it even says so on wikipedia. I think jack played live with em.
Totalmachine09 2 years ago
He did
Totalmachine09 2 years ago 3
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clarissa1133 2 years ago
Awesome song. All of vitalogy rocks, even the songs that don't get air time.
poppyplanet1 2 years ago 2
One of the best song of one of the best album of one of the best group ever...
To sum up: great song.
Don't think that finding hypothetical hidden meanings would make it even better. :)
Hatulakhan 2 years ago 5
speaking as a writer of musical lyrics............songs may have a general idea of what they are about but sometomes it's just WORDS that you think sound cool........just enjoy the song if you like it, the meaning is special for each listener...when you analize it, it fucks it up for everyone else.
dclassic33 2 years ago 6
"the meaning is special for each listener". You said it bro. What matters is what each individual makes out of the song. Each one could have a different perspective of the song and that is OK. That's why I do not agree with Nirvana's IN BLOOM.
flamehotrod 2 years ago
How does analyzing song lyrics eff it up for everyone else? It is fun and interesting to hear what people think a song is about. If everyone had the same take or was quiet about their opinions how would we learn anything?
Fularmor 2 years ago 3
wow i think i worked out the meaning of tremor christ......
absolutely fucken brilliant........
it all makes fucken sense..........
dontbro 2 years ago
what;s the meaning ?
flamehotrod 2 years ago
its gonna be hard to explain it all in this youtube box byt ill try....
Eddie is using christianity and Christ as metaphors for infedility in a relationship......i think at around the vitaolgy era eddie was getting stalked by girls and they were breaking into his house and stuff...
the first verse..."winded is the sailor drifitng by the storm...wounded is the organ bloodied on the shore"
The sailor is the man (eddie) going out and getting sucked into the world of sex.and the organ is his love
dontbro 2 years ago
that he leaves on the shore....the use of the word organ signifies that she is a part of his body that keeps him alive...and now shes bleeding...:gorgeous was his saviour...sees her drowining in his wake".....she loves him so much she enters the water to get him back...."daily taste the salt of her tears but a chance blamed fate"....: he knows he hurts her...tastes her tears....but the chance of other woman, he convinces might be his fate...."a chance blamed fate"..such a fucken good line...
dontbro 2 years ago
the chorus....."little secrets tremors....turned to quyakes..the smalled oceans still get big big waves..."
this is the most brilliant part............the whole chorus is a metaphor for making a girl orgasm....or the ecstacy and divinity of having sex with a woman....and tying in with the religious theme...."tremor christ means how HEavenly and divine it is to be having sex or as is commonly described sex is a a way of being closer to god"
The end bit "ill decide....take the dive..." I think i
dontbro 2 years ago
i think is a stra9ight shot at christinity...."take my time , not my life...wait for signs...believe in lies...to get by.....its divine" but i think it could also mean the women who get obsessed with eddie at this time..."ill decide(eddie decides what happens), take the dive, take my time, not my life (hell do what he wants, she can have his time but she cant have him)....
if u look at this interptetation with reference to Bugs and Satans Bed and Not For You.....it all kinda makes sence...
dontbro 2 years ago
stalked by girls?damn crazy how y'all know about it?i never seen or read vedder talking about his personal life
Monchi2006 2 years ago
Search a little better. He talks a lot about his daughter, recently.
Pantyh4x0rZ 2 years ago
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Great song. Thanks for posting. I used your video on my website(my name) for an article on the top 50 Pearl Jam songs. This was #12
WhatRickyThinksCom 2 years ago
love the drums on this album...this was my fave style they had...93 94...i love all their stuff but 94...fuckin awesome
d15er 2 years ago 2
I love the bass.
flamehotrod 2 years ago
wow this song is awsome, one of this awsome band.
MrOmar142 2 years ago
I sold this album in college for beer money. Was I insane? I guess I didn't appreciate then what I do now! I want it back!!!!! I forgot about this song! Awesome. PJ is awesome.
AACHW 2 years ago
yeah you might have been insane ha
jeremystormsky 2 years ago 2
at least you didnt sell Ten for beer money
I have the original Ten and the Re-Issue, so I have it 3 times, the Legacy edition comes with the original version
epinky2295 2 years ago
I FORGOT HOW GOOD THIS SONG WAS!!!!
btttube 2 years ago 7
vedder voice and what a poet = GOD
selockram 2 years ago
this song made me remember how good the basslines were in their older albums. Why did they turn Jeff down? bring back the bassline!!
coolguy67 2 years ago
My favorite Pearl Jam album was Vs! I don't give a fuck what you all say!
postalfreeek 2 years ago
what is this song about?
Ekyvvsaq 2 years ago
love this song....
it rocks and the lyrics are cool
ransom paid the devil
he whispers pleasing words
triumphant are the angels if they can get there first
i'll decide
take the time
not my life
believing lies to get by....
ITS DIVINE
gcolie 2 years ago
cant you eggs just enjoy the music. save your religious debate for dateline or someother low grade current affairs program. peace
daniel66689 2 years ago 2
Where is there a debate on anything religous is this thread?
Fularmor 2 years ago
This is Vitalogy.
thebudman420 2 years ago
which album is better? ten or vitalogy?
MotherFudger27 2 years ago
Ten by a mile.
fpsbandvox 2 years ago 2
Close, but I'm siding with Vitalogy.
Doifebag 2 years ago
@MotherFudger27 Vitalogy
KatiaImeldaMarcos 1 year ago
best fukin song ever PUSSIES
mudtaco205 2 years ago
the lyrics make this song but love it all
teflach 2 years ago
Who needs to listen to the music when we can all argue about religion! YEAH!
Seriously people, c'mon...
evilSNES64 2 years ago
you're right. why waste time when there is good music playin?
HeliosTitan 2 years ago
great album, luv it so much..!!
samforever321 2 years ago
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if there was a real Jesus I promise you it wasn't just the Jews but the government that was after him to, because he thinks hes better then us I think its bullshit they way its been hacked up into nonsense over the years.Back in the time when hit man was a normal job they had to have him crucified which is hard to believe but possible still theres alot of garbage floating around in your bible that the vatican to consume in controlling fashion, if Jesus was real he wouldn't be down with that.
DemonosZXZ 2 years ago
This is the first song they released off this album.
marcoman2 2 years ago
pretty sure it was corduroy
jnewbs51 2 years ago
I don't know anywhere else, but I KNOW that in Canada, the first song released from this album was Spin the Black Circle
HuskerDu2 2 years ago