Fun fact: Metallica’s Black Album, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden’s Badmotofinger, Guns and Roses’ Use Your Illusion 1&2, Nirvana’s Nevermind, and Pearl Jam’s Ten were all albums released within 44 days of each other back in 1991. What a year of music!
That is just insane - I bought every single one of these CD's but having them all listed like this just shows how incredible that year was. We will never see this again. 😐
@@pastorofmuppets13 yep, brings back memories of surfing through the cd’s at the music shop (which just don’t exist anymore) and picking an album just because the artwork was cool or it had the parental advisory sticker on it lol. I would spend hours in those stores and consider it entertainment. That and like Blockbuster for movies lol.
@@jaybird455 Yeah, I spent an insane amount of time in Blockbuster too lol. I like the instant gratification of Netflix etc, but there was something special about going to the store and finding that movie you were wanting to see finally in stock! Such a simpler time...
Such raw power and emotion .. I was never a Pearl Jam fan when they came out. I was more an Alice in Chains guy but as I got older, their music began growing on me. I watched this the day it aired on Mtv and was blown away by this performance even not being a fan at the time.
Supposedly Eddie Vedder was sick with bronchitis during this performance. It makes sense because his voice sounds a bit more raspy than normal but it’s perfect for this song. Arguably it makes the song better.
“I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be Oh can't it be mine” One of the best lines ever written and sung
this is the best mtv live concert .... ever . listen to the entire concert . eddie has the best singing face ....... love this concert . fucking incredible .
Ok, I was a little old as I graduated from UW in 1978 but that lead me to a career as an accountant, yet I met almost every important person who was from Seattle over the next 40 years including ever member of Pearl Jam. What a great time to be alive, I did the books for some interesting people, been to parties which included the Microsoft big wigs and was at ever club and venue that every popular band played at. As relative to this post Eddie Vedder was and is one of the most genuine people I ever met.
He did this with a cold. He missed the correct lyrics the first time when he says “how quick the sun can drop away” and I’ve seen him sing enough (15 times) to notice that after “how quick the sun can…” he shakes his head in frustration. And then absolutely slays the rest of it. Also “we belong together” is improvised.
Wait... Eddie is still alive. Which brings the lyric, I'm still alive more meaning. He is the sole surviving lead vocalist of the big bands of the grunge era to make it through.
Out of the big 3-4 grunge bands of the 90's that made the MTV unplugged show, this one somehow got to be the underrated one, & with no justified reason. That's an amazing show! Eddie Vedder is one of the greatest male rock vocalist of all times. I love this song soooooo much!!
I feel so blessed I was just entering my Teenage years when groups and artists like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Janes Addiction & Tool all strarted out. Not just Grunge but Rappers like Tupac, NWA, Biggie & so many others. What a time to be young!
That's Eddie Vedder, baby! I love ALL of their Unplugged versions. This is THE MOST beautiful song lyrically (I encourage you to pull them up). Major heartbreak.... Even when he messed up the first verse's lyrics (he shook his head), he kept it going hard. His rasp is second to none. I also read that all of that at the end was adlibbed (
Personally,my favourite Pearl Jam song,it is the embodiment of everything that Pearl Jam is - soulful,melancholic,heavy, thought provoking,soaring,intimate - ah shit - too adjectives to use for this song...A pure 90s,no,a pure all time classic.
Thank you for sharing this video with us. Pearl jam is one of my favorite bands of all time. Eddie's voice is unreal and mind boggling, this song and yellow Ledbetter are some of the greatest songs of the last 35 years. 🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥
Im from 72 and the first time i heard his amazingly long notes blew my mind and even today he still does it a true artist, Top three voices of that Era Eddie Vedder , Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley nobody else came close and still to this day seems like nobody ever will again.
Commit to memory 😉🤣 The Big 5 of Grunge: Pearl Jam - Eddie Vedder Nirvana - Kurt Cobain Soundgarden - Chris Cornell Alice In Chains - Layne Staley Stone Temple Pilots - Scott Weiland Sadly, all have passed away except for Eddie Vedder. This song is incredibly special to Eddie & you can feel his passion for it. He wrote it about his first love. I read a great quote from him explaining it. "The song is about letting go," said Vedder. "It's very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth's gravitational pull and where it's going to take people and how they're going to grow. I've heard it said that you can't really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It's a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can't have forever."
I've been an Eddie Vedder fan and a Pearl Jam devotee since their debut album "Ten". SOOOOOOO talented, you have no idea. Listen to "Oceans" from this same performance, the vocals are insane.
Hi guys, was hopping you would react to this song. First this one is a very emotional and personal song for Eddie Vedder and second, if you don't know, Pearl Jam are still together after 30 years and they released a new album last year.
Been following you guys for many months now. As a disabled veteran wounded in Iraq in 2004, I would love to see you guys respond to 5 Finger Death Punch, wrong side of Heaven official video. The only way to get the word out on veteran homelessness and suicide is through means like you. I am one of the fortunate veterans who’s life was spared through the VA system and getting a service dog to help with my own issues related to war. I absolutely love your true reactions to music and would love the word to get out about 22 vets a day that take their lives. It is inexcusable our country treats us the way they do. So please, react To Wrong side of heaven, riotous side of hell by 5 finger death punch. God bless the USA and out troops.
I just loved your reaction because, man...it was clear that you were loving it and you were absorbing Eddie's fire and pain and passion. That is a beautiful thing! Please do another song from the Unplugged show, a song called "State of Love and Trust"! It will ROCK YOU OUT! Check it!
This song is crazy 🤪!! We he starting singing we belong together!! We belong together!! Omg!! Tears 😢 start trickling down my face. Cause it breaks my heart cause there are a few women out there that I truly believe that we belong ❤🤲
Love this couple's reactions. And does he ever stop smiling? The energy they give off is amazing. Please do some TOOL FOR ALL THEIR FOLLOWERS. And LOVE HATE LOVE LIVE AT THE MOORE. Thanks 😊
Anyone who's been through a horrible breakup when there's still love there will relate to this song. Lyrics such as "And all I taught her was, everything", "How quick the sun can drop away", and "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why, can't it be, can't it be mine?" are a reason why it's such an emotional song for so many. Eddie's talking about his emotional pain, and those of us who've also been through it can so easily relate to the anguish in his voice. As for their studio albums versus their live performances, Pearl Jam is one of only a handful of bands where you listen to the studio album just to get a rough idea of what greatness you're going to witness live. Their live performances are always BETTER than the studio version, and that's true talent.
Try not to cry challenge? 🥲🙂 The Avett Brothers - Ballad of Love and Hate (live) Tool - Wings for Marie pt.1 & pt.2 Aurora - Murder Song 5,4,3,2,1 (live at the Nobel peace prize concert) Band of Horses - No one’s gonna love you Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger Chris Cornel - Nothing Compares to you Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren 🤖
Eddie Vedder is the lead singer - the 90's were a great time for music - especially if you were into Grunge and or alternative - starting with Nirvana then you go to The Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains were the leaders but then you had The Melvins, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Bush, Silverchair, Nickleback, Veruca Salt, Seether, Blind Mellon, Jane's Addiction and others all had their moments - there are also some who had their own category, these were a combination of different msucians from different bands who go together which include Temple of a Dog, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave and a few others
This band us SO much more than perhaps some people know. Awesome!! You two are such a cute couple and we love to hang with you! Hey, some night chilling at the house, watching the movie Into the Wild. Eddie Vetter (singer) is responsible for the soundtrack and more. AnD it's such a great movie about one guy, and... ARGH! Just watch. Eddie has his hands in SO much, and they still perform today. I'll stop... although now I would love to go on about the true talent, success, career and write up about his guitar player. Another time!! Peace!! ✌
The only live vocal performance I can think of that tops this is Alice in Chains - Love Hate Love live at The Moore but otherwise this will always be a legendary performance
Best song from the best Pearl Jam album. Eddie's voice is so smooth. Though my interest in PJ declined with each album, I was really impressed by Eddie's Into the Wild soundtrack. So good. P.S. hearing "Pearl Jam was before my time" is making me feel fucking old, yo
A lot of people miss, in the brilliance of the performance, that Eddie screws up the lyrics twice in this version. It wasn't a change for TV-friendly sake or anything, he just accidentally sang the words from the second verse and bridge during the first of each instead, and then repeated them in the second. The lyrics in the first verse are supposed to be, "I know she gave me all that she wore..." Instead he sang the part about how the sun drops away, which belongs in the second. The lyrics in the first bridge are supposed to be, "These bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds..." Instead he sang the part about how they cradle broken glass, which again, belongs in the second.
Yep, you can see him shake his head as he sings it: "How quick the sun can (shake, shake) drop away" Changes the cadence of the lyrics. But he's a master and he makes it work.
Fun fact: Metallica’s Black Album, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden’s Badmotofinger, Guns and Roses’ Use Your Illusion 1&2, Nirvana’s Nevermind, and Pearl Jam’s Ten were all albums released within 44 days of each other back in 1991. What a year of music!
Yep, boy I miss the 90s'...
That is just insane - I bought every single one of these CD's but having them all listed like this just shows how incredible that year was. We will never see this again. 😐
@@pastorofmuppets13 yep, brings back memories of surfing through the cd’s at the music shop (which just don’t exist anymore) and picking an album just because the artwork was cool or it had the parental advisory sticker on it lol. I would spend hours in those stores and consider it entertainment. That and like Blockbuster for movies lol.
@@jaybird455 Yeah, I spent an insane amount of time in Blockbuster too lol. I like the instant gratification of Netflix etc, but there was something special about going to the store and finding that movie you were wanting to see finally in stock! Such a simpler time...
Couldn’t have picked a better a better time to be in high school other than ‘72-‘76. Changed my life and I’ve seen Pearl Jam 15 times.
For me personally Eddie is in the top 5 greatest front men of all time. That voice of his is
going to ring through generations after generations.
"we were not old enough to listen to this"...god you made me feel old. lol
Yup, same!
We had the best music, believe that!
This music IS my adolescence 🤘
Frekin amazing. I don't care what anyone says Pearl Jam made alternative cool more so than Nirvana ever did.
Eddie vedder's voice could also be considered rock! He is beyond grunge!
Such raw power and emotion .. I was never a Pearl Jam fan when they came out. I was more an Alice in Chains guy but as I got older, their music began growing on me. I watched this the day it aired on Mtv and was blown away by this performance even not being a fan at the time.
Supposedly Eddie Vedder was sick with bronchitis during this performance. It makes sense because his voice sounds a bit more raspy than normal but it’s perfect for this song. Arguably it makes the song better.
Same
The 90s had some great vocalists. Miss those days
“I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Oh can't it be mine”
One of the best lines ever written and sung
this is the best mtv live concert .... ever . listen to the entire concert . eddie has the best singing face ....... love this concert . fucking incredible .
Ok, I was a little old as I graduated from UW in 1978 but that lead me to a career as an accountant, yet I met almost every important person who was from Seattle over the next 40 years including ever member of Pearl Jam. What a great time to be alive, I did the books for some interesting people, been to parties which included the Microsoft big wigs and was at ever club and venue that every popular band played at. As relative to this post Eddie Vedder was and is one of the most genuine people I ever met.
He did this with a cold. He missed the correct lyrics the first time when he says “how quick the sun can drop away” and I’ve seen him sing enough (15 times) to notice that after “how quick the sun can…” he shakes his head in frustration. And then absolutely slays the rest of it. Also “we belong together” is improvised.
It was a BAD cold and they almost canceled!
Masterpiece!
So emotional performance, his soul in every Word, thanks for the reaction.
One of the best voices in the 90s
Never seen anyone smiling and so chirpy listening to this version of Black as if it’s a party song or something.
❤ Eddie Vetter what a voice never be another Eddie his voice so unique and can't think of another one with his voice 😊
I'll never forget watching this in my bedroom when I was a teenager..
I love his voice. There's not a voice out there like him. It's insane. And he's hot..😏😏
Yes! KILLER performance! ! No matter how many times I’ve seen it- 👍✌️🤘🏼.
Wait... Eddie is still alive. Which brings the lyric, I'm still alive more meaning. He is the sole surviving lead vocalist of the big bands of the grunge era to make it through.
OMG I almost had a heart attack when I read RIP Eddie Vedder .. I had to double check to make sure I didn't miss something. Giiiiiirrrrrllllll ....
@@MetalMcfly 🤦🏻♀️I’m so very sorry-my mind has been foggy lately, for health reasons- I feel nuts!
@@pastorofmuppets13 🤦🏻♀️I’m so very sorry-my mind has been in and out of fog lately, due to health reasons--ugh
@@kimberlinibambini1988 No worries. I hope all works out for you. Keep your head up :)
Out of the big 3-4 grunge bands of the 90's that made the MTV unplugged show, this one somehow got to be the underrated one, & with no justified reason. That's an amazing show! Eddie Vedder is one of the greatest male rock vocalist of all times. I love this song soooooo much!!
Eddie vedder is 58 now such a great singer man
He had a cold during this performance. It was taped around midnight.
i love this song much
One of the few very few bands I seen live that sound better live than even on CD
One of the greatest live performances of all time!
I feel so blessed I was just entering my Teenage years when groups and artists like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Janes Addiction & Tool all strarted out. Not just Grunge but Rappers like Tupac, NWA, Biggie & so many others. What a time to be young!
Y'all should definitely check out his 1992 performance of their song called Release.
Unplugged was one of the greatest shows MTV ever had.
That's Eddie Vedder, baby! I love ALL of their Unplugged versions. This is THE MOST beautiful song lyrically (I encourage you to pull them up). Major heartbreak....
Even when he messed up the first verse's lyrics (he shook his head), he kept it going hard. His rasp is second to none. I also read that all of that at the end was adlibbed (
Personally,my favourite Pearl Jam song,it is the embodiment of everything that Pearl Jam is - soulful,melancholic,heavy, thought provoking,soaring,intimate - ah shit - too adjectives to use for this song...A pure 90s,no,a pure all time classic.
Thank you for sharing this video with us. Pearl jam is one of my favorite bands of all time. Eddie's voice is unreal and mind boggling, this song and yellow Ledbetter are some of the greatest songs of the last 35 years. 🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥
from my young times and this song is still my ringtone......
Great singer !!! This song is a GREAT song and i have listened to it yet
aww, my wonderful girl showed me this song, this exact performance, oh how I wish I could show her your reaction, or just hear her voice...
Eddie along with Chris Cornell are in the top 10 as far as great voices. This is iconic MTV doing live performances.
Im from 72 and the first time i heard his amazingly long notes blew my mind and even today he still does it a true artist, Top three voices of that Era Eddie Vedder , Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley nobody else came close and still to this day seems like nobody ever will again.
Commit to memory 😉🤣
The Big 5 of Grunge:
Pearl Jam - Eddie Vedder
Nirvana - Kurt Cobain
Soundgarden - Chris Cornell
Alice In Chains - Layne Staley
Stone Temple Pilots - Scott Weiland
Sadly, all have passed away except for Eddie Vedder. This song is incredibly special to Eddie & you can feel his passion for it. He wrote it about his first love. I read a great quote from him explaining it.
"The song is about letting go," said Vedder. "It's very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth's gravitational pull and where it's going to take people and how they're going to grow. I've heard it said that you can't really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It's a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can't have forever."
I am a huge STP fan to this day! I miss Scott and Chris
And Kurt too!
Try and watch the whole performance. This Unplugged session knocked Nirvana's clean out of the park
Great reaction! I think you guys would enjoy their performance of “Porch” live from Pinkpop ‘92 - it’s insane
Absolutely the best🤟
Love thos song, bring so much good memories
I've been an Eddie Vedder fan and a Pearl Jam devotee since their debut album "Ten". SOOOOOOO talented, you have no idea. Listen to "Oceans" from this same performance, the vocals are insane.
Pearl Jam 🤘
He did this whole show with a chest cold...
Hi guys, was hopping you would react to this song. First this one is a very emotional and personal song for Eddie Vedder and second, if you don't know, Pearl Jam are still together after 30 years and they released a new album last year.
Been following you guys for many months now. As a disabled veteran wounded in Iraq in 2004, I would love to see you guys respond to 5 Finger Death Punch, wrong side of Heaven official video. The only way to get the word out on veteran homelessness and suicide is through means like you. I am one of the fortunate veterans who’s life was spared through the VA system and getting a service dog to help with my own issues related to war. I absolutely love your true reactions to music and would love the word to get out about 22 vets a day that take their lives. It is inexcusable our country treats us the way they do. So please, react To Wrong side of heaven, riotous side of hell by 5 finger death punch. God bless the USA and out troops.
Love a good baritone voice.
One bit of info...he had the flu at the time this show was recorded. He refused to not go on.
the best break-up song ever written.
All before auto tune. Quality vocals!
I think they belong together! :)
that is my favorite version now it's on my Playlist and I still get goosebumps and cry but it's a beautiful cry! you can tell he loved her so much❤
Unplugged is the best music 🎶❤ performance
I just loved your reaction because, man...it was clear that you were loving it and you were absorbing Eddie's fire and pain and passion. That is a beautiful thing! Please do another song from the Unplugged show, a song called "State of Love and Trust"! It will ROCK YOU OUT! Check it!
back when real music was real, for real
Oh wow. This takes me way back! Has to be in my top 3 PJ songs!
Only a deep wound can produce a sound like that, raw emotions...the best.
This song is crazy 🤪!! We he starting singing we belong together!! We belong together!! Omg!! Tears 😢 start trickling down my face. Cause it breaks my heart cause there are a few women out there that I truly believe that we belong ❤🤲
Love this couple's reactions. And does he ever stop smiling? The energy they give off is amazing. Please do some TOOL FOR ALL THEIR FOLLOWERS. And LOVE HATE LOVE LIVE AT THE MOORE. Thanks 😊
Just go ahead and do that whole MTV Unplugged performance.
It's not that long, it's amazing and nobody did it yet.
Anyone who's been through a horrible breakup when there's still love there will relate to this song. Lyrics such as "And all I taught her was, everything", "How quick the sun can drop away", and "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why, can't it be, can't it be mine?" are a reason why it's such an emotional song for so many. Eddie's talking about his emotional pain, and those of us who've also been through it can so easily relate to the anguish in his voice.
As for their studio albums versus their live performances, Pearl Jam is one of only a handful of bands where you listen to the studio album just to get a rough idea of what greatness you're going to witness live. Their live performances are always BETTER than the studio version, and that's true talent.
Eddie always leaves it all on the table...
I miss MTV Unplugged!
Eddie Veder es el mejor en voz barítono
Su voz es maravillosa
Saludos cordiales desde Barcelona
Try not to cry challenge? 🥲🙂
The Avett Brothers - Ballad of Love and Hate (live)
Tool - Wings for Marie pt.1 & pt.2
Aurora - Murder Song 5,4,3,2,1 (live at the Nobel peace prize concert)
Band of Horses - No one’s gonna love you
Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
Chris Cornel - Nothing Compares to you
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
🤖
Pure vocal....
Is it healthy to be listening to Pearl Jam at leat twice a day for the last three decades? That's me.
Absolutly healthy... 😊
Eddie Vedder is the lead singer - the 90's were a great time for music - especially if you were into Grunge and or alternative - starting with Nirvana then you go to The Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains were the leaders but then you had The Melvins, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Bush, Silverchair, Nickleback, Veruca Salt, Seether, Blind Mellon, Jane's Addiction and others all had their moments - there are also some who had their own category, these were a combination of different msucians from different bands who go together which include Temple of a Dog, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave and a few others
You guys should watch Pearl Jam Evenflow live! It’s freaking awesome! Seen them live in the 90’s and they put on a heck of a show! Awesome! Rock on!
OMG. Wow...you guys need to get things up to speed, vis-a-vie PJ. Huge. Awesome. Legendary. Let's do this, folks!!
Idk how he didn't pass out after that. The energy and emotion he put into that beautiful song ❤️
Pearl jam porch live Pinkpop
React to their cover of rockin in the free world, live at pink pop
Purely raw! Whenever this song plays, I stop and close my eyes and it hits the depth of the jaded part of my soul.
I love it when musos are blown away by other muso's talent... and this is the pure talent!
Alice in Chains : Love Hate Love LIVE VERSION and Temple of the Dog : Say Hello to Heaven LIVE VERSION are a MUST next......
Amazing performance!
This song is very personal to him
This band us SO much more than perhaps some people know. Awesome!! You two are such a cute couple and we love to hang with you! Hey, some night chilling at the house, watching the movie Into the Wild. Eddie Vetter (singer) is responsible for the soundtrack and more. AnD it's such a great movie about one guy, and... ARGH! Just watch. Eddie has his hands in SO much, and they still perform today. I'll stop... although now I would love to go on about the true talent, success, career and write up about his guitar player. Another time!! Peace!! ✌
One of my favorite songs! OMFG your hair is absolutely stunning that color!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you imaging being the girl responsible for the creation of this song?
This live version is so much better than the studio, just the raw passion alone that you can't get or experience just listening to the album.
He was even sick with the flu or some kind of respiratory infection when they performed this song for MTV Unplugged and he still sounded like a god!
That's nuts
Hard to believe Eddie was suffering through a brutal chest cold during this unplugged performance. Such an amazing vocalist.
10 was one of the best rock lps
"Do it!" Yes. Another Star Wars fan I see. :p
The only live vocal performance I can think of that tops this is Alice in Chains - Love Hate Love live at The Moore but otherwise this will always be a legendary performance
It was the. L. P. It's major old,❤️
Smashed the subscribe button. Love, love your reaction dude!!!!
Evenflow - live …. A Must!
Powerful
Thank You Pastor of Muppets!
❤😀
Best song from the best Pearl Jam album. Eddie's voice is so smooth. Though my interest in PJ declined with each album, I was really impressed by Eddie's Into the Wild soundtrack. So good.
P.S. hearing "Pearl Jam was before my time" is making me feel fucking old, yo
I can't fully agree with you.
I might sound like a fanboy, but, for me, PJ goes better with every album.
You guys are awesome 🙂
Love you guys!
A lot of people miss, in the brilliance of the performance, that Eddie screws up the lyrics twice in this version. It wasn't a change for TV-friendly sake or anything, he just accidentally sang the words from the second verse and bridge during the first of each instead, and then repeated them in the second.
The lyrics in the first verse are supposed to be, "I know she gave me all that she wore..."
Instead he sang the part about how the sun drops away, which belongs in the second.
The lyrics in the first bridge are supposed to be, "These bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds..."
Instead he sang the part about how they cradle broken glass, which again, belongs in the second.
Yep, you can see him shake his head as he sings it:
"How quick the sun can (shake, shake) drop away"
Changes the cadence of the lyrics.
But he's a master and he makes it work.
@@willygonutz9687 Yep. And his performance is such that no one cares. He was a guy who could make a song melodic without even rhyming.
Next pearl jam even flow🙏
may be the best live performance of any song ever! or Metalica Enter sandman in Russia. Real close. Or Whitney Houston's SSB at the SB.
THE STRANGLERS "WALK ON BY",, "GOLDEN BROWN" & "STRANGE LITTLE GIRL"
Ughhh I feel so old. 10 came out when I was in high school.... yikes lol
Eddie's the GOAT ❤❤❤