I remember reading the paper a few weeks before VS came out, but usually you heard the first single on the radio.

What the Fuck is the internet?

Is the less know name some freaks have for the interweb

I heard Daughter on the radio back in '93/'94 and my buddy said "Is that Metallica?" I laughed and dubbed him my Vs....

evenflow . gd ol' times

the only thing close to this happened to me today that i thought was funny

i went into sanity to get the new album and they were playing gone! i was so happy i started singing along. i thought it was funny because nobody would have known what the fuck the song was cos it was new to them. then of course wasted reprise came on next and i had to sing too and i had a good chat with the check-out guy about pearl jam

Jeremy was everywhere...

But I heard Alive before that. The KISW guy said something that haunts me to this day about "...and this the band who just whooped ass on battle of the bands in Seattle..."

I was very impressed with the solo in Alive. ANd then I loved the harmonics in Jeremy

What really threw me was the fact that I was lamenting the fact that a little while prior to that Andrew Wood had died, and this KILLER new band I had fell in love with had ceased to exist. Yeah I had already bought 'Apple'...

Mojo

I recall being nearly out of the broadcast area of the Lexington rock station that was playing "Who You Are" for the first time, so I pulled off to the side of the road to get a better signal.

Ahh, the good old days when PJ got airplay in Kentucky:)

Leatherman was the first song that I had downloaded from the Internet....back in Bombay, we had a Shell A/c (UNIX Based Internet w/o graphics & colors)....had to punch in a bunch of stupid commands to download stuff at 1 kbps speeds

I remember that feeling when I almost jumped from my seat all excited about that song. I had thought Pearl Jam were the greatest, and now I endorse that feeling

The only source of info was MTV or an Indian Rock Magazine - Rock Street Journal (RSJ as we used to call it).

Surprising enough I think MTV beat rock radio to the punch playing Pearl Jam's Alive.
Now that was good ole days when you could watch MTV longer than 2.3 seconds without having to throw up.
I remember there suito alternative vj Lewis Largent! He tied the flannel around his waist , had the docks, the days!!
After buying Ten and not getting enough then I heard "Apple" from a friend playing basketball in his drive way.
Still to this day "Man of Golden Words" is one of my favorite songs of all times.
I was lucky enough to hear Pearl Jam play C.O.T with Brendan O'Brien playing keyboard on the opening on Chloe Dancer at HI Fi Buys.
I would fuck myself raw with a chainsaw if I heard them play MOGW.!!!!!!!!

STBC is the first new song I remember being released but I was very underwhelmed by that song.

The one I remember very well is Who You Are. I had been on vacation, came home and found the single. Brought it home and was amazed. So different and so great. A few nights later the radio station broadcast the entire album and I absolutely wore out the tape I recorded it on until the album itself came out.

Same here, just replace Jeremy with Alive.

(The thread had "internet" in the title, close enough.)

Earliest mention of Pearl Jam on the internet?

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rock ... e5c5e8f620




More early mentions from that run of shows supporting RHCP (the first one made me laugh):

McCready being called cheesy from day 1. LOL.

Glory's Door

Nice one, spenno.

First time I heard this was on the below bootleg, prior to the release of Vitalogy:



I remember being very happy with the way it turned out in the studio.

This was, of course, pre-internet.

Although I was already a big fan, hearing I Got Id on the radio in late 95 is memorable.

I also remember buying the Go cd single which came out before Vs. hit stores. Elderly Woman (acoustic) blew me away and I played it so many times that finally hearing the "full band" album version seemed almost like the alternate take of the song.

I'd been a fan since prior to No Code, but the first thing that I recall not being ready for was hearing Given To Fly on the radio. My girlfriend and I were driving to a party and I never listened to the radio because Tucson radio sucks ass. But for whatever reason she had the radio on, I'm sure I put on a fight, then Given To Fly came on. I went nuts and couldn't stop talking about it. We went to some lame ass party where everyone loved rap music and they all hated me. One of my most vivid memories of that era.

I walked into Highway Pizza in State College, Pennsylvania sometime in the summer of 1994 and everybody inside (10-15 people) was singing along loudly to the acoustic version of "Elderly Woman", like it was an olde time saloon. I remember thinking, "that's really gay".