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Alessiana wrote:
dkfan9 wrote:
anyone ever notice how eddie ripped off van halen here?
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Always a moment coming through a thread and finding a post from Frank there..
Corduroy is my Pearl jam national anthem..it defines how I felt when S/T came out..the thing you love and depend on letting you down and almost corruptively turning you against it. Great song though. One of, if not the best thing they've ever done. Their defining moment.
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EbolaMonkey wrote:
stip wrote:
The waiting drove me mad You're finally here and I'm a mess I take your entrance back Can't let you roam inside my head
These are some of my favorite opening lines to any pearl jam song. Sometimes we spend so much time and so much energy wishing and hoping for something that by the time we get it we’re changed and it is no longer what we need—in fact it may even be harmful.
Hamilton was my 5th Pearl Jam show, but they opened with this one in Barrie 1998 - and it'll stick out in my head until the day I die - for the very reasons you've already mentioned.
I was one of the people that camped out at the main gate by the sidestage and ran clear across Molson Park when the gates swung open ... I've never run so hard in my life. People were falling down all around me, but I managed to get up next to the barricade. I had to sit through Cheap Trick, but when Pearl Jam walked out and started the first notes to Corduroy, it was like I wasn't even in reality.
The waiting drove me mad, You're finally here and I'm a mess.
I was 18 years old, and had been worshipping this band since I was eleven. I was in a huge, gorgeous, openair venue with around 25 thousand people in it - and was only 15 feet away from 5 men who previously had only existed in photographs and in the songs I knew by heart.
That first line spoke volumes to me. I snapped back into reality pretty quick though, because when I turned around, I realized I was in the the biggest moshpit I'd ever seen.
Great post you painted an excellent picture there, love it. Very evocative.
Wish this song was a rarity in a way..and was played slower than it is..
Threads like these make me wish they'd read these SOTM pages..even just once..
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This song was definitely a turning point in their career. Even the early '94 versions let you know PJ was changing things up. And it's still one of Ed's best songwriting efforts and the band's top live songs.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
Always a moment coming through a thread and finding a post from Frank there..
Corduroy is my Pearl jam national anthem..it defines how I felt when S/T came out..the thing you love and depend on letting you down and almost corruptively turning you against it. Great song though. One of, if not the best thing they've ever done. Their defining moment.
Nice description. It will never be "the" Pearl Jam song in the way Evcen Flow or Alive is, just because of the sheer saturation of those songs, but Corduroy is about as close to a definition of Pearl Jam as you can get.
And, no, it's not as perfect live as it is in the studio, but it's still always a highlight.
This song was definitely a turning point in their career. Even the early '94 versions let you know PJ was changing things up. And it's still one of Ed's best songwriting efforts and the band's top live songs.
I see the turning point as RVM. You play Vs, and there is this fucking amazing song from no where, that fits nothing. It is an astonishing song the rest of the album cannot match.
I saw initially saw Corduroy as the change but in retrospect I think it's RVM. Corduroy is more like proof of the promise. The final seal is Merkinball.
RVM = change Corduroy = proof Merkinball = seal (anyone who doesn't get it with this release, never will)
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you painted an excellent picture there, love it. Very evocative.
