What would your life be like without Pearl Jam?

'A Christmas Carol' about Pearl Jam and what your life would be like without the music, the emotion, compassion, heart-on-the-sleeve, extended jams, etc...

Quite honestly I would be very different. The music was there during some of the toughest times in my life. I am a grown man now, but at the naive age of 21 I saw a video that opened with a wave crashing down. I was intrigued, of course, and quickly rushed out like millions of others to purchase 'ten'.

I used to walk, skateboard, or ride my bike with this amazing audio tape blasting in my cheap headphones. I not only heard it in my ears, I felt it in my soul. It was unlike any music or for that matter, any art my senses had ever come in contact with.

When I was sad, PJ. When I was happy, PJ. When I stumbled, PJ. When I was anxious or uncomfortable and needed confindence, pearl jam was right there.

I'll never meet the band, nor do I need to. The music is a great friend of mine. My best friend to be honest.

The band members are older now. Wiser. So am I. I have seen them live a bunch. Have shared them with many. Have tried to get my hands on as much rare sound as possible. I have read related books, articles, and listened to related bands. I have listened to political viewsI would have shrugged off as nonsense.

Fast forward to today and here I am...I am suppose to be working right now but I'm thinking about that video I saw about 13 years ago where the wave crashes down and the sound of a fender guitar begins to wail. I'm happy we are both still around and grateful for all of it...

Back to work.

Man, I can't even begin to think about that. I mean, I have another favorite band along with PJ, and I like a lot of other music, but PJ has been a staple in my life for 13 years. Shudder to think!

I couldn't agree with you more iwishiwasaleaver. Thanks for sharing!

PJ was the first band I really took an interest in (i think I was 13 at the time) and the Even Flow video is what caught my attention, I hadn't seen or heard any of there stuff before that moment. I remember going to school and talking to some friends about how this singer would jump into the crowd from the rafters and thinking it was the craziest thing I've ever seen!
I had a friend with a "cool" older brother who had Ten on tape, I quickly copied it and never looked back. Ten was the first CD I ever bought aswell... along with the Barenaked Ladies "Gordon", but we won't go into that (I'm canadian, sue me!)
All this to say that this is the band I've never lost interest in. They've been the soundtrack to my life. I get chills just thinking about how this band makes me feel...
I'm glad they're still around and making music that is relevant, passionate, challenging, and above all just great to listen to.
Thank you Pearl Jam

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im fairly certain the world would continue to spin

That's not the point.

actually it is, cause how can you say some other band wouldnt have caught your fancy? maybe because you didnt stay in your car that extra 3:15 seconds to listen to daughter on the radio you may have been killed.
how can you say one thing in your life would change cause you never heard eddie vedder wail on black?

Peeps, what is your point, other than spreading negativity and posting just to post and often being a total dick about it?

Prediction: Peeps being a dick. Not a stretch.
Odds: 1:3

Peeps - Age: 9 ...

Now I understand.

how in the fuck is saying im fairly certain the world would continue to spin, being a dick

its my fucking opinion mr pea brain, it wouldnt affect my life on iota. im sorry you posted a fucking question on a message board asking for responses, and i give you mine, but you dont like it. sorry to get your dick in a knot

Peeps, You think you're special or left of center. You're trying too hard, man. Slow your roll a little and you might pull it off. Relax, think before you type, and maybe, just maybe, you will work out some of your internal problems. We are here for you, man. Say it with me, peeps, "I am somebody."

whatever helps you sleep at night


i know i sleep better at night knowing that if so and so band didnt exist my life would be the same as it is now

I would still survive, but I couldn't imagine never hearing the songs...the songs, man.

Such heartfelt emotion. Such stories. Great hooks. Great instrumentation. Great vocals.

thats sorta my whole point, but i guess i was to busy being a dick for anyone to realise it

how would you know your missing a particular song if youve never heard it?

would you be humming corduroy? or given to fly?

Life without PJ = Not possible

Well at least there would be no Creed So Nirvana would inspire a lot of other bands instead of Pearl Jam, so i think grunge would never DIE,, muaaahahaa

Without Pearl Jam, I wouldn't listen to most of the music I'm currently into. I'm big into music from the 60s and 70s like Zeppelin, Floyd, and the Who and its all because of PJ.

pearl jam?

I don't think anyone here would argue that life as we know it would end, but I'm sure life for a lot of us would be very different if it weren't for PJ. Go beyond just the music, man. Of course there would be other bands to fill in the gap. But the whole point of this thread goes way beyond that.

2 of my best friends are big PJ fans. Would we have met and become such good friends without this band as a starting point? What about all the online friends I have made over the years? What about all the money I have spent on bootlegs and memorabilia? What about the trip I made to Seattle for the 2002 KeyArena shows? One of the people I went with was one of the abovementioned friends. He proposed to his girlfriend out there. What if that trip never happened? What if him and I never became friends, and because of it for some reason he never lived in NC for a year where he me his now wife? I would not have met my girlfriend, who I now own a condo with. She grew up good friends with his wife, and that is how she and I met.

im kinda w/ peeps on this one. it wouldnt be that big of a deal, as if say, my older brother didnt exist, or really anyone i know personally, but it would change the way i listen to music and probly some of the bands i listen to.

but honestly, its not like anyone of us would have slit our wrists b/c pearl jam wasnt around.

the courage to my first kiss i took from Porch