Anyone remember watching this on SNL for the first time. Wow what a powerful expressions of a big FU to just about everyone.

I don't know about you but I was kinda impressed with RATS and what that meant but this went one step further...this bordered on insulting even the fans.

Yet I loved it. Even though it's most likely directed towards recrod execs etc I felt some of it as a fan and it was pretty cool to know they were making music for them and nobody else.

where has that sentiment gone in today's music

song has never been performed as good since SNL.

i agree with you.

his speech in milwaukee in 95 pretty much said it was anyone trying to make money of the band.

but ims ure it could also be abouthe fans who want more and more and more and more...

my friends they don't scream my name out

yeah. I think we fans are a little bit inadvertent vampires of energy. our thoughts and needs and hopes and love and demands , i believe, can reach the guys and suck their energy, and they can feel it. i think BLOOD is also about people trying to suck their music.

I think SNL is good, but that wrong note Eddie hits just kills me every time.

My favorite version: 10/2/96 hands down

agreed. there's alot of "invading my personal space" between Vs and Vitalogy.

was releasing Who You Are as the first single an attempt to further shake off dead weight fans?

by dead weight fans I mean the thousands of girls I knew who had a picture of Eddie and loved PJ because he was hot.

omg, i hope i'm not a dead weight fan cause i have thousands of pictures of Ed and i love him also because he's hot.

I still say they should have played Immortality that night instead...

Immortality was "still in the oven" at that time. Listen to the recordings of it from that month, Ed still wasn't sure what the words would be.

--PunkDavid

One of my favorite songs, pure energy distilled into just a few chords. The last "Fuck You" still makes me boil a little bit.

This may be a bit off-topic, but I really, truly never understood those girls. Even in 1991, when I first heard, "Alive," I was into Pearl Jam because I liked their music. Same with Soundgarden. And, to be honest, I was kind of surprised anybody thought Eddie was "hot." I mean, I thought he was okay-looking, but if all those girls wanted was to scream over some pretty guy...well...there were prettier guys out there.

Far away from be the heaviest but sure it is the most agressive PJ song ever

hopefully all that's sacred doesn't come from youth and can be produced by a few 40 year olds in a studio somewhere


"I'm 40 I'm half dead, I'll end up alone like I began"

This is a quote from 09/24/96 - Merriweather Post Pavilion: Columbia, MD



Got the quote from Five Horizons, but I was there in (on) the grass that night. Great show! My first PJ show too!

I was backwards. I didn't think he was hot first. I heard them, thought whoever had a voice w/that much emotion had to be hot, loved the music, finally saw him and thought he was rather scary (insane) looking, and then the more I heard that voice, the better looking he became.
I know I saw this SNL and it's in my head somewhere but I can't think of how good it was right now. I'd love to see it again.

alright who cares about how good looking he is, let's get back to the music. If freakin Britney Spears sung like Eddie and had his emotion I would have her freaking picture everywhere as well, I can excuse the sexuality thing

I want ANGER MOFO

or kittens and cuddling, u choose

"""edited due to Jim Beam"""

This song became an anthem for my life at one stage....Even now when I hear it, it makes all the enrgy come flooding back...

"...Call me Sysiphus love..."

Unfortunately, I haven't seen the SNL performance.

But I love this song! It's my favorite from PJ actually.

this song makes me wanna absolutely nuts...and after the hundreds of times ive heard it, i still get tingly at the FUCK YOU part. possibly my favorite pj song ever.

Yes. It's one of the reasons I consider Vitalogy my favorite album. And as Gogol said in the original post, just the idea that they were recording music for themselves, without any regard for anyone else thought of them is...well, I'll say beautiful. That's exactly how I'd like to live my life...with all of that integrity.