I remember back in the day - ie 1996 - when the internets was still a new thing for me (hey I live in Australia, we haven't invented phones yet, we still use two cans attached to a long string), I would get one chance every few months to check for news on Pearl Jam. Prior to No Code coming out I clearly remember reading a rumored tracklist that included the following songs:

23 Street Chorus, Falling Down, Hard To Imagine, The Needle

Obviously two of those are real songs (to this day Falling Down is one of my favorite Pearl Jam "songs", I always thought Pearl Jam should have done something with it, rather than The Rockfords). The other two titles, however, could be anything: working titles, jokes, etc. The first one in particular really intrigued me.
Anyway, my question is, what other alternate titles\unreleased songs do people know about? For example, I remember one record was allegedly going to be called Stripes, and I also remember reading that I Am Mine's original title was Code Red.

Good thread, but other than Crapshoot Rapture, I can't think of any more. Let's hope we can retire the Avocado and the Kiwi here, though.

undone = you are

blackout - bushleaguer


big job = inside job


letter to the dead = sad

I can't believe I forgot that one. Letter To The Dead was another title along w\23 Street Chorus that intrigued me. I actually met Stone at a Brad concert in 2003 and requested they play it at their upcoming Adelaide show; I can still remember the way he half-rolled his eyes and looked at me like I was retarded. If only I'd known that the song sucked and if only I'd requested Fatal instead. Oh well. You live and you learn.

As a slight aside, given what I wrote above about Falling Down, I also always thought that the improv before Habit from the Montreal 2000 show would have also made for a good song, especially Stone's guitar line. The first line goes something like: "I'm at home, alone."

There were these three songs for a rumoured rarity track couple of years ago:

Anything In Between
Homeless
Wishing Well

And of course the one that were on the first tracklisting for Binaural:

In The Moonlight
Letter To The Dead
Education

That's all I can think of right now.

Huh?

You think that 'Sad' sucks?

Alas, yes. The problem was I knew about it for years before I ever actually heard it. And it was never going to be as good as I was hoping. Fatal, on the other hand. Now that's a good song.

what about that huge listing of songs that was posted before the riot act tracklist that ended up having all the real riot act songs plus like 20 more? i'm sure someone else here can dig that up.

you are's original title was going to be undone but then eddie wrote undone and matt changed the title


There was a bad radio song called homeless (one of their best). I wonder if they tried to work it into a PJ song.

100 Pacer: Lukin

It was also called untitled on a number of bootlegs I had, as well as new song

Before No Code came out i read in Hit Parader magazine that Ship Song was supposed to be on it

Im not sure if some of these were officials titles but they were listed on the back of bootlegs before the albums came out...

Last Exit = Three Days
Go = Nemesis
Whipping = Don't Need
Brain of J = Brain of JFK
Red Mosquito = Mosquito

LOL, I almost miss $50 bootlegs with tracklistings peppered with titles like "Giving to fly" , "New Song", "New Song", "Tremor's Christ."
Taped from the crowd where some asshole ALWAYS talks over your favorite song.

me too--almost

Yellow Letter --> Yellow Led Better
Breath and a Scream --> Breath
Already in Love--> Satan's Bed ???

man, Stone was kind of a dick.

Bronze Lighter

..I saw a mention of this in a 5H article one time. After talking with a couple people I think the best guess is it was an early title for Red Mosquito. If anyone knows differently, Id love to hear about it.

I think it was No Code, the latest rumor was that the album was actually going to be called HOT ROCKET. If I'm not mistaken, the Rumor Pit on Synergy even made note of it.