"Sirens" - Pearl Jam's official video

Pearl Jam released the second single from their upcoming album accompanied with the official video. This song seems to be the first Pearl Jam's experience in the post-grunge area.   

Pearl Jam "Mind Your Manners" - Official Music Video

Pearl Jam have released a new video for their first single "Mind Your Manners" from the upcoming tenth album Lightning Bolt. It's free to share, so enjoy!

Lightning Bolt - New Pearl Jam Album 2013

The new Pearl Jam album "Lightning Bolt" will be released on October 15, 2013. Gonna have a great time!



Listen the single from the new album "Mind Your Manners" here:

2006 Tour Covers Live compilation

This is an audio compilation of numerous covers played live during 2006 Pearl Jam World Tour. The songs have been tweaked and arranged to sound as if it's a special kind of a show, so I hope you will enjoy!

1. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts  (written by John Doe of X)
2. Masters Of War  (written by Bob Dylan)
3. (No Woman No Cry)  (written by Bob Marley)
4. Throw Your Hatred Down  (written by Neil Young & Pearl Jam)
5. Hawaii '78  (written by Israel Kamakawiwoole)
6. Waiting On A Friend  (written by The Rolling Stones)
7. Gimme Some Truth  (written by John Lennon)
8. Fortunate Son  (written by Creedence Clearwater Revival)
9. Here's To The State Of... (George W.)  (re-written by Tim Robbins)
10. Picture In A Frame  (written by Tom Waits)
11. The Boys Are Back In Town  (written by Thin Lizzy)
12. Throw Your Arms Around Me  (written by Hunters And Collectors)
13. Save It For Later  (written by English Beat)
14. Forever Young  (written by Bob Dylan)
15. I Won't Back Down  (written by Tom Petty)
16. No Surrender  (written by Bruce Springsteen)
17. I Used To Work In Chicago
18. Crown Of Thorns  (written by Mother Love Bone)
19. I Got You  (written by Split Enz)
20. Little Wing  (written by Jimi Hendrix)
21. Crazy Mary  (written by Victoria Williams)

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2009 ITW US Tour Compilation

In June of 2009 before Pearl Jam's "Backspacer" album was ready Eddie Vedder travelled across the Eastern Coast of the United States to finish up his tour with Honolulu shows. Here are the most notable songs and covers from this journey, including acoustic "Speed Of Sound" from the upcoming Pearl Jam album.

1. (Tuolumne)
2. Open All Night
3. State Trooper
4. Girl From The North Country
5. Poor Girl
6. 4-th Of July
7. Atlantic City
8. Can't Help Falling In Love
9. (Brain Damage) Sometimes
10. Improv (Albany #1)
11. Improv (Albany #2)
12. Till The Rivers All Run Dry
13. Bobby Jean
14. Speed Of Sound  - acoustic
15. Hawaii 78
16. Hard Sun

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2006 World Tour Australian leg compilation

For the last leg of their last so far of the Grand live tours Pearl Jam arrived to Australia and found great enthusiastic crowds. Newcastle show is considered by many fans as the best show of the tour, and I like Adelaide performances as well. The final 2006 shows in Hawaii were great too. The most special song of this leg is "Thumbing My Way" solo by Ed and Boom.

1. Porch  (short)
2. Corduroy
3. World Wide Suicide
4. (Improv) Small Town
5. Daughter (Beds Are Burning)
6. Hawaii 78
7. Picture In A Frame
8. Thumbing My Way  (Ed & Boom acoustic solo)
9. I Got You
10. Throw Your Hatred Down
11. Yellow Ledbetter (Little Wing)

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2006 World Tour European Leg Compilation

Pearl Jam returned to Europe after long 6 years break, and found very warm and enthusiastic welcome. All shows were great, especially the first part of the leg. Spanish and Portuguese crowds were extraordinary loud. Ed's vocal performance was fantastic, but in Madrid his voice suddenly cracked and never revived until maybe the end of Italian shows.

This compilation highlights the most memorable moments of the tour, such as part of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on ukulele, or 'reverted' "Hunger Strike" duet with Eddie singing the first verse instead of his usual second.

1. The Boys Are Back In Town
2. Improv (My Verona)
3. Come Back (Today Your Love Tomorrow The World)
4. I Belive In Miracles
5. Hunger Strike  (with Andrew Stockdale from Wolfmother)
6. Improv (Portugal, Portugal)
7. (Improv) Small Town
8. (No Woman No Cry) Better Man (No Woman I Cry)
9. Daughter (It's Ok)
10. Even Flow
11. (Iron Man)
12. Thumbing My Way
13. All Or None
14. Black (Good Woman) (We Belong Together)
15. Picture In A Frame
16. Yellow Ledbetter

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2005 Covers Live

Tour 2005 (especially Canadian leg) was packed with covers. Some have never been played again. Some popular songs performances were very special: nice slow tempo "I Believe In Miracles", or "Rockin' In The Free World" with rap-like vocal adding from Bono of U2.

1. I Believe In Miracles
2. American In Me
3. Running Back To Saskatoon
4. Little Sister
5. Driven To Tears
6. The New World (with John Doe)
7. (Ruby Tuesday)
8. Trouble
9. Harvest Moon
10. A Sort Of Homecoming
11. Fuckin' Up
12. Rockin' In The Free World (with Bono of U2)
13. Bleed For Me
14. Kick Out The Jams (with Mudhoney)
15. Baba O'Riley

Bonus:

1. Going To California
2. Money (That's All I Want)
3. Fool In The Rain
4. Thank You

Updated to ver. 2.00 (2012-12-17): massive update: compilation was altogether reworked to sound if like a show, removed songs: "Gimme Some Truth", "Crazy Mary"; added 4 songs from 2005-10-05 Chicago with Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin (audience audio).

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Fuckin-Ups Live

Just for fun. I had started to collect some spectacular fuck-ups from the band, maybe they would make you smile, my friends!

1. Sometimes (first time ever Eddie forgets lyrics for the very opening song of the show!)
2. Animal (song stopped due to electrical power supply falure, Ed jokes that maybe Bruce Springsteen, who played at that venue before them, didn't pay the bill for electricity?)
3. Alone (Stone's guitar failure forced the band to make a break in the middle of the song)
4. Better Man (Ed fucked up his most famous hit and commented: Tom Petty would never do that, never! He is a professional!)
5. Love Boat Captain (aborted) (fuck, I can't remember!)
6. Small Town (aborted) + Improv(Let Stone sing) (what was planned to be the Small Town ended up as "Let Stone sing!" funny improvisation)
7. Crazy Mary (after spectacular equipment failure shocked Eddie said that he would never play this song again, but with the help of the audience they finished it; Ed about Mary: I never called her insane publicly before)

Updated to ver. 1.01 (2012-12-14): Added "Sometimes" and "Animal"

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2006 World Tour US Leg 2 Compilation

The second part of 2006 World Tour started in Pittsburgh and then Pearl Jam travelled West, opening 6 shows for Tom Petty among other dates, and finished at gorgeous Gorge Amphitheatre not far from Seattle. Every show was fantastic, the band was in absolutely perfect shape, crowds were great, and even warming up for Tom Petty the band enjoyed loud support and singalongs.

In this compilation Corduroy and Better Man from Denver represent different approach for keys as Boom Gaspar was absent and replaced by Benmont Tench from Tom Petty's band. Bu$hleaguer is with "Georgie-boy" vocal intro. In Little Sister Ed's mistake was rectified with additional solo by Mike. Present Tense is one of the slightly alternated extended outro solo versions, as well as Big Wave. Leash "fox-news-fuck-you" is just a powerful pinnacle of the set, leading to a Yellow Ledbetter "good-bye".

1. Corduroy
2. Better Man (Save It For Later)
3. Bu$hleaguer
4. Daughter (It's Ok)
5. Rearviewmirror
6. Little Sister
7. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
8. American In Me (with members of Avengers)
9. Big Wave
10. Porch
11. I Won't Back Down
12. Waiting On A Friend
13. Little Wing
14. Present Tense
15. Crown Of Thorns
16. Leash
17. Yellow Ledbetter (Star-Spangled Banner)

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2006 World Tour US Leg 1 Compilation

The first leg of self-titled Pearl Jam album promotion tour (Avocado tour, as Ed mentioned) focused on the North-East of the USA. This leg included shows in large cities such as New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. The band was in very good energetic mood, Ed's voice was great from the start and in the final shows was absolutely fantastic. After a long break and endless fans requests, Leash had returned to set-lists rotation. Also this tour provided us with many interesting improvs and alterations, some new covers. In my opinion, the most interesting show of this leg was Toronto, night 2 (and night 1 was very good too). The loudest crowd was in Boston, but overall audience singing was nothing in comparison to, for example, US tour in the same cities in 2010.

For this compilation I've selected some improvs, Alive with much longer final solo (Leash with longer solo went to Vs. Live compilation). After playing I Got Id Eddie revealed a secret that the core of this song had been taken from Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl and played it as a snippet. During Long Road's solo Mike played very unusual U2-like riffs. Daughter and Rearviewmirror feature new tags. Before Rats Matt played drum intro. Very good version of Immortality also includes intro (Ed plays it from time to time) and gorgeous extended outro. And the grand-finale for this compilation is Yellow Ledbetter. After very passionate and energetic Crazy Mary (slow tempo version) and Alive it takes easy and relaxed as Eddie couldn't hold his laughter at something during the first verse and then finished the song with the snippet of Rolling Stones' Beast Of Burden. Also check reworked Garden and more alterations in other songs.

1. Long Road
2. Comatose
3. I Got Id (Cinnamon Girl)  -Ed reveals the secret of these songs
4. (Toronto Improv 1) Whipping
5. Daughter (To Come)
6. Rats  (-with drum intro)
7. Garden  (-reworked hardened version-2006)
8. Porch
9. (Toronto Improv 2)
10. Wishlist (improv tag "I wish I was the president")
11. Rearviewmirror
12. Forever Young
13. Immortality
14. Crazy Mary
15. Alive
16. Yellow Ledbetter (Beast Of Burden)

Updated to ver. 1.02: Thumbing My Way removed, for better version is taken for European part.
Updated to ver. 1.03: Embedded mp3 album picture.

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Plenty Of Time - Lost Eddie Vedder's song

"I purchased this demo tape off of ebay 12 years ago. There was limited information from the seller, other than that he purchased it at a yard sale in Montana. One side of the cassette contains three tracks I cannot identify as Bad Radio Songs. The fourth track is the acoustic version of Homeless. The other side of the cassette contains 4 recognized Bad Radio Songs.
The cassette holder is visible in the video. There is writing in white-out on the cassette, which labels one side "Bad Radio", and the other side "The Butts". A written note inside the cassette says "this is the butts first demo. must see live. keep in touch. eddie (phone #)"
If these three tracks are indeed The Butts and not Bad Radio, then I believe it will be the earliest known recordings from Eddie Vedder."

(by www.theskyiscrape.com)

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2008 ITW US Tour leg 2 Compilation

As soon as the 2008 Pearl Jam US tour had been accomplished, Eddie Vedder continued with the second part of his own tour. This time he focused on the East Coast, visiting New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto and other famous cities. Ed was joined by Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes for back vocals. Set-lists for this tour featured more interesting covers, a lot of Neil Young's songs and some re-arranged Pearl Jam items, such as lullaby version of Better Man. This compilation is more of a romantic selection. Check also rare Ed's song All The Way, which he wrote in 2007 for Chicago Cubs, his favorite baseball team.

1. (Small Town intro)
2. I Can't Explain
3. I'm One
4. (Walk Hard)
5. Society  -with Liam Finn
6. Blackbird
7. Better Man  -lullaby acoustic
8. Long May You Run
9. Old Man  -with L.Finn and E.J.Barnes
10. Hurt
11. Ship Song
12. Helpless  -with E.J.Barnes
13. Here's To The State Of... George W.
14. Improv(East Coast)
15. Small Town
16. All The Way
17. All Along The Watchtower

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2008 ITW US Tour Leg 1 Compilation

In the year of 2008 Eddie Vedder embarked on his first ever solo tour supporting his album Into The Wild. The first leg of the tour started in April and was focused around the West coast of the USA. It was called "April Fools Tour" and this compilation is all around funny moments, such as an interactive Let My Love Open The Door performance, Dirty Frank riffs on mandolin, or a joky song for Sean Penn, an author of Into The Wild film and Ed's friend. Also Eddie played lots of new covers never heard at Pearl Jam concerts, and some rarities like a snippet of his old Bad Radio song "Believe You Me".

1. Walking The Cow
2. Her Majesty
3. Growin' Up
4. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
5. Rise
6. (Dirty Frank)   -on mandolin
7. I Used To Work In Chicago
8. Sean Penn (Bad Acting Hack)
9. Improv (Barry White)   -mellow pop improv
10. Improv (God Is In Control / Limit Yourself)
11. Let My Love Open The Door
12. Don't Be Shy
13. I Am Mine
14. Millworker
15. Santa Cruz
16. (Believe You Me) No More
17. Arc
18. Yellow Ledbetter   -with Mike McCready

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2009 Covers Live

Another chapter of endless Pearl Jam covers. In 2009 the band was restless introducing more and more new songs. Six covers were played for the first time and never again, so it was really special year of touring. And, as always, there are some more great cover performances.

1. Leaving Here (composed by Holland-Dozier)
2. (Interstellar Overdrive) (Pink Floyd cover)
3. Whip It (Devo cover) -played once and never again
4. The Needle And The Damage Done (Neil Young cover)
5. Golden State -with Corin Tucker (John Doe cover) -played once and never again
6. Walking The Cow (Daniel Johnston cover)
7. (Angie) (Rolling Stones cover)
8. Not Given Lightly -with Neil and Liam Finn (Chris Knox cover) -played once and never again
9. Better Be Home Soon -with Neil and Liam Finn (Crowded House cover) -played once and never again
10. Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran cover)
11. If You Want Blood /You Got It + Blood -with Mike McCready on back vocals (AC/DC cover) -played once and never again
12. Mountain Song -with Perry Farrell from Jane's Addiction (Jane's Addiction cover) -played once and never again
13. So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star (with Ed's story: This job I got now I'm never gonna fuckin' quit) (The Byrds cover)

Updated to ver 2.00 (2012-12-14): Serious upgrade: removed "Throw Your Arms Around Me", "Throw Your Hatred Down", "I Got You" - better versions of these songs are now in 2006 Covers; changed song's order and more work done to polish this compilation.

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Avocado Live

You can find Avocado on the front cover, and on the back cover, and on the inside cover of Self-titled Pearl Jam album. Its release was followed by the strong solid long 2006 World Tour. Band was on fire, Ed's voice was in top form and songs from Pearl Jam are not too difficult to play. Live songs are very similar to their album versions, but "Come Back" got some alterations in final solo, and "Army Reserve" and "Big Wave" were often played with longer and a bit different outros.

1. Inside Job
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Severed Hand
4. Comatose
5. Marker In The Sand
6. Gone
7. Parachutes
8. Life Wasted
9. Wasted Reprise
10. Unemployable
11. Big Wave
12. (Jeff & Stone rehearsal intro) Come Back
13. Army Reserve
14. Guaranteed
15. No More

Updated (2012-12-09) to ver. 2.02: "Severed Hand" is now from 2006 Toronto, "Wasted Reprise" is from 2006 Chicago, "Big Wave" with 3-guitar outro is from 2006 LA.

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Dedicated to R.E.M.

"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."  R.E.M.

Sorry, this post is not about Pearl Jam, but I'm really sad and disappointed about R.E.M. break-up and would like to thank and wish all the best to Michael, Mike and Peter for their wonderful music they shared with us.

You know, that 1997 Christmas single Pearl Jam and R.E.M. released together. R.E.M. also released Christmas singles with the artists like Radiohead or Neil Young. There is a collection of R.E.M. Christmas singles from 1988 up to the final year of 2011 (52 songs).
UPDATE (2012-11-02): Singles from 1988 up to 1994 had been replaced with re-encoded tracks from recently found CD

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2005 Canadian Tour Compilation

Eddie started this tour at not his best vocal form, but improved show by show. So, vocally the best songs are to be found at the end of the tour. Also mark Winnipeg - it was the really nice show. Highlights for this tour are some funny band-audience interactions like "Let Stone sing!", or many other kinds of 'pearls', such as "sitar-like" jam on "Even Flow", 2005-only tag "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", Ed's solo presentation of "Gone" and more. Also this was a Ramones-tribute tour with some songs to remember, and don't forget that Canada is Neil Young's home land.

1. I Believe In Miracles (slow tempo)
2. Wishlist (tag: you've got to hear the truth)
3. Daughter (Another Brick In The Wall)
4. Immortality
5. Hard To Imagine
6. Better Man (I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend)
7. Even Flow
8. Long Road
9. Black (improv tag: "still I wonder")
10. Rearviewmirror
11. Improv (Let Stone sing!)
12. Harvest Moon
13. Gone  (Ed solo)
14. Crazy Mary
15. Porch
16. Improv (Drop the Leash!)
17. Rockin' In The Free World
18. Yellow Ledbetter

Updated to ver. 1.01 (20-11-2010): Added Black with "still I wonder" improv. tag from Ottawa; removed Off He Goes;
Updated to ver. 1.02 (2012-12-18): added "Hard To Imagine", removed "Not For You" and "Given To Fly", lots of minor tweaks concerning improving sound quality.

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2005 Latin American Tour Compilation

2005 Latin American tour is the first and the last one so far to visit Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Spanish and Portugeese speaking crowds are maybe the loudest singers in the world so this tour on stadiums is very special. No surprise that my compilation is full of chants and great singalongs - this was the main focus in song selection. The real pearls are It's Ok tag in Spanish (called Esta Bien) performed in Mexico and fantastic stadium crowd singing after Yellow Ledbetter in Buenos Aires.
As for the shows, my favorites are the ones in Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires. Brazilian shows were even more intense, but plagued with Ed's vocal problems. After all South American madness Monterrey show was not the one to remember, but Mexico city audience performed as always well.

1. Given To Fly
2. Jeremy
3. Improv (Santiago ole-ole)
4. Better Man (Modern Girl)
5. Black (We Belong Together)
6. (Improv) Save You
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. Not For You (Mexico chant)
9. Daughter (Esta Bien)
10. Untitled + MFC
11. Kick Out The Jams (with Mudhoney)
12. Rockin' In The Free World
13. Yellow Ledbetter (Buenos Aires chant)

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1995 Mirrorball Tour Compilation

In 1995 Pearl Jam had an interesting experience to serve as a backup band for Neil Young's album "Mirrorball". In summer Neil Young embarked on 11-date tour in Europe and Israel to promote this record, and his touring band consisted of Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jack Irons and Brendan O'Brien on keyboard (producer of many Pearl Jam albums). Only Eddie Vedder was not present.
Set-lists for this tour were pretty much the same. Only audience records exist. Making this compilation, I tried to avoid performances with a long exhausting 15-20 min jams and focused on achieving nice easy listenig. Of course, the great "Cortez The Killer" is on the list.

1. Mr. Soul
2. Peace And Love
3. Scenery
4. Don't Let It Bring You Down
5. Mother Earth
6. Cortez The Killer
7. (band presentation)
8. Powderfinger

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