That title should go to Lolita by PAW ;)

I'm glad I got suggested this by YT. I've been waiting for a music podcast for all my favourite bands and it looks like I've found it!

Great channel man, keep it coming. I know this is a year old but I've become a fan already and watched the first video today

for your next video can you please do how Rock artists inspire and influence by Bob Marley.

Was it that long?

@moexus--Isn't that strange? I was just talking to my mother about that same thing on New Years Day, as we couldn't believe it was 2021, which then got us talking about how we both still feel like the year 2000 was just a year or two ago, and then just as you stated 1990 still seems like 10 years ago, I mentioned how, whenever I think back to classic rock and the late-60s/early-70s, I automatically think of it as being just 30 years ago, and of course she said she has the same problem or delusion or whatever you want to call it. So I'm not sure if this phenomenon happens at the turn of every century, or if it's only at each millennium, or perhaps it's unique to the year 2000.

@@ibrown3KC im sure some of it is that time goes by faster as u get older so it doesnt seem like so much has gone by. I think the internet, mobil phones and technology is also partially responsible. Each decade b4 the 90s was its own era. Its like the last 25yrs has only had about 5 yrs of change compared to previous decades.

i was born in 2000s and still, I feel the same way lol

Yes that's so true

So good...Thanks for watching! 🙌

I gasped fr

Omg I’m not a native speaker, I misheard it as “they live with the curse”. LOL totally the opposite meaning, so thanks for posting this.

I'm not ashamed to say it made me lift my hands to my chest. Eddie is a good person in the truest sense of the word. The definition of "heart."

It seriously made me tear up a little bit.

Trying to listen to it straight through would be a masochist endurance test. It’s only a “perfect” album if you can tolerate uninspiring derivative mass packaged rock.

@@AveragePicker wth are you talking about dude

Agreed!!!

@@AveragePickerStop hating bruh, Ten is one of the greatest albums ever made

@@JordanCantFight Pearl Jam was for every conformist frat guy that wanted to pretend they had some depth in hopes of impressing equally shallow drunk sorority girls on Thursday night. Ten is a dull completely safe uninspiring rock album. Fine, it’s good for being what it is, boring. It takes no chances, breaks no new ground, and catered to mass appeal.

we all go through "shit". well, most of us. people dont become musicians because theyre happy

Not sure if you saw his Stern interview, but he said right before Cornell passed away, his younger brother did too. He’s been through some shit, and it sucks because he’s such a great guy.

@@DaveAnchovies You're contradicting yourself. If none of us are happy, then wouldn't it go without saying that happy people wouldn't become musicians?

True he doesn’t come off as happy for lucky. I don’t know him super well, but I live near where he comes to the beach regularly in seattle so I see him all the time. He’s very guarded and not happy go lucky at all. Very shy etc. of course he’s a celebrity so that’s a part of it too.

@@Tracker947 He isn't contradicting himself. He's saying going through some shit is not the same as not being happy

For me, Grunge was acknowledgement that life isn't always rainbows and lollipops, sometimes it's hard, sometimes you feel alone, sometimes you feel lost, it'll chew you up, spit you out, then pick you back up and give you a hug. Grunge was raw, it was real and for many, it was relatable, and it will continue to be for many generations to come, that is the sign of great music - spanning multiple generations and connecting with all of them in one way or another. Take Nirvana Unplugged for example, it doesn't matter who listens to it, everyone can feel the emotion in that album/performance, even my (almost) 70 year old parents

Ya know it is grunge yes! But to me it5 fits the meaning of punk Rock. Remember the first time you heard this, chris cornell, or nirvana. You were immediately blown away you just knew it was a big deal.

Grunge was more punk than punk itself

I knows taiwan does not but i find it odd that the antiproton production patent disappeared in the past 3 weeks

Wow, do we need a neo-grunge movement to cope with today.

Followed by 30 years of steady decline

@@ness1278 The decline started around 1980. The 90's were an Indian Summer. We all had an older brother or someone in our life telling us about better times and better bands. And they had heard about the times before them, and listened the influences that came before that. That's over now, with the boomer hatred and dismissal of traditions. It's awful out there, and I remember as a kid hoping to see the kind of evolutions in music my parents and grandparents saw.

...and still devolving, just look at today’s Pop. I can just hear these Unicorn 🦄 loving Gen Z’ers reminiscing on how music was real music when they were growing up...”Ahhh Arianna Grande, Lil Nas, Bieber.. now THAT was real music my little non-binary..”

@@Sochi_Mochi I don't know where you came up with all that garbage. I didn't mention anything about music being better back then,I just said it was the best 10 years of my life. I'm sure that applies to everyone's 20's. Calm down snowflake, you're in your safe place.

@@jasegtree1206 I was 17 in 1990 as well and completely agree it was awesome. And though everyone's 20's were the best to them not everyone's 20's were equal. That is why they are mad.

Just make sure to leave a breathing hole or it's counterproductive

he's safe, because PJ isn't really grunge

@Andrew PJ was grunge for the first three albums, then it switched to more classic rock/country

@Andrew I think a good way of explaining what their newer music sounds like is that they went more in the direction of a song like "Daughter" from the second album rather than a song like Even Flow or Alive

pearl jam wasn't grunge, they just rode the grunge wave

"I'm okay now" from that show was so cute and sweet but also definitive. If you've battled through something and come out the other side somewhat intact then that is amazing.

Yeah I couldn't imagine lying to my child about something that big. I don't lie to my daughters about even little tiny things because I believe telling the truth is Paramount. But to actually have your dad in the same room as you and not know it's your father that's borderline evil.

@@R-Lee- Good on you. People who value truth are a minority in this world, its an epidemic of bullshit today. Your daughters are lucky to have a parent like you. Our parents set us up for success or failure. Honesty and truth is not always easy, and lies often get you what you want, but the truth allows you to be free, to be able to live with yourself, and to be able to look at your loved ones in the eye. Truth is the hard road that leads to everything that matters in life, lies are the easy road that leads to all the hedonistic stuff that one desires, leaves youunfulfilled and hating yourself. Telling lies damages you over time in my belief, and it certainly damages the relationships you have. The truth hurts at the outset, but once out, it's over, you released it, you can breath again, your conscience is clean. I'm working hard on being more honest, but old habits die hard.

my dad took a "23 and me" DNA test..... just because my sister did out of curiosity...... so he did it as well turns out.... im not the first child he had! . he had always figured he knocked this girl up..... but her parents told my dad it was a black dudes kid.... and the kid was black . my dad was a "rough and rugged" dude...an auto mechanic / pro welder (aka, he welded bridges)....... and poor.... DIRT poor.... so her parents didnt approve of him . however.... my dad is NOT a dead beat..... and would have 100% supported the kid but it was her parents that didnt allow that to happen . my dad was like "well, if the kid is black.... its obviously not mine" and she and her family moved out of state when she was like months preggo..... . and this is WAY WAY before the internet and facebook...... so how would my dad find out?? he didnt even know where she moved to..... as....again.... her parents kept that a secret . so ~28 years later..... he finds out.... threw this DNA test.... that he has a 3rd kid.... and im not his oldest son... . which kinda made me jealous at first..... but Bradley is a cool dude (despite being a hardcore trump supporter) im 26.... he is 30 or 32 IIRC (i could get on Facebook and see for sure.... but im too lazy and its besides the point) . brad knew his "father" wasnt his real dad..... but his mom never told him it was my dad however.... once we took that DNA test..... it told us his name.... and my sister found Brad on facebook . so it was pretty cool (and awkward) for both my dad and Brad...... at first . we were going to all meet up.... but then COVID happened.... so we are just staying safe till this ends.... hopefully sooner than later . and now that the president thinks its not a Hoax.... and "just the flu"...... we might actually get rid of COVID ya know..... like 90% of the world has already done . we are wiping out 2 glasgow montana's a day.... but its just a hoax.... . if i ever saw trump in person..... id lick my finger and wipe that spray tan off his face.....

@@kainhall great story, f==ked up when parents decide who their grandchildrens parents get to be. (I know , grammar) especially if it doesn't change who the child has in their life. I had an older brother my dad was never allowed to meet. It messed with him pretty bad. None of us know if he even knows he had a different father than he was told. He didn't as of thetime I was 5 or so I think. Who knows I could be completely wrong. he was a few years older than me. Anyway, maybe him being a trump supporter shouldn't be a strike on his character, chances are you not being a trump supporter isn't as far as hea concerned. The anti trump establishment put a lot of effort into dividing us politically. Pushed a lot of untruths onto the public, rage baiting us into hating each other. And if you look back to the beginning of covid, that guy in office now, and most everyone but for trump, criticized him for taking it seriously, and maybe there are reasons to believe it's not as we've been told. I can't say either way, but I remember he took some heat for taking measures to try to keep it from blowing up here, something about xenophobia and racism, as well as fear mongering. They changed their tune within a month and I watched the narrative flip. I myself never trusted him fully, I know how bad the guy they installed now is tho. I hope you see it too before too long. But no hate tho, is hard to see past the veil. It took me a long time, the illusion was broken for me well before trump came along, made the part 4 years difficult to follow tho for sure. I never could form a solid opinion on him, always thought he could easily be part of the illusion. It did make it easy to see the hysteria for what it was tho. Anyway let love abound, don't let them drive a wedge between you and those you love, or anyone else for that matter, we need each other, and we need unity, no matter how hard they work to divide us.

And his angst. Let's not forget his angst.

I feel this way about Layne.

The only gripe I have is all the singers who came after trying to copy his vocal style.

@@TimmyT1972 thanks you. Well said. So much of that 90s music turned me off because of the vocals. I hated Vedder's voice and I especially hated all the cooy cats. There were tons. Not AIC,best vocalist of that era and probably many more eras. RIP Layne

Layne Staley

Don't forget Layne Staley

They will always live on through the music they gave us.

Plus Chris Cornell & Layne Staley of course

@@azureavocado5195 100 % agreed

I never had any trouble understanding "Alive."

I never had trouble understanding the lyrics for Alive or Black. Yellow Ledbetter, on the other hand, is purposefully vague and mumbled and he changes the lyrics to whatever is on his mind at the time. So there are multiple versions of the lyrics for that one depending on which concert or version you heard.

fuck, man. ive been through the shit grinder, but cant imagine that. i dont know my brother, he wont speak to me, most of the time it feels like he's gone, condolences.

I'm sorry man. My condolences

Sorry for your loss man.

So sorry for you loss. May he rest in peace.

I'm sorry about your brother. I lost my fiance in October of 2002 to suicide, so I know that long beat down they call grief. I couldn't listen to anything for so many months and years, but time was kind enough to give me my music back, eventually. Take care.

I was around 30 when it started, working in a shitty job, just married. I hated the hair bands as well as I thought they were just vapid/wannbe versions of 70s rockers and I dug the lyrically more substantive (albeit more depressing) aspects of grunge music. My dad, who was born during the Depression and was never into any sort of popular music after the 1950s and a real conservative but decent man, asked me once around this time what I thought of the new rock music and the look of grunge and "why do the kids seem so depressed and angry all the time?" I said, "Well, I'm older than the teenage kids, so I can't speak for what's going on in that age group, but I think they're angry because they're being ignored, they don't view their prospects for the future as being good as their parents, they've been lied to about so much stuff, there are more broken homes...they see through a lot of bullshit, they're more cynical about things. Maybe that's kind of what it's about." He didn't have much of an answer.

Hope you’re healing after all of your difficult times.

compared to the other grunge legends who were super emo and injecting heroin into their eyes and making collages of aborted fetuses and whatever Eddie seemed pretty chill, at least on the outside

I've watched multiple videos from this guy about Eddie Vedder and he always calls him "happy go lucky" at that point in his life.

Hope things are going better for you.

@@chrisc7265 And we love them for it.

Not only that but I would say the title is misleading. It's a great song but I wouldn't say it's the anthem of the grunge era.. that title probably goes to Smells Like Teen Spirit (even though I think there are plenty of better grunge songs than that one, it's the most known and immediately thought of when people think of the grunge era). After that I'd go for an Alice in Chains song or something.

also I should mention that Pearl Jam isn't even really grunge, at least not sonically. They were a big part of that Seattle scene so they get lumped together with AIC/Nirvana/etc. but their sound doesn't really have the grunge elements.

I was born in 77 and I can tell everyone that this song is most certainly not and never was the “grunge” anthem. There is no grunge anthem. That’s a dumb made up thing. It’s actually “gouge away” by the pixies

Except that he did say that it also had to do with incest. In a 1999 interview with Jessica Letkemann, he said that the song was " a situation I felt I could draw from... this strange twist in my life having to do with a father that I didn't know was my father until later in my adolescent years. And then looking back and realizing the whole time that I was growing up I was maybe meeting him briefly. I would catch looks on my mom's face once in a while. I don't know what it was really, but I think she was seeing my real dad in me. He had been long passed [away]. Sometimes we're a little bit like carbon copies, you know." "When they finally did tell me," Eddie continued, "I had already been playing music for quite a while. And they said, 'That's where you get your musical talent. He was like a lounge singer or something. And I thought, 'Well, fuck you. He never showed me a chord, I've done this on my own.' That's how you feel, and rightly so, as an adolescent: that you get so little credit for so many things, that when you do something, you want the credit. But what I tried to do [with "Alive"] off that was make it a little more interesting and turn it into more of a serial killer type scenario. So lyrically, I ended up with a totally fictional piece creating a situation where the mom was going back - and it's pretty warped here - but the mom goes back, sees the child as the carbon copy of the dad, the person she loved, the guy who's gone, and she can't help herself. She goes for the son." What he goes on to clarify is that the incest never happened in his own life. This song is part of a trilogy, where next in Once he goes on a killing spree and in Footsteps he is caught and is on death row.

@@artiezonk Yeah, the Mamasan Trilogy. Thanks for the clarification. 🤘😷👍

I started crying a little when he said that

@@dylangeorge3742 Same, man.

Still my favorite drummer for the band. Love Matt, but Jack was more tribal.

@@patrickrkruger Dave Abbruzzese was my favourite, Jack changed the vibe of the band and yeah i agree made the sound more tribal, good choice of word!!

Yeah, I was wondering whatever happened to her.

Why would he talk to her again after she lied to him for 13 years?

@@maepeterson7197 because she still is his mother. I worked with kids who experienced terrible things at home, but would never speak bad about their parents, because they still love them...

@@maepeterson7197 Even if your folks are genuine monsters, at a certain point you realize you can't hate them without hating yourself. Eventually, you just feel sad and sorry for them that they couldn't handle their own demons well enough to stop themselves from doing things they knew were wrong at the time - but they just didn't have the emotional strength to face the shit they had been through or already done. Put another way, you see that they have become trapped, where they can't break out of those toxic behaviors without embracing an incredible amount of guilt over what they've already done.

@@bobhotchkiss2438 And in a beautiful way, by recognizing that all of their imperfections and toxicity is within you as well, and that you are them, you are quite literally your parents finally coming to terms with their own demons. This helps me sleep at night.

I don't put the Seattle bands in an order but Cornell is definitely my favorite singer!

@@taylormays29 I'm a Layne Staley guy. More Layne and Jerry Cantrell harmonizing is my favorite. I also like Eddy Vedders voice on the Ten cd but after that I don't like any of their songs so he falls lower. Chris has a great voice and his acoustic stuff is awesome, just only like about 5 of their songs. Nirvana I just never got into that much.

@@vonbass1300 every album after the Ten cd has like 2-3 good songs so I get that. Some Soundgarden and Alice in Chains songs are alot better live. I still love Nirvana and STP but I guess they are 4 and 5 for me.

Personally probably soundgarden>alice>nirvana>stp>pearl jam

Agreed

How many D batteries did it take ?

You forget about the Queen, CL. Everybody didn't like grunge in the 90s. Some liked bands like Pearl Jam. Grunge wasn't just music.

Mark Arm's still around, and he was the singer of the first band to be given that ridiculous label. And most of the people in bands that were labelled grunge hated it.

@@robschroeder8297 Yep, Kurt wore that t-shirt 'grunge is dead' but it didn't work. Did punks like the punk tag? It has to be remembered as something, grunge is cool now but it wasn't at the time. It was a commercial term that's why it wasn't liked but no one cares anymore they just want to buy shit and think they are great.

@@robschroeder8297 I just mean people that were from the big 4 of grunge (vocalists anyway).

I mean aside from Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Courtney Love (somehow), Mark Arm, Mark Lanegan, Kevin Martin, Buzz Osborne, Tad Doyle, J Mascis, Gavin Rossdale, Donita Sparks, Vaden Todd Lewis, and that’s all only counting lead singers and not even mentioning all the awesome guitarists, drummers and bassists who were equally important to grunge who are still alive. But yeah you’re right, it’s just Eddie. He’s the only one. Dumbass.

Me, too! So sad I never got to see Layne in person.

Me too 🤣

True 💓

I mean artists like Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean perfectly convey emotion through their music

@@gonzalo6759 Yes there are some.

Gotta look in the right places for it. If you're going by popular/mainstream music it's hard to come by, but there are some amazing bands out there like LA Dispute, Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, etc, that as are extremely emotional rock bands. I See Everything by LA Dispute makes me cry everytime I hear it. Same with You Won't Know and Limousine by Brand New.

most bands are plenty emotional. most people come from broken homes, etc,etc. listen to Greg Cartwirght/Reigning Sound and youll hear some real-word emotions. new era music? youre just not following it anymore, or its not being spoon fed to you like....Pearl Jam. [Lose :)~]

Ehhh

Yeah but it's lyrics are utter nonsense lol

@@Nerfyboy800 lol lyrics don’t have to have some deeper meaning for it to be good, there’s a reason teen spirit blew up way more

@@mr.chocolatehazelnutspread8317 yeah I know, I was just replying to this guy about why the video wasn't about smells like teen spirit even though it is the bigger grunge anthem

Even from the trilogy, Once was always my favorite.

i feel like it would be crown of thorns?

Alive has gotten the biggest crowd reactions at the two PJ shows I've attended. The people in front of me at the last one only got excited for the songs from Ten.

Yeah, Alive isn’t even the biggest anthem off of Ten, let alone Pearl Jam, or grunge

Pretty sure gen X is considered hip hop... especially since grudge isn’t 90s...

Appreciate it. Cheers!

Soundgarden

Spoonman! Even my son loves it.

Me too

... the music was* about* ...

I think it was Tom Petty that talked about that in one of his documentaries. He said musicians always seem to have something wrong with their upbringing, the really driven ones are usually missing a parent at an early age and need something to try to fill that void.

That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for the feedback!

@@beyondthebeatpodcast1026 I subbed. good luck with this channel

That clip is from Pearl Jam’s vh1 storytellers episode and you can watch the whole thing here on KZfaq. Worth searching for!

How did they save your life

He does! And his voice sounds exactly the same After a 3 hour concert. I was lucky enough to experience it!

Agree with this 100%. He inspires me to try to be a kinder person and stay strong through adversity. I wear buttons on my jacket that say ‘stay away’ and ‘you’re damaging my calm’ and he wears one that says ‘Love All People’. I’m trying, Ed, I’m trying.

Jesus u cant do anything right

Did you like the Temple of the Dog record with Chris and Matt and the PJ guys back then or later on?

@@michaeldavenport6972 Temple of the Dog were great. Chris Cornell's voice is next level.

It's a double entendrê (not the proper word but close). It has multiple meanings and( especially early in their career) he liked his lyrics to be interpreted by each individual listener.

@@michaelsands442 I'll give you that

Vedder says it directly in this interview: web.archive.org/web/20070619084803/www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10560431/five_against_the_world

It really depends on your song's interpretation, the first time I listened to it the part that said "While she walks slowly Across a young man's room She said I'm ready for you I can't remember anything To this very day 'Cept the look, the look Oh, you know where Now I can't see, I just stare" Felt like an incest allusion, like his mother raped the boy of the song

"But the son. He looks exactly like him. It's uncanny. So she wants him."

I think you are correct. It will always come down to preference but being there when grunge was the new and biggest music of the time it was NIRVANA and Smells Like Teen Spirit that truly captures that time and ushered in grunge. If there was an encyclopedia of music covering all music throughout history the chapter that discusses 90's grunge could simply be titled Smells Like Teen Spirit.

No no one really did

It's an Anthem of survival. I've been through hell but I'm still alive.

I know. Wtf. Who ???

@@HelloNewMoon idiots who only listen to the chorus I'd reckon

Uplifting, yeah but specifically for someone who is in an emotional pit.

Thanks so much!

I always thought that part of the song was about him with a different lady years later.

Alive isn’t about incest.

probably because pearl jam lyrics dont make sense

The cycle of an ntire decades culture being revived is gone. Things move to fast now. The indie rock movement from the 2010's was inspired by grunge. As is the shoegazey pop we've had the past few years. And I don't think we're ever going to have another musical revolution the way we did with grunge. Remember what caused that revolution, hair metal, r&b and synth pop/new wave stuff was all that was played on the radio and mtv. Those platforms are irrelevant now. People can choose to listen to exactly what they want. In order to have a strong grunge revival, were going to have to have a generation of kids grow up being artistically and emotionally repressed. There might not ever be a defining sound of a decade again.and as much as I might miss certain scenes, I think that's a good thing.

Commercially, yes. But there were plenty of songs like this, Black Hole Sun, Heaven Beside You, etc, that could easily replace it.

It's just a movement. I wouldn't worry about it

We need to label it something so the period can be defined, its not something that should be lost in time

@@adami2140 90s rocks defines it perfectly. I along with many fans and musicians still cant stand that word.

@@daBEAGLE1017 No that's not cool still now. The younglings only know by that word. Do we call punk 70's rock... Even Courtney calls it grunge now. Bad luck to us that's how it is remembered and who cares.

@@adami2140 its something our gen x must live with. lol, just another scar for us to put into music. Surprised Eddie V. hasnt written a song about how he hurts from the word (jk)

The guy that makes this videos always gets a lot of shit wrong! Eddie Vedder is from Evanston Illinois not from California.