It’s something of a Pearl Jam quirk that some of their very best songs – Footsteps, Yellow Leadbetter, State of Love and Trust, Long Road – are those that don’t even appear on their albums.
I was obsessed with this track when I heard it in 1995.
Though admittedly the idea of a ‘single’ doesn’t mean as much, doesn’t have the same aura to it, as it did in the past – not unless you’re a pop chart act on the one hand with guaranteed radio-play/sycophancy or on the other hand you’re a vinyl enthusiast.įor the record, my favorite Pearl Jam single is toss up between ‘Go’ from the Vsalbum or ‘I Got ID’ from the 1995 Merkinball EP the latter being one of the greatest tracks I’ve ever heard by any artist, this being Pearl Jam at their most sonically powerful to me, with Vedder’s mesmerising, broken-throated vocals, that perfect chorus and those brilliant dueling guitars. Then about a paragraph into doing that I realised it would actually be more interesting to talk about tracks that never were singles but so easily could’ve been. Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of the release of Pearl Jam’s Dissident single, I decided to write a post highlighting my favorite 10 Pearl Jam singles over the years.
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