Even Flow

Top three Pearl Jam songs?

Oh, even Flow, I think, would be there.

Mm-hmm.

Black They're all fucking very Em And Daughter's a bit miserable But I like it too Yeah And Sirens That's four Yeah Just keep her lecture Yeah Different genres Yeah Different eras Yeah But yeah Even Flow was the first One of the first songs That got me into them Yeah And because of that Yeah Even now It's one of those songs If I had to do a forever playlist Yeah it would be on it because I could just listen to it even though it's overplayed yeah that

was my next question so you've done rightly oh nice I have a soft spot in terms of Pearl Jam I like the Lightning Bolt album which I think is it's quite late yeah it's sort of late in the discography but me and Lisa for a wee while considered using Future Days as our first dance have you heard Future Days yes lovely wee tune That would be nice.

But it's a very solid, good wee album.

We got a lot of Gen X in the audience.

This morning I heard Evenflow by a man called Pearl Jam, if you've never heard of him.

And I wanted to give a shout out to the fast Gen Xers in the audience.

I realized my hatred for Ed Vedder this whole time was because he was speaking in tongues this whole time.

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yeah The section following Whipping, Even Flow and Deep, this is a phenomenal section for the time period.

Whipping being the Vitalogy song that's, at the time, this is still pretty early on in this tour, so they're not quite there with the other Vitalogy ones just yet.

I think Tremor Christ and Last Exit would follow them.

And 1993, sometimes you can tell they're in, Ed especially, is just kind of in like a grumpy mood sometimes just because anything could happen to him back then.

And he was probably a little on edge about it, you know, like we talked about before with the media or whatever.

But yeah, like even flow into deep, just everything sounds so good here.

Deep is one of those versions.

The band then turned to Dave Abruzzi, who would remain with Pearl Jam until 1994, playing on their next two albums.

While not an immediate commercial success, by late 1992, Ten would reach number two on the Billboard 200, producing three hit singles, Alive, number 18 on the alternative rock chart, Evenflow, number three on the mainstream rock chart, and Jeremy, with its stirring narrative music video that exploded all over MTV, winning the 1993 Video of the Year award and allowing the song to crack the top 100 pop charts.

and also settling in the top ten of alternative and mainstream rock charts.

Despite its dark themes and long instrumental jams filled with aggressive guitars and drums, the record was a certified hit and became one of the most important albums to emerge from what was then dubbed the grunge movement on the successful heels of fellow Seattle bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.

I died and you walked by and said, no, I'm dead.

Of the video? Of the video.

And it's for Evenflow? Yep.

Cool.

So, um, how about we do a little bit of Pearl Jam, um, to start us off today.

Uh, we're gonna do Even Flow, Pearl Jam.

Give me a coin.

[rock music] [singing] Freezing, rests his head on a pillow made of concrete.

Oh, laughing, he can't help when he's happy he looks insane.

Mm.

[rock music] Even Flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.

Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away.

It just, another one, a perfect pocket groove.

With Cameron, we always talk about the machine, how everything he does within songs like this, songs like Given a Fly, Even Flow, Better Man, Alive, it just feels like he is just running at full blast, at full speed.

And when you get Given a Fly in this era where it still feels like they're trying to take a little bit of what Jack did, it still feels like you can sound heavy with the song without feeling the need to speed it up.

Just letting it breathe a little bit, letting it feel open still brings a lot of power to this song.

This is, this is my favorite type of version of Habit.

Next section right here.

You got Even Flow and Daughter we're, we're gonna package together.

And this was a very cool Even Flow.

Yeah.

And didn't, didn't really miss a beat, but, um, yeah, it's from their debut album, 1991's Ten, and it's called Even Flow.

[rock music] Freezing.

And then Eric, here we go, track 10, closing out the Ultimate '90s Mixtape, from the 1996 self-titled album, Sublime.

Right.

However, I really like Even Flow.

Yeah, that's a great song.

That is one of my favorite songs from them.

Mountain mornings with Ian Camfield.

Is that the best song on Ten? I mean, I know you've got Even Flow and Jeremy and Alive, but oh, I've always thought Black was the best.

Morning, Ian Camfield here.

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