Yellow Ledbetter
Song by Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, and Mike McCreadyWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Amanda DobbinsGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Yasi SalekHOST
Yellow Ledbetter.
Amanda DobbinsGUEST
Sure.
Yasi SalekHOST
Another very depressing-
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Amanda DobbinsGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Yasi SalekHOST
Yeah.
Amanda DobbinsGUEST
Meets Yellow Ledbetter.
Amanda DobbinsGUEST
[laughs]
SteveHOST
Um, but I don't know if I'd even put that in my top five, but you asked that question.
SteveHOST
Yellow Ledbetter would probably be in my top five.
SteveHOST
Um, what was the one that was on the, uh, Singles soundtrack?
LarsonHOST
Stay Alive and Trust?
Randy SobelHOST
It's gonna be one song.
Randy SobelHOST
It's gonna be Yellow Ledbetter, but we do have some conversation points on this.
Randy SobelHOST
We talked about it before, about how Tremor Christ had been played 57 times going into the show, and Ledbetter is being played for the 57th time.
Randy SobelHOST
And Ledbetter, at this point, is about to just elevate to one that they're gonna do every single, or every other night.
Patrick BoegelGUEST
It's the type of song that you hear almost, like, e- about 20% of the set list it's gonna show up since about 2013 or so.
Patrick BoegelGUEST
But it's just wild to think about that.
Patrick BoegelGUEST
This is the 57th playing of Yellow Ledbetter, and then it would go on to get played 417 times.
Randy SobelHOST
Is there another song that's kinda like that?
Andy JonesHOST
And they're-
Chris LathropHOST
... what, like, Yellow Ledbetter was one.
Andy JonesHOST
Oh, yeah.
Andy JonesHOST
Lead Belly and-
Randy SobelHOST
[rock music] Leaving Here I don't have too much on, but that is going to end your first encore.
Randy SobelHOST
They would leave, they would come back, and then we get to talk a little bit about choices, 'cause Ed asked the crowd- Would you like to hear a song that's the final song off the new record that you probably haven't really made it to that spot yet when you're listening to this record because there's a lot of better stuff on the A side that you're paying attention to? Or would you rather have the song that never meant to make radio but has been making radio for the last handful of years and people are absolutely obsessed with? So would you rather have Around the Bend or Yellow Ledbetter? Gee.
Randy SobelHOST
Gah, I don't know.
Randy SobelHOST
What kind of question is that? The new song or the song that is literally one of the hottest Pearl Jam songs in the mid-'90s? [laughs]
Javier HerbasHOST
Yeah.
Javier HerbasHOST
Yep, it was Moline, and one of those things that are just like, wow.
Javier HerbasHOST
I, I just, it, it gives me a little bit of goosebumps just to think about that, but yeah, I would have picked Around the Bend for sure, even though that Yellow Ledbetter is a wonderful close song for their shows, don't get me wrong.
Javier HerbasHOST
But I would have preferred that, for sure.
RandyGUEST
That's my opinion.
RandyGUEST
I don't disagree, but to sit here and nitpick on Yellow Ledbetter, which I don't think in my 400 episodes of doing that I've really ever done on a podcast before is nitpick Yellow Ledbetter because that's just the end of the night and that's it.
AnthonyHOST
Was it a bad show? No.
AnthonyHOST
Was it a great show? No.