2014-2021: They started recording 'Gigaton' with Brendan O'Brien in the beginning of 2017. 'Can't Deny Me' was released from those
sessions. And then three years later Gigaton was released with Josh Evans
producing. ‘Can’t deny me’ was not on
Gigaton and has already begun it’s life as a Pearl Jam rarity. Another studio track released from those early sessions was 'Again Today'.
When Josh Evans (producer Gigaton) was asked about outtakes:
They’re always working on something. It’s hard
to say, because it’s not really done until it’s out. There are all kinds of
things sitting on hard drives — from pieces of ideas to something one of the
guys might consider a finished song. As far as mixing the record, these were
the only 12 songs we mixed.
On October 2nd
2020 Pearl Jam released a new track and Gigaton outtake called ‘Get it Back’.
On Instagram Matt said it was written in 2018. Making it the first outtake
being released in years.
One of the most asked question from fans was
about Lost Dogs 2. Mike McCready made the following answer on Lost Dogs 2:
“Gigaton is its own record. I’d love to record
more music in this time of pandemic but its important that we are all taking
measures to be safe. Good Idea about
Lost Dogs 2 Ill bet we have the music for that.”
More time to look back again. Like they did in
2003 and 2004 with the release of Lost Dogs and ‘Rearviewmirror - Greatest
Hits’.Deluxe remastered editions
for Ten, Vs and Vitalogy were released. The Ten release finally saw Just A Girl and Brother get a proper release. Although check that Rarities
Unreleased Cuts for even better versions of those songs! The Ten deluxe edition
also included fun outtakes like ‘2000
Miles Blues’ and ‘Evil Little Goat’.
The Vs and Vitalogy deluxe remasters had very few bonus tracks. But the
instrumental ‘CreadyStomp’ was now released!
After these remastered editions the band would also look back at its career
with a movie, book, exhibition and festival PJ20. The ‘Ten’ outtake ‘Chinese’ was heard in the movie and
played on PJ’s own Sirius channel but strangely was not included on the movie
soundtrack. Dave Abbruzzese comments about ‘Chinese’ on his Facebook:
During these years only one original song was released on the fanclubsingles. 'Turning Myst' remains the only PJ song that featured Mike McCready on vocals. One other studio recording was released on the fanclubsingles. 'Better Things' a song from the Kinks was nicely covered by the band.
Well, if the waiting drove you mad, take heart! After eliminating 255 Pearl Jam songs, Corduroy stands as the winner of our Pearl Jam March Madness Tournament. Congratulations, Corduroy, on being Pearl Jam's finest masterpiece, at least for now.
Pearl Jam has announced that Eddie Vedder will be joining Jennifer Lopez, the Foo Fighters, H.E.R., and J. Balvin in performing as part of Global Citizen's Vax Live event on May 8th.
The show will air on ABC, CBS, Fox, iHeart Radio, and YouTube and benefits Vax Because, an organization working to support equal distribution of COVID-19 vaccine.
VAX LIVE: A Concert to Reunite the World is celebrating the hope that COVID-19 vaccines are offering families and communities around the world. We are calling on world leaders to step up to make sure vaccines are accessible for all so we can end the pandemic for everyone, everywhere.
To be completely honest, we're not as far into April as I expected when this 256-Song Tournament started. Now, we're down to the finals. Great albums have been cast away. Sophistication, creativity, and experimentation have all been taken down. Now, we are left with two brutal rockers from Vitalogy. Both are former March Madness champions, Last Exit in 2017 and Corduroy in 2007.
Last Exit vs. Corduroy
You can come to March Madness Forum before 8pm tomorrow to cast your vote for Pearl Jam's greatest creation.
Pearl Jam March Madness has entered the Final Four. Go vs. Last Exit and Corduroy vs. Hail Hail
The Road to the Semis
Go: Bye, Alive, You Are, Jeremy, Black, Rearview Mirror
Last Exit: Dirty Frank, Puzzles and Games, Release, All Those Yesterday’s, Do the Evolution, In My Tree
Hail Hail: Brother, Of the Girl, Wash, Daughter, Long Road, Sleight of Hand
Corduroy: State of Love and Trust, Alright, Last Soldier, Take the Long Way, No Way, Insignificance
Go really ran a gauntlet of their best early work. Other than You Are I voted against it in every round it seems. Yet I do love this song. It just lacks the emotional and lyrical complexity of their best work of that era. Last Exit had to mow down two former champs to get here, but probably had a slightly easier bracket.
Hail Hail had a fairly easy time getting here. Daughter, Long Road, and SoH osometimes make it to the QFs but rarely farther
Corduroy may have had it even easier until Insignificance, though SOLAT is a rough first round and No Way usually does well.
Go and Last Exit had a much harder bracket I think.
Now you can decide which songs are worthy to battle it out in the Finals. Vote for your favorites today in our March Madness Forum.
Mike McCready's HockeyTalkter Records is releasing a 7" single with two McCready solo songs from the film Sadie. He collaborated with Molly Sides and Whitney Petty on the songs. You can pick up the single at the Ten Club for $10 (plus $6.45 domestic S&H).
"I love collaborating with the women in Thunderpussy and these songs are no different. I was fortunate to score the film for the amazing film SADIE that was released last year. I asked Molly Sides to help with some vocals and she did an incredible job with both "Show Your Colors" and "Shuffle Your Feet". Playing guitar with Whitney Petty is always a blast! These songs have been available digitally for some time, and now you can own it on limited edition vinyl!" -Mike McCready
To celebrate their 30th Anniversary and Record Store Day, Pearl Jam will be releasing TWO Alive singles on July 17th.
The first is a 12" single, that appears to be different than any previous release. (18,500 copies)
The 12” features the original promo single version of “Alive” plus three rare b-sides: “Wash”, “Dirty Frank” and the Beatles’ cover “I’ve Got A Feeling”, which is currently not available anywhere else. All four tracks are included on side A while side B contains an etching of the band’s Stick Man logo.
Side A: 1. “Alive (promo single version)” 2. “Wash” 3. “I’ve Got A Feeling” 4. “Dirty Frank”
Side B: Etching
The second is a cassette single, replicating an original promo single. The closest thing already in existence is the 1991 Australian release. (6,300 copies)
The “Alive” cassette single is a replica of the promo cassette that was originally used around the album’s release. It includes the promo single version of “Alive” plus “Wash” and “I’ve Got A Feeling”, repeated on both sides.
Side A: 1. “Alive (promo single version)” 2. “Wash” 3. “I’ve Got A Feeling”
Side B: Repeat Side A program
In a 2007 interview with TFT, Danny Clinch (director of 2007 concert movie
‘Immagine in cornice’) said the following about the 2006 S/T (Avocado) sessions:
JR: Pearl Jam is the first record that hasn't
had a B-side so we've wondered where are some of these extra cuts.
DC: And there's more to that story that I'm not going to tell you.
One unreleased named 'Off the Earth' track from the S/T sessions have
been played live since around 2010. Jeff Ament opened up about those sessions in an early 2005 interview:
So far, the band's written a total of 25 songs, but the final track
listing will have around a dozen songs — and the decision about which
tracks make the final cut largely rests with "Ed, because he's writing
95 percent of the lyrics," Ament said. But the bassist did reveal some
potential song names: "Marker," "Crapshoot Rapture," "Worldwide
Suicide," "Cold Concession," "2X4" and "Severed Hand." Ament singled out two other tracks as his current favorites.
"One is called 'Of the Earth,' that's a song Ed wrote that is kind of a
cross between early Peter Gabriel/ Genesis and Sleater-Kinney with,
like, the Who's Live at Leeds or something.
Like Binaural and Riot Act before it S/T seemed to have many outtakes. A pre-production disc leaked to the internet that includes demos by members, sketches and some full fledged songs: Cold Confession,
Let it ride, 10 billion years (Stone on vocals) and 2x4. That last one missed vocals.
We know that Off the Earth was
tried again for Backspacer. And that there are several outtakes being confirmed
by both Jeff and Mike in interviews:
In one interview Jeff said that they recorded
some incredible rock songs that did not fit on Backspacer very well and he was hopeful
that they will enter the studio again early next year to do some final
recording/mixing on those tracks aiming at an new release within a year.
The famous EP that never materialized. Similar
words were already spoken by Mike in other interviews:
BM: I noticed you kept the songs very short,
very direct, kind of garage-y. Were you sort of reining in the tendencies to
make them a little bit more like that?
MM: I think we didn’t initially know that we were reining them in. We had about
seventeen ideas going into this project, seventeen to twenty. And when we were
at about eleven pretty much finished, Brendan (O’Brien, producer) and Ed sat
down and said, “Hey, this looks like a really good record.” Stone (Gossard,
guitarist) had been talking about wanting to have a record that was shorter,
more concise and I think we achieved that. That being said, we still have
other songs that are out there that are from this session that we may do
something with in about six months.
Where they shelved a Who cover 'Baba O'Riley' in 1992. They finally released a cover from Eddie's favorite band on their 2006 fanclubsingle: Love Reign O'er Me. Two more original Pearl Jam songs appeared on fanclubsingles these years: Santa God & Santa Cruz.
