Legendary Rock Songs: JEREMY: PEARL JAM.
Theme:JEREMY.
Disc:Ten.
Year:1991.
Perhaps Pearl Jam's most controversial song and one of the most famous from their multi-million selling debut, “Ten”, whose title (Ten) is less than the number of millions of copies the album has sold (12 in the US alone). Quite a success in the rock world. Once Nirvana had put the cursed label of grunge and the city of origin of the “style”, Seattle, on the map, the time for other bands from the city did not take long to arrive. Pearl Jam were the most successful after Kurt Cobain's band and the ones who have been able to forge the longest lasting career, since today they are one of the few of their generation that are still together and active.
After meeting Eddie Vedder on the recording of the Temple Of The Dog album, that fantastic project in memory of Mother Love Bone vocalist Andy Wood, the remaining members of the now defunct band, bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard decided to start a new combo featuring the amazing Vedder as singer, and thus the famous “pearl jam” was born.
Their first album was a real hit, those were the days when Pearl Jam was an energetic live rock band that had not yet settled into the more somniferous tendency of their depressive way of understanding rock, although they already had it. “Jeremy” is one of those sad, sorrowful songs that Vedder's deep singing was so well suited to. Based on a true story, it tells the story of Jeremy Delle, a 16-year-old student who decided to take his own life by shooting himself in front of his classmates at Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas. The music video for the third single of the album also reflected the terrible event in images, and brought the group much of the fame it enjoys today, as it won them four MTV Video Awards.
However, after that clip, the band decided not to record any more videos until six years later (when they did, it was an animation made by the famous cartoonist Todd McFarlene for the song “Do The Evolution” in 1998). The reason was none other than to be coherent with their independent spirit and their supposed disconnection with the mechanisms of the industry, although surely it would also have a lot to do with the fact that in 1996, an American student named Barry Loukaitis shot dead two classmates and a teacher at his school in Washington and claimed that his intention was to copy what he had seen in the famous Pearl Jam videoclip. A misfortune that sadly marred this tremendous composition full of feeling, sorrow and criticism.
my people I don't know the youtube link with the video because the platform doesn't let me put the video. I still invite you to look for it and listen to it because it is a great song of this band.
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