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1991 single by Pearl Jam

"Alive"
PJAlive.jpg
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album Ten
B-side
  • "One time"
  • "Wash"
Released July 7, 1991[ane]
Recorded
  • January 29, 1991 (1991-01-29)
  • June 1991 (1991-06)
Studio
  • London Bridge (Seattle, Washington)
  • Ridge Farm (Dorking, England)
Genre Grunge[2]
Length v:forty
Characterization Epic
Songwriter(south)
  • Eddie Vedder
  • Stone Gossard
Producer(s)
  • Rick Parashar
  • Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Alive"
(1991) 		"Fifty-fifty Flow"
(1992)
Music video
"Live" on YouTube

"Live" is the debut single by American rock band Pearl Jam. Information technology was released on July 7, 1991, 51 days earlier the release of the ring's debut album, 10, on which "Live" appears. Written past guitarist Stone Gossard, the song originated as an instrumental titled "Dollar Short" and was included on a demo tape circulated in hopes of finding a singer for the group.[iii] Singer Eddie Vedder obtained a copy of the tape and wrote lyrics that describe a somewhat fictionalized account of the time when he was told that the man he thought was his father was non really his biological parent.[four]

"Live" charted at number sixteen in the United Kingdom and number nine in Australia. It was the outset Pearl Jam song to receive a certification from the British Phonographic Industry, going Silverish in August 2018 for sales and streams of over 200,000. It also reached the acme xx in Belgium, Ireland, kingdom of the netherlands, and New Zealand. The unmarried was available only through import in the U.s.a., so it was not able to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. However, the song did meridian at number 16 on the Album Stone Tracks nautical chart and number eighteen on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Remixed versions of the song were included on Pearl Jam'southward 2004 greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003), and the 2009 X reissue.

Origin and recording [edit]

Guitarist Stone Gossard wrote the music for the vocal, which he titled "Dollar Curt", in 1990 when he was still a member of Mother Beloved Bone. Co-ordinate to Gossard in an interview for Pearl Jam'southward VH1 Storytellers special, Mother Honey Bone frontman Andrew Woods had fifty-fifty sung on it. After Wood died of a heroin overdose, Gossard and his bandmate Jeff Ament started playing with guitarist Mike McCready with the hope of starting a new band. "Dollar Short" was one of 5 tracks compiled onto a record called Stone Gossard Demos '91 that Gossard, Ament, and McCready circulated in the hopes of finding a vocalizer and drummer for the group.[three]

The tape made its mode into the hands of vocalist Eddie Vedder, who was working every bit a security guard for a petroleum visitor in San Diego, California, at the time. He listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him.[4] "Alive" was the first song for which Vedder recorded vocals.[v] Vedder mailed the tape back to Seattle. Upon hearing the tape, the band invited Vedder to come to Seattle and he was asked to join the band.[3]

The ring, and then called Mookie Blaylock, recorded "Alive" during a demo session at London Bridge studio in January 1991. The version recorded during this session would subsequently appear on the group's debut anthology, Ten, and on the promotional "Alive" EP. During album mixing sessions in England in June 1991, mixer Tim Palmer had McCready add to the song's outro solo. McCready recorded a number of attempts at the solo, and Palmer edited them into a composite version. The guitarist was unsatisfied with the consequence, so he fabricated another attempt at the solo. "He had another get at it", Palmer recalled, "and got it right away. There was no piecing together to do; it was one take."[3]

Composition [edit]

"Alive" is in the key of A major and features an extended guitar solo later on its 3rd chorus (3:38). The solo for "Alive", performed past McCready, was ranked number 44 on Guitar World's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos",[6] and number 26 on Full Guitar's list of the "100 Hottest Guitar Solos".[7] When interviewed about his famous solo, McCready was quick to disclaim creative credit for information technology, saying he basically "copied Ace Frehley'southward solo from 'She', which was copied from Robby Krieger's solo in The Doors' 'Five to One'."[8] Aside from that influence, it strongly highlights the influences of Jimi Hendrix on McCready'southward playing, including extensive wah pedal use, frequent whammy bar dips and vibrato, besides every bit the employ of a battered Stratocaster guitar. During many live shows he has been known to intermission into the outro pb solo for Blackness Sabbath'due south "State of war Pigs".

Lyrics [edit]

The song is the beginning piece in a trilogy of songs in what Vedder later described as a "mini-opera" entitled Mamasan,[4] which is composed of the songs "Alive", "Once", and "Footsteps".[4] "Alive" tells the story of a swain discovering that the man he thought was his father is actually his stepfather, while his female parent's grief leads to an incestuous relationship with the son, who strongly resembles the biological male parent.[4] This leads to "One time" in which the homo descends into madness and goes on a killing spree, and "Footsteps" in which the man is somewhen looking back from a prison cell pending his execution.[4]

"Alive" has been revealed past Vedder to be part autobiographical and part fiction.[4] When Vedder was a teenager, his mother revealed to him that the homo he thought was his father was actually his stepfather, and that his biological father was dead.[iv] The first and last verses detail those actual events, only the second poetry is storytelling on Vedder's role. The lyrics of the 2nd verse read, "Oh, she walks slowly, across a swain's room/She said I'thousand ready...for you/I tin can't recollect anything to this very day/'Cept the look, the look.../Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I only stare...," and Vedder revealed that "she" was the mother, and "the look" referred to was not the look on her face, but "the look is betwixt her legs. Where do you go with that? That's where you came from."[iv]

Rather than being the inspirational song most interpret it equally, Vedder had quite a different significant in heed, stating, "[He's] yet dealing with honey, [he'due south] still dealing with the death of [his] father. All [he] knows is 'I'grand still alive'...that's totally out of burden."[4] Vedder stated at Pearl Jam'south 2006 VH1 Storytellers advent that over the years the meaning has changed for him. He said, "In the original story, a teenager is being made aware of a shocking truth that leaves him enough confused...It was a expletive—'I'm still alive.'" The audience's response to the song is what has brought nearly the alter in pregnant for Vedder. He added, "They lifted the expletive. The audition inverse the meaning for me."[9]

Release and reception [edit]

While the "Live" single was released commercially to international markets in 1992, an early version of the track was released on the Coca-Cola Pop Music Sampler in 1991.[10] The anthology version was released as a single in the United States on June 27, 1995, and was only available every bit a more expensive import version beforehand. Prior to its commercial release, "Alive" was released as a promotional CD and cassette featuring different artwork and B-sides. While "Wash" was also a B-side to the commercial singles, "I've Got a Feeling" was simply on this version of the unmarried. The guitar solo at the end of "Live" was also different from the Ten version, and there are a few other noticeable differences between the ii. The B-side "Wash" tin also be found as an extra runway on European releases of X and every bit an alternate version on the compilation album, Lost Dogs (2003).

Gossard said that "not a lot of people thought ["Alive"] was a bully single when we released it ... I don't think that the record company thought it was a slam-douse. They went, 'Oh! This seems like the all-time 1 then far.'"[eleven] The song peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Mainstream Stone Tracks chart and number 18 on the Billboard Mod Rock Tracks chart. Although the album's follow-upwards singles would find more success on the rock charts, "Live" was notwithstanding important in bringing attending to the band.[12] The single also spent a record-breaking 61 weeks on the Billboard Bubbles Nether Hot 100 Singles chart.[13]

Steve Huey of Allmusic said that while "Alive" has a "big, stadium-ready chorus," it as well is "subtler, less macho, and less grandiose than true arena rock." Regarding the song'southward guitar solo, Huey said, "It adds a final epic touch to the song, as though the lyric-centered part of the song simply wasn't plenty to achieve complete catharsis."[12] Stephen M. Deusner of Pitchfork Media said that "'Alive' remains stiff not only because Vedder touches on some seriously transgressive shit here (dead fathers, hints at incest, survivor guilt), but mostly because the ring rock the hell out of that coda."[14] In 2021, American Songwriter and Kerrang each ranked the vocal number two on their lists of the greatest Pearl Jam songs.[15] [16]

"Alive" is featured in the 2007 video game, SingStar Amped, for the PlayStation 2.[17] The song is also featured in the 2008 video game, Rock Band two.[eighteen] In March 2009, the residue of the album Ten was also fabricated available as downloadable content for the Stone Band series.[nineteen] A live version of "Live" taken from the ring'southward September xx, 1992, concert was made available as a downloadable bonus track for the Stone Band series for those who purchased the X re-release through Best Buy.[20] In July 2009, Australian radio station Triple J polls the Hottest 100 of All Time which "Live" was voted #25 on the list,[21] although the song was voted higher in the 1998 hottest 100 of all-fourth dimension list at #3.[22]

Music video [edit]

The music video for "Alive" was directed by Josh Taft, a childhood friend of Gossard, who would later direct the music videos for "Even Flow" and "Oceans".[23] The black-and-white video consists of a filmed live performance of the band filmed on August 3, 1991, during a Pearl Jam concert at RKCNDY in Seattle, Washington; thus, different from most music videos, the version of the vocal heard in the prune is actually being played in the concert rather than being a lip-sync from the record version.[23] Drummer Matt Chamberlain tin be seen drumming in the "Live" video. Pearl Jam'due south future drummer Dave Abbruzzese was in the audience when the video was shot. It was his first encounter with the band equally he had merely arrived from Texas afterward existence recommended for the ring past Chamberlain and just knew the songs from the "Alive" unmarried.[24] The video was released in September 1991.[25]

Regarding the live video, Ament said, "Initially, information technology was a trouble in terms of talking the record visitor into taking it seriously...That people didn't think we could pull it off fabricated us want to do it even more than. We felt we could exercise a better version of it. Sonically, it'due south an inferior version of the song. But information technology'south live."[26] The video was nominated for Best Alternative Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.[27]

Alive performances [edit]

"Alive" was showtime performed live at the ring's Oct 22, 1990, concert in Seattle, Washington at the Off Ramp Café.[28] Pearl Jam performed the song for its appearance on MTV Unplugged in 1992. The vocal was performed on Saturday Nighttime Live in April 1992 in back up of 10. "Alive" has gone on to go the band's 2nd most performed live song at over 620 performances, backside simply "Even Flow" which has been played over 700 times.[28] Following the June 2000 Roskilde Festival tragedy in which nine people died during Pearl Jam's set, the band purposely omitted "Live" from all shows on its 2000 Due north American bout until the final night in Seattle. Pearl Jam performed the song for its advent on VH1 Storytellers in 2006.

Live performances of "Alive" can be institute on European releases of Ten, the compilation album Stanley, Son of Theodore: Yet Some other Alternative Music Sampler, the "Oceans" single, the "Dissident"/Live in Atlanta box set, various official bootlegs, the live album Live in NYC 12/31/92, the Live at the Gorge 05/06 box ready, the alive anthology Live at Lollapalooza 2007, and the Drop in the Park LP included in the Super Deluxe edition of the Ten reissue. Performances of the vocal are also included on the DVD Immagine in Cornice and the MTV Unplugged DVD included in the Ten reissue.

Personnel [edit]

  • Eddie Vedder – lead vocals
  • Mike McCready – atomic number 82 guitar, audio-visual-electric guitar
  • Rock Gossard – rhythm guitar
  • Jeff Ament – bass guitar
  • Dave Krusen – drums

Rail listings [edit]

All songs are written by Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard except where noted.

Charts and certifications [edit]

Accolades [edit]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • "Live" (Official sound) on YouTube
  • "Live" (Official music video) on YouTube
  • "Live" lyrics at Pearl Jam'due south official web site
  • Review of "Alive" at AllMusic
  • 2013 Interview with Stone Gossard

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_%28Pearl_Jam_song%29

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