Top 10 Pearl Jam B-Sides

For this thread, B-sides are defined as: "any studio produced track that has been made available to fans, yet has become difficult to procure due to both time elapsed since first-issue and the tracks? elusiveness on singles, soundtracks, or compilations."

1. Dirty Frank
2. Brother
3. State of Love and Trust
4. Out of My Mind
5. Leatherman
6. I Got Shit
7. Hard To Imagine
8. Crazy Mary
9. Wash
10. Fatal

Honorable Mention:
Everyday People
Let My Love Open the Door
Sonic Reducer
Leaving Here
Rocking in the Free World

Are you CRAZY!?!?  Pearl Jam have ONE song that is almost not completely awful and that is "Yellow Bedwetter."

I once read a retrospective about "Alternative Press" magazine and one of the editors was discussing the mid-90's alternative "boom" (paraphrase):  "You'll never convince me that Pearl Jam aren't the Bad Company of their generation."


Brian

The singer sounds seriously consipated on every Pearl Jam song I've ever heard.

I don't think I've ever heard any B-sides, so can't play the little game.

I heard an interesting live cover version of The Who's Baba O'Reilly by Pearl Jam on DC101 the other day.

It might not of been a B-side, but I liked it.

Pearl Jam covered "Sonic Reducer" as a b-side? Where, when?

i'm tired of hearing crazy mary.

i hear that Pearl Jam list the New York Dolls as one of their main influences.

blipvurt wrote:
Pearl Jam covered "Sonic Reducer" as a b-side? Where, when?

It's been in a couple of their fan club holiday cd's…

Really? My wife has those going back for years. I'll have to go look for it. I love that tune.

Markus wrote:
I heard an interesting live cover version of The Who's Baba O'Reilly by Pearl Jam on DC101 the other day.

It might not of been a B-side, but I liked it.

As I said, I consider everything not an official album release as a b-side. So Yes, I'd consider their cover of Baba O'Reilly a b-side.

vansmack wrote:

blipvurt wrote:
Pearl Jam covered "Sonic Reducer" as a b-side? Where, when?

It's been in a couple of their fan club holiday cd's…

And played at their shows for over a decade.

Thousand wrote:

And played at their shows for over a decade.

I'm not much of a fan, so I wouldn't really know that. The only Pearl Jam show I've seen is the one where I proposed to my wife. Coincidentally, after they did a cover ("Know Your Rights" dedicated to the late Joe Strummer).

blipvurt wrote:
Really? My wife has those going back for years. I'll have to go look for it. I love that tune.

Check 1992 and 1995….

walkonby wrote:
i'm tired of hearing crazy mary.

Is he your boyfriend?

Not actual Pearl Jam songs, but the Eddie Vedder Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan songs Face of Love and Long Road from Dead Man Walking Soundtrack were great

Awesome post!

I just got home from work, opened up my Live on Ten Legs super deluxe vinyl boxset that arrived from England, and started listening to "Arms Aloft" (Joe Strummer cover). Then open my Google Chrome, go to 9:30 Club board, and see this thread. I love it.

I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, so this is tough. But here's a try.

Also, are you sure some of those are studio released ("Everyday People," "Let My Love Open the Door," "Out Of My Mind," "RITFW")? Aren't those all live recordings only? Also, most of your list appeared on Lost Dogs. Not so elusive. Either way, I'm counting anything that wasn't on a studio album as a b-side.

I'm not including covers ("Crazy Mary" and all your honorable mentions) because there are at least a hundred of those.

1.) Breath
2.) Of the Earth
3.) Alone
4.) State of Love and Trust
5.) Foldback
6.) Strangest Tribe
7.) Long Road
8.) Hard to Imagine
9.) Hold On
10.) The Golden State
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11.) Down
12.) U
13.) Sad
14.) Other Side
15.) Puzzles & Games

Out Of My Mind is the b-side on Not For You.

Yeah, but it was a live improv, not a studio recording.

Golden State was originally recorded by John Doe, and I think it was written by John Doe and Exene Cervenka.  Don't have the album handy to check, but it's definitely not a Pearl Jam or E. Vedder song.

Whoops! You're right. For some reason, I thought he co-wrote it with Corin Tucker, but I guess not.