FIRST TIME EVER HEARING PEARL JAM "BLACK" (MTV UNPLUGGED) REACTION | Asia and BJ 

You misheard the kid lyrics. He was saying he walked outside and could hear the kids (like neighborhood kids) laughing and it hurt him. It should be a joyful sound but he is in such pain that hearing their joy hurt him. Loved the reaction!!

Sorry to correct you: it’s not a good live performance. It’s one of the best live rock performances EVER! ❤️

The line "I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why Can't it be mine?" Just took on new meaning for me... She wasn't JUST his whole world, but she was his Star... Now gone, she "turned his world to Black"

If you're doing pearl jam Jeremy uncensored version is a must reaction

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in someone else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be mine?" It's one of the all-time great moments in any song IMO. Don't overanalyze lyrics especially when you aren't sure what they are. Just pay attention to the music which is the important part. Or at least read the lyrics as you listen.

He's tripping in his chair because this song is very personal to him. That's 100% raw emotion from him right there. It's so much more than just "feeling the music". The band didn't want this song on the album because of how personal it was to the singer but the record label pushed them to put it on

The song is about the ending of a relationship. The love and the future that he thought he had with this girl has ended. Died, or turned to black. Nothingness. The line with children in it is just saying he can hear the children playing and being happy and he can't feel that way because he is just too sad or too black in his soul to feel that happiness of a child playing.✌

Ok. You've done Chris Cornell. Now you've done Eddie Vedder. Let's do Temple of the Dog next! Hunger strike - Temple of the Dog Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog

Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana are some of the best to ever make music!

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know that you will be a star in somebody else's sky, but why... can it not be mine"

The line about kids is referring to that he walks outside and hears their laughter meaning other people are happy while he feels sad. "When I walk outside I can hear their laughter so why do I seer?"

"Black" is the greatest song of all time. Eddie = GOAT. Lyrically, he writes the best songs.

If you like Eddie Vedder's voice, check out him and Chris Cornell teamed up in Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike. Two of the most amazing voice to come out of 90's music. RIP Chris Cornell

It’s good to read into the lyrics but don’t let that take you away from enjoying the song.

You two should react to Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike. It has both Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder singing.

As far as I know, the song was about his first true love breakup and how it tattoos everything he sees in black....leaving memories that he will have to look through forever.

The kid's laughter is just a representation of how life is going on and the world is still turning outside no matter how your own world has stopped when you're in deep pain and grieving a loss. I understood it this way the first time I heard this when it came out because the year before, I had suffered my first major loss in life - through a sudden, completely unexpected death. I remember the first time I walked outside after the phone call that changed my whole life forever, I saw people, cars moving, etc... It was such a surreal moment for me because all I could think was --- how the HELL is everything still going on in the world WITHOUT that person?!? Logically of course I knew no one knew of me, or my loss, or that it doesn't matter anyway because it was just one person who passes away, but part of me just could not understand. My whole world just 🛑 stopped. Like slammed into a brick wall and all reality I knew was different. I guess it's hard to explain of you've never suffered a loss like that but losing someone you loved more than your own life, whether through them leaving you, or actual death, will absolutely shake you like that. It's like a temporary loss of consciousness - pure shock - although you are physically walking and talking. But again, I always thought this was the feeling he was trying to convey - that although you inside are in massive pain, the rest of the world and it's people are oblivious and life goes on.

He wrote it on a bus on his way to an audition for this very band. The song was originally written as an instrumental and on his own... he put words to it. He’s now happily married with two daughters

I love this whole MTV unplugged performance. goosebumps every time

This song takes me back to my high school years at the beginning of the grunge era. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots. It represents the angst of frustrated teenagers.

"Sounds like he in some state of misery". That's an understatement.

Back when I was a young man, I wore out two cassettes of this album, then moved up to wearing out CDs... the voice, the lyrics, the total emotion. This is All Time.

MTV 's Unplugged series was one of the best shows they had.

Black was recorded in 1991. Eddie Vedder had his first child in 2004. This has NOTHING to do with him having a child.

This is one of my very favorite of Pearl Jam performances. It's so raw. Eddie holds nothing back.

It's really about the biggest loss of a relationship. It's total heartbreak. You should check out the lyrics; they are genius how he expresses it. Eddie Vedder is the bomb. The line about seeing the kids is: I take a walk outside. I'm surrounded by some kids at play. I can feel their laughter so why do I sear? He's so miserable and dark that even kids' laughter makes him angry. My favorite live performance is where the fans sing the entire first verse of Better Man: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_4BObpNQqNo.html

Yes guys, This is a heartbroken Eddie Vedder talking about a "love gone bad". Their video "Even flow" is a good example of their catalogue. Also, Chris Cornell does a beautiful cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares to You" at Sirius XM Studios. These are 90s rock genera artists (called Grunge artists). 🤗🙌🥃

One of the best ever from the 90s.

This song is about losing someone he loved, the sheets of empty canvas and untouched sheets of clay meaning that he is an artist now without a muse or without inspiration so they lay on touched. The sounds of laughter that he hears outside not bringing him out of the darkness, being surrounded by it but not being able to feel it. The darkness, the whole left inside after the breakdown of a relationship with someone that you loved.

Welcome to Pearl Jam! U guys are in for a treat! May I suggest Evenflow as your next one

One of saddest lines ever written, is in this song.

I'm going to chime in with the folks asking for Temple of the Dog doing Hunger Strike. Can't beat Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell together.

Jeremy should be next I guess. Uncensored official vid, please.

Crazy man you guys have been exposed to like 50 years in music….music that I have had to wait for to come out over the course of my entire life…I’m 57…I think it’s great and I think you guys are too…keep it to the grindstone 100000 subs quick….The band and Starbucks are from Seattle so Eddie was caffeine trippin’ …God Bless Ya

So... he learned to love with a certain woman.. she's gone. He taught her "everything". I assume she taught him everything, too. He's talking about the kids because they contrast the way he feels. They are playful, happy. That's not the way he feels. The woman is with someone else or will be, not dead. The guy gets it more. Vedder left it all on the floor.

I love all their music. My family and I had the great honor of going to Seattle, Washington to the museum of all the great bands from the grunge revolution. I lived this revolution. Saw the 80’s big hair bands and lived through all these other great grunge rock of the early 90’s. Pearl Jam is one of favorites. Thank you guys.

The kids line, I always read it like He has broken up with someone he loved very much (they left him) and he is out walking and here's kids laughing, but in his down state it feels like they are laughing at him although he rationally knows they are not

Eddie was sick during this performance too so it’s not even the full power of his voice.

One of THE best live performances EVER! ALMOST CRY EVERYTIME I SEE THIS! And I don't even own a PJ cd.... Wow

Absolutely heartbreaking song and performance

You were right the first time it’s about a girl who left & hearing joyful sounds of kids playin hurt him when it shouldn’t it should be a happier moment

I remember rushing home at 16yrs old to catch this unplugged episode. I was already a PJ fan but this shit changed my life. I was in awe watching them play unplugged. There's no hiding in that format, either you're good or not.

Black's lyrics and true meaning all indicates that the song is about learning to "Let Go". We must accept when a relationship is over, we must let her go, to find love somewhere else, be someone else's sky. I know it hurts, that's why we vent our anger against God and the sky like in lyrics "Why? Why can't be mine?" And we fail to accept every single time while shouting "We belong together! We belong together" Maybe we don't belong together, after all. So that's why we have to learn "to let someone go".

This song brought me to your channel. One of the great live performances. A tip. Don’t over analyse during the song. The song loses its vibe with the waffle guys. You were right in what you said but leave the long chatter until the end. The message in the song is clear by the time it finishes.

The Jeremy song is brilliant. The official video is hectic but the live performance is awesome.

All the love gone bad turned my world to Black, tattooed all I see, all I am, and all I'll be. You nailed it, I lost wife and kids, got drunk and painted that verse on my living room wall. Was up there 2 years before i could take it down. Music connects with every emotion. Tequila? Does not.

BJ always picking up the right feels .. Asia clincliy overviews it true right away

Check out Porch....killer song, AMAZING performance

there were no children he walked outside and heard the kids playing and he felt their laughter, it was his first love and yes he wrote it about her just the best for me we have all had a black in our life and losing love is the hardest thing you can go through I cry everytime but a beautiful cry😢

Awesome reaction! You should check out their song "Porch" from the PinkPop concert. Insane

EDDIE VEDER ... GREAT VOICE, SOMETIMES ITS BEST TO LET THE SONG COMPLETE ... THEN YOU WILL KNOW!

If you check out pearl jam again "Jermey" is a good one.

You’ve started with their best song indeed 😉 maybe “State of Love and Trust” from the same show would be a great next step guys 🔥🔥🔥

Definitely check out more Pearl Jam and even Temple of the Dog with Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell.

My highschool sweetheart was/is a huge Pearl Jam fan. When we broke up around 2000 this song haunted me. Coming on the radio every time I’d get in my truck. We ended up getting married years later now long divorced but still homies. But man as a teenager that “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life. I know you’ll be a sun in somebody else’s sky” was a brutal bar. Great song. Eddie is one of the few great voices from that era that’s still around.

If you let people complete their thought, it’s much easier to figure out what they’re trying to say…🤔

Just like candy reference!! 😂👏🏻🙌🏼

When they first released black they didn’t want the song to become popular because it was very true to him and very heartfelt

He actually fell from his chair during this show, can't remember what part... lmao

My favorite thing about this video is Asia staring with such focus. A singer registering how incredible the best are. And I truly feel she wouldn't get it if it wasn't for dude. So he makes it just as special. This is song writing and performance at its best. All singers should understand the difference.

for me, it´s the best acoustic performance, 90's forever

Breathe, or Jeremy, Even Flow. All are good Pearl Jam jams

Also my unplugged Nirvana where did you sleep last night is a must

Checkout Footsteps by pearl jam amazing song

Eddie is one of the best. Sometimes it's hard to understand him, tho, just his iconic voice! Love it!! ♥️🤘

For those who don't know. This song is (according to Eddie himself) about his first love. The part about the kids is just to show that even laughing children couldn't cheer him up anymore. Pictures faded to black means the memory of their relationship is stained....their love died out. And then the last part is quite self explainatory: I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why can't it be, why can't it be mine. She moved on and he wishes they were still together. He misses her dearly. So yeah. A rather emotional love song. And may I add, one of the best of all times. It's just such a good song. He sings it with such unrivaled passion and pain. This version is simply perfect.

Their song “Jeremy” WITH VIDEO (not shouting, just emphasizing lol) is a MUST- Love y’all! 💖💙🤘🏼👍

The saddest love song, heartbreaking 💔….. one of THE best MTV Unplugged performances

You should do ......the elderly woman behind the counter......I think it's called

Eddie Vedder's voice in a word: masculine

OMG DIVE INTO THIS BAND. SO MANY GREAT SONGS.

Alice in chains-man in the box. Please react it's amazing

i saw this on MTV Live, when it came out....'93? my roommate and I went to a friend's place to watch bc we didn't have cable 😂 a bunch of us watched and every single one of us was leveled by it. a beautiful song about unrequited love; few do it better than vedder ❤

I been waiting for you guys to do this one. Thanks, love your reviews.

Too much thinking and not enough appreciatin

I heard him sing this live and at the end he was singing why'd you leave, come back...come back...and started crying. I reckon every person in the place started crying too.

It’s a break up song. The best of all time. Pure raw emotion

She was his sun. Everything revolved around her. Now that she's got the sun is no longer there. It is BLACK.

Ok the kids thing. He is saying that walking and hearing children's laughter is normally a great thing but he is still upset. It's not bringing him joy like it normally would. Not his own kid.

It’s a loss of girl he loved. He references her as the “sun”, or in other words a star. “All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun” the horizons are senses. He was totally into her. “And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass Of what was everything All the pictures have all been washed in black Tattooed everything” The broken glass is symbolic of the relationship and pictures don’t mean anything anymore. Tattooed permanently. Lots of crushing references. Eddie Vedder’s music always sounded like he was damaged. Surprised he made it out of that era when many of his counterparts didn’t. Like Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, etc.

It's just a break up song. Listen.

One of the most unique things about the grunge era was how they spoke about their personal trauma. Whether it was Eddy Vetter, Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain or the great Chris Cornell, they all probably put more emotion into their songs and performances than I’ve ever seen anywhere. Supposedly, this was about Eddie Vedder‘s first marriage and his divorce. Haven’t seen the documentary but apparently there was a short one on it somewhere. And yes this is one of the greatest live performances of all time.

Fun fact. Eddie had a sore throat when doing this. He was concerned before taking stage that he wouldn’t be able to perform!

If you wanna see like an intense performance from them, I highly suggest you watch them perform their song Once at Pinkpop 1992. It’s so good.

I saw them live a few years back and they killed it❤

The song centers on finding your first love and the eventual loss; loving her so much he wants her to be happy even though he is in anguish over losing her. And yes, it's true.

You guys need to pull the lyrics up and your songs

Y’all should put on captions

I come here to watch you guys react to metal and I find myself singing along to your theme music. Full circle.

5:02 - “Yeah, it definitely sounds like he’s in some state of misery.” 😂 Welcome to Pearl Jam, enjoy the ride 🤘

Such a beautiful 🎵 🎶 🎵

Raw emotion and deep poetic lyrics conveyed by an amazing voice and a fantastic band. It doesn't get much better than this!

Thanks Candy!❤

Check out Jeremy from the same unplugged concert. The story has a backstory that repeats itself to this day.

A lot of grunge artists sang about thier personal traumas, that's one of the reasons you hear all that raw emotion. You feel that shit.

One of my favorite songs.

It's a must that you go ahead and do the official uncensored video for Jeremy

The song was written by Stone Gossard before Eddie was in the band.. He was sent this song along with 2 others to do the vocals after the original lead singer died.. They were called Mother Love Bone.. Eddie is just one of the greatest lead singers ever.. Amazing performance..

I love this so much, you were both moved by the song and music. THIS is what could bring the world together as good music is never wrong and shows us that we’re all alike, no matter what. No opinion is wrong.

"Do The Evolution" is a Pearl Jam song with a ton of energy and the music video is intense. It'd be a good reaction.