His Voice! Full of pain yet beauty 😩| Pearl Jam - Black (MTV Unplugged) [REACTION] 

As a PJ fan club member I mourn them all as favorites but relieved Ed made it out alive. He managed to not manifest his demons as addiction.

Give me grunge singers against anyone in rock history except maybe Robert Plant Freddy Mercury John Lennon

Lane Staley from Alice and chains and Chris Cornell! All these guys were so good!

Amen brother!!!!

Can't forget about Dave Grohl either.

The story of my life.

Every time

This is possibly the chessiest thing you have ever heard. I broke up with my girlfriend right before I left to go to graduation beach trip. It was a year long relationship. It was that line that broke down my facade and I could not get to her fast enough. 1992

I doubt they had a beautiful life. They probably live in a studio apartment in a suburb of Seattle with 4 cats.

Right? It's my all time favorite lyric.

Absolutely!!

It's one of the few lines in a song that tears me up every time I hear it. You can hear the pain and longing in his voice.

At the end like if you can't comprehend why this is happening and you can't accept the reality the last line :" we belong together!" Ends up destroying me all the time lol

It makes me piss tears

I know one day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but WHY, WHY, WHY can't it be mine!?

literally makes me tear up. He encapsulates the feeling of breaking up or being broken up with the person that we thought was the one. Then sitting there after with them being a stranger to you and thinking.....why can't she be mine again.

Same….. my favorite

It’s such a fantastic song, but OMG, imagine having to sing it over and over for decades. It’s exhausting just to think about it. ❤️‍🩹

"didnt want it to go commercial" I don't understand. If they didnt want it out then why did they play it so much?

@@TeensierPython because it ended up becoming so popular. There's a nice little doc on the song here on RU-vid. The record company wanted it to be the first single an they refused. It just blew up because of how great the song ended up being

@@tonydorsett33 do you mean this one? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MfCrA3vKsxs.html

I bought this CD and heard this song and got instantly depressed. When my wife got home from work I had her listen to it with headphones. She became a crying mess and asked me why I did that to her. This song digs at anyone's emotions that pays attention to this song.

Man... never a more poignant and accurate statement 💔❤❤

I just turned 50. Spot on Drew! It hit me in the feels back then and now. I hope we see their likes again...Also great commentary!

Well said.

Agreed my friend.

It's said to be one of the best, because it is! :-)

I like Vs better 😁

Said to be? So your opinion is based on what others have said? I'm not being mean, just saying if you think it is one of the best, etc. speak your mind. It IS one of the best rock albums of all time. Definitely top 50, going back to the mid sixties.

Yes..definitely.

Ten is easily top 10. Maybe even top 5.

Mellineal, no?

Millennial from the 80's & 90's? No pal think about what millennium means

You definitely need to wrap around your head what millennial means lol

@@rockyquinn3374 you’re right. Gen X and baby boomers don’t understand the generational coding lol. Millennials started being born in 1984.

@@rockyquinn3374 1981*

That was beautifully put!! I agree.

Absolutely agree.

Facts

Preach, brother, preach!!!

Top 1

Totally agree. Just wish he hadn't screwed the lyrics so bad

very well said, I thought similar but didn't know how to put it. Comparing it to the anger in rap is especially cool, both categories of music were tired of the pretending that everything was just fine.

Right on!

It’s the teenage/young angst expressed in the music. I’ve said the same. Rap took over as the mainstream most popular genre, so it only made sense for the subgeneres to emerge and the angst to be expressed in new music, with new people. Rock music has turned to garbage these days because they’re trying to cling to anything that will sell, meanwhile young rappers (the new wave of 2016-, (lil peep, lil uzi, juice wrld, xxxtentacion) all had rock infused songs, that gave them extra angst. They were literally the new rock stars, substance abuse and angst and fuck the system mentality and challenging their genre of origin. It’s extremely interesting stuff.

PERFECTLY said 🙌🏻💕

💯. We were not ok. But the music made us feel more alive and less alone.

I can’t get through this song without crying honestly

Wait what isn't mtv unplugged in 92'

@@JesseltonGaming But he sang it again after Cornell died

@@jasongutierrez4232 Well Black is probably the most popular Pearl Jam song on the radio. So he'd be stupid not to keep singing it.

@@jasongutierrez4232 ohh dangg didn't know that :'(

SHANNON HOON ANDREW WOOD BRADLEY NOWELL TOO ALL GREAT VOCALIST AND MORE ❤

Ironically there is a song by Pearl Jam called “Alive”. So in that case…OHHHHHHHHHH IM STILL ALIVE😂😂

@@JuanRodriguez-sb1ml Yes Eddie & Pearl Jam are still "SO ALIVE" So many in that Genre didn't make it. These guys all had their moments but I think they got it out of their systems while they were young & got cleaned up. They said in the 90's Heroin was everywhere in Seattle. It was just the thing to do. They didn't take it to extreme or just had good luck. Mike Mccready struggled more than most of them.

@@michaelpal5807 yea the overdoses took Layne Staley and Scott Weiland from us

You know, I know this but I never really thought about it in one list like you wrote. Seeing all those names in one sentence is an emotional hit. I try to retain my composure when it comes to my favorite artists but sometimes that just ain’t gonna happen. It’s life, it’s heavy sometimes.✌️ thanks Jut Wilton.

One of the best bridges ever.

Eddie is one of the most emotional vocalists I've ever experience. One of the most emotional experiences I've ever had while listening to music is the first time I heard, "Come Back" from their Pearl Jam Album(also known as the Avocado Album). He just really puts his all into his performances, and it is always something to experience. "And these days, they linger on, And every night, what I'm waiting for... Is the real possibility I may meet you in my dreams." Goosebumps, everytime.

Why can't it be me.

That’s by far my favorite line from a song ever.

@@IratePuffin I totally agree.... I know someday you'll have a beautiful life.. I know you'll be a star..... Its so positive and encouraging... Then he tears your heart by saying.... In someone else's sky.... Literally the most beautiful but heart wrenching thing I've ever heard

Here too.

I totally agree, she was the star!!❤

Her eyes got me.

i came here to say the same thing

No make up. I would gladly present her to my anti-RaceMixing parents.

She is beautiful

Im balling 😥😢😭😭

It's crazy how that MTV Unplugged series managed to take some of the greatest rock bands and capture some of their greatest performances in a crazy short amount of time. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains...and every single one of their sets is incredible. And when you read the stories of the behind the scenes in getting them all their and getting it all to work, it's amazing that they all turned out as good as they did. Wasn't no youtube back in the day either so seeing them in this kind of setting was basically impossible. Wish there was more band performances going back way further in time. Fortunate to be able to capture these at least.

class of '94 here, we got lucky, that's for sure. Also this was a great reaction, she actually felt and listened to what was being expressed and not just bobbing along to the beat like some do. Pearl Jam always delivers.

The best. In my opinion 90s music. Graduated 94 and I developed my musical taste then

Class of '93. That period was a high point for multiple genres.

Same 91. And damn straight we grew up with some of the best music.

I don't know if it's just your opinion. I think the 90's/2000's was the absolute best era of music ever! There are great hits from all years and genre's, and the 80's were the start of when we were able to start letting go and finally make the music people wanted to make and the messages they wanted to get out..... but the 90's and 2000's are when that feeling was fully realized and artists just absolutely let loose on the industry. Every generation will have 'their music', of course.

I love hearing it live Blows my mind and my ears Love this song

Same

Same. Everytime.

Exactly what art was meant for. Well said!!

I think we all have had that one person in our lives that we felt like that. I’m 63 and can still relate 😓

Last part... WE...WE BELONG... TOGETHER, TOGETHER!! WE...WE BELONG... TOGETHER, TOGETHER!! that hurts. 😣😣😣😣

As many times as I've heard this song, seeing it written really adds to the power of the song. You can literally see what he's feeling.

Yeah, a star is something distant and cold and one of millions. The sun is warm and life supporting and all life revolves around it. Star doesn't make sense.

@@kylegarvin1451 hate to break it to you, but stars are actually suns. So basically it's interchangeable. Also, I feel like star is a bit more organic as it's describing something that is now so far out of reach it is like it's a distant star in the cosmos. Sun makes sense, though, too as a lyric. Just depends on how you see life and relationships, I suppose.

@@kylegarvin1451 the sun is a star. All those stars you're looking at in the night sky, those are basically suns in different periods of their life-cycle and their light shines all the way to Earth. And if someone was all the way out there looking at our sun, it would look like a tiny bright dot in the sky to them just like the stars you see.

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION TEACHER!!!!! LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE

@VIDRG Vertically Integrated Defense Research Group Sorry. Fixed it.

That's what music is supposed to do. It doesn't have to be released to the buying public as a single to draw people into it. A connection made is a connection made, and emotional honesty and integrity makes a much stronger connection than a beat and a hook. A beat can be replicated. The emotion is unique to the song, the writer.

That’s what happened with Radiohead’s Creep, Thom Yorke end up hating it.

We all have that someone

LOL. I had this imaginary conversation pop into my head when I read that. "Eddie! Your voice was amazing tonight! How'd you do it?" "Too much snot in my nose."

I think i sound better when i sing with a cold, makes my voice a lil deeper and the flem in my throat almost makes me sound more emotional. i can also do a better batman impression with a cold lmao

@@vondoodle4325 lol..

Oh god here comes the internet rumor machine about some artist or bands most popular song but they were sick excuse that they didn't need. As if these ppl aren't worshiped enough some of you feel the need to give excuses just in case someone doesn't live them as much as you. These stupid comments appear under so many live videos it's borderline retarded. Like it's a race to post the excuse. Congrats, now let's see how many other morons posted this too!

It was just a rumor he had a cold he later said it wasn't true. Either way who would give a shit if he had a cold or not?

I always thought he was the best from that era, and is right up there with the best ever. Also a good dude that has really kept his shit together for the most part. Which clearly isn't easy in that world. That whole Temple of the Dog thing is such an interesting story in how and why it even came together. The fact you can literally count on one hand the number of times they ever even performed is unfortunate, even more unfortunate we ain't getting anymore. There's like one live performance caught on camera of Hunger Strike (besides the music video obviously) from back then that's pretty cool since it looks like it's a completely spur of the moment thing at what I think is probably some music festival. Then somehow Eddie and Chris didn't perform together for a long time, shame since they were the only two left and both seemed to have gotten past the "dangerous years". Now just Eddie left. If you ever get a chance to see the PJ20 documentary, it's well worth watching. I found it years ago and then couldn't for a long time but looks like it's show up on some sites to stream once again.

Grunge had the coolest vocalists. Layne Staley of Alice in Chains is another one. All the Grunge singers were pretty amazing when they got into their gravel!

Chris and Eddie's voices are amazing but no one will ever top Layne.

Scott weiland 🖤✌🤙👍🤘

We were blessed with 4 not just two layne and Kurt.

Eddie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯

Ditto

Agreed. At first, i preferred the studio version (mainly because he days the right lyrics and and when he does "the thing" towards the end the vocal effects get intense as his voice does). The live performance, love the sutle improvs like: 🎵As thee earth to the su-hun, yeah🎵 And that woowhoo thing during the "kids at play" part. 4:41 He puts his right hand on his left wrist as he's getting ready to say: 🎵All the pictures had, all been washed in black🎵 And that posture is the basis for portraits One of the only songs i can thing of that's made me cry. 2 weeks ago, i listened to this on repeat for a week straight. Just listened to it earlier got a lil blurry eyed

I’m 12 hours late. Couldn’t agree more with every word. ✌️🤘

Like a stone is awesome. Like a pagan I would pray.

Im new here, did she do Alice In Chains - Would? yet?

No, not at all. The studio version is really good.

I would say do the live "Rooster" performance from Nothing Safe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--YomZuuIWKU.html

This 100%

Agreed