Pearl Jam's "Yellow Ledbetter"

[slym2none]

Is Eddie actually saying real words, or is it just incoherent mumbling for real?

 

[1977Brewer]

I looked up the supposed lyrics and you are correct.

 

[MaddBaggins]

Did Eddie ever actually use words?

 

[CarbonTom]

Did Eddie ever actually use words?

Yin dees mommanh...

Nahh

 

[Evan_L]

One of the best sources for misheard lyrics ever....

 

[MaddBaggins]

She fries and the batter is thin. Can't find the butter, man!

 

[JonM]

Here's another one - are there words to Release? (Last track on Ten).

 

[Jaybird]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJ65v_C-eI[/ame]

Its so funny to read the lyrics while listing to that song.

Cheers
Jay

 

[iijakii]

Hey at least his lyrics make sense!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g[/ame]

 

[JonM]

Scat, Celtic mouth music - there is definitely a history of singing and not using actual words.

 

[slym2none]

Here's another one - are there words to Release? (Last track on Ten).

I can figure out three - "Oh" and "release me".

 

[captwalt]

There are absolutely words to release and there is absolutely not any real words to yellow leadbetter. I listen to PJ on zm all the time and I hear a lot of different versions of that song. It seems he has a few anchor lines he always uses that don't seem to mean anything but are coherent and real words but I think most if is just pretty sounding syllables.
I think this track was left off of ten because he never write lyrics to it and it sounds like Mike was just ****ing around with some barstardized little wing type thingy and someone hit record

 

[GrumpyOldGit]

Well, fair play to them as Eddie did kinda have to make this up on the spot (at least according to McCready). Guess he's still trying to work out the final version.

Still, I love the whole 'Ten' album - takes me to a very specific time and place.

Hmm - lemon yellow sun... sounds like a name for my next Saison.

 

[1977Brewer]

Well, fair play to them as Eddie did kinda have to make this up on the spot (at least according to McCready). Guess he's still trying to work out the final version.



Still, I love the whole 'Ten' album - takes me to a very specific time and place.



Hmm - lemon yellow sun... sounds like a name for my next Saison.

And "Pools of Maroon" for a red ale.

 

[Peruvian802]

 

[Yooper]

It doesn't matter.

If you looked like this:


Who cares?!?!

I LOVE Eddie Vedder. I love that he stood up to Ticketmaster before he was a big "star", and I love that he sang a song by Eagles of Death Metal today to send his message about the Paris attacks.

I don't care if he mumbles a bit- he's a songwriter I identify with and he's hot besides.

Ok, but I have to admit I don't quite "get" Yellow Ledbetter. But I would so go out on the porch with Eddie Vedder, if he'd let me!

 

[Jaybird]

It doesn't matter.

If you looked like this:
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Who cares?!?!

I LOVE Eddie Vedder. I love that he stood up to Ticketmaster before he was a big "star", and I love that he sang a song by Eagles of Death Metal today to send his message about the Paris attacks.

I don't care if he mumbles a bit- he's a songwriter I identify with and he's hot besides.

Ok, but I have to admit I don't quite "get" Yellow Ledbetter. But I would so go out on the porch with Eddie Vedder, if he'd let me!

Ohh dont get me wrong lovely! He is 1 of my all time favorite artists! Honestly "BLACK" is 1 of my all time favorite songs. He can be a bit much to take in concert when he starts to go off on Political Mumbo Jumbo for 30 min but MAN can that dude preform!

Cheers
Jay

 

[burninator]

Love that song.

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[JonM]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMmp5rGtW4Q[/ame]

 

[brewerJase]

Song kicks ass. I think he was drunk off his ass on red wine when he first recorded the song.

 

[1977Brewer]

Song kicks ass. I think he was drunk off his ass on red wine when he first recorded the song.

That's the first ten years of their career, actually.

 

[hifidelity]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU[/ame]

I'm surprised this hadn't been posted yet. ^^

 

[GrumpyOldGit]

And "Pools of Maroon" for a red ale.

Hmm - 'Indian Summer' for a wheat, 'Garden of Stone' for an IPA or 'Washed in Black' for a stout - I could start a brewery with this album...

 

[MaddBaggins]

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be the sun
in somebody else's sky
but why, but why
can't it be, can't it be
mine"

Been listening to Ten tonight.

 

[1977Brewer]

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I know you'll be the sun

in somebody else's sky

but why, but why

can't it be, can't it be

mine"



Been listening to Ten tonight.

Ten is a master work. So great.

 

[JonM]

There's another Opera Man one that I couldn't find where he's like "Eeeeeeyyyyooooo zabba dabba doo ba Eddie Vedder's even better looking in person that he is on tv-ahh!"

 

[Homercidal]

Pearl Jam is really pretty good. I got TEN in the Jeep and dig into it sometimes, singing along.

Never heard this one, though. I really like it, although I might be able to make out 1-2 words out of the entire song. It's pretty classic PJ.

Maybe I'll just make up my own lyrics and sing along with it.

 

[Yooper]

There are a couple tear jerker songs that come up from time to time.

Right after my dad died, "Man of the Hour" came on the satellite radio and I was a sobbing mess.

And when I feel a bit morose, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town comes on and over and over I just hear: Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away , hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away............

 

[JonM]

I love that clip from Storytellers where he talks about Alive and how the meaning changed for him over the years.

 

[masonsjax]

https://youtu.be/5vATTSpDZIM

Here's a very similar song from a young Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Much debate over why they are so similar, but I don't believe there was any conspiracy. I love both Pearl Jam and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Eddie's lyric-less vocals would go nicely on this tune as well