Jeremy (Pearl Jam) - Episode 815 (uncensored)
Added 2024-07-24 20:30:56 +0000 UTCThe episode on YouTube does not include the explicit original video while this version does.
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Same. Same. **HUGS**
LadySlippers
2024-09-05 14:22:45 +0000 UTCI'm in my early 50's and this music resonates with me so much. I was in my late teens/very early 20's when grunge came out. I think the façade of 'angry' and 'loud' music covers for the deep vulnerability most of the. music is about. There's so many bands that are in the grunge/alternative music style that fall into this, including bands like 'Babes in Toyland' (Minneapolis grunge vs Seattle grunge). But few people look at the intense vulnerability cloaked in the deeply aggressive music and why that was. I think too, to your point about pop, pop music is meant to be uplighting. This is soul baring music.
LadySlippers
2024-09-05 14:19:59 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing your story and this song. I listen to alternative rock music all day, every day and every now and then I hear this song. Until today I only heard the song, through your video for the first time I really felt it. Goosebumps all over… Such an important song! Keep up the good work and enriching our musical experiences. Love from The Netherlands!
Klaas Schippers
2024-08-26 19:58:58 +0000 UTCLast comment- I wouldn't normally do this, but here is the Peter Hammill song I recommended for the summer song fan favorites. It didn't make the cut, but is crazy relevant in the context of 'Jeremy'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuf2sjSXOpc
Tom (the soggy one)
2024-07-26 03:36:23 +0000 UTCI identify with this song on so many deeply, deeply personal and direct levels, but this is not the forum for that. All I can say is- there, but for the grace of God, go I. Two, maybe only one different decisions and this could have been my story.
Tom (the soggy one)
2024-07-26 03:29:58 +0000 UTCI had not seen this video in probably 20 years. But it's not one to ever leave your memory. To that end, the version I Remember was the same, EXCEPT when Jeremy pulls the gun from his pants and raises it toward his head. I've never seen the gun in his mouth.
Tom (the soggy one)
2024-07-26 03:25:45 +0000 UTCAnd at the time I didn't know any of those bands! I was 13 at the time and the radio in our house was always tuned to and AC station. BTW, the biggest song that year was (Everything I do) I do it for You by Bryan Adams! 😝
Wayne Kitching
2024-07-25 22:05:26 +0000 UTCThank you, Doug.
Boring Postcards
2024-07-25 02:31:53 +0000 UTCDoug, I also grew up hearing this music (in my late 40s). My attraction to it was definitely the "angst" that suffused both the music and the lyrics (I think, however, that this music was made to alienate; the perplexed reaction by adults [not today, but adults living in the 1990s] and young children to grunge suggests they are not at that adolescent stage to understand the intensity of a song like "Jeremey"). As I matured, I find it's hard to listen to these and get the same effect (It seems to reflect the shortcomings of the then-current evolutionary/Freudian paradigm where everything is interpreted under that worldview, leading to manifestos/screeds such as "Prozac Nation"). The idea of "King Jeremy" might be a reference to Freud's insight that we all come into the world as "King Baby" wanting everyone to wait on us, hand and foot. I believe this is a univeral theme, as this kind of frustrated angst is present in ancient liteature (Achilles, Gilgamesh, Hamlet, etc.). In that sense, there is nothing new under the sun. The line that "we unleashed a lion" suggests Jeremy was constructed/made (and therefore, are to blame). However, other children encounter the same kind of experiences, but do not replicate the path chosen by Jeremy (shooting himself). All of this is to say that human behavior/consciousness/decisions are very complex, although rooted in the same unhappiness: How Am I to Live in a Fallen World.
Allen
2024-07-24 23:31:04 +0000 UTCTough stuff. I know in part, because I spent decades of my life, as a result of several traumatic experiences that I had when I was about 4-5 yrs old, thinking that no one cared. I isolated myself. I am so glad that I have worked through most of that & I am much happier, grounded, and at peace than I ever have been. When I first saw the video, I think to myself, thank God it never got that bad. There been saving graces along the way. If there's anyone out there that struggles with mental health issues, I feel for you. Big time.
Ford H. Cotton III
2024-07-24 21:46:13 +0000 UTCThanks Doug - I appreciate you sharing your personal struggles as well as reaction to the music. Every little bit helps us know we're not alone. Also, maybe it's time for a Pearl Jam EPL? Lots of great contenders...
B.K. Pagels
2024-07-24 21:15:18 +0000 UTC"the unclean spirit entered", very provocative image caption from the video. As a side note, the boy who played Jeremy, Trevor Wilson had a very rough life and tragically died of drowning, 24 years after the video was made, RIP Trevor ...
Stop Propaganda
2024-07-24 21:12:52 +0000 UTCDoug, I am with you on the gun thing. I hate them too. What does it lead to but mass killings with them. Too bad we can't get gun laws passed to take guns out of the hands of regular people, who go and do bad things with them.
DAVID SCHWARTZ
2024-07-24 21:08:08 +0000 UTCI think the vocal track by itself is available on youtube. Eddie sounds so intense...
David Granger
2024-07-24 20:56:51 +0000 UTCThis album didn't take off too quickly partly because of the rock albums released at the same time. 44 day period these 7 albums were released: Metallica, Metallica (black album) Pearl Jam, Ten Guns N’ Roses, Use Your Illusion I Guns N’ Roses, Use Your Illusion II Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger Nirvana, Nevermind
Jake Anderson
2024-07-24 20:38:55 +0000 UTC
