I love how you didn't interrupt the song by pausing or talking over it and instead you gave us your opinion with the text you added and that is a great idea, I wish all reactors would start doing reactions this way. Big thumbs up for you because of how you did the reaction. BTW, this song is great.
I find the performance of this song particularly heartbreaking because this is a song that was so personal to him and painful for him that he and the band wanted to keep it off the album. The record company pushed them to include it - and they did, obviously - but the band refused to release it as a single, hoping it would just kind of hide amongst the other tracks. Instead, it became their most popular song. It's about an actual ex, an actual love lost, and here's what Eddie said about the song in an interview: "It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever." And, honestly, knowing it's from his real life experience, I feel like the most heartbreaking bit of the song is when he sings: "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life / I know you'll be a star / in somebody else's sky / but why / why can't it be mine?" Imagine having to relive that feeling night after night while people cheer and applaud your pain. I can't imagine he finishes that song feeling stoked, no matter how well they performed it or how much the audience loved it. But, then, that's being an artist, right? You live inside that emotion for the sake of the piece and the entertainment of the crowd. I mean, it's one thing to write a hypothetical song about a breakup or unrequited love or whatever and act it out like you're playing a character in a fictional story... but it takes some artistic bravery to put yourself back into that real, raw, emotional space of an IRL pain night after night.
Very true! Yes those lyrics hits me hard as hell too! We have all been there and felt that kind of pain! And I think the people cheer yes because they play it well, but because they feel relieved to get to be taken on that road of pain with Eddie and connect with him, I’d sing black on karaoke and tear up every time on that ending especially losing the person I loved more than anyone else ever.
Thank you for such an honest and real response. 30 years on, l’m still brought to tears when l hear this song. I rarely listen to it because it still evokes in me immense emotional pain. I love this song beyond words.
Ten is the soundtrack of my high school years. At a time when boys are trying to figure out how to be men and dealing with a ton of complex emotions, Eddie's voice always got me back on my feet and let me process things through his emotions. Ten will always be my favorite album and this is my favorite song from it.
Eddie Vedder only knows one way to perform, and that is to commit his entire being to the song. His incredible song writing is often VERY personal, and he always gives 100%. Thank you for this great reaction. If you dive further into Pearl Jam’s music (and Eddie’s solo work), you won’t regret it!
its amazing how a song can touch the people who listen to it. this song is heart breaking to listen to but at the same time you have to listen because his emotion is so strong it just captivates all ones being, because many of us have been where he is with this song, those words, or know someone who has. his relationship that ended broke him and he had to release those feelings and for a musician this is the result, perfection.
MTV unplugged had some of the best live performances of all time, especially during the grunge era. Hearing Eddie Vedder sing about what most people believe was letting go of the girl that he was married to and the effect it had on him is incredibly intense. Incredible voice and absolute passion. Great reaction
There are old comments from this song on other videos, from people who knew him in high school. They say it most likely came from a traumatic experience when his HS GF got pregnant, ended it and then called it off. Up till then, they were inseparable. Eddie had stayed behind (with his step-dad, whom he did not get along with) in San Diego to finish out HS and be with his GF, after his family moved back to Chicago. After the breakup, he quit school and was essentially homeless. They mentioned her name and that she is married and a teacher still in the same area they grew up in.
Welcome to the voice of Eddie Vedder The Big 5 Grunge Bands each have amazing singers. Kurt Cobain(raw), Layne Staley(power), Chris Cornell(range), & Scott Weiland(versatility). People can argue all day long about who is the "BEST" when the truth is each one had something in particular different from the other. Eddie's gift was CONTROL of his beautiful instrument.
It is an autobiographical song about an ex girlfriend of his which sort of explains why he put his entire soul into this song. One of the best performances by a band ever.
Alice in Chains with Layne on lead. It's a must. Emotional bullet in one's heart almost in every performance. Waiting for it. Thumbs up, so this lady sees it 😉
I know someday 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 I am a 51 year old fairly unemotional man, but THAT lyric gets me every single time. Thank GOD I came to age in the 90s and got to experience bands like Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana and that I got to see every one of them LIVE!
This is said to be one of the greatest live performance ever. I agree. He didn't sing a song, he sing the emotion. Eddie voice is something else.. There is no one like him.. 5 octave voice range, so many colors of voice, speed of changing that colors for example. from raspy to angelic clear in 2 seconds are mind blowing for me, the way he can hold the straight note for so long... without a hint of vibrato, and 10000 other little things, but most important thing is how he how he delivers the song... someone once said that Eddie Vedder sings like an exposed nerve... An opened wound.. That's so true.There is prase that says "It doesn't get any better than that".Now many people use his name to play a little with that phrase and make same point because he is synonym for greatness and they say "It doesn't get Eddie Vedder than that"! Try Porch, Jeremy or Oceans or State of Love and trust from same live unplugged show. It's a must! Pearl jam unplugged session is carved in history of music greatness. That show was one of the greatest moments in music.Great reaction! I love it.
The pain, the suffering, the sadness, the emotion on full display. Incredible! The ending "We belong together" is not on the album version and add SO MUCH to the song!
If anyone knows what true love feels like and then the pain of having to let it go this is it….. but in such a mature powerful passionate way!! No matter how many times I hear this performance I FEEL his soul. Phenomenal. No studio recording could compare.
Brothers through music - couldn’t have said it any more perfect. Pearl Jam is a band born from ashes of the death of an icon! The band that almost never was!
When you get a chance, you should listen to Pearl Jam's "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town." In my opinion, that song and "Black" are the two best Pearl Jam songs...and they are on totally different ends of the spectrum!
Best reaction ever !!!! why? cause she didn't interrupt at all, let out all those emotions every second of this master piece not pausing or saying anything...great job.
This performance is one of a kind, there never has been, or never will be anything like it ever again! No matter how many times I watch it, or watch people react to it, it’s like watching it for the first time!!! Great reaction thank you!
No it's really not, there are so many versions he's done that are all amazing. This being one of them, and possibly even on a higher level to this. m.czcams.com/video/IfmKAkVfvgA/video.html
5:58 cycling through the same three measures over and over and over. No resolution. Like painful twisted thoughts and feelings that never seem to end. Revisiting you again and again and again. No resolution. No solution. Disbelief. Despair. A spiral of hell. So simple. Works like a charm.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who hides deep sorrows in his heart, but whose lips are shaped that when a sigh or a scream flows out between these lips, they sound like wonderful music. It goes to him like the unhappy souls of Phalaris ’Bull, who were tormented slowly over the gentle fire, their screams could not reach the tyrant’s ear to frighten him; to him it sounded like sweet music. It now happens that man surrounds the poet and says to him: "Sing again!", that is: "I hope new afflictions destroy your soul, and may your lips continue to be shaped as before; the scream will scare us, but the music is wonderful!" - Søren Kierkegaard. - a lot of beautiful art often comes from the artists sorrow - sorrow they convert to beautiful art! This song and performance hurts so much, it's somehow beautiful. A paradox...
So many beautiful things come from pain and loss. Most of my life I only saw the pain. But as time went on I realize that pain comes from being alive. Feeling with all of your being. Black is a song(poem) about feeling love and having to Let It Go. One of life's most impossible tasks.
The single most passionate and raw performance I’ve ever seen. There are many artists who want to commit this much but don’t simply out of fear (which I understand and appreciate). But Eddie pushes past that. Pure art.
Wow I agree with the others. I really like this format of non interruption during the song. I absolutely love the mtv unplugged era - SO much great music. Black is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing.
"The music is like this soft cloud that he is raining from, but it's the rain you have been longing." I think that's the best way to describe Pearl Jam, and Eddie Vedder in particular. A few years ago I was like "oh no, another song by Pearl Jam" and now everytime I hear him sing I get shivers down my spine and I'm emotionally touched by his voice and the way how he sings a song. And I really like the way you do your reactions, without pausing or talking. I wished more of the reactors would do that. Keep up the good work!
Putting the text of your thoughts over the song was such an intelligent way of doing this. Many reaction content creators interrupt the performance, then have to back the song up...just ruins the flow. Well done, Sabina!
That song gets me every time. I hear that and I'm taken back to 1992 as a 17-year-old kid. There was a girl I had such a crush on in high school, and her mother wouldn't let us date. She knew about my feelings but would go against her mother's wishes. I was so overcome with emotional pain it was at times unbearable. This song was able to give me some type of release. There are few songs that truly get to me like this (Yesterday from the Beatles is another)
Thanks for the great reaction. To get a fuller understanding of early Pearl Jam I recommend "Porch" PinkPop '92. It's the same year but a festival concert instead of a more intimate acoustic setting. Eddie still brings the intensity. Pearl Jam is still going strong after more than 30 years. Oh, and in my opinion, thesome of the best lyrics Eddie ever wrote were in this song: I know someday 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 Oh can't it be mine
A lot of bands have some pretty powerful songs in their catalog. Those are B-sides for Pearl Jam. For Black and so much of the rest of their music, "powerful" doesn't begin to describe it.
Next to only The Beatles, Pearl Jam is my favorite band. Great reaction. I LOVE their song "Oceans" from this same performance, it'll blow your mind, his voice is different in that song.
Sabina, you REALLY looked like you were about to cry at the end. THANK GOD I'm not the only one that happens to. If this song doesn't pull such an experience out of your past, no matter HOW LONG AGO, like Roverson Melo said a few months ago - "you're dead inside". And THANK you for the way you reacted thru the song, with printed comments without interrupting the performance - BRILLIANT as they say in Ireland. And HEY, after that emotional experience I'm not sure tea will do the trick - you earned a shot
Everytime I hear this song, it's a journey for me. Simply stunning. That album is excellent, but that song is something else. Loved your reaction, Sabina. Greetings!!!
"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody elses sky, but why? why? why cant it be, can't it be mine" A tortured man
Not only did he write the lyrics about a failed relationship, but the "we belong together" part was something he added there, it wasn't on the studio version.
If you like Eddie Vedder, you'll also like Chris Cornell. Checkout his cover of Nothing Compares To you (live on sirius XM) and you can hear Eddie and Chris together in Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog.
Sabina, I loved the way you were feeling the song as it went along... They've been my favorite band for 30 years! They are Rock Legends! Still going Strong...
Pearl Jam is one of the best bands ever! They give their all to their music and performances. Eddie is a master vocalist! I hope you listen to the rest of their music. They have been touring and putting out albums for over 20 years. And they have never made a bad album or song in my opinion.
My first time watching your channel. So glad it was THIS one!!! I absolutely loved the written commentary and letting us watch as you experienced it for the first time. Always a pleasure for me to see people’s first time hearing/reacting to this particular legendary moment in time. Pearl Jam was in their prime during my High School years and I was addicted to them…still love them to this day, how can you not? Another commentator on here told the story of the song and how it was almost not released. All of what they said was true. It was such a personal story in his life - as you can see - that he, as an artist, had to make the song…but needed to keep it for himself. A release for an artist. I am forever grateful that they did release the song and in particular this video. It’s one of my - if the THE - all time favorites. Thank you for sharing your journey with us! What a treat!
Time and place. With your reaction i feel old and from a local culture that i though it was world wide success. This song makes me travel back decades, me and the people of my generation and country.
The invaluable trait of grunge music that brought it so many fans was the raw emotion. The musicians and singers might not be the most technically gifted in every band, and they're sure as fuck not auto-tuned into milquetoast bland commercial commodities, but they knew how to let the world know what they were feeling. And we felt it too.
Great reaction this might be the best MTV Unplugged performance of all time. It's hard to really decide and choose only one but this is certainly in the talks .
Some singers have the ability to pull you into a song and you feel what they do. Eddie is one of those guys. Another from his generation of music is Chris Cornell
I really enjoy the way you describe the music- like rain falling from the clouds, but its the rain you've been waiting for. That is such a feeeling that I'ev never heard described before, but I know it now!
Nice reaction! My one of my all time favorite favorite songs ever!! You can’t sing it without choking up! You know you wanted to choke up on that last part, we have all felt that pain before, and he takes you on that journey with him! Eddie is so amazing!!!
Sabina, I love your channel and how you let the music play and let the music carry you away, as it should. Also that you don't interrupt during the song. Keep up the great work. Bob
I love this and you. So Eddie's Veder and pearl jam, temple of the dog, him solo I love and have since the 1st moment I heard. I loved your commentary and the fact you typed instead of ruining the fluidity of the music with breaks. Awesome. Make more. This man is a rock legend.
Watching you watching this at the end made me threaten to tear up -- impressive the way you absorbed his emotion and desperation, and silently without constantly interrupting as so many reviewers do at inopportune moments in great performances. Glad to have discovered your channel -- I guess it's called a channel, site, whatever .....
Your reaction was beautiful to watch, always emotional to see someone discover this stuff for the first time. Pick anything from that unplugged session... totally immersive. Also try anything from the Nirvana unplugged too... you wont be disappointed x
This song was about a break up and he actually hated that this song got so much popularity because he had to re-live it everytime he performed it. He actually quoted that he wished he never wrote it. So glad he did....
Eddie's personal song about an ex. They purposefully tried to keep it from being overplayed and there's been a few times he's refused to play it because he couldn't get his frame of mind right to do it.
Eddie went from "All I taught her was everything" straight to "how quick the sun can drop away", when the next line should have been "I know she gave me all that she wore".
a PS to my 10-day ago comment: Your "I feel like I'm looking at brothers created through music" observation is SO ON THE MONEY about great music & bands - it is a spiritual connection as it's created and realized in live performances - a connection that lasts a lifetime, even after the band and the players are gone, as long as there are people to hear and view, and understand & appreciate it ... THANK YOU for going there - & oh yea, Eddie wrote it, or at least part of it, didn't he?
If you listen/watch this performance and don't feel anything, you're dead inside.
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I always fucking cry, man…
@@heavymetal1330 I dont know about cry...but its been emotional! ;)
The truth is if you love someone that let go but you never did this is for you 😣❤️
The brother is showing his open heart.
If you’ve lost a love, it echoes in your heart.
I love how you didn't interrupt the song by pausing or talking over it and instead you gave us your opinion with the text you added and that is a great idea, I wish all reactors would start doing reactions this way. Big thumbs up for you because of how you did the reaction. BTW, this song is great.
Thanks a lot!! 🤗
I agree. Great reaction!
I agree.
A lot of pausing is done because of CZcams and Copyright issues.
@@mikaeljacobsson1437 Not in this case. It's been up a couple of months, I mean. It's great.
I find the performance of this song particularly heartbreaking because this is a song that was so personal to him and painful for him that he and the band wanted to keep it off the album. The record company pushed them to include it - and they did, obviously - but the band refused to release it as a single, hoping it would just kind of hide amongst the other tracks. Instead, it became their most popular song.
It's about an actual ex, an actual love lost, and here's what Eddie said about the song in an interview: "It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever."
And, honestly, knowing it's from his real life experience, I feel like the most heartbreaking bit of the song is when he sings: "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life / I know you'll be a star / in somebody else's sky / but why / why can't it be mine?"
Imagine having to relive that feeling night after night while people cheer and applaud your pain. I can't imagine he finishes that song feeling stoked, no matter how well they performed it or how much the audience loved it. But, then, that's being an artist, right? You live inside that emotion for the sake of the piece and the entertainment of the crowd. I mean, it's one thing to write a hypothetical song about a breakup or unrequited love or whatever and act it out like you're playing a character in a fictional story... but it takes some artistic bravery to put yourself back into that real, raw, emotional space of an IRL pain night after night.
Wow finally someone who actually said it
Very true! Yes those lyrics hits me hard as hell too! We have all been there and felt that kind of pain! And I think the people cheer yes because they play it well, but because they feel relieved to get to be taken on that road of pain with Eddie and connect with him, I’d sing black on karaoke and tear up every time on that ending especially losing the person I loved more than anyone else ever.
Are you guys for real ? Do you think it "brave" for him to incorporate an ex into a song ? Really revolutionary... How "powerful".
Thank you for such an honest and real response. 30 years on, l’m still brought to tears when l hear this song. I rarely listen to it because it still evokes in me immense emotional pain. I love this song beyond words.
@@diannechamoun6411 same. It shatters me every time.
I don't care how many times I hear this, hits me in the feels every time.
EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
Will never ever get old! Feels today like the first time I heard it!
totally
Ten is the soundtrack of my high school years. At a time when boys are trying to figure out how to be men and dealing with a ton of complex emotions, Eddie's voice always got me back on my feet and let me process things through his emotions. Ten will always be my favorite album and this is my favorite song from it.
Eddie Vedder only knows one way to perform, and that is to commit his entire being to the song. His incredible song writing is often VERY personal, and he always gives 100%. Thank you for this great reaction. If you dive further into Pearl Jam’s music (and Eddie’s solo work), you won’t regret it!
My great pleasure. He sure did!! I have to. Nobody can stop here!!
@@sabina1118 So happy to hear that, Pearl Jam is one of my all time fave bands, would be great to see more reactions to some of their music!
This entire performance is the most EPIC shows I've ever seen.
I don't disagree, but AIC unplugged is right up there with them, no? Eddie and Layne...two amazing voices.
its amazing how a song can touch the people who listen to it. this song is heart breaking to listen to but at the same time you have to listen because his emotion is so strong it just captivates all ones being, because many of us have been where he is with this song, those words, or know someone who has. his relationship that ended broke him and he had to release those feelings and for a musician this is the result, perfection.
MTV unplugged had some of the best live performances of all time, especially during the grunge era. Hearing Eddie Vedder sing about what most people believe was letting go of the girl that he was married to and the effect it had on him is incredibly intense. Incredible voice and absolute passion. Great reaction
There are old comments from this song on other videos, from people who knew him in high school. They say it most likely came from a traumatic experience when his HS GF got pregnant, ended it and then called it off. Up till then, they were inseparable. Eddie had stayed behind (with his step-dad, whom he did not get along with) in San Diego to finish out HS and be with his GF, after his family moved back to Chicago. After the breakup, he quit school and was essentially homeless. They mentioned her name and that she is married and a teacher still in the same area they grew up in.
Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
well said...
I actually was there at the concert! Best ever!!! No other concert ever even compared!
Ok That’s amazing!!!!
If you notice, at the end he just stays there staring at nothing. He’s singing from the heart
Welcome to the voice of Eddie Vedder
The Big 5 Grunge Bands each have amazing singers. Kurt Cobain(raw), Layne Staley(power), Chris Cornell(range), & Scott Weiland(versatility). People can argue all day long about who is the "BEST" when the truth is each one had something in particular different from the other. Eddie's gift was CONTROL of his beautiful instrument.
You're one of the very few who does not stop the song during a reaction. I really appreciate that. More people should follow your lead. Great job.
It is an autobiographical song about an ex girlfriend of his which sort of explains why he put his
entire soul into this song. One of the best performances by a band ever.
Alice in Chains with Layne on lead. It's a must. Emotional bullet in one's heart almost in every performance. Waiting for it.
Thumbs up, so this lady sees it 😉
I know someday 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
I am a 51 year old fairly unemotional man, but THAT lyric gets me every single time. Thank GOD I came to age in the 90s and got to experience bands like Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana and that I got to see every one of them LIVE!
Still he best lyrics ever written!
There's not another band on Earth, regardless of genre, that pours as much soul into a performance than Pearl Jam.
This is said to be one of the greatest live performance ever. I agree. He didn't sing a song, he sing the emotion. Eddie voice is something else.. There is no one like him.. 5 octave voice range, so many colors of voice, speed of changing that colors for example. from raspy to angelic clear in 2 seconds are mind blowing for me, the way he can hold the straight note for so long... without a hint of vibrato, and 10000 other little things, but most important thing is how he how he delivers the song... someone once said that Eddie Vedder sings like an exposed nerve... An opened wound.. That's so true.There is prase that says "It doesn't get any better than that".Now many people use his name to play a little with that phrase and make same point because he is synonym for greatness and they say "It doesn't get Eddie Vedder than that"! Try Porch, Jeremy or Oceans or State of Love and trust from same live unplugged show. It's a must! Pearl jam unplugged session is carved in history of music greatness. That show was one of the greatest moments in music.Great reaction! I love it.
Damn right !!
The pain, the suffering, the sadness, the emotion on full display. Incredible! The ending "We belong together" is not on the album version and add SO MUCH to the song!
One of the best unplugged performances MTV ever made
If anyone knows what true love feels like and then the pain of having to let it go this is it….. but in such a mature powerful passionate way!! No matter how many times I hear this performance I FEEL his soul. Phenomenal. No studio recording could compare.
Brothers through music - couldn’t have said it any more perfect. Pearl Jam is a band born from ashes of the death of an icon! The band that almost never was!
I love that you didn’t stop the song to comment like others do. Onscreen captions and post chat best. Well done.
When you get a chance, you should listen to Pearl Jam's "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town." In my opinion, that song and "Black" are the two best Pearl Jam songs...and they are on totally different ends of the spectrum!
You'll hear this from everybody who's ever listened to Pearl Jam, but I'mma say it anyway... Eddie Vedder is an absolute fricken legend!
Best reaction ever !!!! why? cause she didn't interrupt at all, let out all those emotions every second of this master piece not pausing or saying anything...great job.
a huge glass of whiskey does go well with this arrangement
This performance is one of a kind, there never has been, or never will be anything like it ever again! No matter how many times I watch it, or watch people react to it, it’s like watching it for the first time!!! Great reaction thank you!
No it's really not, there are so many versions he's done that are all amazing.
This being one of them, and possibly even on a higher level to this.
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5:58 cycling through the same three measures over and over and over.
No resolution.
Like painful twisted thoughts and feelings that never seem to end. Revisiting you again and again and again. No resolution. No solution. Disbelief. Despair.
A spiral of hell.
So simple. Works like a charm.
I've heard that song so many times and I still feel Eddie's pain in that song and I'm always on the verge of tears. Great Song.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who hides deep sorrows in his heart, but whose lips are shaped that when a sigh or a scream flows out between these lips, they sound like wonderful music. It goes to him like the unhappy souls of Phalaris ’Bull, who were tormented slowly over the gentle fire, their screams could not reach the tyrant’s ear to frighten him; to him it sounded like sweet music.
It now happens that man surrounds the poet and says to him: "Sing again!", that is: "I hope new afflictions destroy your soul, and may your lips continue to be shaped as before; the scream will scare us, but the music is wonderful!" - Søren Kierkegaard.
- a lot of beautiful art often comes from the artists sorrow - sorrow they convert to beautiful art! This song and performance hurts so much, it's somehow beautiful. A paradox...
So many beautiful things come from pain and loss. Most of my life I only saw the pain. But as time went on I realize that pain comes from being alive. Feeling with all of your being. Black is a song(poem) about feeling love and having to Let It Go. One of life's most impossible tasks.
The single most passionate and raw performance I’ve ever seen. There are many artists who want to commit this much but don’t simply out of fear (which I understand and appreciate). But Eddie pushes past that. Pure art.
Your eyes say it all..the music is pumping right through your heart. Welcome to Pearl Jam and the man who is Eddie Vedder.
I can see this another hundred times and it will always get me!
Those are his words he wrote the song that’s why he’s so connected to it !
I ride this wave every time I hear it the vibration becomes real when you know exactly what he’s talking about because you’ve felt it 🔥
Wow I agree with the others. I really like this format of non interruption during the song. I absolutely love the mtv unplugged era - SO much great music. Black is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!! 🤗
"The music is like this soft cloud that he is raining from, but it's the rain you have been longing." I think that's the best way to describe Pearl Jam, and Eddie Vedder in particular. A few years ago I was like "oh no, another song by Pearl Jam" and now everytime I hear him sing I get shivers down my spine and I'm emotionally touched by his voice and the way how he sings a song.
And I really like the way you do your reactions, without pausing or talking. I wished more of the reactors would do that. Keep up the good work!
I miss young, intense, visceral Eddie. He is amazing to watch and listen to. So unique. No one like Eddie Vedder. 😍
Putting the text of your thoughts over the song was such an intelligent way of doing this. Many reaction content creators interrupt the performance, then have to back the song up...just ruins the flow. Well done, Sabina!
That song gets me every time. I hear that and I'm taken back to 1992 as a 17-year-old kid. There was a girl I had such a crush on in high school, and her mother wouldn't let us date. She knew about my feelings but would go against her mother's wishes. I was so overcome with emotional pain it was at times unbearable. This song was able to give me some type of release. There are few songs that truly get to me like this (Yesterday from the Beatles is another)
This very song and in particular this live version got me through some deeply dark times..
Thanks for the great reaction. To get a fuller understanding of early Pearl Jam I recommend "Porch" PinkPop '92. It's the same year but a festival concert instead of a more intimate acoustic setting. Eddie still brings the intensity.
Pearl Jam is still going strong after more than 30 years.
Oh, and in my opinion, thesome of the best lyrics Eddie ever wrote were in this song:
I know someday 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
Oh can't it be mine
If a man wrote that and sang it and I knew it was about me I’d die. That is amazing to have someone feel like that about you.
A lot of bands have some pretty powerful songs in their catalog. Those are B-sides for Pearl Jam. For Black and so much of the rest of their music, "powerful" doesn't begin to describe it.
Next to only The Beatles, Pearl Jam is my favorite band. Great reaction. I LOVE their song "Oceans" from this same performance, it'll blow your mind, his voice is different in that song.
Sabina, you REALLY looked like you were about to cry at the end. THANK GOD I'm not the only one that happens to. If this song doesn't pull such an experience out of your past, no matter HOW LONG AGO, like Roverson Melo said a few months ago - "you're dead inside". And THANK you for the way you reacted thru the song, with printed comments without interrupting the performance - BRILLIANT as they say in Ireland. And HEY, after that emotional experience I'm not sure tea will do the trick - you earned a shot
Since 1991/1992 I still cry every single time I listen thins song...
Everytime I hear this song, it's a journey for me. Simply stunning. That album is excellent, but that song is something else. Loved your reaction, Sabina. Greetings!!!
He put his heart on a plate! I can feel his pain! Great reaction! New subscriber👍
"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, in somebody elses sky, but why? why? why cant it be, can't it be mine" A tortured man
Not only did he write the lyrics about a failed relationship, but the "we belong together" part was something he added there, it wasn't on the studio version.
I love that!! Thanks for sharing!!
If you like Eddie Vedder, you'll also like Chris Cornell. Checkout his cover of Nothing Compares To you (live on sirius XM) and you can hear Eddie and Chris together in Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog.
Say hello to heaven is awesome too by the way
Sabina, I loved the way you were feeling the song as it went along... They've been my favorite band for 30 years! They are Rock Legends! Still going Strong...
That his voice is rain falling from the band who is the sky comment was effing brilliant, and spot on 👌🏻
Thank you so much for not interrupting the song. Well done.
Bring us more Pearl Jam, please! Great reaction!
Thank you!! I will 🤗
Tears every time! Love love love Pearl jam
I think that if you’ve gone through that experience personally then it’s almost like you’re going through the loss all over again.
Pearl Jam is one of the best bands ever! They give their all to their music and performances. Eddie is a master vocalist! I hope you listen to the rest of their music. They have been touring and putting out albums for over 20 years. And they have never made a bad album or song in my opinion.
🧡"The music is like this soft cloud that he's raining from - but it's the rain you have been longing for"🧡
You get it. You're expression tells it all, thank you
Thank you!
This lovely ladies reaction is one the best in the bunch,and does not interrupt the masterpiece ❤
My first time watching your channel. So glad it was THIS one!!! I absolutely loved the written commentary and letting us watch as you experienced it for the first time. Always a pleasure for me to see people’s first time hearing/reacting to this particular legendary moment in time. Pearl Jam was in their prime during my High School years and I was addicted to them…still love them to this day, how can you not? Another commentator on here told the story of the song and how it was almost not released. All of what they said was true. It was such a personal story in his life - as you can see - that he, as an artist, had to make the song…but needed to keep it for himself. A release for an artist. I am forever grateful that they did release the song and in particular this video. It’s one of my - if the THE - all time favorites. Thank you for sharing your journey with us! What a treat!
Time and place. With your reaction i feel old and from a local culture that i though it was world wide success. This song makes me travel back decades, me and the people of my generation and country.
The invaluable trait of grunge music that brought it so many fans was the raw emotion. The musicians and singers might not be the most technically gifted in every band, and they're sure as fuck not auto-tuned into milquetoast bland commercial commodities, but they knew how to let the world know what they were feeling. And we felt it too.
welcome to Pearl jam and the genius of Eddie Vedder.
This was fantastic. Thank you.
Your comment about his voice raining from the cloud of music catches this so well, well said 👍
Very nice reaction and clear analysis, always a good moment to dive in their discography. Thanks
So emotionally powerful. Thank you, Sabina. 🙏
Your comments were spot on, made this performance even more enjoyable to experience. Great job!
Whoever broke eddies heart thank you for creating this masterpiece !
True ❤️
Amazing react! Congratulations. You did your job and feel the way as the fans feels hearing this song.
I love watching your reaction uninterrupted to the music I grew up loving. Your discovering is awesome! ❤
Wow! What an impressive/moving performance. Great video/analysis.
Great reaction this might be the best MTV Unplugged performance of all time. It's hard to really decide and choose only one but this is certainly in the talks .
Some singers have the ability to pull you into a song and you feel what they do. Eddie is one of those guys. Another from his generation of music is Chris Cornell
I really enjoy the way you describe the music- like rain falling from the clouds, but its the rain you've been waiting for. That is such a feeeling that I'ev never heard described before, but I know it now!
I feel like "Man. Yes" is the definitive response to this song 😁
I think it's the best video reaction I've ever seen!! I liked that in every part where eddie expresses his pain you also felt that. ✨✨love Pearl Jam✨✨
Nice reaction! My one of my all time favorite favorite songs ever!! You can’t sing it without choking up! You know you wanted to choke up on that last part, we have all felt that pain before, and he takes you on that journey with him! Eddie is so amazing!!!
Sweet Reaction to a truly great song!
One of the truly most incredible reactions I have ever witnessed. I'm a Pearl Jam fan that goes back to Mother Love Bone, thank you so much.
Sabina, I love your channel and how you let the music play and let the music carry you away, as it should. Also that you don't interrupt during the song. Keep up the great work. Bob
More PJ Unplugged, p!ease. Their whole set was amazing. Oceans, Jeremy, State of Love and Trust, and Porch are notable.
Thanks - noted!
Please no more.
Great one... love this. Thanks for reaction this band, specialy this song.
Thanks a lot, it was my pleasure! ❤️
One of the best expressions I've seen as a reaction to this song he portrayed the pain so real and she felt it
I love this and you. So Eddie's Veder and pearl jam, temple of the dog, him solo I love and have since the 1st moment I heard. I loved your commentary and the fact you typed instead of ruining the fluidity of the music with breaks. Awesome. Make more. This man is a rock legend.
Watching you watching this at the end made me threaten to tear up -- impressive the way you absorbed his emotion and desperation, and silently without constantly interrupting as so many reviewers do at inopportune moments in great performances. Glad to have discovered your channel -- I guess it's called a channel, site, whatever .....
Best reaction to this song version ever..... EVER!!!, 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I always think about, can you imagine being the women this song is written about and see this the first time. 😱😱
Best introduction to Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder: the greatest sad rock song of all time.
Your reaction was beautiful to watch, always emotional to see someone discover this stuff for the first time.
Pick anything from that unplugged session... totally immersive.
Also try anything from the Nirvana unplugged too... you wont be disappointed x
Love that you didn’t interrupt the song like other reactions videos..shows you respect the full performance with your reviews at the end..good job!
This song was about a break up and he actually hated that this song got so much popularity because he had to re-live it everytime he performed it. He actually quoted that he wished he never wrote it. So glad he did....
Eddie's personal song about an ex. They purposefully tried to keep it from being overplayed and there's been a few times he's refused to play it because he couldn't get his frame of mind right to do it.
Eddie went from "All I taught her was everything" straight to "how quick the sun can drop away", when the next line should have been "I know she gave me all that she wore".
a PS to my 10-day ago comment: Your "I feel like I'm looking at brothers created through music" observation is SO ON THE MONEY about great music & bands - it is a spiritual connection as it's created and realized in live performances - a connection that lasts a lifetime, even after the band and the players are gone, as long as there are people to hear and view, and understand & appreciate it ... THANK YOU for going there - & oh yea, Eddie wrote it, or at least part of it, didn't he?
I remember watching this on MTV back in the 90s when it premiered live
yes!!! my fried from the other side of the world is back.. nice reaction to one of my favorite bands.