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Who Ever Said's stunning bridge recognizes that our time (personally and collectively) is running out, and that we need to find the courage to reflect on and take responsibility for how we've arrived here if we things to get better. #pearljam #iamnoguide #theskyiscrape

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Pearl Jam - Who Ever Said - Austin (September 18, 2023)
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October 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Friday claim: 'This world's a long love letter that makes me want to cry' (Mind Your Manners) best captures the overarching lyrical themes running from Backspacer through Dark Matter? #iamnoguide #theskyiscrape #pearljam

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October 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Save You, a song about addiction, is partially a refutation of Habit. It focuses on the desire to help, rather than judge, but it is also about the singer's need to assert some kind of control over a situation they feel powerless to affect. #pearljam #iamnoguide #riotact
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Soon Forget's smug bitterness is out of step with Pearl Jam's humanism. But live it is a moment of connection, not critique, becoming a warning from Eddie to himself - to not lose sight of what matters as his journey takes him farther from where he began. #pearljam #iamnoguide #theskyiscrape
October 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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"In Hiding ends with a gradual deflation rather than a triumphant conclusion, focusing on creating sustainable rather than transformational spaces and celebrating the unencumbered peace and joy of being alone." From "I Am No Guide: Pearl Jam Song by Song" #iamnoguide #pearljam #theskyiscrape #yield
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Instead of quoting from the Satan's Bed entry in 'I Am No Guide' I am going instead posit that the definitive version of this song is from the Atlanta 94 performance, and invite you to disagree. #pearljam #iamnoguide

(also, please check out the book!)

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Pearl Jam - Satan's Bed (Atlanta 1994-04-03) [Definitive Live]
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September 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Live versions of Daughter recast the song. The audience joining in on 'rise above' create an immediate and empowering shared ownership of the distant and passive promise found in the studio version. #pearljam #iamnoguide #theskyiscrape

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Daughter / It's Ok- Pearl Jam - 13 Touring Band 2000 - Live
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September 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Stip is back on The State of Love and Trust podcast to tackle a very important question that finally, after 30 years, someone has the courage to ask. Why didn't No Code sell better? #pearljam #iamnoguide #stateofloveandtrust

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Ep. 273 - No Code Economic Autopsy Report -- Why Didn't It Sell Better?
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September 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Dark Matter is about the disassociated and increasingly panicked experience of dividing ourselves into tribes -leaving no one feeling satisfied, safe, or whole. We are left eroding away and pulling apart. #pearljam #iamnoguide #darkmatter

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Pearl Jam - Dark Matter, Vancouver BC, 5/4/2024 Live
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September 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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'Buckle Up' grapples with generational transitions, confronting the role reversal of aging parents. Unsurprisingly the music leans into the feel of childhood, grasping to hold onto something lost , never to return. #pearljam #iamnoguide 🧵

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Pearl Jam - Buckle Up (Live at Ohana Fest, Dana Point, CA / 2021 / Audio)
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August 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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August 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Unemployable grapples with the death of the American Dream, and its insidious corollary that economic struggle is the result of personal failure rather than external obstacles. #pearljam #unemployable #iamnoguide 👇

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Unemployable - Late Show With David Letterman - Pearl Jam
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August 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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You Are is about the tension between love’s power and love’s tenuous vulnerability. Eddie captures this tension in the soaring restrain of his delivery. Exhausted but surviving, sustained by the sea, weathering the storm for as long as he can. #pearljam, #iamnoguide

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"You Are" - Live at Madison Square Garden - Pearl Jam
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July 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Sleight of Hand is a portrait of a character trying to escape who he was, not knowing who he is, and fearful of who he has become - a lost shell devoid of substance and meaning. It cuts to the elemental heart of Binaural - cold, lonely, and lost. #pearljam #iamnoguide

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Pearl Jam - SLEIGHT OF HAND - HD - Pittsburgh PA @ PPG Paints Arena 5.16.25
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July 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Brain of J argues if everything is a lie, we don't have to try and rationalize the absurdity of our social order. Instead, we can focus on creating something better.
#pearljam #yield #iamnoguide #brainofj

(Like thinking about Pearl Jam? I Am No Guide is out now)

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Pearl Jam - Brain Of J. (Pinkpop 2000)
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June 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Red Mosquito presents as a cautionary tale, urging us to learn from his mistakes before it is too late. Before we are bitten. #pearljam #iamnoguide #nocode

(from I Am No Guide: Pearl Jam Song by Song)

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Pearl Jam - Red Mosquito (Berlín, 1996)
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June 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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The slow powder-keg burn of Not For You feels like the crackling, deceptively clam moments before an explosion. An undercurrent of barely contained rage - released in the chorus, bottled up in the verses, burning off during the outro. #pearljam #iamnoguide #vitalogy #notforyou #theskyiscrape
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Like content like this? "I Am No Guide: Pearl Jam Song by Song" is full of it! Out now! #pearljam #iamnoguide #alive #ten

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I Am No Guide―Pearl Jam: Song by Song
I Am No Guide―Pearl Jam: Song by Song [Stipelman, Brian, Rector, Brandon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I Am No Guide―Pearl Jam: Song by Song
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June 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Running is frustrated and tired, but never exhausted. Movement has always been one of Eddie's primary metaphors for change and possibility, and Running refuses to stop. If it does, nothing changes, and we all lose. #pearljam #iamnoguide #darkmatter

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Pearl Jam - Running (First Official Performance)
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June 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Quick Escape understands that by trying to outrun or hide from what we hate and fear, we sacrifice the chance to change it. Gigaton seeks peace and acceptance as a fulcrum for change. Quick Escape slaps you out of complacency.

#quickescape #pearljam #iamnoguide #gigaton
May 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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'Got Some' helps set the mood and tone of Backspacer -the need to take the peace and power within us and turn that energy outward. #pearljam #iamnoguide #gotsome #backspacer

I Am No Guide is out now - Amazon and elsewhere. Written by lifelong human fans.

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Pearl Jam - Got Some (The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, 6/1/2009)
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May 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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MFC is liberating from the start, making up for lost time and broken promises through the long overdue embrace of life's inherent possibilities. And since the chorus threatens 'there's no leaving here', leaving becomes a form of resistance. #yield #MFC #pearljam #iamnoguide #theskyiscrape
May 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Sometimes recognizes the world is vast and impersonal, emphasizing our smallness and imperfections. After two verses - no chorus, as Sometimes discovers its conclusion in real time - the singer asserting their agency by accepting their imperfection and therefore their humanity. #pearljam #iamnoguide
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Looking for some light breakfast reading (or whatever time of day you find this)? Below are some anniversary reflections on Gigaton and Dark Matter through the lens of our current political climate. #pearljam #darkmatter #gigaton #iamnoguide

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Gigaton and Dark Matter : Looking Back and Looking Forward
Gigaton and Dark Matter – Then and Now I have been thinking a lot about Gigaton and Dark Matter recently. Both of these albums landed wi...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The atmospheric Upper Hand rises and decays in equal measure, a self-contained musical evocation of what it means to live. And it is swept away in a third act whose joyful climax defines the end on its own terms, answerable to nothing but the love that conjured it into being. #pearljam #iamnoguide
April 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM