Pearl Jam has been strangely quiet this year, having not played any live shows or offered any real updates on a new album (they haven’t put one out since Target aggressively pushed Lightning Bolt in 2013), but the band can still offer up a holiday gift for all the good little grunge fans (and grunge fans at heart) out there. As reported by Rolling Stone, Pearl Jam is going to be gradually releasing all of its holiday singles—which, up until now, have only been available to fan club members—on streaming platforms, with the program taking on the festive name “12 Days Of Pearl Jam.”
The first song, a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Someday At Christmas” from 2004, is available now, but as Rolling Stone points out, it’s unclear which song will come next or what order these are being released in. “Someday At Christmas” is neither the first nor the most recent holiday-related song released as one of Pearl Jam’s holiday singles (a huge number of which are not holiday-related at all), so the next one could be 1991's “Let Me Sleep (Christmas Time)” or even the version of “Redemption Song” that Eddie Vedder sang with Beyoncé a few years ago. That one wasn’t about the holidays, but it did have Beyoncé, which is just as good.
31 Comments
‘Backspacer’ was the Target one.
This is correct, and also easy to look up and verify if you’re, like, writing about it.
Whereas they play ‘Alive’ during Easter.
And “In My Tree” on Arbor Day, the best of days.
And ‘Last Kiss’ on Valentine’s Day.
And “Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town” on Labor Day.
Pearl Jam is going to be gradually releasing all of its holiday singles
An Evenflow of singles, if you will.
This pun is Infallible!
But it’s only good Once.
I’m laughing so hard I have to force myself to Just Breathe.
Praying for a worldwide suicide, as usual.
It would take a Betterman than me to pass up a pun thread.
I’m trying to come up with better , but I got Nothing Man.
This thread made me Smile.
SPIN SPIN SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE!
I wonder if Jeremy would have liked the puns?
Has he spoken about it?
Let’s not put this thread in our Rearviewmirror just yet.
agreed, let’s keep it Alive
Pearl Jam had holiday singles is a thing I learned today.
I wrote them a letter when I was 12 in 1991/1992 and they added me to the mailing list for their fan club, which sent out these “7 Christmas singles to us for free. I got them for 3-4 years, I think. Though I’m no longer much of a fan, I still keep & cherish them. Such a cool thing for them to do.
I lost all the 90s and early 00s ones after the Goodyear Blimp crashed into my storage unit, though I did have some of them recorded onto minidisc. Originally released on vinyl, someo these have made their way onto CD or digital through the years; I really hope this is complete all the way from 91.
“after the Goodyear Blimp crashed into my storage unit,” I would love to hear more about this.
It was a nasty but not abnormal for storm for south Florida, and it wasn’t so much the crash but the water from the sprinklers and fire hoses that caused a complete loss.https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2005-06-17-0506170013-story.html
Hold up. The Goodyear Blimp crashed into your storage facility?!?!
Did the blimp read “Ice Cube’s A Pimp”?
It will be nice to finally give these a listen, because back when I was a member of the fan club I didn’t have a record to play the 45s on
Pearl Jam should do a tour where they cover every alternative, 3rd and 4th-wave grunge band that had a singer who ripped off Eddie Vedder.
Great Article! thanks for sharing this informative with us.Magnus Medi, a medical facilitator in India associated with top accredited hospitals and doctors.
https://www.magnusmedi.com/
Black and Red and YellowBLACK AND RED AND YELLOW
I actually own every single holiday singleAlso, I love this band 🙂