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Black (song)
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| Song by Pearl Jam | |||||
| Album | Ten | ||||
| Released | August 27, 1991 | ||||
| Recorded | March 27, 1991 – April 26, 1991 at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 5:43 | ||||
| Label | Epic | ||||
| Writer | Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard | ||||
| Producer | Pearl Jam, Rick Parashar | ||||
| Ten track listing | |||||
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| from the album Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003 | |||||
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"Black" is a track on Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten. The song is a soliloquy by a heart-broken man, who is remembering his absent lover.
"Black" is one of Pearl Jam's best known songs and is a central emotional piece on the album. As with "Rearviewmirror" from Vs. and "Better Man" from Vitalogy, the band refused to make it into a single, feeling that it was too personal and the feeling of it would be lost by a video or a single release.[1] In spite of this, the song charted at #3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1993. The song was included on Pearl Jam's greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.
Live performances of "Black" can be found on the live albums Live on Two Legs, Live at Benaroya Hall, and Live at the Gorge 05/06. A performance of the song is also included on the DVD Live at the Garden.
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- Stone Sour has also performed this song live in their early days before achieving mainstream success, as heard on their 1996 bootleg Live At The Edge, Des Moines, IA.
- Aaron Lewis of Staind covered the song in 2001 on the band's Break the Cycle tour and on the 2001 Family Values Tour. A live performance of the song by Aaron Lewis appears on the Family Values Tour 2001 compilation album.
- Howie Day covered the song live in concert in 2003.
- O.A.R. covered the song live in concert in 2004.
- Tori Amos covered the song live in concert in 2005.
- Bronson Arroyo recorded the song for his album Covering the Bases.
- Three Days Grace has covered the song live in concert when Adam Gontier asks the crowd if they want to hear an Alice in Chains song or a Pearl Jam song.
- Chris Daughtry did an acoustic cover of this song during his 2006-2007 tour for his debut album Daughtry.
All information taken from various sources.[2][3]
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1993 | US Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 |
| US Modern Rock Tracks | 20 |
- ^ Crowe, Cameron. "Five Against the World". Rolling Stone. October 28, 1993.
- ^ Pearl Jam Artist Chart History. Billboard. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ Pearl Jam – Billboard Singles. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
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