Daughter (Pearl Jam song)

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"Daughter"
"Daughter" cover
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album Vs.
B-side "Blood" (live) / "Yellow Ledbetter" (live)
Released 1993
Format CD single, Cassette, Vinyl
Recorded March 1993 - May 1993 at The Site, Nicasio, California
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:55
Label Epic
Writer Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder
Producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Go"
(1993)		 "Daughter"
(1993)		 "Animal"
(1994)
Vs. track listing
"Animal"
(Track 2)		 "Daughter"
(Track 3)		 "Glorified G"
(Track 4)
Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003 track listing
"Breath"
(Track 2 of Disc 2)		 "Daughter"
(Track 3 of Disc 2)		 "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town"
(Track 4 of Disc 2)
Audio sample
Info (help·info)

"Daughter" is the second single from Pearl Jam's second studio album, Vs. It was released as a single in 1993. It remains one of Pearl Jam's preeminent songs, and helped solidify the group's success following the monumental Ten. "Daughter" topped both the Mainstream and Modern Rock Billboard charts. The song spent a total of eight weeks at #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart. "Daughter" eventually peaked at #28 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart, becoming the band's first Top 40 single. In 1995, the song was nominated for the Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[1] "Daughter" is also on the compilation album Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.

It has remained an alternative radio staple and is played at nearly every Pearl Jam show, almost always with an extension of the ending that could be an improvisation or a segment of another song. This extension is called a "Daughter tag". A different form of extension to the song was first introduced in their performance on Saturday Night Live in April 1994, just 8 days after the death of Nirvana frontman and grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain. A tribute to Cobain, it is called "Daughter/Hey Hey, My My" by fans, since the extension is from the Neil Young song "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", which Cobain's suicide note had quoted.

Live performances of "Daughter" can be found on the live albums Live on Two Legs, Live at Benaroya Hall, and Live at the Gorge 05/06. Performances of the song are also included on the DVDs Touring Band 2000, Live at the Showbox, and Live at the Garden.

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Eddie Vedder about "Daughter":

“ The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour, as just outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. The song ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down--so that the neighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed.[2] ”

All information taken from various sources.[3][4][5]

  1. "Daughter" (Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder) – 3:54
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34
  3. "Yellow Ledbetter" (live) (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:16

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:54
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:55
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:33
  3. "Yellow Ledbetter" (live) (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:16

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:54
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:53
  2. "Animal" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 2:46

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:54
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34
  3. "Yellow Ledbetter" (live) (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:16

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:54
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34

  1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:54
  2. "Blood" (live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34
  3. "Yellow Ledbetter" (live) (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:16

All information taken from various sources.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Year Chart Position
1993 US Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1994 US Modern Rock Tracks 1
Irish Singles Chart 4
New Zealand Singles Chart 11
Australian Singles Chart 18
UK Singles Chart 18
US Top 40 Mainstream 28
1996 US The Billboard Hot 100 97

  1. ^ 37th Grammy Awards. Rockonthenet. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.
  2. ^ Jones, Allan. Pearl Jam - The Illustrated Story, A Melody Maker Book. Hal Leonard Corp, 1995. ISBN 0793540356
  3. ^ Daughter. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
  4. ^ Daughter Single. Lukin.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
  5. ^ pjcollectors.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
  6. ^ EveryHit.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  7. ^ Pearl Jam Artist Chart History. Billboard. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
  8. ^ Pearl Jam – Billboard Singles. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
  9. ^ PEARL JAM - DAUGHTER (SINGLE) (12658). Australian-charts.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
  10. ^ The Irish Charts - All there is to know. Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
  11. ^ PEARL JAM - DAUGHTER (SONG). New Zealand-charts.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-17.

Preceded by
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers		 Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single
December 4, 1993 - January 22, 1994		 Succeeded by
"Pincushion" by ZZ Top
Preceded by
"Into Your Arms" by The Lemonheads		 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
January 8, 1994		 Succeeded by
"Found Out About You" by Gin Blossoms
v • d • e
Pearl Jam
Jeff Ament · Stone Gossard · Mike McCready · Eddie Vedder · Matt Cameron
Dave Krusen · Matt Chamberlain · Dave Abbruzzese · Jack Irons
Other musicians: Boom Gaspar
Studio albums Ten · Vs. · Vitalogy · No Code · Yield · Binaural · Riot Act · Pearl Jam
Live albums Live on Two Legs · Official Bootlegs · Live at Benaroya Hall · Live in NYC 12/31/92 · Live at Easy Street · Live at the Gorge 05/06 · Live at Lollapalooza 2007
Compilations Lost Dogs · Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003
Videos Single Video Theory · Touring Band 2000 · Live at the Showbox · Live at the Garden · Immagine In Cornice
Singles "Alive" · "Even Flow" · "Jeremy" · "Oceans" · "Go" · "Daughter" · "Animal" · "Dissident" · "Spin the Black Circle" · "Not for You" · "Immortality" · Merkin Ball · "Who You Are" · "Hail, Hail" · "Off He Goes" · "Given to Fly" · "Wishlist" · "Last Kiss" · "Nothing As It Seems" · "Light Years" · "I Am Mine" · "Save You" · "Love Boat Captain" · "Man of the Hour" · "World Wide Suicide" · "Life Wasted" · "Love, Reign o'er Me"
Related articles Discography · Grunge music · Green River · Soundgarden · Bad Radio · Mother Love Bone · Temple of the Dog · Singles · Brad · Mad Season · Mirror Ball · Three Fish · Wellwater Conspiracy · The Rockfords · Bayleaf · Into the Wild
Categories Grunge musicians · Pearl Jam · Pearl Jam albums · Pearl Jam Official Bootlegs · Pearl Jam songs · Pearl Jam tours
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