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Even Flow
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| "Even Flow" | ||
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| Single by Pearl Jam | ||
| from the album Ten | ||
| B-side(s) | "Dirty Frank" / "Oceans" (Remix) | |
| Released | 1992 | |
| Format | CD single, Cassette, Vinyl | |
| Recorded | March 27 - April 26, 1991 at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington (Ten version) January 1992 at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington (Video version) |
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| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 4:53 (Ten version) 5:03 (Video version) |
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| Label | Epic | |
| Writer(s) | Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard | |
| Producer(s) | Pearl Jam, Rick Parashar | |
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| Pearl Jam singles chronology | ||
| "Alive" (1991) |
"Even Flow" (1992) |
"Jeremy" (1992) |
| Ten track listing | ||
| "Once" (Track 1) |
"Even Flow" (Track 2) |
"Alive" (Track 3) |
"Even Flow" is a song by the band Pearl Jam and the second single released off of their 1991 album, Ten. The song pairs a funky riff by Stone Gossard with stark lyrics by Eddie Vedder about homelessness. The vocal line that appears in the main verse begins with a very prominent tritone interval.
An alternate version of the song was recorded with drummer Dave Abbruzzese while the band was recording songs for the soundtrack for the movie Singles. This version was used for the video, and was released as a CD-single and 12-inch white vinyl in the United Kingdom. It can also be readily found on the band's greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003. The original version was used in single releases in the United States.
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Pearl Jam originally hired director Rocky Schenck to film a video for the song. On January 31, on their way to England to begin their European tour, they came to Los Angeles to shoot the video. The concept for the video was based on an idea by Stone Gossard.[1] Schenck filmed Pearl Jam in a zoo setting. He had arranged a nighttime shoot at an old, closed facility, brought in different wildlife, and set up his lights among the cages and in the trees. Along with the animal footage, Pearl Jam were filmed individually and as a band, standing on the side of a cliff and air jamming. The shoot took hours, and the band was not pleased with the end result.
Schenck's shoot was considered a colossal waste of time and money by the band; it also damaged drummer Dave Abbruzzese's wrists significantly. After shooting had finished, he was taken to the emergency room where he was advised not to put strain on his wrists. Dave would drum on the European tour with a splint attached to his hands.
The original video was ultimately replaced by a performance clip, culled from footage shot during a January 17 show at Seattle's Moore Theater. The footage used in the video is actually spliced from different songs: for instance Stone Gossard and Mike McCready each play two different guitars, Eddie Vedder wears a hat at some point and the theatre climb actually occurred during "Porch".[2] Josh Taft was filming that night not in his capacity as a director but as a friend of Stone's. (At one point during the show, Eddie had even stopped the proceedings, clearly of the opinion that Taft's presence was intrusive. "This is not a TV studio, Josh" he'd yelled indignantly, in an interlude that Taft left in his final cut but that MTV clipped out of most versions it aired. "Turn those lights out, it's a fucking rock concert!") But in the end, Taft's presence at the Moore show, and the fact that he'd shot sufficient footage to cobble into an interesting video, was a lucky break. Otherwise with Epic hot to service MTV with an "Even Flow" clip and Schenck's zoo video already completed, Pearl Jam would have had little choice but to go with it, and they unanimously despised Schenck's version when they saw the final edit.
Compact Disc Single (US, Germany, Australia, Austria, and Brazil)
- "Even Flow" (Vedder, Gossard) – 4:54
- "Dirty Frank" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament, McCready, Abbruzzese) – 5:32
- Previously Unreleased
- "Oceans" (Remix) (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) – 2:32
Compact Disc Single (UK)
- "Even Flow" (New Version) (Vedder, Gossard) – 4:58
- "Dirty Frank" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament, McCready, Abbruzzese) – 5:32
- Previously Unreleased
- "Oceans" (Remix) (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) – 2:32
7" Vinyl Single (UK)
- "Even Flow" (New Version) (Vedder, Gossard) – 5:04
- "Oceans" (Remix) (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) – 2:32
7" Vinyl Single (Holland)
- "Even Flow" (Vedder, Gossard) – 4:54
- "Dirty Frank" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament, McCready, Abbruzzese) – 5:32
- Previously Unreleased
12" Vinyl Single (UK)
- "Even Flow" (New Version) (Vedder, Gossard) – 4:58
- "Dirty Frank" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament, McCready, Abbruzzese) – 5:32
- Previously Unreleased
- "Oceans" (Remix) (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) – 2:32
Cassette Single (UK)
- "Even Flow" (New Version) (Vedder, Gossard) – 5:04
- "Oceans" (Remix) (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) – 2:32
Cassette Single (Australia)
- "Even Flow" (Vedder, Gossard) – 4:53
- "Dirty Frank" (Vedder, Gossard, Ament, McCready, Abbruzzese) – 5:32
- Previously Unreleased
- "Oceans" (Remix) (Vedder, Gossard, Ament) – 2:32
- ^ Weisbard, Eric, et al. "Ten Past Ten". Spin Online. August 2001.
- ^ "Pearl Jam Concert Chronology: 1992". TwoFeetThick.com.
