Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution: youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI&ob=av2n
I was an awkward teenager. We all of us were, but this first fact is integral.
I once went to a friends house, just stopped in to see what he was up to. He was in his basement working on bikes with a couple guys who were a lot cooler than me. They were both a little surprised I was there. I remember one of them asking:
"What do you listen to?" as if it were a threat.
"I like Pearl Jam."
They laughed. "Who the fuck are they?"
"They just came out with their first video in about 10 years and it's great. It's called Do the Evolution."
They laughed. "That sounds fucking stupid."
Or so I remember the conversation going. I'm sure that's dumbed down a little.
They were a certain kind of right in laughing at that. I mean, "Do the Evolution" sounds like a 1950s educational song in the vein of Buddy Holly. And the name Pearl Jam sounds like breakfast fare or a bad basketball move or semen. But what a great and aggressive song. Granted, the first scream sounds kind of funny, but the rest is all fire.
Strange my friend didn't stand up for me that day, but who cares. I loved him anyway. He wanted to be cool as much as I did.
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