Black (song)
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| Song by Pearl Jam | ||
| from the album Ten | ||
| Released | August 27, 1991 | |
| Recorded | 1991 | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 5:43 | |
| Label | Epic | |
| Writer(s) | Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard | |
| Producer(s) | Pearl Jam, Rick Parashar | |
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| Ten track listing | ||
| "Why Go" (Track 4) |
"Black" (Track 5) |
"Jeremy" (Track 6) |
"Black" is a track on grunge group 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 1992. The song was included on Pearl Jam's greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.
[edit] Trivia
- 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.
- Nick Evans, the famous Otago and All Blacks rugby player has stated several times that this is his favorite song.
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