Daughter (song)
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| "Daughter" | ||
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| Single by Pearl Jam | ||
| from the album Vs. | ||
| B-side(s) | "Blood" (Live)/ "Yellow Ledbetter" (Live) | |
| Released | 1993 | |
| Format | CD single, Cassette, Vinyl | |
| Recorded | 1993 | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 3:55 | |
| Label | Epic | |
| Writer(s) | Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder | |
| Producer(s) | Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam | |
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| Pearl Jam singles chronology | ||
| "Animal" (1993) |
"Daughter" (1993) |
"Dissident" (1994) |
| Vs. track listing | ||
| "Animal" (Track 2) |
"Daughter" (Track 3) |
"Glorified G" (Track 4) |
"Daughter" remains one of rock group Pearl Jam's preeminent songs. Released as the third of four singles from their 1993 studio album Vs., "Daughter" topped both the Mainstream and Modern Rock Billboard charts, thereby solidifying the group's success following the monumental Ten. "Daughter" eventually peaked at #28 in the Top 40 Mainstream, becoming the band's first Top 40 single. In 1995, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It has remained an alternative radio staple and is played in 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 alleged suicide note had quoted.
Daughter is also on the live album Live on Two Legs and on the compilation album Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.
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[edit] Lyrical meaning
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 songs 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.[1]
[edit] Track listing
- "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:54
- "Blood" (Live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34
- Recorded live in Indio, California on November 5, 1993.
- "Yellow Ledbetter" (Live) (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:13
- Recorded live in Mesa, Arizona on November 6, 1993.
[edit] Sample clip
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- "Daughter" from Vs.
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[edit] External links
| 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 |
