Love Boat Captain

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"Love Boat Captain"
"Love Boat Captain" cover
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album Riot Act
B-side(s) "Love Boat Captain" (Live)/"Other Side"
Released February 18, 2003
Format CD single
Recorded February 2002
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:36
Label Epic
Writer(s) Boom Gaspar, Eddie Vedder
Producer(s) Adam Kasper, Pearl Jam
Chart positions
  • # 16 Canadian Singles Chart
  • # 110 UK Singles Chart
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Save You"
(2003)
"Love Boat Captain"
(2003)
"Man of the Hour"
(2003)
Riot Act track listing
"Save You"
(Track 2)
"Love Boat Captain"
(Track 3)
"Cropduster"
(Track 4)

"Love Boat Captain" is a song off of Pearl Jam's 2002 album, Riot Act. Singer Eddie Vedder co-wrote the song with keyboardist Boom Gaspar. It references the 2000 Roskilde tragedy with the line "Lost 9 friends we'll never know... 2 years ago today." When "Love Boat Captain" is performed in concert, Vedder modifies the lyric to reflect the passage of time since the tragedy (as of June 30, 2006, the lyric is "6 years ago today"). The song was released as a CD single in 2003 exclusive to Australia, Canada, and Europe.[1]

[edit] Music video

A music video directed by James Frost was filmed for the song at Seattle's Chop Suey club in September of 2002, though it was merely a live performance rather than a conceptual video. It was one of five videos shot at the club to promote Riot Act (including "I Am Mine", "Save You", "Thumbing My Way", and "1/2 Full"). Up to that point the band had not made any music videos since 1998's "Do the Evolution".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Love Boat Captain" (Gaspar, Vedder) – 4:36
  2. "Love Boat Captain" (Live) (Gaspar, Vedder) – 4:51
  3. "Other Side" (Ament) – 4:04

[edit] External links

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Discography
Albums: Ten | Vs. | Vitalogy | No Code | Yield | Binaural | Riot Act | Pearl Jam
Live Albums and Compilations: Live on Two Legs | Official Bootlegs | Lost Dogs | Live at Benaroya Hall
Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003 | Live in NYC 12/31/92 | Live at Easy Street
Videos: Single Video Theory | Touring Band 2000 | Live at the Showbox | Live at the Garden
Singles: "Alive" | "Even Flow" | "Jeremy" | "Oceans" | "Go" | "Animal" | "Daughter" | "Dissident"
"Spin the Black Circle" | "Immortality" | "Not For You" | Merkin Ball | "Who You Are" | "Off He Goes"
"Hail, Hail" | "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" | " Gone"
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