Who You Are (song)

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"Who You Are"
"Who You Are" cover
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album No Code
B-side(s) "Habit"
Released July 30, 1996
Format CD single, Cassette, Vinyl
Recorded 1996
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:50
Label Epic
Writer(s) Stone Gossard, Jack Irons, Eddie Vedder
Producer(s) Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Chart positions
  • # 18 UK Singles Chart
  • # 19 Irish Singles Chart
  • # 31 US The Billboard Hot 100
    • # 1 US Modern Rock Tracks
    • # 5 US Mainstream Rock Tracks
Pearl Jam singles chronology
Merkin Ball
(1995)
"Who You Are"
(1996)
"Off He Goes"
(1996)
No Code track listing
"Hail, Hail"
(Track 2)
"Who You Are"
(Track 3)
"In My Tree"
(Track 4)

"Who You Are" is the lead single from Pearl Jam's fourth studio album, No Code. The song was included on Pearl Jam's greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.

On Pearl Jam's greatest hits album, "Who You Are" has a slight lyric change. Instead of "circumstance, clapping hands," it's "avalanche, falling fast."

The drum patten for the song was inspired by a Max Roach drum solo that drummer Jack Irons heard at a drum shop when he was eight years old.[1]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Who You Are" (Gossard, Irons, Vedder) – 3:50
  2. "Habit" (Vedder) – 3:35

[edit] External links

Preceded by:
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
September 7, 1996
Succeeded by:
"Down" by 311
Pearl Jam
Jeff Ament | Stone Gossard | Mike McCready | Eddie Vedder | Matt Cameron
Boom Gaspar | Dave Krusen | Matt Chamberlain | Dave Abbruzzese | Jack Irons
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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