"ALIVE" with anticipation for this new "RELEASE"...
Just got the Deluxe Version of Pearl Jam's Ten Reissue in the mail, via the Ten Club. Can't wait to hear Brendan O'Brien's remix of one of my favorites albums of all time. (Full disclosure -- I don't really know all that much about O'Brien, but apparently he's pretty good with a soundboard).
I was 11 years old when Ten was first released in 1991, and after hearing Alive on the radio, I urged my mom to buy the CD for me (which was one of the first compact discs I ever owned). I remember listening to Alive and Even Flow over and over again, and not really listening to anything else on the disc, at least in the beginning.
From the opening guitar riff, Alive just hooked me. It was unlike anything I had ever heard, and it's still one of the only songs (to this day) I can sit and listen to the entire five-plus minute version without any desire to change the song or leave the room.
