Coming up... Pearl Jam came out of nowhere to sell almost 16 million albums in 1992, of their classic TEN but at the peak of their fame, they completely sabotaged their greatest song: Black. After their album Ten blew up, they hadn’t even released the best song from the record… With most everyone agrees is Black, Because of this the label was psyched knowing Black would push Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam further up the charts. But the band wanted nothing to do with this song being a hit. In fact, they did everything in their power to prevent it. Problem is it didn’t work. Find out the crazy story next on Professor of Rock.

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So, it’s time for another edition of our series The New Standards. In this show, we take an in-depth look at songs that have risen above genre, decade, and fads... songs that have become essential entries in the great world songbook. On previous episodes, we have covered Ordinary World by Duran Duran, Hotel California by The Eagles, and Pictures of You by The Cure. Today we’re taking a deep dive into one of the most powerful and heart-wrenching anthems of the 1990s, Black by Pearl Jam.

So, the story of Black is tightly interwoven with the origins and initial rise of Pearl Jam. After the dissolution of Seattle grunge pioneers Mother Love Bone in 1990, guitarist Stone Gossard teamed up with childhood friend Mike McCready and former bandmate Jeff Ament to start a new project. The result of their efforts was a five-song collection they called the Stone Gossard Demos. This now legendary tape of instrumental tracks found its way into the hands of San Diego singer Eddie Vedder. The music spoke to Vedder, so he wrote lyrics and recorded vocals for three of the tracks…

Alive, Once, and Footsteps. He dubbed these the Momma-Son trilogy and sent them off to Jeff Ament in Seattle. When Ament and Gossard heard Vedder’s interpretation, they were transfixed and immediately arranged an audition. Eddie arrived in Seattle on October 8, 1990, with the lyrics to a fourth track in hand... Black. Once there, he and the band, who had also added drummer Dave Krusen, went straight to work.

Kicking off one of the most grueling weeklong jam sessions in rock history, the heretofore nameless band laid down the musical foundations for their future album Ten. Just into this music writing clinic, the band recorded Black and nine other songs.

However, these were all preliminary cuts. Pearl Jam wouldn’t record Ten as we know it until the following spring. Under the direction of producer Rick Parashar, Ten was recorded at London Bridge Studios in Seattle. It was mixed at Ridge Farm studios in Surrey, England and then finally released on...