{"id":974413,"date":"2020-01-14T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937336"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:54:27","slug":"flashback-pearl-jam-unveil-animal-at-1993-mtv-video-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/flashback-pearl-jam-unveil-animal-at-1993-mtv-video-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Pearl Jam Unveil \u2018Animal\u2019 at 1993 MTV Video Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pearl Jam<\/a> announced not only dates for a North American tour<\/a> yesterday, but also a release date for their upcoming LP Gigaton<\/em>. They\u2019d been dropping hints for the past week about an album, but until yesterday nobody knew the title or any details about it. We now know that it was produced by the band and Josh Evans and that new single \u201cDance of the Clairvoyants\u201d will be released in \u201cthe coming weeks,\u201d but not a lot more.<\/p>\n

A single Mike McCready quote in the press release, however, does seem to give some sense of the direction the album will take. \u201cMaking this record was a long journey,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was emotionally dark and confusing at times, but also an exciting and experimental road map to musical redemption. Collaborating with my bandmates on Gigaton<\/em> ultimately gave me greater love, awareness and knowledge of the need for human connection in these times.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that Pearl Jam has opted for a record release campaign that was light on new information. Back in 1993 when they were prepping for their second record Vs<\/em>., the group decided to forego creating any videos and they granted very few interviews (with their Rolling Stone<\/em> cover<\/a> being a rare exception) in order to avoid the massive overexposure they faced in the aftermath of Ten<\/em> across 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n

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They also didn\u2019t release any singles prior to the album\u2019s October 19th, 1993, release date, but they had been playing many of the new songs on tour during the previous few months. That means that anyone who saw them in Europe during the summer of 1993 (or got their hands on a quickie bootleg) had the chance to hear \u201cAnimal.\u201d The vast majority of Pearl Jam fans, however, heard it for the first time on September 2nd, 1993, when they played it at the MTV Video Music Awards. Here\u2019s video of the performance, where host Christian Slater says that the band is \u201cplaying a brand new song for the first time anywhere\u201d even though it was their 20th time playing it.<\/p>\n

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Pearl Jam no longer play new songs before they come out, so the Gigaton<\/em> release date is likely the first time fans will hear the vast majority of the album. And since this is the longest the group has ever gone between albums, interest is extremely high this time around. But when the VMAs come around, don\u2019t expect Pearl Jam to be within 100 miles of the place. The world of 1993 is long gone.<\/p>\n

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Pearl Jam announced not only dates for a North American tour yesterday, but also a release date for their upcoming LP Gigaton. They\u2019d been dropping hints for the past week about an album, but until yesterday nobody knew the title or any details about it. We now know that it was produced by the band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 11:34:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}