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Better Man (Pearl Jam song)
"Better Man" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. It is the eleventh track on the band's third studio album, ''Vitalogy'' (1994). The song was written by vocalist Eddie Vedder. Despite the lack of a commercial single release, "Better Man" reached the top of the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and spent a total of eight weeks at number one. The song was included on Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits album, ''rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003)''.
==Origin and recording==
"Better Man" was written by vocalist Eddie Vedder when he was in high school. He said, "I wrote "Better Man" before I could drink—legally—on a four-track in my old apartment."〔Marks, Craig. ("Let's Get Lost" ). ''Spin''. December 1994.〕 In another interview, Vedder stated, "Sometimes I think of how far I've come from the teenager sitting on the bed in San Diego writing 'Better Man' and wondering if anyone would ever even hear it."〔Hilburn, Robert. ("Working Their Way Out of a Jam" ). ''Los Angeles Times''. December 22, 1996.〕 Its melody and chord progression are based loosely on the song "Save it For Later" by the English Beat, which the band sometimes jams to live after Better Man. He first performed it with a San Diego, California-based group called Bad Radio. Vedder later recorded it with Pearl Jam, although Pearl Jam was initially reluctant to record it and had initially rejected it from ''Vs.'' due to its accessibility.
Producer Brendan O'Brien on the song: There's a great song we recorded for ''Vs.'', "Better Man", which ended up on ''Vitalogy''. One of the first rehearsals we did they played it and I said "man, that song's a hit." Eddie just went "uhhh." I immediately knew I'd just said the wrong thing. We cut it once for ''Vs.'', he wanted to give it away to this Greenpeace benefit record, the idea was that the band was going to play and some other singer was going to sing it. I remember saying to the engineer, Nick (), "this is one of their best songs and they're going to give it away! Can't happen!" And we went to record it and I'm not going to say we didn't try very hard, but it didn't end up sounding very good. I may have even sabotaged that version but I won't admit to that. It took us to the next record, recording it two more times, before he became comfortable with it because it was such a blatantly great pop song.〔Weisbard, Eric, et al. "Ten Past Ten". ''Spin''. August 2001.〕
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