Song · Pearl Jam
“Brain of J” by Pearl Jam
From the album Yield (1998)
“Brain of J” by Pearl Jam appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2005 and 2024. It was first released in 1998 on the album Yield. Its best result is #75 on The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005).
"Brain of J" comes from Yield, Pearl Jam's fifth studio album, released in 1998 after the band spent 1997 recording at Studio Litho and Studio X in Seattle. Mike McCready wrote the music and Eddie Vedder the words, and Vedder, besides singing, plays guitar alongside McCready and Stone Gossard, with Jeff Ament on bass and Jack Irons on drums.
Brendan O'Brien produced it with the band and mixed it, with Nick DiDia recording. Yield was hailed as a return to the plain-spoken rock of Pearl Jam's early records, made more collaboratively than before, and it was the last album with Irons behind the kit: he left during the promotional tour, and Soundgarden's Matt Cameron took over.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 75 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005) | 77 |
| 2024 | 698 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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