“Brother” by Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam left "Brother" off Ten, and it took years to climb out of the vault. Stone Gossard wrote the music and Eddie Vedder the words, but during the Ten sessions the song became a sticking point between Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament, and it ended up an outtake. An instrumental take finally surfaced on Lost Dogs, the band's 2003 collection of B-sides and rarities, with Rick Parashar credited as producer.

The version with Vedder singing waited until the 2009 reissue of Ten, and radio grabbed it that year even with no single in the shops, sending it to the top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks for two weeks. Not bad for a leftover from the band's hungriest days.

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