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“I Am Mine” by Pearl Jam
From the album Riot Act (2002)
“I Am Mine” by Pearl Jam appears on 27 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2002 and 2013. It was first released in 2002 on the album Riot Act. Its best result is #7 on The End Top 107 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 2002, #6,695 alternative song of all time and #327 of the '00s.
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"I Am Mine" led the way for Riot Act, Pearl Jam's seventh album, arriving as its first single on October 8, 2002, and climbing to number six on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. Eddie Vedder wrote it alone in a hotel room near Virginia Beach, on the eve of the band's first show after the Roskilde tragedy of 2000, as a way of convincing himself things would be all right.
That shaken calm is all over it. It's a sturdy folk-rock hymn about the inner self nobody else can own, with Vedder, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready on guitars, Jeff Ament on bass and Matt Cameron keeping a steady, unshowy pulse. Adam Kasper produced with the band and Brendan O'Brien mixed. Cameron reckoned it had everything the band was known for, which made it the natural starting point for the record. It later landed on rearviewmirror.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1993 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1901 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1901 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1894 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2005 | 29 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005) | 77 |
| 2006 | 88 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of the Millennium (December 2006) | 107 |
| 2013 | 554 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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