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“In Hiding” by Pearl Jam
From the album Yield (1998)
“In Hiding” by Pearl Jam appears on 19 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1998 and 2022. It was first released in 1998 on the album Yield. Its best result is #44 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #81 alternative song of 1998 and #4,652 alternative song of all time.
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"In Hiding" sits late on Yield, Pearl Jam's fifth album, in 1998, and it began as a Stone Gossard riff caught on a microcassette recorder and carried in to the band. Eddie Vedder held on to it for a long while, not writing his words until the sessions were nearly done. Brendan O'Brien produced it with the band and mixed it, and Nick DiDia recorded.
It's one of those Pearl Jam songs that simply swells: guitars from Gossard, Mike McCready and Vedder himself piling up, Jeff Ament and Jack Irons driving from underneath, a chorus that throws the windows open. Irons said it came across like five guys playing live together, and that was pretty much how it happened; McCready knew from the demo it had to be finished. It never got a commercial single, yet it still made number 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and number 14 on Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 73 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 79 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 | 91 |
| 1998 | 94 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 | 106 |
| 1998 | 44 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 77 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 65 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 97 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 69 | DC101 Washington, D.C. | DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 78 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 880 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 471 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 863 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 472 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 849 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 538 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2004 | 102 | WBCN | WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004) | 104 |
| 2005 | 985 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2005 | 51 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005) | 77 |
| 2022 | 762 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
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