Song · Pearl Jam
“Love Boat Captain” by Pearl Jam
From the album Riot Act (2002)
“Love Boat Captain” by Pearl Jam appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2005 and 2024. It was first released in 2002 on the album Riot Act. Its best result is #55 on The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #8,106 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Love Boat Captain" comes off Riot Act, Pearl Jam's seventh studio album, released in 2002, and it was cut loose as a single in February 2003, though not in the United States, where "Save You" got the job instead. Canada and Portugal both took it into the top 20.
The song grew out of a jam soon after Eddie Vedder first met keyboardist Boom Gaspar in Hawaii. Vedder kept a little recording rig for writing getaways; Gaspar turned up with a keyboard to Vedder's guitar, that same night they had the bones of the song, and within an hour it was blasting out of the stereo. Then Vedder wanted to know whether Gaspar was ready for Seattle. Vedder wrote the words and shares the music credit with Gaspar, Adam Kasper produced it with the band, and Brendan O'Brien mixed it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 55 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005) | 77 |
| 2024 | 997 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
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