“Oceans” by Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam made "Oceans" the fourth single from their debut, Ten, in 1992, and it was written from the wrong side of a locked door. Somebody asked Eddie Vedder to feed the parking meter; he did, came back to find himself shut out in the drizzle, dressed all wrong for the rain, and with the band playing inside, the only thing reaching him through a boarded-up window was the bass. So he dug out a pen and some paper and wrote to it, banging on the door whenever the music stopped.

Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament share the music credit; the words are Vedder's alone. Gossard and Mike McCready play guitar, Dave Krusen drums, Rick Parashar produced with the band and Tim Palmer mixed. Remixed versions later turned up with the "Even Flow" single and on Ten's 2009 reissue.

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