“Rearviewmirror” by Pearl Jam

"Rearviewmirror" is the eighth track on Vs., Pearl Jam's 1993 second album, and it charges out of the speakers like it's late for something. The whole band shares the writing credit, but this one was mostly Eddie Vedder's, and he strapped on a guitar to play it, one of the first songs to feature him doing so; Stone Gossard said they simply played it the way Vedder wrote it. Mike McCready toyed with an EBow, and Brendan O'Brien produced with the band.

The tension in the room was real. O'Brien leaned hard on drummer Dave Abbruzzese, and at the end of the take you can hear him fling his sticks at the wall; afterwards he put a fist through the snare and pitched it off a cliff. Vedder, who worried the thing was too catchy, cut his final vocals on the last day of sessions.

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