“Save You” by Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam's "Save You" comes from Riot Act, the band's seventh studio album, released in 2002, and it went out as a single in February 2003. It grew out of a spare riff. Mike McCready brought Stone Gossard two ideas; the one he'd worked hardest on drew a lukewarm okay and a request for something else, and the backup was what caught Gossard's ear.

The whole band shares the writing credit, but the music is mostly McCready's and the words are Eddie Vedder's. Vedder, Gossard and McCready all play guitar, with Jeff Ament on bass and Matt Cameron on drums and percussion, and the thing charges like it's late for something. Adam Kasper produced it with the band and Brendan O'Brien mixed it. It peaked at number 23 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and later landed on the 2004 hits collection rearviewmirror.

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