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“Why Go” by Pearl Jam

From the album Ten (1991)

“Why Go” by Pearl Jam appears on 18 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 1991 on the album Ten. Its best result is #44 on The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,385 alternative song of all time.

18countdowns
8stations
#44best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1999–2024years charted

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"Why Go" is one of the songs on Ten, Pearl Jam's debut, released on August 27, 1991, and it's the album at its most coiled and furious. Jeff Ament wrote the music and Eddie Vedder the words, and the lineup is the one that made the record: Vedder singing, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready on guitars, Ament on bass and Dave Krusen on drums. Rick Parashar produced it with the band, Tim Palmer mixed, and Don Gilmore, Dave Hillis and Adrian Moore pitched in on extra engineering.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 427 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
2002 1937 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2004 393 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2004 82 WBCN WBCN Grunge Top 104 (2004) 104
2005 500 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2005 44 107.7 The End The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005) 77
2007 1682 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1679 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1691 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1731 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1805 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1858 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1928 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2020 328 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2021 267 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2022 269 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2023 252 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2024 398 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2024) 400

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