"Daughter"
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album Vs.
B-side(s)	"Blood" (Live)/ "Yellow Ledbetter" (Live)
Released	1993
Format	CD single, Cassette, Vinyl
Recorded	March - May 1993 at The Site, Nicasio, California
Genre	Grunge
Length	3:55
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder
Producer(s)	Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam
Chart positions
# 4 Irish Singles Chart # 18 UK Singles Chart # 97 US The Billboard Hot 100 # 1 US Modern Rock Tracks # 1 US Mainstream Rock Tracks # 28 US Top 40 Mainstream
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Animal" (1993)	"Daughter" (1993)	"Dissident" (1994)
Vs. track listing
"Animal" (Track 2)	"Daughter" (Track 3)	"Glorified G" (Track 4)
Alternate cover
Cover art for the Australian version of the single.

"Daughter" remains one of rock group Pearl Jam's preeminent songs. Released as the third of four singles from their 1993 studio album Vs., "Daughter" topped both the Mainstream and Modern Rock Billboard charts, thereby solidifying the group's success following the monumental Ten. "Daughter" eventually peaked at #28 in the Top 40 Mainstream, becoming the band's first Top 40 single. In 1995, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It has remained an alternative radio staple and is played in nearly every Pearl Jam show, almost always with an extension of the ending that could be an improvisation or a segment of another song. This extension is called a "Daughter tag". Image File history File links 22318. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... 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A different form of extension to the song was first introduced in their performance on Saturday Night Live in April 1994, just 8 days after the death of Nirvana frontman and grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain. A tribute to Cobain, it is called "Daughter/Hey Hey, My My" by fans, since the extension is from the Neil Young song "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)", which Cobain's suicide note had quoted. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... Nirvana was a popular American rock band originating from Aberdeen, Washington. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. ... Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist and film director who grew up during his teen years in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) is a rock song by Neil Young. ...

Daughter is also on the live album Live on Two Legs and on the compilation album Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003. A live album is a musical recording containing recorded concert performances. ... Live on Two Legs is Pearl Jams sixth album, released on November 24, 1998. ... Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003 is the first greatest hits album by Pearl Jam with 2 discs because the first compilation Lost Dogs was a b-side singles collection. ...

Lyrical meaning

Eddie Vedder about "Daughter":

The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour, as just outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down--so that the neighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:56
2. "Blood" (Live) (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:33
   • Recorded live in Indio, California on November 5, 1993.
3. "Yellow Ledbetter" (Live) (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:13
   • Recorded live in Mesa, Arizona on November 6, 1993.

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Sample clip

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References

External links

• Lyrics
• All Music Guide review of "Daughter"