Pearl Jam help

Okay, I know the band barely ever cracked the top 40, but I have a question about the song "Jeremy." I had the CD single from years back, and the song ran 4:50. I just purchased the "RearViewMirror" CD, and the song runs 5:20 and sounds totally different. It is extremely wet sounding, and while there are 3 songs credited specifically as being remixed on the compilation, this isn't one of them. Are there any diehard fans out there who could tell me if these are different versions of "Jeremy" and why there is a length difference? Thanks.

thanks. That pretty much answers my question. Now I have to see if the
song is censored on rearviewmirror.

It seems that all the other singles from Ten are the ones that are remixed
on rearviewmirror--the only tracks remixed on the CD.

budaniel wrote: Now I have to see if the song is censored on rearviewmirror.

By the way, the one instance of the "f" word comes at the beginning of the second verse. "Clearly I remember picking on the boy / Seemed a harmless little ----."

Chendagam, the only promo CD single I EVER saw for "Jeremy" has a catalog # of ZSK 4606, has a listed time of (5:21), an actual time of (5:19), is censored, and I believe was originally issued the same year as their CD "Ten", 1992. It was obviously not a "hit" during that release. Then, there was a relatively big 1995 to-do over a hard-to-find, intended-to-be-import-only, 3-track CD single. It featured 1-Jeremy (listed and actual time 4:49, and also censored), 2-Footsteps, 3-a previously unreleased track, titled "Yellow Ledbetter." Soon after, there was a Billboard article about "Yellow Ledbetter" somehow garnering a surprising amount of US radio airplay, off the import single, and many people were clamoring for it. Epic was stunned; they weren't at all "working" it, and no CD of it had even been serviced to US radio. Nevertheless, after reading the article, our PD at the time asked me if I happened to have a copy of the import CD single, knowing me to be the "collector" type. I recently had picked it up at a local record shop, and told him yes. He asked me to immediately bring it in. We instantly started playing it at our station, and kept playing it for close to 3 months; it was a solid hit for our Top 40 station in 1995. As a result of all this hoopla, Epic soon relented, and decided to issue a US commercial CD single, exactly duplicating the contents of the import CD single. Epic even stickered it, saying "Not To Be Confused With More Expensive (Identical) Import Version." To my knowledge, no 1995 promo CD was ever issued for this, but in an earlier post in this thread, Aaron does appear to possibly have one for it. It's possible-no one can know of every release. My catalog # for the US commercial CD single is "34K 77935", and for the parallel import, the catalog # is "658180 2", stating "Made In Austria." I don't know how much actual airplay "Jeremy" received in 1995, but I suspect that it owes much of its Billboard chart appearance at that time to sales of that 3-track commercial CD single, and all the "Yellow Ledbetter" fuss. I do acknowledge that "Jeremy" has certainly garnered more than its share of radio spins over the years (I also thought it to be FAR better than "Ledbetter".) 90s songs are often SO much harder to pin down details like "if/when it was an actual hit" details for, given all the industry changes going on around that time, as well as its low peak position. I believe, though, as the band grew in stature, some prime Pearl Jam "catalog" tracks, like Jeremy, became "fair game" as viable Top 40 gold, in this rather unconventional way. Hope this info helps you, guys.    

Edited by jimct

No, I highly doubt there is a promo for "Yellow Ledbetter." My promo CD is the same as Jim's for "Jeremy." 1-track with only the remixed censored version (no fade).