Pearl Jam

Released: December 25, 1996

Songwriter: Nick DiDia

Olympic dream, olympic dream
If I could reach to the sky and touch it for my country
Get some on my finger and take in its smell
The smell of victory, land of the free, Olympic dream

Olympic Dream
Olympic theme
My olympic dream
My promotion scheme

How hard can it be
How high can I jump
How high can I throw
How high can I run (I'm running very fast)

How long can I hold my breath and stay underwater
And wave my legs around in perfect unison with my partner who
Doesn't really understand me
And my Olympic dream, my Olympic dream

I'll be like Dwight Stones
I'll be like Bruce Jenner
I'll be like that girl who trained all her life as a distance runner
And then tripped with a quarter mile to go

But I... I will get up and I will run
I will run with the Georgia peach breeze and I... I will win
I will win my... my olympic dream

My olympic dream
The gold's just not good enough
And I don't even think of the bronze
I'm living my life for olympic platinum
Olympic dream, my olympic theme
I'll sing like Whitney (sing like Whitney)

My Olympic dream

Founded in 1990 in Seattle, Pearl Jam is one of the most successful bands out of the grunge movement, if not of the whole alternative rock scene from the early 90s. The group started with Stone Gossard (guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass), veterans of the proto-grunge scene, recording a demo along with local guitarist Mike McCready. Once the tape passed along, it attracted a San Diego-based singer, Eddie Vedder. Along with drummer Dave Krusen, they signed with Epic Records and released Ten in 1991, which by the following year was becoming one of the most successful debut albums ever.

Growing uncomfortable with success, the following albums went for a more anguished and experimental sound, and the band’s notorious activism had its most prominent case once they boycotted Ticketmaster, accusing them of price-gouging fans. In the meantime, various drummers passed through the band, with percussion only settling once Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron joined them in the tour for 1998’s Yield.

With 10 studio albums and various live recordings (including “Official Bootlegs” of basically every concert the band performed since 2000), Pearl Jam has sold nearly 32 million records in the U.S. and an estimated 60 million worldwide.

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