Does 'Pearl Jam' mean semen?!
Question: i think so for sure! lots of bands have phallic or sexual double entendre' names, the most famous being Steely Dan,named after a dildo in William Burrough's novel 'Naked Lunch'.
Answers: i think so for sure! lots of bands have phallic or sexual double entendre' names, the most famous being Steely Dan,named after a dildo in William Burrough's novel 'Naked Lunch'.
Yes
Possibly, but the band was named after Eddie's grandmother's home mad jam.
yep it does,
I'm sure a lot of 14 years olds believe this, as is indicated by the previous answers, but I guess it's just a part of puberty to try to bring sex into every conversation.
I'd trust the words of Eddie Vedder himself... he has quite a lengthy explanation of how he came up with the name. Because of its length, I'm only giving you the link.
Maybe Eddie can talk some sense into you little horntoads.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Pearl-Jam-549...
Kabum
The band Pearl Jam got its name from the actual homemade jam that a band-member's mother made. It was purported to have been laced with psychotropic hallucinogens, perhaps LSD. The pearly white layer on top of the "jam" is how that stuff got its name. That story may or may not be true. It could be just some BS Eddie Veder spewed at some interview.
Since that band's rise to popularity, the term "pearl jam" was misinterpreted by horny kids, who have one predominant subject on their minds. Now, because many people have grown up with that misinterpretation, many actually believe it.
I find this phenomenon interesting in several ways:
1- It shows how common words, terms and phrases can change meaning in just one generation.
2-It verifies the sophomoric predilections of the America psyche,
3- it shows that, if you repeat a myth, a mistake or a lie often and long enough, people accept it as truth.
In my own half century of living, I have seen the term gay replace the word homosexual, "African American" replace negro or black, and I witnessed the evolving etymology and now wide spread pejorative use of the term "suck." I have seen dictionaries that now define "livid" as "angry", although that particular interpretation came from a college student who was too lazy to look up the actual meaning. (the term means "Grey" as in the color Grey a person gets when he has a liver condition.) The expression was, "He was livid with anger," meaning "he was so mad, his face turned ashen Grey." But now people use the term interchangeably with "angry" and some dictionaries even give that as a legitimate definition. There are now several dictionaries that have an entry for "probly" in place of "probably." simply because people are too lazy to pronounce the extra syllable.
It does not surprise me at all that some sexually-fixated child would assume pearl jam had something to do with semen. It will not surprise me at all if no one believes me either, simply because they would have to have the intellectual curiosity to use a dictionary and research the facts.
So long as the populace remains mentally torpid, we will continue to see falsehoods like this propagate throughout popular plebeian culture.
It is also possible that given a sufficiently large percentage of stupid people, a dishonest government could perpetrate lies propagated by a controlled propaganda machine, (fox news) and literally get away with murder. If enough people are dumb, they will believe anything.
LOL!!
If Pearl Jam is named after Eddie's granny's home made jam, then I believe that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is about a picture that John Lennon's son drew of a girl from school!!
In case of doubt, go with the naughty version. It's rock'n'roll after all.