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{{Infobox Single
{{Single infobox | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Love Boat Captain
| Name = Love Boat Captain
| Cover = PJ-LBC.jpg
| Cover = PJ-LBC.jpg
| Artist = [[Pearl Jam]]
| Artist = [[Pearl Jam]]
| from Album = [[Riot Act (album)|Riot Act]]
| from Album = [[Riot Act (album)|Riot Act]]
| B-side = "Love Boat Captain" (Live)/"Other Side"
| B-side = "Love Boat Captain" (live) / "Other Side"
| Released = [[February 18]], [[2003]]
| Released = February 18, 2003
| Format = [[CD single]]
| Format = [[CD single]]
| Recorded = February 2002 at [[Bad Animals Studio|Studio X]], [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]; vocals recorded in June 2002 at [[Bad Animals Studio|Studio X]], [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]
| Recorded = [[February]] [[2002]]
| Genre = [[Grunge]]
| Genre = [[Alternative rock]]
| Length = 4:36
| Length = 4:36
| Label = [[Epic Records|Epic]]
| Label = [[Epic Records|Epic]]
| Producer = [[Adam Kasper]], [[Pearl Jam]]
| Producer = [[Adam Kasper]], Pearl Jam
| Writer = [[Boom Gaspar]]/[[Eddie Vedder]]
| Writer = [[Boom Gaspar]], [[Eddie Vedder]]
| Last single = "[[Save You]]"<br/>(2003)
| Chart position =
| This single = "'''Love Boat Captain'''"<br/>(2003)
<ul><li># 16 <small>Canadian Singles Chart </small></li></ul>
| Last single = <big>"[[Save You]]"<br/>(2003)</big>
| Next single = "[[Man of the Hour]]"<br/>(2003)
{{Extra track listing
| This single = <big>"'''Love Boat Captain'''"<br/>(2003)</big>
| Next single = <big>"[[Man of the Hour]]"<br/>(2003)</big>
| Album = [[Riot Act (album)|Riot Act]]
| Type = studio
| prev_track = "[[Save You]]"
| prev_no = Track 2
| this_track = "'''Love Boat Captain'''"
| track_no = Track 3
| next_track = "Cropduster"
| next_no = Track 4
}}
}}
{{External music video|{{Youtube|7ItYVn2jcGU|"Love Boat Captain"}}
}}
}}
"'''Love Boat Captain'''" is a song by the American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Pearl Jam]]. Featuring lyrics written by vocalist [[Eddie Vedder]] and music co-written by Vedder and keyboardist [[Boom Gaspar]], "Love Boat Captain" was released on February 18, 2003 as a single from the band's seventh studio album, ''[[Riot Act (album)|Riot Act]]'' (2002).


==Origin and recording==
'''"Love Boat Captain"''' is a song off of [[Pearl Jam]]'s 2002 album, [[Riot Act (album)|Riot Act]]. Singer [[Eddie Vedder]] co-wrote the song with keyboardist [[Boom Gaspar]]. It references the 2000 [[Roskilde Festival|Roskilde]] tragedy with the line "Lost 9 friends we'll never know... 2 years ago today." When "Love Boat Captain is performed in concert, Vedder modifies the lyric to reflect the passage of time since the tragedy (as of June 30, 2006, the lyric is "6 years ago today"). The song was released as a CD single in 2003 exclusive to Australia, Canada, and Europe.[http://www.pjcollectors.com/subcategory.asp?id=248]
"Love Boat Captain" features lyrics written by vocalist [[Eddie Vedder]] and music co-written by Vedder and keyboardist [[Boom Gaspar]]. According to Gaspar, the song initially developed out of a [[jam session]] he had with Vedder shortly after the two first met in [[Hawaii]]. He added, "He had a guitar. I had a keyboard. It was a small set-up. And we wrote." When they were done, Vedder asked Gaspar if he was "ready to go to Seattle."<ref>Paiva, Derek. [http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Dec/01/il/FP612010330.html "Friendship takes stage at Pearl Jam concert"]. ''[[The Honolulu Advertiser]]''. December 1, 2006.</ref> Vedder on the song:
<blockquote>I had a little recording setup for when I wanted to get away and do some writing. He just showed up and we started playing. That night we wrote what turned into "Love Boat Captain". Within an hour, we had this thing we put on the stereo and played it loud. It was probably about an 11-minute version at that point.<ref name="inciting">Cohen, Jonathan. [http://web.archive.org/web/20021028101929/www.billboard.com/billboard/specialreport/pearl_jam/pearl_jam1.jsp "Inciting a 'Riot': Pearl Jam's New Album"]. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''. November 2002.</ref></blockquote>


Bassist [[Jeff Ament]] said, "The demo to that was called "Boom B3". We played a version of it, and then it got re-arranged."<ref name="inciting"/> Drummer [[Matt Cameron]] on the song:
== Track listing ==
<blockquote>There weren't any lyrics when we tracked it, so we did what we thought would be a good, tight instrumental version that would later have vocals on it. When we tracked it, I was like, "Huh? What's this?" It made no sense to me. But then when the vocals were added, it made perfect sense and it elevated the entire piece.<ref name="inciting"/></blockquote>
#"Love Boat Captain" (Gaspar, Vedder) - 4:36
#"Love Boat Captain" (Live) - 4:51
#*Recorded live in [[Seattle, Washington]] on [[December 6]], [[2002]].
#"Other Side" (Ament) - 4:04


==Lyrics==
== External links ==
The lyrics for "Love Boat Captain" tackle [[existentialism|existential]] matters. "Love Boat Captain" references the 2000 [[Roskilde Festival|Roskilde]] tragedy with the line "Lost 9 friends we'll never know... 2 years ago today." When "Love Boat Captain" is performed in concert, Vedder modifies the lyric to reflect the passage of time since the tragedy (as of 2008, the lyric is "8 years ago today"). There is also a reference to [[The Beatles]]' song "[[All You Need Is Love]]" from the 1967 album, ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'', with the lyrics "I know it's already been sung,...can't be said enough/Love is all you need,..all you need is love,..."
*[http://www.pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=LoveBoatCaptain Lyrics]


When speaking about the song, Vedder stated:
{{Pearl Jam}}
<blockquote>It feels a little strange talking about love that openly, but if you can't do it now, when can you do it? Love is one resource that the corporations aren't going to be able to monopolize. Which means there's hope for us human beings yet.<ref>Kot, Greg. [http://web.archive.org/web/20021128231056/www.sunspot.net/entertainment/music/bal-to.filler16nov16,0,5263904.story?coll=bal-artslife-music "Pearl Jam Emerges from Adversity"]. ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]''. November 16, 2002.</ref></blockquote>


When asked about the line, "The young can lose hope," Vedder said:
{{rock-song-stub}}
<blockquote>I was happy to get that line because I'm talking about people much older than us, people who are 70 or 80 and they've got attitudes that don't have the deep peaks and valleys as someone who in adolescence who is faced with some things and they go, "Fuck this, this sucks, how can we have any hope?"
These are people who been through the invention of the horseless carriage to the car to the TV set and are dealing with internet. How do they view it? It's almost with disdain. This is the wisdom they can't give away, that is what I'm talking about and that youth doesn't have that time line beneath them. So they just see something in front of them and think there's no hope, no getting over it, what's the point and so on. They are also bombarded with information more than ever these days, and negativity and cynicism and I can understand why they would feel that way. But they don't have to. There really are positive actions that can be taken.<ref>Reid, Graham. [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3002948 "Eddie Vedder: Grunge Control"]. ''[[The New Zealand Herald]]''. November 9, 2002.</ref></blockquote>

==Release and reception==
The commercially released single for "Love Boat Captain" was exclusive to [[Australia]], [[Canada]], and Europe. While "[[Save You]]" was released as the second single for North America, "Love Boat Captain" was the second single for international markets.<ref>[http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/rumorpit/pit53.html "Pearl Jam Rumor Pit #53"]. [[Sony Music Entertainment|SonyMusic.com]]. January 28, 2003.</ref> In Canada, the song reached the top 20 on the [[Canadian Singles Chart]]. "Love Boat Captain" reached the top 30 in Australia and [[Italy]].

Louis Pattison of ''[[NME]]'' called the song "a gorgeous example of Pearl Jam's gnostic expansiveness done right" and stated that it "[ranks] with Pearl Jam's best."<ref>Pattison, Louis. [http://www.nme.com/reviews/pearl-jam/6824 "Pearl Jam: ''Riot Act''"]. ''[[NME]]''. November 12, 2002.</ref> Kyle Reiter of [[Pitchfork Media]] said, "The devastated lyrics of "Love Boat Captain"...are affecting, but the song itself is a standard rocker, which seems an odd choice to accompany Vedder's poetic remorse."<ref>Reiter, Kyle. [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20784-riot-act "Pearl Jam: ''Riot Act''"]. [[Pitchfork Media]]. January 6, 2003.</ref>

==Music video==
The [[music video]] for "Love Boat Captain" was directed by James Frost.<ref name="mills">Mills, Fred. [http://www.seattleweekly.com/2002-11-06/music/yield-not/ "Yield Not"]. ''[[Seattle Weekly]]''. November 6, 2002.</ref> The video was filmed at [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]'s Chop Suey club in September 2002.<ref>[http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/t2002.shtml Pearl Jam: 2002 Concert Chronology]. fivehorizons.com.</ref> The video consists of a filmed live performance of the band rather than a conceptual video. It was one of five videos shot at the club to promote ''Riot Act'' (including "[[I Am Mine]]", "[[Save You]]", "[[Thumbing My Way]]", and "[[1/2 Full]]"). Up to that point the band had not made any music videos since 1998's "[[Do the Evolution]]". The video was released in late 2002.

==Live performances==
"Love Boat Captain" was first performed live at the band's September 23, 2002 concert in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] at the [[House of Blues]].<ref>[https://www.pearljam.com/song/love-boat-captain "Pearl Jam Songs: "Love Boat Captain""]. [[Pearl Jam|pearljam.com]].</ref> Live performances of "Love Boat Captain" can be found on the "Love Boat Captain" single, various [[Pearl Jam Official Bootlegs|official bootlegs]], and the ''[[Live at the Gorge 05/06]]'' box set. Performances of the song are also included on the DVDs ''[[Live at the Showbox]]'' and ''[[Live at the Garden]]''. The song is also featured during the closing credits of ''[[Immagine in Cornice]]''.

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Boom Gaspar]] and [[Eddie Vedder]], except where noted:
;CD (Australia and Canada)
#"Love Boat Captain"&nbsp;– 4:36
#"Love Boat Captain" (live)&nbsp;– 4:50
#*Recorded live on December 6, 2002 at The Showbox in [[Seattle]], [[Washington]].
#"Other Side" ([[Jeff Ament]])&nbsp;– 4:03

;CD (Europe)
#"Love Boat Captain"&nbsp;– 4:36
#"Other Side" (Ament)&nbsp;– 4:03

;CD (Enhanced) (Europe)
#"Love Boat Captain"&nbsp;– 4:36
#"Love Boat Captain" (live)&nbsp;– 4:50
#*Recorded live on December 6, 2002 at The Showbox in Seattle, Washington.
#"Other Side" (Ament)&nbsp;– 4:03
#"Love Boat Captain" (video)&nbsp;– 4:43
#*Filmed live at the Chop Suey club in Seattle, Washington.

==Chart positions==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
! Chart (2003)
! Position
|-
| [[Canadian Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aifqxqr5ldhe~T51
| title=Pearl Jam – Billboard Singles
| publisher=[[Allmusic]]
| accessdate=2007-06-11}}</ref>
|align="center"|16
|-
| [[Federation of the Italian Music Industry|Italian Singles Chart]]<ref name="www.fimi.it">{{cite web
| url=http://www.fimi.it/classifiche.asp?idtipo_classifica=1&idclassifica=599&archivio=true
| title=Classifice Artisti - Archivio
| publisher=FIMI
| accessdate=2008-03-05}}</ref>
|align="center"|23
|-
| [[ARIA Charts|Australian Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Pearl+Jam&titel=Love+Boat+Captain&cat=s
| title = PEARL JAM - LOVE BOAT CAPTAIN (SINGLE) (76133)
| publisher = Australian-charts.com
| accessdate = 2007-04-29
}}</ref>
|align="center"|29
|-
| [[UK Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_P.HTM| title= Chart Log: 1994-2006| accessdate=2007-06-11}}</ref>
|align="center"|110
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://pearljam.com/song/love-boat-captain Lyrics at pearljam.com]

{{Pearl Jam}}


[[Category:Pearl Jam songs]]
[[Category:2003 singles]]
[[Category:2003 singles]]
[[Category:Pearl Jam songs]]
[[Category:Songs inspired by deaths]]

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"Love Boat Captain"
Song
B-side"Love Boat Captain" (live) / "Other Side"

"Love Boat Captain" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. Featuring lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music co-written by Vedder and keyboardist Boom Gaspar, "Love Boat Captain" was released on February 18, 2003 as a single from the band's seventh studio album, Riot Act (2002).

Origin and recording

"Love Boat Captain" features lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music co-written by Vedder and keyboardist Boom Gaspar. According to Gaspar, the song initially developed out of a jam session he had with Vedder shortly after the two first met in Hawaii. He added, "He had a guitar. I had a keyboard. It was a small set-up. And we wrote." When they were done, Vedder asked Gaspar if he was "ready to go to Seattle."[1] Vedder on the song:

I had a little recording setup for when I wanted to get away and do some writing. He just showed up and we started playing. That night we wrote what turned into "Love Boat Captain". Within an hour, we had this thing we put on the stereo and played it loud. It was probably about an 11-minute version at that point.[2]

Bassist Jeff Ament said, "The demo to that was called "Boom B3". We played a version of it, and then it got re-arranged."[2] Drummer Matt Cameron on the song:

There weren't any lyrics when we tracked it, so we did what we thought would be a good, tight instrumental version that would later have vocals on it. When we tracked it, I was like, "Huh? What's this?" It made no sense to me. But then when the vocals were added, it made perfect sense and it elevated the entire piece.[2]

Lyrics

The lyrics for "Love Boat Captain" tackle existential matters. "Love Boat Captain" references the 2000 Roskilde tragedy with the line "Lost 9 friends we'll never know... 2 years ago today." When "Love Boat Captain" is performed in concert, Vedder modifies the lyric to reflect the passage of time since the tragedy (as of 2008, the lyric is "8 years ago today"). There is also a reference to The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love" from the 1967 album, Magical Mystery Tour, with the lyrics "I know it's already been sung,...can't be said enough/Love is all you need,..all you need is love,..."

When speaking about the song, Vedder stated:

It feels a little strange talking about love that openly, but if you can't do it now, when can you do it? Love is one resource that the corporations aren't going to be able to monopolize. Which means there's hope for us human beings yet.[3]

When asked about the line, "The young can lose hope," Vedder said:

I was happy to get that line because I'm talking about people much older than us, people who are 70 or 80 and they've got attitudes that don't have the deep peaks and valleys as someone who in adolescence who is faced with some things and they go, "Fuck this, this sucks, how can we have any hope?" These are people who been through the invention of the horseless carriage to the car to the TV set and are dealing with internet. How do they view it? It's almost with disdain. This is the wisdom they can't give away, that is what I'm talking about and that youth doesn't have that time line beneath them. So they just see something in front of them and think there's no hope, no getting over it, what's the point and so on. They are also bombarded with information more than ever these days, and negativity and cynicism and I can understand why they would feel that way. But they don't have to. There really are positive actions that can be taken.[4]

Release and reception

The commercially released single for "Love Boat Captain" was exclusive to Australia, Canada, and Europe. While "Save You" was released as the second single for North America, "Love Boat Captain" was the second single for international markets.[5] In Canada, the song reached the top 20 on the Canadian Singles Chart. "Love Boat Captain" reached the top 30 in Australia and Italy.

Louis Pattison of NME called the song "a gorgeous example of Pearl Jam's gnostic expansiveness done right" and stated that it "[ranks] with Pearl Jam's best."[6] Kyle Reiter of Pitchfork Media said, "The devastated lyrics of "Love Boat Captain"...are affecting, but the song itself is a standard rocker, which seems an odd choice to accompany Vedder's poetic remorse."[7]

Music video

The music video for "Love Boat Captain" was directed by James Frost.[8] The video was filmed at Seattle, Washington's Chop Suey club in September 2002.[9] The video consists of a filmed live performance of the band rather than a conceptual video. It was one of five videos shot at the club to promote Riot Act (including "I Am Mine", "Save You", "Thumbing My Way", and "1/2 Full"). Up to that point the band had not made any music videos since 1998's "Do the Evolution". The video was released in late 2002.

Live performances

"Love Boat Captain" was first performed live at the band's September 23, 2002 concert in Chicago, Illinois at the House of Blues.[10] Live performances of "Love Boat Captain" can be found on the "Love Boat Captain" single, various official bootlegs, and the Live at the Gorge 05/06 box set. Performances of the song are also included on the DVDs Live at the Showbox and Live at the Garden. The song is also featured during the closing credits of Immagine in Cornice.

Track listing

All songs written by Boom Gaspar and Eddie Vedder, except where noted:

CD (Australia and Canada)
  1. "Love Boat Captain" – 4:36
  2. "Love Boat Captain" (live) – 4:50
  3. "Other Side" (Jeff Ament) – 4:03
CD (Europe)
  1. "Love Boat Captain" – 4:36
  2. "Other Side" (Ament) – 4:03
CD (Enhanced) (Europe)
  1. "Love Boat Captain" – 4:36
  2. "Love Boat Captain" (live) – 4:50
    • Recorded live on December 6, 2002 at The Showbox in Seattle, Washington.
  3. "Other Side" (Ament) – 4:03
  4. "Love Boat Captain" (video) – 4:43
    • Filmed live at the Chop Suey club in Seattle, Washington.

Chart positions

Chart (2003) Position
Canadian Singles Chart[11] 16
Italian Singles Chart[12] 23
Australian Singles Chart[13] 29
UK Singles Chart[14] 110

References

  1. ^ Paiva, Derek. "Friendship takes stage at Pearl Jam concert". The Honolulu Advertiser. December 1, 2006.
  2. ^ a b c Cohen, Jonathan. "Inciting a 'Riot': Pearl Jam's New Album". Billboard. November 2002.
  3. ^ Kot, Greg. "Pearl Jam Emerges from Adversity". The Baltimore Sun. November 16, 2002.
  4. ^ Reid, Graham. "Eddie Vedder: Grunge Control". The New Zealand Herald. November 9, 2002.
  5. ^ "Pearl Jam Rumor Pit #53". SonyMusic.com. January 28, 2003.
  6. ^ Pattison, Louis. "Pearl Jam: Riot Act". NME. November 12, 2002.
  7. ^ Reiter, Kyle. "Pearl Jam: Riot Act". Pitchfork Media. January 6, 2003.
  8. ^ Mills, Fred. "Yield Not". Seattle Weekly. November 6, 2002.
  9. ^ Pearl Jam: 2002 Concert Chronology. fivehorizons.com.
  10. ^ "Pearl Jam Songs: "Love Boat Captain"". pearljam.com.
  11. ^ "Pearl Jam – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-06-11.
  12. ^ "Classifice Artisti - Archivio". FIMI. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
  13. ^ "PEARL JAM - LOVE BOAT CAPTAIN (SINGLE) (76133)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
  14. ^ "Chart Log: 1994-2006". Retrieved 2007-06-11.
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