The title track to Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits LP was originally released on Vs. in 1993. It was never a single, but it's always been immensely popular with fans. Eddie Vedder says he wanted the song to capture the vibe of driving away from a bad situation and looking back on it with the rearview mirror.
The ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from each era, certain time frames were weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those years.
Typically, when the biggest rock bands in the world headline a festival in support of new music, fans get a greatest hits compilation come to life with dashes of new material sprinkled in among tried-and-true favorites.
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