15 Best Pearl Jam Tracks
3. Not For You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGdnfUt8lQo"This is Not For You!"
Eddie repeatedly screams it throughout the song. A track about exploited youth, Not For You was recorded at a time when Vedder felt young fans of the band were exploited, paying obscene money for tickets to their shows (The band would famously boycott Ticketmaster).
If Vedder wanted to get across the message that he was annoyed, he succeeded. His blood-curdling screams can be felt vibrating through the microphone. It's unnerving when he sings calmly in the middle, because it's obvious what is about to come next.
McCready recorded the song on a 12 string Rickenbacker sent to him by Tom Petty; it was the first song he used it on. It's this distorted guitar that gives the song its monstrous anger, and if you want pure vitriol and attitude in one song, this is it.