After almost 30 years, we found the audio samples used by Eddie Vedder on Pearl Jam’s experimental track Hey Foxymophandlemama, That’s Me.
Hey Foxymophandlemama, That’s Me, also known as Stupid Mop, is the fourteenth song from Pearl Jam’s third album, Vitalogy, recorded by Pearl Jam with Jack Irons and composed with voices of psychiatric hospitals.
“I had taped something off the TV when I was maybe 17 or something and I think it was people who had mental problems who were being let out of the hospitals early because the states were taking away funding for mental hospitals, so they were sending these folks out without the necessary care, but it was still very intriguing the way their minds worked and what they would say, and we experimented and tried to incorporate it into, what to date, is our most emotional and moving song.“. – Eddie Vedder
This show is A Matter of the Mind, now available below. Thanks to Ledbetterman10.
Born in Reggio Emilia in 1980. He created pearljamonline.it in 2001 and wrote the first edition of “Pearl Jam Evolution” in 2009 along with his wife Daria. Since 2022, he is behind 2 podcasts: “Pearl Jam dalla A alla Z” and “Fuori Orario Not Another Podcast”. He has collaborated with Barracuda Style, HvsR, Rolling Stone, Rockol and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He continues relentlessly to try to find “beautiful melodies that say terrible things”.
Favorite song: Present Tense
Favorite album: No Code
Favorite bands/artists other than PJ: Tom Waits, Soundgarden, Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, IDLES, Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital, Mark Lanegan, Cat Power, R.E.M.