By now you might have guessed that I am a huge Pearl Jam fan.

Before Pearl Jam, there was Mother Love Bone, with PJ bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard. (And before that, Green River, but that's a story for another day.) While that Seattle band was a little too glam for my tastes, I still enjoy their only major-label album "Apple," which was the only album from them because lead singer Andrew Wood died from a drug overdose. The band dissolved after that, and eventually coalesced as Pearl Jam, with the addition of Ed Vedder and Mike McCready.

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The great "Singles" soundtrack, put together by Cameron Crowe, included Mother Love Bone's "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns," which on YouTube had a comment from someone that said that this is the "Stairway to Heaven" of grunge. It's hard to disagree:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0gnwtSEGI

It would take more than a decade before Vedder would take a stab at "Crown of Thorns," but later it became a part of some set lists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpLLIQU89g&feature=related