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Pedro Pascal (Joel Miller) Sings Future Days (Pearl Jam) on The Last of Us

On the sixth episode of season 2 of HBO's The Last of Us, and as in the video game, Joel Miller played by Pedro Pascal performed a rendition of Pearl Jam's Future Days. Although the song came out in 2013 and aligned with the timeline of the video game. The television series changed the timeline and fans were unsure if the song would be used. But the producers of the show decided it was important to relationship between Joel and Ellie and kept it. And it was a wise decision.

Future Days on Amazon and Apple Music

Pearl Jam’s Binaural Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

Binaural on ITunes

On May 16, 2000, Pearl Jam released their 6th studio album Binaural. The album was produced by Tchad Blake. "Known for his use of binaural recording. Binaural recording techniques, which employ two microphones to create a 3-D stereophonic sound." Moving away from Brendan O'Brien, who produced their previous four albums (vs, Vitalogy, No Code, and Yield) at the time. Although Brendan did come back to mix some of the songs. It is Matt Cameron's first album as a full time member of the band.

 

The singles off Binaural were Nothing as It Seems and Light Years. It debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Beaten out by Britney Spears. Binaural was the first Pearl Jam album not to reach platinum status by the RIAA. It did reach Gold. 

There were songs left off Binaural that appeared on their rarities and b-sides album Lost Dogs. Sad, Hitchhiker, In the Moonlight, Education, Fatal, and Sweet Lew. After hearing these songs, fans wondered why some weren't on the album instead of some that made the cut? Most notably Sad, Fatal, In The Moonlight,  and Education. These songs have been played at their live shows. But are not regulars.

To celebrated the 25th anniversary. Pearl Jam are releasing a DVD audio and Blu-Ray audio versions. As of now the blu-ray is available at the bands website.

(WATCH) Pearl Jam Releases New Music Video for Future Days

To coincide with tonight's season 2 episode of The Last of Us on HBO. Pearl Jam released a new animated music video of Future Days. Illustrated by Paul Ribera

Ellie and Joel, this one is for you.

Watch the official music video for "Future Days", as heard in season 2 of The Last of Us: https://t.co/vxtPBDkxCh pic.twitter.com/3epVJmpi8h

— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) May 12, 2025

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(WATCH) PEARL JAM's FULL 1992 PINKPOP LIVE PERFORMANCE

Photo by William Rutten

Pearl Jam's performance at the PinkPop Festival in 1992 has been around and watched millions of times. But it was incomplete as there was an issue with Eddie Vedder's microphone feed. Pinkpop is uploading past performances from their festival in a PinkPop Archive page.

 

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