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The music video for 'Oceans' was directed by Josh Taft, who had previously directed the ' Alive' and ' Even Flow' music videos for the band. The drum kit which was originally tracked by Dave Krusen was included on this release.

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In March 2009, 'Oceans' was made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band series as a master track as part of the album Ten. 'Oceans' reached the top 30 in the Netherlands and was a moderate top 20 success in New Zealand. Outside the United States, the single for 'Oceans' was released commercially in Australia, Austria, and the United Kingdom. While the 'Oceans' single was released commercially to international markets in 1992, the commercial single was not released in the United States until Jand was only available as a more expensive import version beforehand. Actually it was to someone named Beth who hopefully I'll see tomorrow.' Release and reception Following Pearl Jam's performance of the song at the band's 1992 MTV Unplugged performance, Vedder stated, ' a little love song I wrote about my surfboard. 'Oceans' was inspired by Vedder's affinity for surfing. What I love about music is aesthetic chords the simpler the better and then another set that does something to those original chords. It has a tiny little change in it but it's also got three big movements. It's like open D tuning where the first chord's just straight across and it's just two fingers that come on and off to create the whole thing and then it moves down one position and it moves back up. That probably sums up why I get excited about song writing. Ament said, 'When we were picking songs for Ten we thought it was important to pick the weirder moments, like 'Oceans', because we wanted to be able to explore those areas down the line.' The song is musically and texturally different from the rest of the album. Palmer said, 'The reason I used those items was purely because we were so far from a music rental shop and necessity became the mother of invention.' Composition When the band joined the album's mixer, Tim Palmer, in June 1991 in Dorking, England for mixing, Palmer overdubbed a pepper shaker and a fire extinguisher as percussion on the track. Someone commented how cool it sounded like that, so we kept it that way. I remember we were all in the control room listening to the tympani part with the drums muted. We originally tracked drum kit on that song. Since then I've met a lot of people that can do it so it was an eye opener but he does it better than anyone I've ever seen do it. I couldn't understand how somebody could do that. I'd hear the melodies and I'd think, okay, he's gonna write words or whatever and then I realized later that he actually had written the words right there. Okay, theres a change here, let's do it and he would sing it. I'd never seen anyone engage with song writing the same way. We wrote it, we played it and Ed sang it, which is another thing that he does. So as I was doing that, I thought, fuck it, I might as well write something. When I heard a break, I'd start pounding on the ying to get out of the rain. I wasn't even listening to hear the song at first. All I could hear was the bass coming through the wall, this window that was boarded up. I had a scrap of paper and a pen in my pocket, and they were playing this song. It was drizzling and I wasn't dressed for an outing in the rain. I went and did that and then I came back and was locked out.

I remember for 'Oceans', someone asked me to put change in the parking meter for them. 'Oceans' features lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music co-written by Vedder, guitarist Stone Gossard, and bassist Jeff Ament. Remixed versions of the song can be found on the ' Even Flow' single and the 2009 Ten reissue. Featuring lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music co-written by Vedder, guitarist Stone Gossard, and bassist Jeff Ament, 'Oceans' was released in 1992 as the fourth single from the band's debut album, Ten (1991). ' Oceans' is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam.

Ridge Farm, Dorking, England (overdubs).