This song is about vinyl records, which Pearl Jam felt they were a great way to listen to music. They are imperfect, but the cracks and sizzles on the records give the songs character not found on CDs, which play the same way every time. A decade or so later, vinyl became cool again, but it definitely wasn't in 1994, when it was seen as an outdated technology headed to the format graveyard along with cassette.
"Spin The Black Circle" is a raging rocker put together from various musical fragments the band came up with. Eddie Vedder got the idea to speed it up after guitarist Stone Gossard gave him some demos to check out and Eddie played them at the wrong speed. He liked what he heard and convinced his bandmates to record the song at a frantic pitch.
The band played this song live several times in March and April 1994, months before it was released. Pearl Jam had two very popular albums out by this point (Ten and Vs.), but fans were always thrilled when they unleashed something new. This doesn't happen with most big bands, whose fans use unfamiliar tunes to grab a beverage.
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