I Am Mine is a song by Pearl Jam, the song was released on October 8, 2002 as the lead single from the band’s seventh studio album, Riot Act (2002). I Am Mine was written by vocalist Eddie Vedder in a hotel room near Virginia Beach, Virginia before the band’s first show after the Roskilde tragedy in 2000.
Vedder said that he wrote the song to “reassure myself that this is going to be all right.
I Am Mine was released as a single in 2002 in various versions with the previously unreleased B-sides “Down” and “Undone“, both of which can also be found on the compilation album, Lost Dogs (2003), the latter as an alternate version.
The album was the most successful song from Riot Act on the American rock charts. The song peaked at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100, number seven on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and number six on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. In Canada, the song reached the top ten on the Canadian Singles Chart.
Tracklist:
CD (US, Canada, and Europe)
1. I Am Mine
2. Down (Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Vedder)
Tracklist:
CD (UK)
- I Am Mine (album version)
- Bushleaguer (album version) (Gossard, Vedder)
- Undone
Tracklist:
CD (Australia) and maxi-single (Europe)
- I Am Mine
- Down (Gossard, McCready, Vedder)
- Bushleaguer (Gossard, Vedder)
- Undone
The music video for I Am Mine was directed by James Frost. The video was filmed at Seattle, Washington’s Chop Suey club in September 2002. The video consists of a filmed live performance of the band rather than a conceptual video. It was one of five videos shot at the club to promote Riot Act (including Save You, Love Boat Captain, Thumbing My Way, and 1/2 Full). Up to that point, the band had not made any music videos since 1998’s Do the Evolution. The video was released in October 2002.
