Daughter

Pearl Jam had been playing "Daughter" for about half a year before they went into the studio for Vs., drummer Dave Abbruzzese said. The song was first performed at Neil Young's 1992 Bridge School Benefit, and at a New York show on December 31, 1992, Eddie Vedder introduced it as "Brother". Both performances had different lyrics from the album version.

In the studio, producer Brendan O'Brien suggested Abbruzzese drop the tom work he had been doing and use only a kick and a snare. He set up a 26-inch kick, a snare and an 18-inch floor tom and recorded with the room microphones, and found it brought out a new side of the song. Stone Gossard wrote the music on a Guild wide-body acoustic guitar, Jeff Ament plays upright bass, and Mike McCready said the solo was one of the few he had to sit down and work out.

Vedder said the lyrics follow a child with a learning difficulty who is beaten. No one understood it. Epic released the single in December 1993. It topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for eight weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks chart for one, the only Pearl Jam song to top both. In Ireland it reached number four, the band's highest chart showing there.