<P> Producer Brendan O'Brien on the song: </P> <P> There's a great song we recorded for Vs., "Better Man," which ended up on Vitalogy . One of the first rehearsals we did they played it and I said "Man, that song's a hit ." Eddie just went "uhhh ." I immediately knew I'd just said the wrong thing . We cut it once for Vs., he wanted to give it away to this Greenpeace benefit record, the idea was that the band was going to play and some other singer was going to sing it . I remember saying to the engineer, Nick (DiDia), "This is one of their best songs and they're going to give it away! Can't happen!" And we went to record it and I'm not going to say we didn't try very hard, but it didn't end up sounding very good . I may have even sabotaged that version but I won't admit to that . It took us to the next record, recording it two more times, before he became comfortable with it because it was such a blatantly great pop song . </P> <P> Al Weisel of Rolling Stone called the song a "haunting ballad about a woman trapped in a bad relationship ." When "Better Man" was performed on VH1 Storytellers in 2006, Vedder introduced it as a song about "abusive relationships ." Before a performance of the song at Pearl Jam's show on April 3, 1994 in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre, Vedder clearly said "it's dedicated to the bastard that married my Momma ." He was referring to his stepfather, Peter Mueller, a California attorney whom Vedder had long believed to be his biological father and who divorced his mother in the early 1980's . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (July 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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