"I Got Id" is a song by the rock band Pearl Jam. It appears as the A-Side to the 1995 Merkin Ball single. "I Got Id" is also known as "I Got Shit" by the band and their fans. The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song can also be found on the band's greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.
The song was recorded during the sessions for the Neil Young/Pearl Jam collaboration Mirror Ball. Only two members of Pearl Jam appear on the track, singer Eddie Vedder and drummer Jack Irons. Neil Young plays lead guitar on the track and Mirror Ball producer Brendan O'Brien plays bass.
Upon introducing the song at Pearl Jam's September 19, 1998 concert in Washington, D.C., Vedder stated that "[Neil Young] gave me a song writing lesson at a half-price rate; this is what I came up with...on my final, he gave me a B+ I think." At Pearl Jam's May 10, 2006 concert in Toronto, Vedder revealed that the song's chorus was inspired by the verse in Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl".
A performance of "I Got Id" can be found on the DVD Touring Band 2000.
Note that the song's name is "I Got Id" (as in the Freudian concept) and not "I Got ID" (as in a form of identification), a frequent mistake in labeling the album's songs.
