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All rights reserved.Ten - Pearl Jam (CD 1993)
| Track Listing 1. Once 2. Even Flow 3. Alive 4. Why Go 5. Black 6. Jeremy 7. Oceans 8. Porch 9. Gardens 10. Deep 11. Release 12. ? (I've Got a Feeling) 13. Master/ Slave
Album Notes Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals); Mike McCreedy, Stone Gossard (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Dave Krusen (drums). Additional personnel: Walter Gray (cello); Rick Parashar (piano, organ, percussion). Engineers: Dave Hills, Don Gilmore, Adrian Moore. Recorded at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington from March to April, 1991. Japanese edition includes one extra song ("Tomorrow Never Knows"). CD contains bonus track. TEN, Pearl Jam's debut album, was released less than a month before Nirvana's NEVERMIND, and although it took longer to climb the pop charts it also hung around longer, eventually outselling its Seattle rival. Together, the two albums reinvigorated rock and roll, whose share of the pop marketplace had been slipping through the late 1980s. But while Nirvana's bruising punk rock was an all-out assault on the classic-rock dinosaur, Pearl Jam's accomplished hard rock was an attack from within the system. The drawn-out, bluesy guitar riffing and anthemic choruses that dominated TEN instantly gave away roots in the same popular hard rock and heavy metal that Nirvana was intent on crushing. Indeed, before forming Pearl Jam, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament (who between them wrote most of the music on TEN) were the core of two '70s-influenced metal bands, Green River and Mother Love Bone. But in place of the self-aggrandizing, larger-than-life singers that led most such bands, Gossard and Ament found Eddie Vedder, a ravage-voiced vocalist more apt to identify with the abused and misunderstood children he was singing about than with any other rock stars. When he exploded into one of TEN's many memorable choruses, Vedder offered transcendence for the people who needed it most. The storyline of the album's breakthrough single, "Jeremy," was typically vague and elusive (despite a highly suggestive video), but the message was not. The meek and the misunderstood, Pearl Jam seemed to be saying, would rise and inherit the world, even if it was only a world of their own invention. Editorial Reviews Q (01/01/1993) Q (12/01/1999) Spin (09/01/1999) Stereo Review (01/01/1992) Q (03/01/1992) Village Voice (03/02/1993) Spin (01/01/1993) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||
Reviews  The Alternative InnovatorReview created: 09/13/06 by:  2 of 3 people found this review helpful. Many people name Nirvana as being the father of alternative rock. I like to clarify that. I personally believe that Nirvana was the father of grunge and that Pearl Jam was the father of alternative. Pearl Jam deliveres some very poignant material on this CD. Front man Eddie Vedder delivers this amazing music in a way that no one else could. The lyrics are brilliant! The music fits the mood of the message of each song. Issues of society are addressed. This was the beginning of something huge. There was an awareness that came with the purchase of this CD that came from nowhere else. It is simply brilliant! Review ID: 10000000001831035 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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