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All rights reserved.Vs. - Pearl Jam (CD 1993)
| Track Listing 1. Go 2. Animal 3. Daughter 4. Glorified G 5. Dissident 6. W.M.A. 7. Blood 8. Rearviewmirror 9. Rats 10. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town 11. Leash 12. Indifference
Album Notes Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals); Stone Gossard, Mike McCready (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Dave Abbruzzese (drums). Recorded at The Site, Nicasio, California and Potatohead Studio, Seattle, Washington. VS. was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Daughter" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, and "Go" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance. Although it topped the pop charts and sold 5 million copies, Pearl Jam's stunning second album is unknown to much of the rock audience. Recoiling from the octopus-like grasp of the music industry, the group refused to support VS. with either videos, singles or a major tour, and rock radio was given just two acoustic-powered ballads, "Daughter" and "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town," as so-called emphasis tracks. The former was about a sexually abused young girl promising to rise above her past, the latter about a forgotten woman with nothing but long gone memories. The rest of the album rocked significantly harder--harder and more raw, in fact, than anything on TEN--and zoomed in on a cusp between those two stories, on moments when outlaws, outcasts, the dispossessed and the disaffected were being called to political judgment. The woman sheltering a "Dissident" gives in and turns him over to the police. But the abused subjects of "Go" and "Rearviewmirror"--two of the album's most musically heroic songs--manage to turn the tables and get away. There was a suffocating bleakness to much of VS. (in "Rats," humans are compared most unfavorably to those animals) that would have dragged down a lesser rock band. But singer Eddie Vedder had the support of one of the most transcendent of all classic-rock bands, with a supple rhythm section and two creatively complicated guitarists equally at home with the thrashy pulse of "Go," the delicate prettiness of "Elderly Woman..." (check out the layered, stereo guitar work there) and the new wave angularity of a song like "Glorified G." It was serious, but also serious rock and roll. Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone (05/13/1999) Village Voice (03/01/1994) Q (01/01/1994) Entertainment Weekly (10/29/1993) Melody Maker (10/16/1993) Rolling Stone (11/11/1993) Melody Maker (01/01/1994) Village Voice (03/01/1994) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||
Top Reviews  Pearl jam did it again....this rocks!!Review created: 09/23/06 by:  6 of 9 people found this review helpful. After the success and the pure quality of 10....like a lot of Pearl Jam fans, I was curious to see what they would come up with next, and with VS they did not dissapointed! This album released in 1993, contains 12 superb tracks that rock and once again serve to highlight both the musical talent of the band and vocal ability of Eddie Vedder! It is a powerful, raging rock album that opens with the fast paced 'Go'....this song is frantic, with a heavy guitar element over which Vedder roars the vocals to great effect! Animal, which never seems to stop playing on our local rock station, follows with deep, heartfelt lyrics in the true style of Pearl Jam who are not afraid to confront sometimes controversial and indeed profound subjects within their music! They then slow it down a tad, with the wonderful 'Daughter' which employs a more acoustic sound, as Vedder sings his way through this tough song which deals with abuse - a thread that follows Pearl Jam throughout their work! Glorified has an almost funk element to it but my favorite track on this album has to be "Rearviewmirror".... This album has a plethora of different styles, all of which employ the trademark rock / grunge edge, but each as different as the next with profound lyrics that prod one to stop and think, combined with killer rifts that draw you into ech adn every track!! A true 5....what an excellent album!! Review ID: 10000000001899217 Was this review helpful? Report this review Reviews Pearl Jam Vs.A classic cd for any Pearl Jam fan, a must-have for the collection. 13 tracks of almost all classics. Definitely worth purchasing, as a gift or for oneself. Keep on supporting the boys, Pearl Jam rocks!! Review ID: 10000000003455543 Was this review helpful? Report this review Pearl Jam CD- VsReview created: 02/01/07 by: neelucupcake ( 7 ) This product is perfect. It has store bought quality. Nothing wrong with it at all. The cover is intact. The cover and inset are intact. Review ID: 10000000002822014 Was this review helpful? Report this review  PJ's SophmoreAwesome album! They really rock though Eddie's new topics are different than "Ten's" Subject material. Songs like, "Daughter" and "Dissident", or "Glorified G" are more like a parody of grunge and forgettable. But songs like, "Animal", "Leash", "Rats" and "Rearview Mirror" make this album worth keeping. Review ID: 10000000001349724 Was this review helpful? Report this review Not that good, butAfter "Ten" it´s a little hard to put in a new album that could beat it. Put it´s a good album anyway. Review ID: 10000000001266423 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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