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| Artist |
Pearl Jam |
| Title |
Ten |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
1991 |
| Catalog No |
ZK 47857 |
| Label |
Epic Records |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Once (3:51)
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| 2.
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Even Flow (4:53)
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| 3.
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Alive (5:41)
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| 4.
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Why Go (3:19)
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| 5.
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Black (5:43)
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| 6.
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Jeremy (5:19)
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| 7.
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Oceans (2:41)
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| 8.
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Porch (3:30)
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| 9.
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Garden (4:58)
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| 10.
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Deep (4:18)
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| 11.
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Release (9:05)
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| Notes |
Listening Dates:
Kelly CD Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals) Mike McCreedy (guitar) 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 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: Amazon.com... Amazon.com essential recording... Part of the '90s Seattle grunge triumvirate completed by Nirvana and Soundgarden, Pearl Jam debuted with Ten, their most accessible, least self-conscious album. Over time, PJ's rep as a politically correct band just a little too above it all to prostitute its music on MTV has nearly superseded the music. But before that, they were a simply an in-your-face, in-your-head, loud, melodic rock band. And lead singer Eddie Vedder was known for his possessed stage presence and a primal growl that sounded like it required three vocal chords. The personal, narrative singles "Alive," "Jeremy," and "Even Flow" catapulted the reluctant band into the 10-million-plus-sales division. Subsequent albums are more intricate, subtle, thematically complex, and, in many ways, better than Ten. But the band may never repeat the stampede caused by this debut. --Beth Bessmer --------------------------------
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