Nirvana's Nevermind may have been the album that broke grunge and alternative rock into the mainstream, but there's no underestimating the role that Pearl Jam's Ten played in keeping them there. Nirvana's appeal may have been huge, but it wasn't universal; rock radio still viewed them as too raw and punky, and some hard rock fans dismissed them as weird misfits. In retrospect, it's easy to see why Pearl Jam clicked with a mass audience -- they weren't as metallic as Alice in Chains or Soundgarden, and of Seattle's Big Four, their sound owed the greatest debt to classic rock. With its intricately arranged guitar textures and expansive harmonic vocabulary, Ten especially recalled Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. But those touchstones might not have been immediately apparent, since -- aside from Mike McCready's Clapton/Hendrix-style leads -- every trace of blues influence has been completely stripped from the band's sound. Though they rock hard, Pearl Jam is too anti-star to swagger, too self-aware to puncture the album's air of gravity. Pearl Jam tackles weighty topics -- abortion, homelessness, childhood traumas, gun violence, rigorous introspection -- with an earnest zeal unmatched since mid-'80s U2, whose anthemic sound they frequently strive for. Similarly, Eddie Vedder's impressionistic lyrics often make their greatest impact through the passionate commitment of his delivery rather than concrete meaning. His voice had a highly distinctive timbre that perfectly fit the album's warm, rich sound, and that's part of the key -- no matter how cathartic Ten's tersely titled songs got, they were never abrasive enough to affect the album's accessibility. Ten also benefited from a long gestation period, during which the band honed the material into this tightly focused form; the result is a flawlessly crafted hard rock masterpiece.
Reissues are dicey business. On the one hand, you have a couple labels that like to reissue CDs only months after their original release with a few new tracks, serving largely to irritate the fans who bought the original release. (I've been burned by this on more than one occasion.) On the other hand, you have multiplatinum classics reissued years later, taking advantage ofmodern technology to ...
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Pearl Jam is celebrating their monumental re-issue of "Ten", surprising and delighting the band's long time fans while awakening a whole new generation to one of rock's iconic bands! Get you listen to the brand new bonus track called "Brother" right here!
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So we made our way over to Centeroo after a good rest the night before and steak for breakfast (yeah, we brought disposable grills). Gogol Bordello was playing at 3:30 and we didn't want to miss that. At the Which stage I made my way through the crowd and moshed and shoved my way all the way to the railing and the view was awesome. I got stage dived on, I got a microphone to scream into, I got ...
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I'm Still Alive! 'Alive' is my very favorite 'Pearl Jam' Song! Thanx, Pearl Jam!So much emotion in his voice too..love it
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** Note I wrote this back in May.... and don't recall if I posted it here, I couldn't find it when I went back looking... anyway it's that time of the year where we start to look back... so here)I got the newest issue of Entertainment weekly today and their article about Pearl Jam and their new found status as a Grateful Dead like rock band caused me to pause and think about the band seriously ...
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http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/So, I'm reading this book called Purple Cow: Transforming Your Business by Being Remarkable, (by Seth Godin) and I ran across a passage about Pearl Jam --- thought you moggers might be interested. I'll paraphrase. Godin points out that thought the music industry is filled with wanna-bes who sometimes get lucky, and that's the bottom line --- some bands really f...
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To this day, in his chorus for 'Even Flow', Eddie Vedder is barely comprehendable to me. Apparently he says: "Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies". In middle school, I used to incoherently mumble "Even flow, round and round my red-light farley" when singing along. After a few months of my fake lyrics going undetected, one of my friends turned the car stereo down during a routine Pearl J...
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Rockers around the world cheered with MTV's announcement that Pearl Jam's 1991 album Ten would be made available for as downloadable content for Rock Band. The March release coincides with the release of the Deluxe Edition of Ten or the even more impressive Super Deluxe Edition. The Super Deluxe Edition, priced at $199.99, comes with a score of extras, including a previously unreleased "Unplu...
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Harmonix and MTV games plan to release Pearl Jam's breakthrough album Ten for Rock Band on March 24 to coincide with the record's re-release. The 10-song grunge album catapulted the Seattle-based band onto the world stage in 1991 and sold 12 million copies. It also inspired millions to don flannel shirts, stand in front of their televisions and act like they were in the band while the video fo...
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Cloud nine can be a tiring and exhausting place, coming down from it can even be more awful. You see I've been on it since Friday afternoon, when I walked into the 700-acre spread of mud and grass in the heart of Tennessee known as Bonnaroo. In a matter of 72 hours I was able to see several bands - Metallica, M.I.A. (for possibly the last time ever if her retirement rumors are true), Sigur Ros ...
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I don't even know where to begin kiddies - so I guess I'll start with I've missed you ALL !!! More than you know !!!If anyone can understand the tears that are ready to run down my face - it would be all of you.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second beginning to this is all about my city, my first concert venue & its soon demise. Phila...
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What's better than one remastered version of Pearl Jam's Ten? Four of them.Eddie Vedder and Co. went deep into the PJ vaults and unearthed some never released material for four reissues of the band's 1991 debut album. Each reissue has added features than the one before it, and is available for pre-order starting today, December 10th, 2008, at PearlJam.com. All four editions will be available ...
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The reviews from the first night of Pearl Jam's two-night stint at NYC's Madison Square Garden made it sound like people missed out on the best concert ever. Eddie Vedder and co. were really going to have to work hard to out due themselves the second night, and they did.Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley and Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone came out for a few songs. Frehley played on a cover of Kiss' "Blac...
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Pearl Jam are throwing a fiesta with the reissue of Ten. There is of course the four expanded editions of the 1991 debut album barfing up everything from producer remixes to MTV Unplugged performances and even the "Momma-Son" bootleg on March 24th. And now (drum rooooollllllllll) an interactive online game for PJ diehards to geek out to. Can't say I had the patience for it or that it beats t...
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:: Close Window Model Name SM 1500™ Model Number 44-01400-000 (120V) 44-01407-000 (100V JPN) 44-52003-010 (240V AUS) 44-52004-010 (230V UK) 44-52005-010 (230V ARG) 44-52006-010 (230V) 44-52009-010 (220V ROK) Series Classic Series Type Stereo/Mono Bass Amplifier Description The Mothership has landed! The SM-1500 bass head is the new "flagship" amplifier in the SWR® line of high-quality
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I was a sophmore in high school...and there was all of this new, loud, amazing music coming out of the Pacific Northwest...and then life started...
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Do you remember watching this? Pearl Jam on MTV Unplugged and during Porch Eddie Vedder writing "pro choice" on his arm with a black magic marker. To me it was more than a good tv moment, I believe it was one of the first dynamic political statements Eddie and Pearl Jam made in front of a nationally televised cable audience.I remember when he wrote "pro choice" my respect for Eddie Vedder went ...
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I just got to an item that has been on my to do list for, oh hell, 15 years. (It hurts that I have a 15 year old to do list and that I am old enough to have a 15 year old to do list – urgh.) Looking up the lyrics to Ten by Pearl Jam. This album, for me, is the best album of all times. I knew I felt that way the first time I listened to it and haven’t changed my mind in all of the interveni
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I owe Dave this. Love you bro. Happy New Year.
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So we made our way over to Centeroo after a good rest the night before and steak for breakfast (yeah, we brought disposable grills). Gogol Bordello was playing at 3:30 and we didn't want to miss that. At the Which stage I made my way through the crowd and moshed and shoved my way all the way to the railing and the view was awesome. I got stage dived on, I got a microphone to scream into, I got ...
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SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Cheerleader CHANTALE‘If this isn't what you see. It doesn't make you blind. If this doesn't make you feel. It doesn't mean you've died. ....If you don't want to be seen. You don't have to hide. If you don't want to believe. You don't have to try to feel alive. Alive in the superunknown. First it steals your mind. And then it steals your soul’.(Lyrics from the song ‘SUPERUNKN
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Reissues are dicey business. On the one hand, you have a couple labels that like to reissue CDs only months after their original release with a few new tracks, serving largely to irritate the fans who bought the original release. (I've been burned by this on more than one occasion.) On the other hand, you have multiplatinum classics reissued years later, taking advantage ofmodern technology to ...
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