Ten - Pearl Jam

Advantages: Better sound
Disadvantages: Same album content

...sounds redundant. The original Ten album was released in 1992. The mixed recording was released in 2006. Does that sound like a marketing gimmick? The bottom line is that the original version of Ten cannot be beat. Unless you collect Pearl Jam memorabilia like I do. This version of Ten looks like a tiney vinyl phonograph. How cute is that? It contain all of the great songs from Pearl Jam such as: Once, Even Flow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, ...
...this version because I have the same songs on the original Ten. It's more of a collectors item. Although granted the audio does sound a little better than the original released in 1992. And for the same price (just about) you might just want to shoot for a tiney vinyl. ... Read review

Advantages: Eddies vocals, some nice tunes.
Disadvantages: The Nirvana "connection"

...PEARL JAM - TEN ---------------- Pearl Jam, are a slightly unknown band in this country, which is a big shame as we seem to miss out on so much great american rock music, and end up with the watered down pop, even when we do get a nice guitar in a song, its by a "band" such as Busted, now dont get me wrong, i can see why lots of young kids like their music but it doesnt rock! So this brings me to an album that does Rock, released way back in 1991, this was one of the first rock albums that i got into, i mean i was only 11 at the time!! know 12 years later this album is still as strong and fresh as it was then. THE BAND -------- Pearl Jam were originally known as Mother Love Bone, but with the tragic death of their lead singer Andrew Wood, there came this great band. Forming after the lead singer Eddie Vedder got a demo... Read review

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Advantages: Grunge rock with a touch of 70s angst
Disadvantages: A little over produced, especially for the genre.

...In 1991 Pearl Jam exploded on to the grunge rock scene with their debut album 'Ten' and catapulted their way to the rock halls of fame. The original line-up consisted of Stone Gossard on rythum guitar and Jeff Ament on bass (formally with Green River and Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready on lead (formally with Shadow), drummer Dave Krusen and enigmatic vocalist Eddie Vedder. As is generally the case with Pearl Jam lyrics 'Ten' is for the most part narratives based on people that the band have meet or heard about, though many have autibiographical elements. The album features 2 of Vedder's Mamasan trilogy written as a show reel for Ament and Gossard before he joined. The first part, 'Alive' (track 3 on 'Ten') tells the story of a widowed mother who is sexually attracted to her son who bears an extrordinary resemblance to his dead father... Read review

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Advantages: Pioneers of grunge, originality.
Disadvantages: Couple of weaker tracks.

...PEARL JAM – TEN Perhaps it’s because their lead singer didn’t die an untimely death. Perhaps it’s because the band never burnt away but carried on going and stood the test of time. Perhaps it’s because the band weren’t thrown into the media spotlight in the same way Mr. Cobain and co. were. Whatever the reason is this album, which helped to define grunge in exactly equal measures to Nirvana’s Nevermind album has been overshadowed by its fellow genre giant – and unfairly so. When the grunge scene exploded from Seattle in the early 90’s bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and indeed Pearl Jam were those leading the way. Formed from the remains of Mother Love, a band split due to the death of their vocalist and Californian singer/songwriter Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam were responsible for one of the most grunge defining albums of the 90’s... Read review

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