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Music CD - Pearl Jam: Ten
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Music CD: Ten
Artist: Pearl Jam
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $6.19
Your Save: $ 7.79 ( 56% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Tracks:
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1. Once
2. Evenflow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074644785722
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1991-08-27
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: great album
Comment: this is my favorite pj album. eddie's voice is great, and the band is just awsome. buy it!
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Summary: Vedder's Vocals Shine, Making the Album Great
Comment: Coming out around the same time Nirvana exploded "Ten" established Pearl Jam as one of the most popular Northwest (Seattle) "grunge" bands. Many put them in that music category, even though, in my opinion, there isn't much "grunge" about them. Singer Eddie Vedder has impassioned vocals and excellent songwriting abilities.
It did take sometime for the album to take off, but it ended up becoming one of the '90's best. "Even Flow" is arguably the band's most arena radio hit with it's singable chorus, while "Alive" contains ever-so-depressing lyrics on top of up-lifting music ending with a blistering Mike McCready guitar solo.
"Black" is more on the dark side in the form of a moody ballad. Vedder's vocals shine throughout the whole album and make each song great. The album is named after the number of the band's favorite basketball player Mookie Blaylock and I believe they played at small clubs before their big success under that name. This is my favorite Pearl Jam album.
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Summary: Clairvoyance
Comment: The great things about this album have already been said by the other 728 reviewers. What I'd like to add is the relevance of this album almost 17 years later. Go and listen to "Evenflow", "Alive", "Jeremy", and "Why Go". It's as if Pearl Jam foresaw the world as it is now. Columbine, Virginia Tech, and many other school shootings happened well after "Jeremy" was released. That song long foretold of the consequences of alienating your children and classmates. "Why Go" and "Evenflow" - teenage mental illness is on the rise in epidemic proportions, and it's often not discussed openly. "Alive" - families splintered by violence and divorce are certainly just as relevant today as they were in 1991. Ten's thematic elements blend together beautifully to illustrate the world we live in now. The message is even more relevant today - when we don't listen to our youth and alienate them, we are the ones that pay price.
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Summary: not a pearl, and no jams
Comment: Remember what happened when Pearl Jam hit the music scene in the early 90's? At first, we all liked the new sound and style. Alternative rock that was melodic enough for adults, and rocked convincingly enough for kids and teens. A rather large age group was able to appreciate this new influential sound and we all quickly became fans and thanked our lucky stars the hair metal movement was finally coming to an end.
What happened after a few years went by? Bands like Creed starting appearing, and then other bands with a similar sound would appear after them, and more and more. Even to this day, over 15 years later, we are *still* hearing the influence of this Pearl Jam album from other bands. I say- *enough is enough*. This style was good when Pearl Jam did it, because they were the first, or one of the first, to do so. Also, this album contains enough good songs for me to give it a fair rating.
But the negative influence these guys had on the music scene is something that's hard for me to forgive. I can't forgive them for all those boring, copycat bands that never came close to matching the enjoyment I got from Pearl Jam. Unfortunately those bands also are making it very hard to come back and appreciate the band and album that did it first. That explains my average rating for this album.
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Summary: Pearl Jam's First Album
Comment: This is one of my favorite top three albums of ALL TIME. It is hard to follow up to the success of the first one, Pearl Jam has now gotten back to their roots of what got them where they started. It sounds great and makes me remember the times that I had in the late 80's and early 90's. I thoroughly enjoyed EVERY SONG on this disk.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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