Pearl Jam Music:

Description of Ten:
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time, PJ's rep as a politically correct band just a little too above it all to prostitute its music on MTV has nearly superseded the music.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

Ten Reviews:
Black is the greatest song ever recorded
2009-10-21 - This album is amazing through and through. But I challenge any human being whose ever been in love to listen to Black without coming to tears. Black is the embodiment of what music should be. Music is supposed to move us and make us feel something. I've been listening to this album since its release and I still come to tears every time I listen to Black some 18 years later. The song is so powerful it almost overcomes the listener. There is no other song I've ever heard from any other artist that so clearly takes a thought or feeling and passes it on to the listener. This album, and Black in particular, is the pinnacle of what music can and should be.

The best Pearl Jam album.
2009-08-19 - This was Pearl Jam's only good album and it's nothing stellar. Jermey is pretty good, Deep is a good song, Evenflow is good, Why Go is good the rest and every album after were just garbage, and Backspacer will prove that point perfectly if anyone has heard it yet, it's total puke. Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains thats grunge, and even more so than grunge crap it's awesome music. Pearl Jam are posers.

bad back then, worse now
2009-08-18 - I remember well when this one came out. MTV "fanboys" immediately switched from hard rock to the grunge bandwagon hailing pearljam and the other grunge raggers as the new thing. The fact is, if you listened to ten or watched the videos you'd be asking yourself "what am I missing here?" - the musicianship is atrocious, the songs plodding, the singer's voice is monotonous yet this band behaved like they were the Doors..give us a break please

Luckily real rock music is now back and this kind of poserrock is now forgotten..same for soundgarden mudhoney stonetemple whatever...what a waste of air.....all those years..

Current classic
2009-08-18 - Rightfully one of the 90's loudest rock attacks. For a brief moment, as Pearl Jam entered the scene with this blistering debut, they helped to usher arena rock into more thoughtful areas without loosing any of the aggression they proceeded to shed over the next twenty years.

PEARL JAM
2009-06-17 - SINGLE BEST DEBUT CD EVER. I KNOW THIS IS A BIG STATEMENT, BUT NOT ONLY IS IT THE BEST DEBUT, IT'S ALSO PEARL JAM'S BEST.