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List Price: $11.96 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 724
Released: November 16, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.69 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
In an era when pop nihilism fulfilled its dark promise all too regularly, Pearl Jam not only survived, but thrived to become one of rock's greatest bands. This 33-track double-disc career retrospective documents the arc of a career that went from arena and radio triumphs in the early 90's (while Nirvana's promise imploded in the wake of hype, Pearl Jam's crowd-pleasing fame only burgeoned) to the uncompromising, core audience-focused tack that carried the band into the 21st century. Shrewdly compiled by the band into an "Up" disc that chronicles the band's driving, Stone Gossard-Mike McCready fueled hard rock dramatics (including such early career landmarks as "Jeremy," "Alive" and "Even Flow" alongside more aggressive fare like "Go" and "Spin the Black Circle") and a "Down" side that focuses more on Eddie Vedder's brooding, often dark ballads ("Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town," "Yellow Ledbetter," their unlikely hit cover of the oldie "Last Kiss"), it's a collection that underscores both the band's range and musical integrity. Though centered largely on the band's pre-Vitalogy studio era and containing no new material, longtime producer/collaborator Brendan O'Brien contributes remixes of "Once," "Alive" and "Black" that offer new insights on the familiar, while non-album tracks like "Man of the Hour" and "State of Love and Trust" considerably enhance the overall listening perspective here. --Jerry McCulley
rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) Reviews:
Legends in their own time 
2009-09-03 - There's not a single "best of" album out there that contains everybody's favorites. Music is a subjective art. But this selection of songs by Pearl Jam is pretty close. I cannot imagine any lover of rock-n-roll not having this album in their collection.
rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)
very goood
2009-08-31 - I got this album a couple of days ago and i liked so much becasue it has the mostly songs that i like of pearl jam i know are more and have to be in this album but i think its very good the compilation its not enoght 2 cds to put all the good songs but are the most popular like evenflow, jeremy, alive, black and more, if you dont have all the albums or you dont know much about pearl jam this is a good album to listen :)
This just sucks. 
2009-08-19 - It went down hill ever since TEN. That being said only five good songs from TEN and three of them are 2004 crap remixes.......screw Pearl Sham they are irrelevent, radio friendly garbage aside from TEN anyhow.
Rare Pearl Jam Vinyl
2009-08-13 - I didn't what to get my boyfriend, and although the album was expensive, I bought it for him as he's a HUGE fan. I knew he had a few of their albums on vinyl but I chose Rearview Mirror since it was all of their hits. It was brand new in original packaging and shipped quickly.
Going Back For A Second Listen
2009-06-30 - I first heard Pearl Jam when I was in my early teens when Jeremy played on MTV and loved the first record. I then got the second record and did not like it as much, and overtime I started to lose track of the band.
Maybe I was a bit too young to understand how they were changing or what they are trying to do, and lost track of both my CDs and the band for the most part.
I wanted to hear the songs again, so picked up this collection since it had the big hits I remembered and other things throughout the years. And I was pleasently suprised when I realized I missed some good songs throughout the years.
Perhaps my tastes have changed, but if you liked Pearl Jam at the beginning, it is nice to go back and listen once again. Gave me a chance to find things I missed.
