Ten is a masterpiece. Black is one of the most beautiful songs from that era.

A great song from one of the greatest albums ever made.

Ten is seen as one of the greatest rock albums ever made. Every song is great. Although seen as a grunge album there are classic rock roots in Pearl Jams music. Vs is also another great album.

@Owlstretchingtime78

25 күн бұрын

Totally agree. 'Vs' just pips it for me! 😉

@krisdoggett483

25 күн бұрын

Makes sense. The bands of the "grunge" scene grew up listening to all those classic rock bands.

@punker-gamer-trucker-guy

24 күн бұрын

Classic rock IS the root of grunge.

Brilliant album. I was fortunate to see them live twice. Once after they hit it big but the first time was in a basketball gymnasium prior to fame. Amazing live. Blood on Vs. has one of the greatest screams in rock. Vitology and Vs are great albums too.

A lot of people are going to say shitty things about this. But at the time this along with Sound Garden and Alice In Chains and Janes Addiction etc seemed to have a different spin on classic rock sounds. I understood the excitement.

Cool. You are reacting to another one of my favorite artists of all time. Ten is a masterpiece as others have said. It is also Pearl Jam's most mainstream album. Overall Pearl don't have many bad songs. Their late career albums have a few more average songs on them, but that should be expected of any artist that has been around a while. It is always hard to capture the energy of youth. That said their new album is pretty good.

This is part 2 of the Mammason trilogy. Part 1 is Alive where the protagonist is abused sexually by his mother. In Part 2, this song, he is now grown up and has become a serial killer. Part 3 is Footsteps, the b side to the Jeremy single. In that song the protagonist is now on death row. He was waiting in his cell for the guards to get him and put him to death.

This entire album is simply epic, bangers from start to end. Takes me right back to when I first heard it - magical moments never to be repeated 😎💖👌

While not much of a grunge fan myself, this album is a freakin' MASTERPIECE! Every song!

@Owlstretchingtime78

25 күн бұрын

Have to concur!

The intro you liked also ends the final track of the album. When you looped the CD it transitions from the end to the beginning

I love Pearl Jam. Every 90's albums. Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden is my gravity point out of 70's...

Magnificent track from a magnificent band, taken from a near perfect album. Man, did rock need the Grunge scene!

This was the music of my generation. I grew up listening to classic rock and prog rock and loving it all. I was in my 20s in the 1990s and I absolutely loved the rock music scene then. I loved Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and my favorite of all, Alice In Chains. I owned all these cds back then. Actually haven't heard this in years. Nice to see you react to this. You may have heard "Alive" as it was a big hit for them.

Call me odd, but Ten feels like home to me. I can relate to the feelings (if not directly to the life experiences behind the songs). I think Once is my favourite track off of the album although it isn’t comfortable to listen to. Ten is a phenomenal record by any standard and deserves analysis track by track.

This was a grower, at first I was uncertain but gradually I figured it out. Great album imo.

Nowadays, I'd take this over most classic rock and 70s prog.

Vedder's deep, uncontrolled vibrato brought something new and compelling at the time. Wished I could do that, but I fear my neck would explode.

@JustJP

25 күн бұрын

Lol!

Another good collaborative project to check out is Temple of the Dog; Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell (RIP). Their most well-known hit from that being "Hunger Strike".

I’d just thought I’d let you know, I saw this in my sub box and I made the Shaq Hot Ones face. Ten is a top 3 90s album. It describes itself and that’s nice.

@JustJP

25 күн бұрын

Ty partyscientist!!

Yes... a great song. Just... I'm having a "crisis" 😅 because you haven't reviewed Mike oldfield for a long time. When are you going to review his next great album after five miles out? Hugs.

Great if angsty

Someone lent me this as a CD (about 20 years ago) and I was eager to listen to it because of all the hype I'd heard and read about it back when it was released (I missed it firsthand, being under 10 at the time) (although the age thing didn't stop me listening to my brother's 70s prog rock albums and falling for all of that from a very young age so... whatever). Anyway, I listened to it all straight through and wasn't too impressed and have never returned to it in all these years. Today, after hearing this track, I feel that my original opinion will most likely remain unchanged. (I did find that I clicked with Nirvana, however.)

I was gonna say 'meh', but jtenaz beat me to it. They weren't terrible, but I never really understood how they got as big as they did. Didn't seem to bring much new to the party. Riding the grunge/alt rock wave, perhaps... And I even picked up a few of their discs (on a whim), but don't think I played either more than once, ironically. Just didn't grab me.

@pentagrammaton6793

25 күн бұрын

I was never a fan of these.

@Eduardo-Ferreira1982

25 күн бұрын

I prefer STP. Their melancholy side has no parallel on bands associated with the grunge genre...

I've never been into the whole grunge thing, so obviously Pearl Jam aren't my cup of tea!

Meh

@jfergs.3302

25 күн бұрын

I'll second that :)

@pentagrammaton6793

25 күн бұрын

@@jfergs.3302 thirded :)

@Owlstretchingtime78

25 күн бұрын

In the name of balance, i really dig this! Great review Justin. 👌

@AriadneJC

25 күн бұрын

@@Owlstretchingtime78 If I add a third "meh" (an honest one, too, not just doing it because it'll be a laugh) will you have to post another reply in support of it to restore balance?

@Owlstretchingtime78

25 күн бұрын

@@AriadneJC Not remotely. 😊

I was never a fan of this average mumble rock.

@Owlstretchingtime78

25 күн бұрын

It did for the 'Chick's with Dicks, which was essential at the time!

@Bikonito

22 күн бұрын

we're really just putting mumble in front of any genre we don't like now huh 😭

Gotta give this a fair chance Watching muted footy too though Terrible voice Pub singer meets Hetfield lite. Muddy production Miserable90s music Awful in fact La Tristesse Durerra JP. I ain't forgotten that review either in which you lambasted late90s radio rock Yet this is good 4u Loss of Control - Van Halen will sort us out. The football was great I stayed til your goodbye though My inner James Dean Bradfield says This is Yesterday. A Design For Life! Faster JP Faster!! 😀

They were better as green river. They got too mainstream.