Bands would kill to have this number of great songs in an entire career.
How a band could be firing on all cylinders this early in their career is stunning. It was a moment in time that will never happen again for the band. It’s a debut album from a band who within months would be doing everything they could to rein in the absolute beast that had been unleashed. It’s anthemic, powerful, emotional, vulnerable, melodic, angst-ridden and somber. 11 songs without a filler to be found, and a strikingly musical and well put together debut album. But no matter your opinion of the album now, after all of these years, “Ten” is, well, “Ten”. And yet for others, and let’s be honest there are quite a few fans who fall into this group, it is overplayed and has been done to death.
For others it is one of the greats among several from this band that somehow continues to do no wrong (that would be me). For others, it was an album they found later in life either by chance or simply because they had yet to be born when it was released.įor some fans, “Ten” is the iconic masterpiece that will never be topped. For some of us it was the album that we discovered in 1991 that changed our lives seemingly overnight. All these years, and songs, and concerts, and memories: This is where it all began. It doesn’t quite seem possible, and yet here we are in 2021 and Pearl Jam’s “Ten” is hitting a huge milestone.
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