The best debut album in the last 20 years. (Ten - Pearl Jam)

Member Name: underdog_78

Product:	Ten - Pearl Jam
Date:	01/07/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Get to see one of the best rock bands at the begining

Disadvantages: Arrangement of tracks could have been more dynamic

Where it all began for one of the best bands to still be rocking today. The album claimed by many to be the best Pearl Jam album ever, though I disagree with this view.

For me this is the best debut album release in the last 20 years, but to say it's the best Pearl Jam have done would be doing them a disservice. While CD has the stand out moments that every Pearl Jam release does, sometimes the dynamics of the CD and the tracks as a collection are a bit messy, though this rawness is what you expect for a first release from a (then) young band.

This was the worlds introduction to Pearl Jam and as all PJ albums since have done, Ten covered many taboo subjects along the way. In this one CD we have High School suicides, Incest, mental illness and parental issues.

In Jeremy we are told the (true) story of a boy who was driven to the edge by his school mates and one day he walked into his class and shot himself. While many people think this song was about him killing his class mates, it's not, a simple watch of the video (which was later edited for MTV) has Jeremy putting the gun in his mouth and his classmates holding their hands up in an attempt to stop the blood hitting their face.

The ever popular Jeremy and Alive do their job well, you know the words, know the tune and can sing along, however the love song "Black" is where this CD reaches it's finest moment, and probably one of the best Pearl Jam tracks ever.

Every Pearl Jam will own this CD, every music fan should. The best debut album in the last 20 years.

Summary: Every music fan should own this CD.