Ten - Pearl Jam Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

Recently released as a Super Deluxe edition through the Pearl Jam fan club and other retailers, many would argue that Pearl Jam's debut release has never been bettered. Often compared to other grunge era bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, Ten outsold Nevermind and elevated Pearl Jam to the status of one of the biggest bands in ...  Read the complete review

I remember when Pearl Jam first released this album, some of their peers at the time looked down their noses and sneered - 'This is AOR' or 'Sounds like Journey' were two of the accusations leveled at the Seattle superstars. The rest of the world took them to their hearts and the love affair has lasted for the best part of 20 ...  Read the complete review

Ten by Pearl Jam (1991) In my other reviews I've kept mentioning that the guitars "sound like Pearl Jam" so it looks like I'm going to need some new similes. Jeff Ament - bass Stone Gossard - guitar Mike McCready - guitar Dave Krusen - drums Eddie Vedder - vocals The guitars sound ...  Read the complete review

If one word were to define Eddie Vedder, lead vocals of Seattle rockers Pearl Jam, then for me it’d be passionate. Having survived the grunge era of the early 90’s, an era which saw the end of the likes of Nirvana and Alice In Chains, Vedder and his merry men have continued to blaze a trail through to the current day, releasing albums that, ...  Read the complete review

PEARL JAM - TEN ---------------- Pearl Jam, are a slightly unknown band in this country, which is a big shame as we seem to miss out on so much great American rock music, and end up with the watered down pop, even when we do get a nice guitar in a song, its by a "band" such as Busted, now don't get me wrong, I can see ...  Read the complete review

PEARL JAM - TEN Perhaps it's because their lead singer didn't die an untimely death. Perhaps it's because the band never burnt away but carried on going and stood the test of time. Perhaps it's because the band weren't thrown into the media spotlight in the same way Mr. Cobain and co. were. Whatever the reason is this ...  Read the complete review

Unlike the other reviewers in this section, I can't speak knowledgeably about the history of the band or their musical technicalities. I can however do my best to recommend this album. After their recent disappointingly average albums, people would be correct in thinking Pearl Jam were a band of the past. This is undoubtedly the best ...  Read the complete review

Ten was the most eagerly awaited album of my teens... As an avid fan of the Seattle Supergroup Mother Love Bone, I couldn't wait for the release of the UK version of Ten and ordered it from America. The Album can pick you up, put you down, make you scream until you bleed and then soothe you into tranquility. This is MY album of all time, ...  Read the complete review

Although I probably feel more of an affinity towards their other four releases, "Ten" is an excellent classic grunge rock album. It has the same feel as Stone Temple Pilots' first two releases (perhaps because they were blatantly imitating Pearl Jam?), with a series of songs that maintain a hard-rock aesthetic and don't give the ...  Read the complete review

Musically, the distinctions between punk and metal, classic and contemporary rock were never as sharp as media pundits and marketing executives would have had us believe, but it took a gaggle of grungy bands from the Pacific Northwest to hammer the point home as they moshed their way to the top of the charts. Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, ...  Read the complete review

The first album from the longest surviving of all the Seattle groups of the early nineties. What makes this truly remarkable is that half the group rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone after the death of singer Andy Wood, and the other half hadn’t ever met. Guitarist Stone Gossard had recorded a tape of demos with bass player ...  Read the complete review