Pearl Jam - Ten (Collector`s Edition) [Box] [3/24]

Artist:

Pearl Jam

See Also:

Rockfords (The) Vedder, Eddie

Description:

Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals); Mike McCreedy, Stone Gossard (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Dave Krusen (drums).
Additional personnel: Walter Gray (cello); Rick Parashar (piano, organ, percussion).
Engineers: Dave Hills, Don Gilmore, Adrian Moore.
Recorded at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington from March to April, 1991.
Audio Mixer: Brendan O`Brien.
TEN, Pearl Jam`s debut album, was released less than a month before Nirvana`s NEVERMIND, and although it took longer to climb the pop charts it also hung around longer, eventually outselling its Seattle rival. Together, the two albums reinvigorated rock & roll, whose share of the pop marketplace had been slipping through the late 1980s. But while Nirvana`s bruising punk rock was an all-out assault on the classic-rock dinosaur, Pearl Jam`s accomplished hard rock was an attack from within the system.
The drawn-out, bluesy guitar riffing and anthemic choruses that dominated TEN instantly gave away roots in the same popular hard rock and heavy metal that Nirvana was intent on crushing. Indeed, before forming Pearl Jam, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament (who between them wrote most of the music on TEN) were the core of two `70s-influenced metal bands, Green River and Mother Love Bone. But in place of the self-aggrandizing, larger-than-life singers that led most such bands, Gossard and Ament found Eddie Vedder, an explosive vocalist with a ravaged timbre more apt to identify with the abused and misunderstood children he was singing about (and to) than with any other rock stars.
After producer Brendan O`Brien remastered a few TEN tracks for the later greatest-hits collection, REARVIEWMIRROR, the band pressed him for years to remaster the entire album. In 2009, the band re-released TEN with O`Brien`s remaster, a rendering that strips away the early `90s reverb and lays bare the scabrous edges in both the twin guitars and Vedder`s voice. Including many extra tracks and paraphernalia, the many different versions of the reissue placed the official stamp of "classic" on a record that always had the air of one.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Once
2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release

DISC 2: TEN (BRENDAN O`BRIEN REMIX):

1. Once
2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release
12. Brother
13. Just A Girl
14. State Of Love And Trust
15. Breath And A Scream
16. 2,000 Mile Blues
17. Evil Little Goat

DISC 3: MTV UNPLUGGED:

1. Oceans
2. State Of Love And Trust
3. Alive
4. Black
5. Even Flow
6. Rockin
7. Tuning
8. Jeremy
9. Porch

DISC 4: TEN (ORIGINAL MIX REMASTERED):

1. Once
2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release

DISC 5: TEN (BRENDAN O`BRIEN REMIX):

1. Once
2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release

DISC 6: DROP IN THE PARK (DISC 1):

1. Even Flow - (live)
2. Once - (live)
3. State Of Love And Trust - (live)
4. Why Go - (live)
5. Deep - (live)

DISC 7: DROP IN THE PARK (DISC 2):

1. Jeremy - (live)
2. Black - (live)
3. Alive - (live)
4. Garden - (live)
5. Porch - (live)

DISC 8: MOMMA-SON (DEMO):

1. Alive
2. Once
3. Footsteps

Album Information

Release Date:

03/24/2009

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Grunge

Label:

Legacy Recordings

Catalog Number:

88697375872

Original Release Year:

1991

# of Discs:

8

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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