But those touchstones might not have been immediately apparent, since - aside from Mike McCready’s Clapton/Hendrix-style leads - every trace of blues influence has been completely stripped from the band’s sound. With its intricately arranged guitar textures and expansive harmonic vocabulary, Ten especially recalled Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. In retrospect, it’s easy to see why Pearl Jam clicked with a mass audience - they weren’t as metallic as Alice in Chains or Soundgarden, and of Seattle’s Big Four, their sound owed the greatest debt to classic rock. Nirvana’s appeal may have been huge, but it wasn’t universal rock radio still viewed them as too raw and punky, and some hard rock fans dismissed them as weird misfits.
Nirvana’s Nevermind may have been the album that broke grunge and alternative rock into the mainstream, but there’s no underestimating the role that Pearl Jam’s Ten played in keeping them there. The resulting album is nothing less than a masterpiece of ’90s grunge rock. Because Ten was recorded over such a long period of time (two months), allowing Pearl Jam to hone the material into tight, focused forms. Vedder’s distinctive voice perfectly fits the album’s rich sound, allowing his often intense lyrics to be tempered by the band’s sound, making the record that much more appealing. The expansive sound of the record is reminiscent of artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, but the core of the album’s sound is rooted in grunge.
Vedder added lyrics to the songs after he joined the group. Many of the songs on Ten started out as instrumental jams before Eddie Vedder even joined the band. – #14 on the US Billboard 200 decade-end chart for 1990-1999. – Reached #2 on the US Billboard 200 and Canadian Albums charts. The re-release features six bonus tracks and a remastering and remix of the entire album by producer Brendan O’Brien. In 2009, Ten was reissued as the first of a planned re-release of Pearl Jam’s entire catalogue that would lead up to the band’s 20th anniversary in 2011. The album was not an immediate success, but by late 1992 it had reached number two on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold well ever since. Ten was Pearl Jam’s first studio album and is their most successful record to date, selling more than 10 million copies in the US as of 2013.
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Official Digital Download – Source: | Digital Booklet | © Epic/Legacy Hmm, time to throw that album on the stereo, I think.FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 1:18:27 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Alternative, Rock The CD seemed to reach a "golden age" in the early '90s, before The Loudness Wars came crashing down like Gengis Khan and the Mongel Hordes.
The original 1991 CD still sounds spectacular, and is a perfect illustration of how the format sounds when handled properly. How hard is it to translate the excellent CD to LP? Is that really so hard? Are vinyl records really that inferior to Compact Discs? Or has everybody in the control room gone deaf (magnetic)?
It frustrated me because I had earlier bought an older Sony pressing of the Ten LP, and that was just dreadfully bad. The original mix LP that came with this set also suffered from extreme compression, sounding noisy and dense and not a lot of fun. In other words, it sounded closer to those later Pearl Jam albums when the band was deliberately trying to scare away fans (in terror of ending up like Kurt Cobain). All of the spacious air and ambience was ripped out, leaving a dry, closeted sound. I was sorely disappointed with the Ten "Redux" LP set.
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