| Pearl Jam | Primary Artist |
| Dave Abbruzzese | Drums |
| Jeff Ament | Bass |
| Stone Gossard | Guitar, Rhythm Guitar |
| Walter Gray | Cello |
| Dave Krusen | Drums |
| Mike McCready | Guitar |
| Rick Parashar | Organ, Percussion, Piano |
| Eddie Vedder | Vocals |
| Jeff Ament | Composer, Writer, Liner Notes, Artwork, Art Direction, Concept, Memorabilia |
| Alex Coletti | Producer |
| Nick DiDia | Engineer |
| Don Gilmore | Engineer |
| Stone Gossard | Composer |
| David Hewitt | Engineer |
| Dave Krusen | Composer |
| Bob Ludwig | Mastering, Remastering |
| Mike McCready | Composer |
| Brendan O'Brien | Remixing |
| Tim Palmer | Contributor |
| Rick Parashar | Producer |
| Eddie Vedder | Composer, Lyricist, Writer, Liner Notes, Artwork, Art Direction, Concept, Memorabilia |
| Cameron Crowe | Memorabilia |
| Billy Bowers | Engineer |
| Dave Hillis | Engineer |
| Adrian Moore | Engineer |
| Tom McPhilips | Art Direction |
| Joel Gallen | Director |
| Kevin Shuss | Memorabilia |
| Steve Pitstick | Artwork |
AlexGoettge
Posted November 18, 2012
Good stuff
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This is a great CD, I love ALL the songs on it, although some of the songs like Why Go, I cant listen as I am only 13, and can't hear the F-bombs! :) But I have heard them and I still like them all, if you are a fan of Nirvana, or any of that 90 grunge this CD is a MUST buy!
But as I said, I dont recommend it if you dont want to hear the occasional language.
Hard to believe nearly twenty years has passed since Pearl Jam released their debut album, "Ten". They, along with Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, helped catapult grunge rock into the mainstream and made Seattle as enticing and exciting a music scene as Liverpool in the 1960's and New York in the late 1970's. Twenty years later, Pearl Jam have not only outlasted and outsold their compatriots but "Ten" still has an emotional and sonic whallop that makes it stand out in every sense.
Epic Legacy, whose re-releases have been more than impressive, have re-released "Ten" in four different editions---a single disc, a double-disc featuring additional cuts, a triple-disc featuring the band's appearance of MTV's "Unplugged" and a deluxe edition featuring all of these as well as a "Guitar Hero" version of Pearl Jam's music. Any edition of "Ten" is worth having, as far as I'm concerned.
Pearl Jam became one of those bands embraced 1970's hard rock, not just in its style but also in its road muscle by building a strong audience (if you don't believe that, take a look at all the live albums they've recorded). Their sound was also as angry and driven as late 1970's punk and 1980's underground music. This explains why they chose not to do videos anymore after this album made them stars.
From the charging opening of "Once", you can tell that Pearl Jam had conviction written all over themselves. However, even when they do slower, almost ballad-like songs like "Black", there's a degree of menace in singer Eddie Vedder's ragged voice. And yes, even though the hit singles "Alive", "Jeremy" and "Even Flow" have long been enshrined in the memories of those who have heard them, they still sound powerful after all this time. The same can be said of the twin guitar thrashing of Mike McCreacy and Stone Gossard.
What's impressive about this re-release is that the second disc contains the album in its entireity with producer-engineer Brendan O'Brien's original mix which gives this album a sharper and more fluid sound. It also contains unreleased material such as "Brother" and "Just A Girl" which would have fit in nicely with "Ten" as well as "State Of Love And Trust", that brilliant song featured on the 1991 soundtrack of "Singles".
Of course, you've got the "Guitar Hero" version of this album as well. I haven't had a chance to check that out yet. However, if a video game can get young people into this timeless classic, so much the better.
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Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
For the twentieth anniversary of their debut Ten -- an event that arrives in 2011 and is being celebrated in 2009, but who's counting? -- Pearl Jam went all out and delivered not one but three reissues, all in increasing levels of lavishness. First off is a standard two-CD set, followed by a triple-disc set that adds a DVD of the band's 1992 performance for MTV Unplugged and then there's a gargantuan, frankly ludicrous, collectors edition that has all that plus four slabs of vinyl containing the two mixes of the album plus a 1992 live show, one cassette that replicates the original demo Eddie Vedder turned in as his audition, and assorted memorabilia that ...