Iain Macaulay: The only Pearl Jam album I still listen to. Now it's one of my favourite albums, because that damn Alpaca kept calling my name. I thought to myself "wtf?"īut it's one of those albums that keeps wanting you to put it on again, like it knows you missed something.and you had. It still can draw me in ( Black is a favourite). But the turmoil is balanced by occasional moments of reflection, efforts to make sense of a confusing panorama – most notably, the R.E.M.-like Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town. It’s a pressure cooker heated by personal and societal wrongs-incest, child abuse, cops beating blacks. "The Seattle quintet remains rock’s voice of dysfunction, tapping a deep reservoir of pain and rage. Better still, he's a big force without bullshit he bellows doubt." ( Rolling Stone) With his Brando brooding and complicated, tortured masculinity, he's something we haven't seen in a while a heroic figure. Terrific players with catholic tastes, they also serve up singer-lyricist Eddie Vedder. "Few American bands have arrived more clearly talented than this one did with Ten and Vs. The band consciously strives for spontaneity, admirably pushing itself into new territory - some numbers are decidedly punky, and there are also a couple of acoustic-driven ballads, which are well suited to Vedder's sonorous low register." ( AllMusic) "It's a much rawer, looser record than Ten, feeling like a live performance Vedder practically screams himself hoarse on a few songs.
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