MoeFOH's Album of the Week... Week #32

[MoeFOH]

MoeFOH's Album of the Week 🎶

Same as the movie thread, each week we're going to spotlight an album... be it a classic, new release, hidden gem, or outright turd... and open it for discussion: i.e. post up your favourite tracks, clips, lyrics, experiences if you saw live, etc... or dive deeper and give us a critique on why you think it's great, overrated, or a complete train wreck... And finally score it for us...  

All contributors go into a monthly prize draw for a 3-cigar sampler! 

PM me with suggestions if there's an album you want to nominate for next week's discussion. 

 

Week #32: Ten

Wiki says: 

Ten is the debut studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991, through Epic Records. Following the dissolution of their previous band Mother Love Bone in 1990, bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard began rehearsing with new guitarist Mike McCready. The group recorded a five-song instrumental demo tape with Matt Cameron on drums. Copies of the demo were eventually given to drummer Dave Krusen and vocalist Eddie Vedder, both of whom were invited to audition for the band in Seattle. Many of the songs on Ten were instrumental jams or reworked Mother Love Bone songs for which Vedder composed new melodies and lyrics.

Despite its reputation as a quintessential grunge album, Ten is often noted for displaying a stronger classic rock influence than other contemporary grunge releases. In a review for AllMusic, Steve Huey asserts that the band's "intricately arranged guitar textures and expansive harmonic vocabulary... especially recalled Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin" and characterizes the album as having an "anthemic" and "warm, rich sound". Huey also praises Vedder for the "highly distinctive timbre" of his vocals and for the "passionate commitment of his delivery".

Ten was not an immediate success, but by late 1992 it had reached number two on the Billboard 200. The album produced three hit singles: "Alive", "Even Flow", and "Jeremy". "Jeremy" became one of Pearl Jam's best-known songs, and received nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 35th Grammy Awards. The video for "Jeremy" was heavily rotated by MTV, and received four awards at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Best Group Video.

Beyond its role in consolidating the mainstream success of grunge rock in the early 1990s, Ten is generally considered to have been instrumental in the rise and dominance of alternative rock throughout the decade. The album has since been ranked by several publications as one of the greatest albums of all time. By February 2013, it had sold 13 million copies in the US, becoming the 22nd record to do so in the Nielsen SoundScan era and has been certified 13× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Ten remains Pearl Jam's most commercially successful album.

Over to you...

How do you rate it? 🤔

Thoughts, experiences, memories... post em' up! 

Score it out of 10!  

[MoeFOH]

 

[Russell]

10/10 though I am a little biased being as they’re from my hometown 😉.

[Doctorossi]

For me, this is one of those records that can seamlessly go from being a conscious/focused listen to background music and back again with my mood. I can always listen to it, but I've never felt compelled to own it. I'll give it an 8/10.

[Greenhorn2]

Not a huge Pearl Jam fan but to me their best album,8/10.

[M1B]

9/10 for me. One of the better albums of the 90's imo

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[Edicion]

I know the band and the music was very important to a lot of people at the time but I was not a huge Pearl Jam fan, in fact I can only recall ever listening to Ten by them.

For this to be their debut album it's nothing short of an incredible achievement. Would have been a full score if it wasn't for Nevermind which will always be the best album in this rock genre.

9.5/Ten

 

[Capn_Jackson]

One of the first things I remember waiting next to the radio to hear was “Black” from this album.

[BettyHumpder]

great album from a great band. i prefer Vs but this one is damn fine.

[Tdm_86]

As many have said, I was never a big Pearl Jam fan. Many friends were though and I must have heard this album hundreds of times through association. It is objectively good, I would score it 8/10.

[Ken Gargett]

i have heard of pearl jam - probably only because i checked as to who ed veeder was. he joined Bruce on stage in Brizzy at the four hour mark of a concert he did here a few years back - they did a version of ac/dc's highway to hell. but i have never heard of this album. 

[JohnS]

It's a good album but it's legacy doesn't match Nirvana's Nevermind. Still, I'd give it 9 out of 10.

[Lewberry]

Love this album! 8/10

[Wfriar]

10.  Love pearl jam and have seen them live three times and counting….. 

[Ford2112]

It's a great album. For a debut? It's a fantastic album. I rate Ten,10.

[Cigar Surgeon]

Ten is one of the top albums any band has ever released. Personally I thought it was a better album than Nevermind, and it was my battle of the albums 90s draft pick to win.

Even Flow is a great representation of the tracks on that album, and even after 31 years, I can still listen to it over and over and not be sick of it.

[Puros Y Vino]

Grunge? I just....can't....  It heralded the end of Heavy Metal on the radio, the loss of guitar solos and instrumental virtuosity in rock music and navel gazing, manic depressive types writing lyrics.  😜  AFIAK, the genre is pretty much dead and metal lives on. (In Europe for the most part)

0/10!!!!

[Cigar Surgeon]

9 hours ago, Puros Y Vino said:

Grunge? I just....can't....  It heralded the end of Heavy Metal on the radio, the loss of guitar solos and instrumental virtuosity in rock music and navel gazing, manic depressive types writing lyrics.  😜  AFIAK, the genre is pretty much dead and metal lives on. (In Europe for the most part)

0/10!!!!

1989, never forget.

[BettyHumpder]

 

9 hours ago, Puros Y Vino said:

Grunge? I just....can't....  It heralded the end of Heavy Metal on the radio, the loss of guitar solos and instrumental virtuosity in rock music and navel gazing, manic depressive types writing lyrics.  😜  AFIAK, the genre is pretty much dead and metal lives on. (In Europe for the most part)

0/10!!!!

neil young’s “raggedy glory” from 1990 is grunge but defies many of the criticisms here. guitar solos abound.

[Lamboinee]

On 10/25/2022 at 6:33 PM, Ken Gargett said:

he joined Bruce on stage in Brizzy

bruce who?

JK.

[Ken Gargett]

5 hours ago, Lamboinee said:

bruce who? JK.

i honestly have not the slightest idea who that is supposed to be. 

[Lamboinee]

57 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

i honestly have not the slightest idea who that is supposed to be. 

two time something winning and Eddie Vedder stage sharing Mr. Bruce Vilanch.

[Ford2112]

😂 My Mom somewhat resembles Bruce Vilanch.

[Ken Gargett]

6 minutes ago, Lamboinee said:

two time something winning and Eddie Vedder stage sharing Mr. Bruce Vilanch.

none the wiser????

[mtd057]

Great album 8/10