Pearl Jam

In a lot of ways, Pearl Jam’s Binaural record represents a lot of beginnings and ends for the band. The band said goodbye to producer Brendan O’Brien, and hello to Tchad Blake. They’d already bade farewell to drummer Jack irons, and Matt Cameron joined them in the studio for the first time. Mike McCready went into rehab to say goodbye to an addiction. This would be the group’s 6th studio album, and by this point they’d long left chasing chart numbers in the rearview mirror.

Read Part 1: I Was There: ’90s Music Read Part 2: FU2 10. Jeremy — Pearl Jam From the album Ten — do you think Apple did that on purpose? For a handful of years in the mid-1990s, the good people at Colby College in Waterville, Maine thought it fit…

Lumped in with the rest of alternative rock, it’s maybe the least “alternative” album of its era. — If you had introduced me to Ten instead of Nevermind, I’m not sure I would have jumped into 90s alternative as fervently as I did. That’s not to say I don’t like Ten, or the music of Pearl Jam, music I’ve heard my entire life. I just always had a…

It’s just the worst. You’re driving in a car with your friend when an awesome song comes on the radio. You both begin to belt out the tune. But slowly you begin to realize, you’re each singing very different lyrics. What now? This happened to me in a very exaggerated…

Pillar of grunge or regular rock? — Ten — Pearl Jam Epic Records, charted at Number 13 on March 1, 1992 “Dude; I’m old, I know this, a fact: if you mentioned grunge to Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, they got physically violent with you. They were just a rock band!” — Dee Snider talking to Ultimate Guitar magazine in 2020 Ten…