RETROSPECTIVE
30 Years Of Pearl Jam’s Ten
Is the debut album from this iconic band still relevant three decades after its release?
I’m one of those people who will hear a song from the 90s, particularly from the early part of the decade, and still believe it’s only about 10 years old. The struggle is real.
On this date (August 27th) in 1991, Pearl Jam, a band born of the ashes from some of Seattle’s most important and influential bands, released their debut album Ten. Thirty years on, it’s become one of the most important American rock albums of all time. If you care about lists and things of that nature, Rolling Stone magazine agrees with this assessment.
Upon its release though, Ten failed to make the splash many in the music industry thought it would. That splash finally occurred once another Seattle band called Nirvana released their second album Nevermind and turned the entire planet on its ass for good.
How It All Started
The Seattle music bomb may have dropped in 1991, but the fuse was lit several years earlier in the mid-1980s. Bands such as Soundgarden, The U-Men, Skin Yard, Malfunkshun, Melvins, and Green River were already recording and releasing music that would pave the way for what would become known to…
