Ten
| Pearl Jam
Ten
Ten is the debut studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991, through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard's previous group Mother Love Bone, the two recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder, guitarist Mike McCready, and drummer Dave Krusen to form Pearl Jam in 1990. Most of the songs began as instrumental jams, to which Vedder added lyrics about topics such as depression, homelessness, and abuse. -Wikipedia
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All Music
Ten also benefited from a long gestation period, during which the band honed the material into this tightly focused form; the result is a flawlessly crafted hard rock masterpiece.
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Pitchfork
Pearl Jam may have shunned the spotlight, but they were born showmen.
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Sputnik Music
Pearl Jam’s career was forever littered with ongoing identity crisis’ and the question forever remaining, “But is it as good as Ten?”.
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Classic Rock Review
For us at Classic Rock Review there is no contest as Ten is deeper, better sounding, with better songs and much less filler material. That is why it is our Album of the Year for 1991.
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Vintage Rock
For Pearl Jam fans, these recordings provide a unique insight into one of the greatest, most influential rock bands of the last two decades.
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City Beat
For a Pearl Jam fan, this new release of a classic is perfect. Ten has those character-defining anthems that can reach down and pull the angst-ridden teenager out of the depths and into your passenger seat.
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Gamerscene Wordpress
All in all, Ten can arguably be called the greatest debut album of all time, and it is no doubt the best album of 1991. If you have never listened to a grunge band before, this is the place to start.
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BBC
Ten offered up a selection of some of the band's best tunes – Alive, Even Flow, Once and Jeremy all feature on here – all far more indebted to classic rock structures than aping the Pixies.
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Drowned in Sound
It's a ponderous avalanche of big emotions and big guitars that probably includes the least grunge moment ever.
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Antimusic
Ten is a startling testament of survival and I'm glad I still turn to it for the continual ride we call life.
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Bloody Disgusting
Even though it came out at the beginning of the decade, Pearl Jam’s Ten became a defining album of the 90’s. To this day, it holds up as a timeless classic of the alt-rock/grunge era.
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Punk Rock Theory
“Ten”, one of the albums that sparked this writer’s interest in music and one left that left a profound impression.
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The Music Box
There is no doubt that Ten is a flawed endeavor. Nevertheless, it suitably fulfills the same duties as most debuts. Pearl Jam clearly wanted to showcase the breadth of its abilities without giving away all of the tricks in its book.
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AV Club
Ten is really, really solid—there isn't a weak song on here, although the aptly titled coda "Release" isn't exactly memorable, or at least isn't within listening to it the first few times this week.
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Treble
this album remains utterly timeless, a benchmark in rock history.
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Exclaim
Despite the emotional headlock it maintains, the album doesn't transcend the early '90s; it sounds dated, belonging to another time and place.
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Metal Reviews
Pearl Jam are no exception; a very important band to the Rock world that still hasn’t received the rewards it deserves. Ten is their first classic.
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