Post by Cupcake Avenger on Jul 12, 2005 16:39:03 GMT -5
Ten might not have been as good as its successor, Versus, and not been as experimental and original as 1994's Vitalogy, but one thing that Ten offered more than any of Pearl Jam's other efforts is the ability to completely and totally rock out to it. If you want to get energized, 8 out of the 11 tracks are hard rock pieces of material, the other three ("Black", "Release", "Oceans") are milder but, excluding "Oceans", are probably better than most of the rockers.
Personal tragedies such as "Alive" and "Black" coincide with sociological commentary like "Jeremy" and "Why Go". Ten isn't all that musically diverse, but it makes up for that in lyrical variety. The only weak spot on the album is "Oceans", and that only takes two and a half minutes out of the rest of this excellent piece of alternative music.
The two best tracks on Pearl Jam's debut are "Black" and "Release". The former being a harrowing ballad about suffering and relationships, and the latter being a gradually-building tension-fest of emotions sung excellently by a very deep-voiced Eddie Vedder.
I couldn't quite give Ten a five out of five just because Oceans really isn't very good at all, and there are a few spots in certain songs that just don't amount to what they could have been, but overall Pearl Jam delivered an excellent 90s rock symphony.
Personal tragedies such as "Alive" and "Black" coincide with sociological commentary like "Jeremy" and "Why Go". Ten isn't all that musically diverse, but it makes up for that in lyrical variety. The only weak spot on the album is "Oceans", and that only takes two and a half minutes out of the rest of this excellent piece of alternative music.
The two best tracks on Pearl Jam's debut are "Black" and "Release". The former being a harrowing ballad about suffering and relationships, and the latter being a gradually-building tension-fest of emotions sung excellently by a very deep-voiced Eddie Vedder.
I couldn't quite give Ten a five out of five just because Oceans really isn't very good at all, and there are a few spots in certain songs that just don't amount to what they could have been, but overall Pearl Jam delivered an excellent 90s rock symphony.
