TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2694
Pearl Jam Album Rankings
1
I swear, Pearl Jam has to be one of the spottiest bands in the world.
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2
I've often written about the sophomore slump - that is, the second album of a band not living up to the high expectations people place on it, making it weaker than their debut.
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3
Nirvana'sNevermindmay have been the album that broke grunge and alternative rock into the mainstream, but there's no underestimating the role that Pearl Jam'sTenplayed in keeping them there.
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4
The announcement that Pearl Jam have a new single called ''World Wide Suicide'' is the sort of thing to inspire both hope and apprehension.
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5
I was fortunate enough to attend a Pearl Jam concert this year in support of their last albumYield, but I don't remember much of it. It wasn't that I was under the influence of some substance.
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6
Well...Pearl Jam finally got what it wanted, sort of.AfterTendominated the charts for about two years, the band was determined to bring things down to a smaller level.
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7
The band's most consistent, well-written effort yet.
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8
Pearl Jam has made some of the most vital music of its career.
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9
Jack Irons makes his Pearl Jam debut on the drumstools, replacing the previous incumbent. He sounds good to me, but then, so does the entire album.
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10
When I was growing up, Pearl Jamâs greatness was always just assumed.
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11
The seven-disc Live at the Gorge 05/06 box set documents a trio of shows Pearl Jam performed at The Gorge Amphitheatre (repeatedly voted the best major outdoor concert venue in North America by the re
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12
Vs (1.8131)Pearl Jam return with a slightly rawer sound than before, immediately apparent as soon as 'Go', well, goes! Crunching drums, fast, furious vocals and guitars - Eddie screams and this is pretty thrilli
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13
The last pup onLost Dogs-- two CDs of non-LP flotsam from Pearl Jam's first eleven years -- is an unlisted song for a lost soul: Layne Staley of Alice in Chains.
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14
When Nirvana went unplugged, it was haunting and beautiful. When Eric Clapton went unplugged, it was earthy and natural. When Pearl Jam went unplugged, it was just boring.
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26
After Pearl Jam stumped the music world by choosing the left-field raga rocker "Who You Are" as the first single from 1996's No Code, the Seattle rockers returned to the familiarity of past anthems w
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31
If anything was indicative of Pearl Jam's free-wheeling, spiritually tinged 1998 album Yield, it was frontman Eddie Vedder's willingness to make his earnest, Springsteen-inspired confessional "Wishli
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