Bush on the song “Bu $ hleaguer”. Pearl Jam also gets a new addition in the form of the formidable “Boom” Gaspar on keyboard, he adds a new depth to the soundscape, not least with his sublime contribution to the song where Eddie Vedder says goodbye to the 9 young people who died in Roskilde in the sublime «Love Boat Captain». The album received mixed reviews, selling far from the numbers of its predecessor “Binaural” and the tour that followed was at times extremely politically anti Bush. It’s not a very smooth record, and the voice of Eddie Vedder seems more serious. I also miss the feel that had been so present on Pearl Jam’s previous album. “Riot Act” was Pearl Jam’s seventh album, and perhaps one of the most difficult albums the band has ever released. The backdrop is no less heavy than 9/11 and the tragedy at Roskilde where nine fans of the band lost their lives during the band’s concert at Den Orange Scene. There is a lot of heavy and personal lyrics from Eddie Vedder, and politically he takes a stand against president George W. Here are some of the hardest things I’ve done in a while, namely a ranking of the albums of my absolute favorite band, Pearl Jam. There must have been something in the Washington State water in the late ’80s and early’ 90s. The amount of bands that popped up like magic mushrooms in the woods was second to none, the golden generation with Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney and Pearl Jam became part of the wave from Seattle that took the lives of pretentious swollen stadium rock bands that raged as old dinosaurs in the porcelain shops of Los Angeles. Throw in epic albums from Mad Season and Temple Of The Dog, and you will have the best of rock in the 90’s .įrom their debut with “Ten” in 1990, Pearl Jam has gone through childhood, adulthood, teenage anxiety and tragedy to end up as one of the most respected and hard-working “adult” bands that exist in today’s rock landscape. The core of the band has always been the same, Vedder / McCready / Gossard / Ament and a small group of different drummers (4 in total) before Matt Fuckin` Cameron from Soundgarden became a permanent member in 1998.Įleven studio albums Pearl Jam have released since their debut in 1990, although all albums contain a grain of gold or more, there are also incomprehensible glitches. If you look at the band’s history, tragedies and upbringing in the context of releases, you can understand why not everything is of the same high quality. One should also mention around 85 million albums sold thus far. It is also worth mentioning that since 2000 Pearl Jam has released all the concerts they play on official bootleg discs and downloads sold via the online store, so here we are also talking about a treasure chest, and since Pearl Jam is known for changing extremely much on their setlists, each bootleg is something for itself. It is rumored that over 15 million bootlegs have been sold.
Pearl Jam – seventh grunge father in the houseĪrticle published in Norway Rock Magazine Ī grunge child was born in Seattle in 1990.