Pearl Jam

This Pearl Jam comp hits hard with 33 songs that span all the phases they went through, starting with the big shorts and flannel grunge of Eddie Vedder's vowel-elongating inflections, to the band's Crazy Horse-inspired crunch, as well as their more mature and socially conscious 'Jam, who continue to fight the liberal fight.

"I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room," Eddie Vedder proclaimed in 1993. The room
filled up fast, but a funny thing happened on the way to world domination: Instead of railing
against the demons in his head, Vedder took on Ticketmaster and MTV, and Pearl Jam
turned out increasingly graceful tunes that explored the warmth in Vedder's handsome
baritone. Pearl Jam have spent much of this decade courting devotees with a se... More >