PEARL JAM (ABO #276)

PEARL JAM
IT'S EVOLUTION, BABY!

Back in a time when spandex was king appeared a tribe of shaggy rockers that cared more about their music than their look. And those crazy chaps didn't even pretend to be the future of rock'n'roll or write songs about cars, booze and their amazing sexual prowesses. In an age when MTV was the defining element weither a band would be successful or not, they just wrote songs that meant something to them in the crazy hope that it might mean something to others.
Amazingly, when everything pointed at failure and homeless life, it worked and became the new criteria to the 90s American rock scene. Many of those lads, which came from a place where the sun seldom shone, disappeared in the next few years not without leaving their mark in many teenagers minds. Long gone now are the Nirvanas and Soundgardens but Pearl Jam, the most stubborn of them all, are still here today and still playing their heavy rock thingy. They even established themselves as one of the biggest selling act in the U.S.A. and around the world.
Since they have released yet another album, the happy Backspacer, it was time for the anthropologists of Baistophe to take a closer look at this peculiar tribe.

My PEARL JAM Top 3
1 - Yield (1998)
2 - No Code (1996)
3 - Ten (1991)

My PEARL JAM Bottom 3
1 - Riot Act (2002)
2 - Binaural (2000)
3 - Vs (1993)

RIYL:
Soundgarden, Neil Young, Stone Temple Pilots