Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and drummer Matt Cameron, who has been with the band since 1998. still sounds as fierce and visceral today.Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. An upraised middle finger of a record, Vs. On the surface this stance didn’t immediately impact upon the band’s popularity - the week after Time magazine’s ‘grunge’ special was published, Vs., entered the Billboard chart at number 1, selling some 950, 378 copies in its first five days on sale, a sales record that would not be topped for five years – but in wilfully taking a stand against the commercial forces of MTV, the mass media and, indeed, their own record label’s marketing plans, Pearl Jam would ultimately save their souls and ensure their continued relevance as a band.
“ I won’t change direction, and I won’t change my mind.” In this respect, the group’s refusal to make a single video for the album was entirely consistent. “ I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind,” Vedder sang on the closing track Indifference. Lest anyone was still in any doubt, the title of the album too was a challenge, a declaration of independence and intent from a group hell-bent on self-determination, stubbornly refusing to buy into the game. That same notion was made even more explicit on Leash, with Vedder singing “ We will find a way, we will find our place” then screaming “ Get outta my fuckin’ face.” is a scathing dissection of institutionalised racism and police brutality, while the more tender and melodic Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town was a meditation upon feelings of entrapment and suffocation, which could be read as a metaphor for the band’s own sense of powerlessness as the machine around them grew. The seething Daughter deals with child abuse, Glorified G attacks macho gun culture, W.M.A. On Animal Vedder established the idea of the quintet as a unit (“ five against one”) and expressed his growing revulsion with disingenuous media attempts to co-opt his band’s aesthetic and ideas (“ I’d rather be with an animal.”) There’s little let-up on this initial explosion of anger. From the opening riff of Go, the album has a ferocity and bite which leaves the more stately Ten in the dust, sounding like the work of a hardcore punk band rather than a classic rock outfit. Working with producer Brendan O’Brien for the first time, the quintet determined to capture this new-found aggression on the record. The sound was rawer, looser and more in-your-face, exactly what band leader Gossard - who considered Ten “over-thought, over-played and over-rocked” - wanted. Eighteen months on the road had solidified a unit which had only been in existence for six months when they recorded Ten, and the new songs largely developed from rehearsal room jams. Pre-production for the band’s second album began in February 1993 in Seattle, switching to California the following month. Chris Cornell, Jeff Ament consider new Temple Of The Dog music.How Nirvana Changed The Face Of Rock Music Forever.Why I love Pearl Jam, by Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul.Everybody was insecure and tense, it was such an odd time.” For me personally the stress came from us being huge but feeling like you were kinda crap. “When our record started to sell too, it was weird, and really stressful. “From the first notes of the Nirvana record you just knew that it was absolutely going to change…something,” noted guitarist Stone Gossard. Quite simply, this was never meant to happen. Like Nirvana’s In Utero, released five weeks previously, the album was a reaction to success, for like their peers in the Seattle rock underground, the members of Pearl Jam were knocked sideways by the phenomenal speed at which grunge spread across the globe. sounds so confrontational, so pissed-off and agitated.
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