Pearl Jam - Ten

Label: Epic
Year: 1991
Genre: Grunge
Recommended by: Kirsten Turnqvist

This is an album in which I am very familiar. Early in my life my sister was collecting all of the Pearl Jam albums.

Now I've enjoyed Pearl Jam, but have never understood the cult-like mainstream status they have achieved. They are a more commercially successful Bruce Springsteen. They have their own satellite radio station! I mean "Even Flow" is pretty great. They continued to have more success, but I don't sense greatness out of any of their single albums. They are the Eddie Murray of the music industry. He played baseball for 21 years, was always good until the very end, and hit all the benchmarks for the Hall of Fame. There was never a single season you would say was amazing. Craig Biggio was the other baseball player I was going to use. Either way Ten is very enjoyable, it's familiar, and it's an EVEEEEEEENNNNNNN FLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.