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TEN, Pearl Jam's debut album, was released less than a month before
Nirvana's NEVERMIND, and although it took longer to climb the pop
charts it also hung around longer, eventually outselling its
Seattle rival. Together, the two albums reinvigorated rock and
roll, whose share of the pop marketplace had been slipping through
the late 1980s. But while Nirvana's bruising punk rock was an
all-out assault on the classic-rock dinosaur, Pearl Jam's
accomplished hard rock was an attack from within the system. The
drawn-out, bluesy guitar riffing and anthemic choruses that
dominated TEN instantly gave away roots in the same popular hard
rock and heavy metal that Nirvana was intent on crushing. Indeed,
before forming Pearl Jam, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff
Ament (who between them wrote most of the music on TEN) were the
core of two '70s-influenced metal bands, Green River and Mother
Love Bone. But in place of the self-aggrandising, larger-than-life
singers that led most such bands, Gossard and Ament found Eddie
Vedder, a ravage-voiced vocalist more apt to identify with the
abused and misunderstood children he was singing about than with
any other rock stars. When he exploded into one of TEN's many
memorable choruses, Vedder offered transcendence for the people who
needed it most. The storyline of the album's breakthrough single,
"Jeremy", was typically vague and elusive (despite a highly
suggestive video), but the message was not. The meek and the
misunderstood, Pearl Jam seemed to be saying, would rise and
inherit the world, even if it was only a world of their own
invention.
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