My Original Top 50 Pearl Jam Songs from 2009 12 years ago, I definitely did not have the same knowledge for this fandom that I do now, but it didn’t keep me from coming up with a list to express my thoughts. Which is why you may have seen multiple posts attempting to construct setlists for the most recent shows. Usually when I prepare for a big event, such as a concert of this magnitude, I tend to make lists in order to help feed into the hype my brain has energized me with. After witnessing them a year prior at MSG, the anticipation I had for seeing them again was at an all-time high. But it needs to begin somewhere.īack in 2009, I was preparing to see Pearl Jam for the second time, taking the trip out to Chicago to see them. Everyone’s opinion changes over time, especially as we grow and mature, that’s when music can make its most profound impact. It helps remind you of where your thoughts are coming from during a certain period in your life, and in most cases, it unintentionally tends to embarrass you in the years down the road. and an estimated 60 million worldwide.Everyone loves to make a list. With 10 studio albums and various live recordings (including “Official Bootlegs” of basically every concert the band performed since 2000), Pearl Jam has sold nearly 32 million records in the U.S. In the meantime, various drummers passed through the band, with percussion only settling once Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron joined them in the tour for 1998’s Yield. Growing uncomfortable with success, the following albums went for a more anguished and experimental sound, and the band’s notorious activism had its most prominent case once they boycotted Ticketmaster, accusing them of price-gouging fans.

Along with drummer Dave Krusen, they signed with Epic Records and released Ten in 1991, which by the following year was becoming one of the most successful debut albums ever. Once the tape passed along, it attracted a San Diego-based singer, Eddie Vedder. The group started with Stone Gossard (guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass), veterans of the proto-grunge scene, recording a demo along with local guitarist Mike McCready. Founded in 1990 in Seattle, Pearl Jam is one of the most successful bands out of the grunge movement, if not of the whole alternative rock scene from the early 90s.

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