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Pearl Jam - Ten results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
TheArkOfTurus (12)
FoolFantastic (16)
neonreaper (16)
Snake5555555555 (16)
BlueCrystalTear (18)
ZeroSignal (18)
ChichiriMuyo (20)
HBJDubs (20)
RyoCaliente (22)
Xtlm (22)
Johnbobb (24)
Seanchan (26)
firefdr (30)
MaxGalactica (30)
Raetsel_Lapin (40)

General Album Comments

FoolFantastic: A phenomenal album from beginning to end. If I prefer the singles, it's more due to exposure than any fault in the rest of the tracks. I feel like a lot of the post-grunge bands took after Pearl Jam in particular. The fact most of those bands became punchlines shows that, even if Pearl Jam's music sounds relatively simple to imitate, it takes a ton of talent to pull it off with convincingly raw emotions. "Black" feels like the underappreciated gem of the grunge era; it's rare for a song to be this vulnerable while also going this hard.

neonreaper: Killer album. Wish I had the ability to type out more on it. No weak tracks!

ZeroSignal: An absolute classic from start to finish. Literally the hidden track is the only thing worth skipping and even that has some good vibe to it.

Johnbobb: Soundgarden is my favorite of the big grunge bands but Ten is probably the best individual album. Just absolute iconic tracks back to back to back.

MaxGalactica: What a great album. Pretty much banger after banger all the way through. Great guitar solos throughout, and Eddie Vedder has a fantastic voice. Black was pretty close to taking the top spot for me, but I like Even Flow too much. Awesome pick this week.

Seanchan: A shockingly good album, outside of the hidden track, which is completely forgettable. I suppose I should clarify and say the "shocking" is for myself, as I have never been big on Pearl Jam's radio hits. I'd listen to them but they were never anything that made me want to see out their albums. Ten is a solid album top to bottom, and even if I'm not super high on any particular song, there's no real weak songs either. Obviously you've got an iconic vocalist but there's enough great instrumentation to keep someone like myself engaged the whole way through.

TheArkOfTurus: This was my favorite album for years as a kid. My tastes have changed, but it's still a good listen.

HBJDubs: I've been sitting on this with a blank top 2 for awhile since I couldn't decide which of Black or Jeremy I like more. They're two of the greatest grunge tracks ever. I never got into Pearl Jam as a whole, but this album is stacked with bangers with the aforementioned two tracks being on a whole other level.

BlueCrystalTear: This is a pretty hard album to rank, honestly. Because every one of these is a banger, most of them in pretty equal ways. I honestly see three "tiers" here with only slight differences between them... well four if you count the weird hidden track, but the other 11 are that close. If you asked me to do this again in two weeks, there'd definitely be a lot of moving around.

ChichiriMuyo: It's nice to do an album I already own. Although I haven't listened to it in a very long time, possibly because the singles are still in fairly heavy rotation on my local rock stations, it still hits. It's also crazy to be reminded just how much this album influenced rock going forward - perhaps even more so than any of the other big four grunge bands at their heights. A real nice hit of nostalgia.

Xtlm: This is near impossible for me to rank. It's one of my favorite albums from one of my favorite bands. All of the songs on here are great.

These days though if I want to listen to this album, I usually just turn to a live concert, or if I need a pick me up, specifically a 1992 live concert (like Pink Pop for example). I would rate this whole ranking differently if we were going on live performances, as I think they play better live then in the studio. While the studio album has this cool mellow rocking out vibe to it that's very unique. Their live stuff was just pure unbridled energy while somehow playing and sounding better then in the studio. Heck, the current version of the band still is lol