Do the Evolution
Pearl Jam, a band I remember from a long time ago, yet feel like I don’t know at all. It was the album Ten that got me started, after seeing the video for Jeremy on VH1 almost the first day I got satellite television (18 years ago). It was evocative, powerful, and balanced yet angry. A mix that music rarely achieves.
The rest of the Ten album is masterful too, an almost perfect debut pitched against a 90’s teenage youth full of angst with the world. They met it head on, and clashed beautifully with its raw power and force. Ultimately it would propel Pearl Jam into the limelight, hitting the top 20 in six countries. If you had an older brother in the nineties, this is what he listened to.
It would be easy for me to select a song from Ten, they are all wonderful. But you should buy it, play it endlessly, and wonder how you lived without it.
I’m choosing Do the Evolution, track 9 from the 5th Jam album Yield.
Enjoy
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Just wanted to say HI. I found your blog a few days ago on Technorati and have been reading it over the past few days.