Ten

once received two box seat tickets to pearl jam misdelivered to my home, and let's just say that a hypothetical past version of me and my roommate used to have a hypothetical habit of opening any and all misdelivered mail. As you can probably imagine that hypothetical habit would get someone into some hot water when they realize they have something a little more valuable than junk mail. Anyway. Music touches our lives

Just banger after banger 4.5/5

You know what hell yeah. It’s a 4.5 for me but I’ll increase it to a 5 🙂‍↕️

🤘🔥🔥🤘I do feel alive with this one!!!! I feel the deeper cuts hold up against the hits and they know how to keep the record interesting. The subject matter is very dark and fitting for this album. I mean Jeremy…..what else can I say. I mean so spot on with what goes on in the minds of people who cause harm to others or themselves. This is definitely subject matter that shall be talked about and deserves a voice, very powerful stuff! The energy, the emotions, the guitars, Eddie Vedder pouring his heart out, it’s just such a great and passionate record that not only captivates me but also feel well I just feel so alive when I’m listening to it and easily in my top 25 albums of all time! And one of my favourite grunge records. And yes I had the pleasure of already listening to this but I had the pleasure of listening to it again❤️🔥also release, Garden and especially Black are all quality therapy by the way! Honestly the entire record is a therapy session to me and probably many others. Definitely a worthy canid for 1001 albums to listen to at some point in your life, I feel lots of people can feel heard on this record. But also the guitars and the hits alone are rockin🤘🔥😎😀

Epic

I don't think I can express how much I like this album and how much I get out of this album in any eloquent manner. Easily in my personal top ten. 6/5 stars.

real torn between a four and five on this but I think I’ll round up because it’s a debut album

I knew this was a five star album before going back to listen for the thousandth time, but after doing my due diligence, I wish I could rate it higher. "Ten" is definitely in my top 10 and probably belongs in top 3 albums of all time. There are no weak songs (maybe "Oceans" is the least good) and the album really takes you on an enjoyable journey from beginning to end. Strand me on an Island with this album alone and I will die happy.

Gear: ZMF Bokeh Closed Artwork: 🤜👐🤛 Production (Redux): 💪🎚️🔥 Music: 🚀🙌🏁 Rating: 🔟🔟🔟🔟🔟/5

So many classic songs on here

Core memory album.

Dad rock at its fineset

An 90s classic that I'm very familiar with already. So many great songs on here. 5/5.

Hab die CD schon ewig. Die live Version von Alive ist eines meiner Lieblingslieder. Black, Even Flow und Jeremy sind auch super. Der Sound meiner Jugend.

It seems there are few earthly urges as powerful and irresistible as imitating Eddie Vedder. From the moment this band was generated, I wondered not if a hater would make the impression, but how they would do it. It really didn't take long to find out. Touché.

Eddie Vedder must answer for his crime of inspiring endless post-grunge bands, but I understand wanting to sound like him because this album is a banger.

The worst song on this album is only good. The first 8 songs on this album are some of the best songs of the 90s. It's like a best of compilation.

this album is STUPID GOOD. The anger, the passion and the sinergy es awesome. I love the tension of the songs.

one of my fav albums from the time

Incredible sound

One of the best debut albums of all time. Great writing and delivery with just the right amount of grunge. One of the best albums of the 90’s without a shadow of a doubt.

Amazing!

what is left to say about this album, its perfect

9/10 bc maybe it seems kinda repetitive, but anyways, another album without songs to skip. Solid Honorific mention: Once, oceans, porch

Take any song away from this record and it's still 5/5. What an album!

Pretty fire

i OF COURSE already listened to this amazing album and i got to say, it’s one of a kind. Every song hits on this album alright, EVEN THE ALBUM COVER. Coolest Album Cover ever in my opinion. This is one of the greatest debut albums ever. For this to be their first album baffles me. Eddie Vedder says stuff in English and i don’t believe it’s english at all. I don’t know what he’s saying half of the time but it just hits you in the gut. The lyrics are amazigly written. And i just want to talk about how after Once, Even flow just hits you in the face. the songs famous for a reason i mean it’s actually good, shoutout steven flowe. they are timeless. it’s also emotional, amazing song Black. So good. it’s so raw it just makes me upset everytime this song comes on. eddie just spilled out his personal stuff onto this song and made it an amazing ballad. may be the best song on the album IN NY OPINION. And the story of jeremy is upsetting and shocking, i didn’t know it was even about that but i can appreciate the song. this album has epic songs but some songs are just so emotionally charged with its lyrics and i love it. this album is a great debut and is obviously a 10/10

I've always listened to Even Flow because the energy on that song is ferocious, but as a high schooler, I don't know why I wrote the rest of the album off as too "country" sounding to me or something, I think because it heads right into Alive, which is honestly probably my least favorite track on the record. Awesome ending on that song, but the visceral pace on Once and Why Go keep me way more locked in. Black may also be calmer song, but it certainly makes up for it with an encompassing, heavy atmosphere. This song sounds like rainclouds quickly approaching and it's sick. Jeremy can get just as tense for different reasons, and I think the vivid lyrics in it make it my favorite on the album. It's so hard hitting, like the whole damn record.

The first half of the album is just pure fire. But then not so much. Nevertheless, I will give 5. Eddie's voice is phenomenal

Great!

Jaaa

Great Album

In my top 10 albums of all time

The hits off this album are legendary. I grew up in the 00's hearing Jeremy and Even Flow on the rock radio stations. The appeal of these songs haven't dimmed with time as some of the other grunge hits have.

Yeah classic grunge. A lot of nostalgia for this one.

Una pietra miliare del grunge. Capolavoro

Amazing.

Lots of songs I've loved on here for years but I've never listened to the whole album? So good and so good to remind myself of PJ!

one of my all time favorites

Blindspot artist. Alt/Grunge consensus. Melodic. Strong vocals. Powerful themes and lyrics. "Jeremy", "Garden". Unexpected.

I never fully dove into the Pearl Jam discography aside from the odd track here or there, but this is a top 10 album of mine. Did not first discover the album until high school (2008) but really dove deep in undergrad and the songs always bring me right back to campus. The first half is incredible. Only critic is it falls off slightly in the back half. Eddies vocals are among the best I’ve heard. Black might be my favorite song of all time. Certainly a contender.

Best band of the 90s, prob still only my second or third favourite of theirs after Vs and maybe Vitalogy Bangers all the way through

One of the most famous grunge albums. 10/10

This is one of my favourite albums. It both saved my life and changed it forever. I will always be deeply in love with it, and grateful for everything it did for me. I have never grown bored of this, every track is beautiful. The three track combo of Why Go, Black and Jeremy are the highpoint of any album, any music, anywhere. Black brings me to tears on every listen, still. I could write a book on my love for Ten, it's part of me.

Classic album from my childhood. I remember loving it. I don’t think I will listen to it often on purpose but it’s fun nostalgia.

Loveeeee, myliu myliu myliu

nothing to say. perfect grunge

This is one of those albums that I listen to every now and then and enjoy it every since time. It's an absolutely legendary grunge album from a legendary grunge band.

Incredible album that feels like a toned down instrumental version of TOOL, but his voice reminds me of Dave Matthews Band.

Honestly, the memes about Eddie Vedder are funny, but grunge is such an underrated genre of music and this album for sure is the foundation for everything that sounds like it. So many singles on this album I forgot about.

A proper rock album

Straight up great album.

Another old friend

Alright so this is MY review. Pearl Jam Ten is one of the most influential albums of my life. From the first needle drop until the end, it takes me to another time. This album came out when I was 16. And at 16, I didn't know what the hell i was doing. I was awkward. I was loud. I was passionate. When I would listen to Ten, maybe I couldn't make out what was being said, but I could feel every last sound that was coming out of my speaker. I could feel the frustration in his voice. I could feel the alienation. I felt like that album is saying exactly what I want to, even if people couldn't understand it. Music is about how it makes you feel and the ability to take you back to another time. This album does both of these things as well as any other. Top 10 all time album for me. I would give it 6 stars if possible.

Once - 5/5 Even Flow - 4/5 Alive - 4.5/5 Why Go - 4.5/5 Black - 4/5 Jeremy - 4/5 Oceans - 3.5/5 Porch - 4/5 Garden - 4.5/5 Deep - 4/5 Release - 3/5

All-time great album, and it's not even their best album. 35 years later, it's still just as impactful and dynamic as it was then. Stone cold 9.5.

One of the easiest 5s ever

Love this Album! One of their best

Album 1040 of 1089 Ten - Pearl Jam (1991) Rating : 5 / 5 This one is packed with songs I remember clearly from early-90s radio, but somehow I’d never sat down and listened to the album straight through. Doing that now really drives home just how strong this debut is. For a first album, it’s remarkably confident - no fumbling, no searching for identity, just a band that already knows exactly who they are. From the opening moments, it feels fully formed. The songwriting is solid across the board, Eddie Vedder’s vocals arrive with a presence that sounds anything but “new,” and the band’s chemistry is locked in. The production supports the songs without polishing away their edge, which helps the album feel both powerful and grounded. What stands out most is how complete it feels as a debut. This isn’t just a collection of radio tracks that happened to hit - it works as a full album, front to back, and represents its era incredibly well. It’s rare to hear a band come out of the gate sounding this assured. A really excellent listen, and one I’m glad I finally gave the attention it deserves.

*Andy Dwyer making Eddie Vedder mouth noises* So good! I didn't listen to these guys as much growing up but I listened to tons of bands who were inspired by them. Love the heaviness, his gravelly voice, such great stuff!

Pearl Jam-The One amazing from start to finish and embedded with social conscience. Stand out band.

One of my fav albums OAT !!! I’m so happy to have a fav album on here finally !! Eddie Vedder is SO talented. Fav song is ‘Release’.

10/10 excellent

The first CD that I owned, a defining album for a time in my life, one hell of a debut album, and I think it holds up. A classic from my youth.

I'm so happy this is my 100th album! I've never given Pearl Jam the respect they deserve. this album was A+ all the way through.

It doesnt get much better than this for 90s grunge

I already loved this album. A 90s grunge staple. I grew up with a lot of these songs on the radio, so it's nostalgic. Black and Jeremy will always be my favourite songs I think.

I love Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam feels like my generation's Springsteen. They have an absolutely monstrous catalog, so big that they can constantly play different setlists like it's nothing. Their first three albums are all incredible, each imperfect in its own way. Each feels like exactly a 4.5 to me, to be honest. It's been ages since I say down and listened to Ten front-to-back. This is an album that starts off with SIX absolute bangers, and don't sleep on "Porch," which is a top-5 PJ song for me. The weak spots ("Oceans" "Garden" "Deep") slow but don't kill the effect. "Release" is a fine enough note to end on, but if I'm being honest, I prefer when they rock out to hearing Eddie croon. We have a stuffed Chicago Cubs bear that my parents got my daughter when she was born (PJ, the non-official official band of the Cubs). We do these grunting bear-sound vocalizations to play with it. Only recently did I realize it sort of sounds like Vedder if you made the crooning a little more incomprehensible. So maybe that endears even the croon-y songs to me more than I would've been otherwise. One has to wonder if they were still Mookie Blaylock they would've gotten this big. Probably, but who knows?

Did not realize this one album had ALL those hits on it, AMAZING!

A perfect 10

Fucking fantastic, incredible listen from start to finish. I haven’t listened to a lot of Pearl Jam but I have listened to this album and I love it. Eddie Vedder’s voice is so unique and I love it! The opening three tracks are an incredible start and it just keeps going!

9/10

It’s a 5, classic

Classic

Man, 1991 was an insanely good year for rock music. This is great example of that.

perfection

Easiest 5/5

There are so many things that make this album great for me. Eddie Vedder is, to me, a lyrical genius and supported by incredibly creative musicians

9.5/10

Oh wow. This was one of most listened to albums when I was a sophomore in high school. It still taps in to those feelings of rebellion that have always underpinned my personality. A perfect combo of smooth and crunchy.

This is my second time attempting this website, and the first time I did it this was the first album I got. Going into it, I already knew the big hits (Even Flow, Alive and Once in particular) so I had an idea of what to expect, but it ended up completely blowing my mind. In the two or three years since then, Pearl Jam have become one of my absolute favourite bands, so this is going to be a different type of review to all the rest so far, and it'll be much longer too. • Once is an awesome opening track. The beginning instrumental (which is reprised at the end of the album) sets a great mood before the guitar comes in and blows that all away. Eddie's vocals are some of the most powerful on the album, never dropping to a softer tone for the entire song • There's no much to say about Even Flow that hasn't been said. As much as I prefer other Pearl Jam songs, this is their most popular for a reason. I actually like the single version more for a few reasons, but the album version absolutely has its merits, the production and backing vocals during the chorus chief among them. • Alive is iconic, and the story of how the song's meaning was recontextualised for Eddie after seeing how people sang it at concerts is really nice. Taking a song about grief and lament and making it into an inspirational anthem is very special. • Alive is also where Jeff Ament's bass playing really starts to shine for me, his huge slides up and down the neck are so characteristic of the album, and I can't think of many popular rock albums that use a fretless so prominently like Ten does. It's also a big part of the first two songs, but it really starts to stand out here • Parts of Alive's solo are almost 1 to 1 with Ace Frehley's solo in She, from Kiss' Dressed to Kill. • Why Go is the first of the less popular songs on the album, sandwiched between two of the band's biggest hits, but it does not get lost in the mix. Ever since I first heard this album, this has been one of my favourites from it. It's so energetic from start to finish, with some great instrumental sections. The way it seamlessly transitions to Black never fails to capture all of my attention too. • Black is another extremely special song. I recently had the realisation that the lead guitar lines during the first verse are very reminiscient of Yellow Ledbetter. The way the song slowly builds, until finally reaching its emotional climax at the bridge always gives me goosebumps. The piano getting louder, Eddie pouring his heart out and Mike McCready's lead guitar doubling his melody before breaking off as Eddie screams "Why". No matter how many times I hear this song, I always get wrapped right up in its emotions • Jeremy is another deeply sad song, but in a very different direction. While Black reflects its emotions in its music, Jeremy's is squarely in its subject matter. The instrumental is always upbeat, with an awesome 12-string bass line that creates a really unique sound. But just like Black, the song reaches a hugely emotional climax after its second chorus. From that point on, the only words are the backing vocal's "Spoke in", while Eddie makes vocalisations. There may be nothing more cathartic to sing along than the part that starts at 3:58, and it doesn't contain a single word. • Oceans is also a good song, but it's my least favourite on the album. It's the shortest song on the album, and arguably the simplest. The first six songs of the album are a near-perfect stretch of music, and the final four are all really strong too, so Oceans doesn't get much room to make a name for itself. • Porch is an immediate return to what made the first half of the album so good. It's deceptively simple in its writing, but has everything that made this era of Pearl Jam amazing. The guitars are both firing on all cylinders, Eddie's vocals are energetic, the drums are powerful, and it's even better live. • Garden is another song not quite on the same level as the album's first half, but I do like it quite a lot. It's a very different vibe to the rest of the album's tracks • Deep is great, with some really deep subject matter, especially in its final verse. This song is absolutely carried by its blistering guitar lines • Release closes the album on a much slower note. This song has always reminded me a bit of Elderly Woman from Vs. This is a really incredible album, and it's not even my favourite by Pearl Jam. This era of the band feels like a treasure trove of fantastic music. After finishing the album, I played all of the non-album tracks from around this time, equalling a whole second album's worth of music. That songs like Yellow Ledbetter, Brother and Hold On were passed over for the album shows how strong the 11 songs they chose are. Not to mention songs like State of Love and Trust (my favourite from the band) and Breath that were written shortly after Ten. There are very few bands that had so many great songs so early in their career. Ten, and Pearl Jam as a whole, have a place in popular music history for a reason, and absolutely earned their place on the list. My only complaint would be that they didn't get a second album when Vs is right there. Favourite song: Black

5 against 1

Greatest album in the history of music.

Peakest album I hope you all rated it five stars too 😎

i rarely ever like albums this much after the first listen but oh my god this absolutely blew me away. the guitar and drums are so crisp and the voice matches perfectly with the genre. i can see why this is something lots of people rave about and having never even dipped my toe into pearl jam before, i will 100% be listening to more of their discography!

Bueno es ten, joyita

I was actually kinda surprised I didn’t already own this album but all I seem to have is Rearviewmirror and Vs. They debuted with some great songs here overall.

Iconic grunge album, and an absolute must-listen. The first side is banger after banger; the second is definitely weaker but still good.

A Gen X classic. Probably not my favorite Pearl Jam album but listening to this today reminded me of how good they were coming out from the very beginning. Yes, Stone and Jeff had Green River and Mother Love Bone to learn to write songs. They put it all together adding Mike McCready to the mix with Eddie on vocals. It all just worked. It sounded old and new at the same time. Just an amazing album. No skips on this album. I forgot how good it was until I listened today.

What a fucking great album. 90s Pearl Jam was the shit!

Great Album. A proper nostalgia bomb of tracks that independently are phenomenal and really have no business co-existing on a single album.

10/10 12.01.2026

killing yourself music! my favorite!

This reminds me of my parent's old-ass cat. I would always play the "Oh eyyyehai ohhhhOHH I'm still alive" part for her when I came home from college. I think she liked it. RIP Stella Blue <3

Easy review, it’s been in my rotation since 1991 and will stay there until the day I die

What a kick ass debut LP!! All killer no filler!!

I don’t really even need to listen to this album today because I listen to it so often. I have loved music in my entire life, but Pearl Jam Ten had one of the most profound effects of my life. This album captured the spirit of the 90s and grunge would not be what it was without it. You could tell that Eddie Vedder was connected to every song he wrote in a deeply emotional way as well.

admittedly, as an outsider to music with guitars (lols) this album has maybe the top 5 genre defying songs that are not Nevermind. and one of the most meme-able sounds in all of music. important question: did eddie invent mumble-rap?

Great album. Distinctly remember repeatedly listening to the cassette back in the early 90s and watching the Jeremy video on repeat at 9 years old, even though my mom denies that happening. I’d give it a 4.5 if I could so I’m rounding up.

FREEEEEEZIN, reeshisheadoh pilluh mada concrete, yeah. Exceptional album. Even if you can only make out half of Vedder's lyrics. Every song sounds like the band at their best, whether contemplating mental illness on Why Go, homelessness on Even Flow or heartbreak on Black. Behind Vedder are incredibly talented musicians. The album wouldn't sound the same without the rhythm section of Jeff Ament and Dave Krusen on Jeremy, Stone Gossard's slide guitar on Deep and Mike McCreedy's electrifying solo on alive (if you're not doing air guitar to that, you have no soul).

SÅ godttt, elsker eddie vedder

Own this album and have listened a handful of times. Starts kind of dark with “once”. Love the initial build up. Great guitar. Not the best in the album but it’s a good song. Even flow is so good. One of the goat rock songs. Guitar riff is so good, lyrics/flow so catchy. Insane guitar solo. Followed by alive which again is so good. What a chorus. How can you not love the message of this song too. Never heard why go before today, but it’s another banger. Surprised it doesn’t have more radio play. Fade into black was very cool. Such an underrated thing in a good cohesive album. Black is another classic. What a guitar. Simple but so good. And the songwriting is great too. Back half guitar is not at all simple and still so good. Piano is a great addition. Maybe a perfect song. Into Jeremy which is another all time classic. So much emotion. Again so many layers that work so good together. Oceans is kind of forgettable. Good not great song. Nothing special. Porch I like a lot more. I like the guitar solo in the middle a lot. Multiple levels of guitars going on. Garden is good not great. Catchy chorus, good guitar. The solos throughout the album are just so good. Deep is really good too. It’s more of the same but in the best way. The sounds they get out of these guitars is insane. Ending is so cool. And then the fade into release to close it out. Opening harmony with the guitar is a great sound. This song makes you feel something. Songwriting is so good. Another one that I can’t believe didn’t have more radio play. And then the switch up in the middle. Just a great way to close this album out. It’s not perfect but it’s damn close to it. Listen to this album asap if you have not already. 4.6 stars.

Perfect.

genuinely one of my favorite albums to come out of the grunge era! as someone else in the reviews here said "all killer, no filler"

Qui soc jo per a dir que este album de Pearl Jam no és el millor àlbum rock de la història. Mordaç i tal volta menyspreat, este àlbum és fill del seu temps ja que el rock ve adornat amb el grunge i el underground dels 90s. Tota la vibra d’una dècada plasmada en un sol disc.

i love pearl jam. basically had the whole album saved already <333

Obviously excellent

Before Listening: Heard of Pearl Jam, I’ve probably heard a song or two from this album, but we’ll see! I always think of it as Dad rock, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. After Listening: This album was better than I expected it to be! I loved the lyrics and Eddie Vedder’s voice was at times, transcendent. There wasn’t a song I didn’t like!

Great blend of grunge and classic rock makes for a fantastic album.

Na een jaar lang ups en downs in deze lijst mag ik op de laatste dag van 2026 dit album luisteren. Lekker. Terecht. Ome Eddy mag lekker grommen, de gitaren mogen af en toe een keer rondgrazen. Een paar hits en een paar meer dan prima iets onbekendere tracks. Wat een bizar debuutalbum. Het jaar eindigen met een dikke 5, wat lekker zeg.

- Потужний рок😝🤟 - різноманітно - мене ніби прокатили на усіх струнах електрогітари (в хорошому плані) - дуже подобається oceans - release класна, люблю longass songs - дуже хороша "завершальна нота" - мені подобається сама композиція пісень і їх продакшн

Fantastic album - one of my all-time favorites

BEST ALBUM EVER WRITTEN. LYRICALLY A MASTERPIECE

I should probably be a bigger Pearl Jam fan. Let's see how this record goes... Man, this is nuts, and it's their first album? Even Flow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy. . .jesus christ

Absolutely brilliant! I love this album.

(4.5) Iconic Favorite Tracks: Once, Even Flow, Alive, Black, Deep

Один з найбільш улюблених альбомів евер.

Otro disco fundamental en mi vida. No lo fue en su momento y hasta me desagradaban un poco. Pero varias décadas después me llegó por otro lugar y entonces se quedó a vivir conmigo. Es cierto que la mezcla original me resulta desagradable y la voz de Vedder está muy perdida con reverb. Recomiendo en su lugar la edición Redux, mucho mas cruda y precisa. En esta mezcla el disco es lo que siempre debió ser.

50% of 90s grunge classics came off this album. It could not possibly garner more praise.

Absolute classic - wall to wall. Incredible debut.

FUCKIMG LOVE THIS ALVUM AMAZING TEN IS A 10/10. Classic amazinc pearl jam love sm

Great album one if the first my brother and I bought on our own when it first came out. Vs may be the better album but this one rocks!

ولا غلطه

my favorite pearl jam album

There was a period of my childhood where I listened to this cd virtually every day on the school bus. Looking back a few decades later it maybe isn’t the perfect album I thought it was back then, but I’ll be damned if I’m not giving it a 5

Flawless album. 10 stars. My appreciation for it has grown with separation. The singles get overplayed on 90s rock stations and playlists. However, they’re awesome. Black may be the greatest Pearl Jam song.

First 5/5 , what an insanely good album!

Брутальный, драматичный, с длинными соло и очень американский по звуку. В колонках нравится больше чем в наушниках.

the best album ever recorded!

This is by far the best album I have come across in this project. Granted I’m only on album 75, I wish I could give this a 6. This is an album that made me rethink my scoring scale accuracy. I loved just about every song and knew each this would be a 5 very early on, but as it went on my opinion was continuously validated.

This album literally changed my life when it came out. Yeah, I had noticed that Nirvana was doing their thing and I dug it, but this one was everything that hard rock from the 70's had done. Just raw emotion, raw playing and great music. Today, I look back at Ten and realize it shaped a good part of my early adulthood and I've never been much of a fan of other albums after this one by Pearl Jam. It's just recently that I was told by a friend to check out some of their newish stuff. I still need to do it, but I fear I'll be disappointed that it doesn't hold up to this masterpiece. 5/5

One of the best Grunge albums I’ve listened to so far

Absolutely fantastic album. Very easy 5 stars. Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament are some of the icons of 90s alternative rock grunge (along with Pearl Jam, of course). This debut album from them has some stunning tracks like Black, Even Flow, and Jeremy.

Great debut album from what would become a great band of Seattle (via San Diego) musicians.

Great grunge album. I dont think any of there other albums manage to beat it.

Very enticing Afrobeat with interesting rhythm and time changes that kept me intrigued about what would come next. Varied instrumentation and interesting vocals displayed his musical depth. I love how lyrics in a different language, or with a strong accent, can be heard as more of a vocal instrument than simply a story told . Definitely worth listening to again.

Another album that spent a lot of time in my Sony Discman in the early 90's. Through Eddie Vedder's barely understandable mumblings to Mike Mcready's amazing solo work, this album still rips.

Such a great album all the way through.

10/10

Great! Definitely deserves to be here as it embodies that grunge rock era. I’ll definitely come back to listen and EvenFlow is a forever favourite

Great Album, all the 11 songs are amazing

Great album, great selection, great band.

Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo. Genius.

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So many hits that manage to sound just different enough to not get confusing. Garden still hits me so hard.

Phenomenal album start to finish. Truly one of the best that I will listen to once a year.

Great grunge album. Maybe my favorite (sorry Nirvana) and definitely a great 90's album.

God it’s so good. If ten by Pearl Jam has no fans I am dead

The summer of 1992 was one of those rare pauses in life you only get once. Exams finished, university still weeks away, and nothing remotely urgent to do. One of the highlights was Pinkpop, then still a one-day festival — soaked in relentless rain, and home to what is now widely remembered as one of the most legendary performances in its history: Pearl Jam. I honestly can’t remember whether I knew Ten at the time, apart from “Alive.” I was still transitioning from metal teenager to alternative student, and Pearl Jam sat right on the edge of my comfort zone. But somehow this album hit an entire generation at exactly the right moment. In the early nineties, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the old certainties had evaporated. Europe felt peaceful, free — and oddly empty. No grand ideals left, just a vague, shared melancholy. Ten seemed to give that feeling a voice. Coming out of Seattle, Pearl Jam occupied a crucial middle ground. Soundgarden and Alice in Chains leaned too heavily toward metal; Nirvana was more punk. Pearl Jam, by contrast, wrapped similar emotional weight in melody. Eddie Vedder’s voice — one of the best I’ve encountered so far in this project — and, frankly, his looks, didn’t hurt either. His lyrics about fractured families and emotional dislocation resonated strongly with the latchkey generation, of which I’m part. The album isn’t flawless, but it hardly matters. Its three clear peaks — “Black,” “Alive,” and “Jeremy” — are all exceptional, each easily good enough for a top-ten list of songs I’ve encountered so far. “Black” is one of the great rock ballads; “Alive” builds perfectly to its simple but devastatingly effective guitar solo; and “Jeremy,” which grew on me with repeated listens, is gripping even without a solo at all. Mike McCready’s guitar work deserves a mention: Fender Stratocaster, wah-wah pedal, Hendrix clearly hovering somewhere in the background. Influence, yes — but well used. Nitpicking weaker tracks feels beside the point. Ten is one of those albums where the book’s title applies without argument. It’s also the only Pearl Jam album on the list, and the only one I own. The band suffers badly from the unrepeatable-debut syndrome: later records never tempted me, and even seeing them live years later, it was still the Ten songs that mattered. Then again, trying to match Ten would be an almost impossible task.

Not the biggest PJ fan but hard to say this isn't a 5

this is real fucking soil of the Earth grunge. love love love

It's a 10 for Ten

Very easy 5. Back to back hits

Flashback to when I was 19 years old and first heard this. Still has the same freshness, unbridled energy, and angst that I related to back then. In retrospect, having heard so many bands from then until now, in my opinion Eddie Vedder is the best rock vocalist of this generation. He is totally committed, vulnerable, nothing is held back. He is able to infuse so much emotion into his delivery. And Mike McCready can seriously shred.

One of those albums that blew my mind.

An absolute classic. Needed in any collection.

Makes me wanna reach for my surfboard and go chase some waves. I don't own a surfboard. I don't know how to surf.

I don't really trust anyone who says they don't like Pearl Jam. Ten is one of the best of all time. I grew up with this album. I love it. There is just hit after hit on it and it all holds up really well. Pearl Jam can write great rock songs that sound so goddamn good but are so freaking sad. "Black" and "Jeremy" might just be the most fucked up pair of songs on any album, and for such different reasons. "Black" just wrecks me every time I hear it. "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?" is such a brutal line. Gets me every time. My one critique would be that sometimes Pearl Jam doesn't really know when to end a song and they can drag a bit, but I'm not complaining. I can listen to this whole album front to back, over and over, and it always hits. The guitar is so unique on this album and Vedder's voice is iconic. Ten showcases the best of grunge and is probably the easiest 5 stars I've given.

They lean towards a bit on the samey side but I really enjoy their stuff. This was fantastic!

This was once upon a time my desert island album. Listening today I realize I know this album note for note, and it completely holds up. This is a near perfect album for me.

In my opinion, Pearl Jam stands far above almost all 90s bands. From their musical consistency, creative approach and versatility to their music this band is one of my favorites within this genre. And this is one of my favorites albums off theirs.

This ten is a 5

Now that's a 5-star album right there! First one with more than one skip for me, too. Apologies to Oceans and Porch. Immediate flashbacks to the 90s and singing in the car, with this CD in heavy rotation among the many others from my zip wallet case thing.

the first album I remember liking - as in, i owned the cd and realized this was a collection of songs by one band with a purpose. Kinda sunk in my bones I guess. Hadn’t listened to it through in awhile. Maybe it’s just the deep tissue muscle memory but this album is nearly perfect.

This is one of the greatest albums ever made

No. 24 This album is amazing from start to finish. Amazing discovery!!

This is one of the seminal albums of my youth. I'd give this a 5 even if it only had "Oceans" and "Black."

One of the best albums ever. I love Eddie Vedder, the greatest voice in grunge. This album is a perfect blend of heavy and depressing. Absolutely beautiful, flows perfectly. 10/10

A+

Great album

Awesome!

10/10 no notes This takes me back to the 90s. I was always a PJ fan as opposed to the slightly more popular Nirvana fans.

Pearl Jam is possibly my least favourite of the big grunge bands, but it's hard to deny that this album is an absolute classic — the track list reads more like a best of compilation than a debut album.

Soundtrack to my adolescence. A classic.

i’ve been excited to get into pearl jam and i’m not disappointed

Interesting... I just finished my Siamese Dream review, where I made some soft comparisons to other albums from that era, Ten among them. A little unfair; this one is among my all-time greats. Let's try to understand why Ten feels stronger than Siamese Dream. First off, there is a slow introduction that evolves into the recognizable early Pearl Jam sound, highlighting the vocals and guitar solo. It feels so very human, even through the dense, reverb-heavy production that defined so much of the era. The whole album continues to feel like a single whole - each track flows beautifully into the next. Every song seems to tell a story of struggle, self-discovery, and emotional release, all bound within the same early 90s zeitgeist. I want to highlight some tracks, but honestly, I can’t. There are some widely recognized masterpieces in here, but as an album, each and every song feels meaningful. It ends with the same rhythmic section the album starts with. Beautiful. We just went through a rollercoaster - rough, bumpy, and emotional - touching feelings I’d rather keep hidden in a safe place. But I just need to go for another ride.

No private session used for Spotify. No secret I love the grunge scene and this album is definitely one of the seminal grunge albums and a perfect companion to rainy, dark days in Seattle.

Such a great album, I want to rate this somewhere between a 4 & 5. It has such classic songs as well as a couple of bangers that didn’t get mainstream play…”why go” and “porch” 4.5 stars

2nd best grunge album to Dirt.

Yeah why not. Seen em in the flesh, brought out John McEnroe. Good shit. Simpsons: Yes

Great vibes. Gutted I couldn't make it to see em live. Absolute classic guitar hero tune.

Even Flow is a Guitar Hero classic. Knew a few of the other songs as well, perfect album for my drive into work .

Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background No song I dislike on this album. Favorite: Black Hidden gem: Release (great concert opener) Least Favorite: Jeremy

Jeremy Spooooke yeahhhhhh

I have really enjoyed this for a while now. This album is brimming with energy and has some insane vocal performances on it. The hits here are kind of overplayed, but Even Flow and Jeremy are still great. The non-hit songs and especially the opening track are amazing though. I didn't really feel like listening to it today, but it's a brilliant album I often put on.

One of my favourite albums

Thank goodness Jack Irons (of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame) dropped a demo tape into his buddy at his San Diego servo job sometime during 1990. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were still reeling from the loss of their good friend and Mother Love Bone bandmate Andrew Wood, as was Wood's roommate, Chris Cornell of fellow Seattle outfit Soundgarden. So Cornell, Gossard and Ament got together with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and a gun lead guitarist by the name of Mike McCready, and the supergroup Temple of the Dog wad born. But there was this song on the record, 'Hunger Strike', where Cornell felt another voice was needed to compliment his own, so Gossard and Ament introduced Cornell to this surfer/servo worker from San Diego who had sent back the demo tape their mutual friend Jack Irons had given him with some rather extraordinary vocals added. His name was Eddie Vedder....and the rest is history. Enter Mookie Blaylock, who would soon be renamed Pearl Jam. And in late 1991, they recorded one of the greatest debut records of all time: 'Ten'. 'Ten' is honestly perfection from start to finish. From the rip-roaring chorus of 'Once' to the spiritual awakening of 'Release', this album is an exercise in raw, primal rock energy that evokes the epic heights of The Who, the pondering mysticism of The Doors and the explosive energy of the Seattle grunge scene. Whether it be through Ament's hypnotic baselines (including that famous 12-string sound on 'Jeremy'), McCready and Gossard's sporting guitar tradeoffs or the sensationally rich baritone of Vedder, 'Ten' is the sound of a band who got it right from the very beginning, and would not let up for the next 35 years. I saw Pearl Jam live last year, and with the enitre band now hitting their sixties, the fact they still possess that same raw energy and magnetic presence they did in their twenties is a testatment to their passion, discipline and sheer love for what they do, and Ten is where it all began. One of my favourite albums of all time, essential listening for the 90s, and quite honestly, I owe a great deal to this album and Pearl Jam for my own musical direction. Best songs: Once, Alive, Even Flow, Why Go?, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, Porch, Garden, Deep, Release.....yeah, the whole album, start to finish!

Hit after hit

It doesn’t get Eddie Vedder than this!

God-tier. We can't overstate the importance of this album to music history. The confluence of Seattle's insulated, antiheroic music scene and mainstream rock culture made this album **the** grunge simulacrum for listeners everywhere, more than a year after its release, and for good reason - though some say Pearl Jam isn't "true" grunge, Ten nonetheless proves a gateway drug to the Seattle Sound. In that respect, this album has it all. Impassioned performances; murky, wall-of-sound aesthetic; deep, mystic, narrative lyrics; stylistic and instrumental diversity; all while maintaining artistic integrity, independence, and authenticity. To me, that's the essence of grunge. Here, at last, we have an album truly worthy of presence on this list - historic significance, outstanding songwriting, riveting performances, continuity across tracks and thus more than a simple collection of songs, and widespread acclaim. Enjoy.

idk if I could ever give an album less than a 5 if I felt like I could get 90% of the lyrics right in a karaoke event

Yeah, it can still be considered Pearl Jam’s only good album. I relistened to confirm. I just can’t listen to “Jeremy” because it gets stuck in my head for literally weeks at a time.

A classic grunge album, and for good reason! My favourite track is probably Black, but they are all good really. Has aged really well, too.

Ten stars

A desert island album for me. Five stars isn’t enough.

I haven't listened to this front to back in years, but it was in my heavy rotation from about December 1991 and through 1992, until the overexposure burned me out on Pearl Jam. Revisiting it now, the hits still hit, and it fades toward the end as much as I remember (though I like "Release" more now). This may not get as much credit as Nevermind, but it was seismic all the same.

I noticed this album was released August 27, 1991 which is probably to the day that I started high school - which is incredibly fitting. I never actually owned this album but I didn't need to as it was ubiquitous. Honestly, it's even better than I remember it. And in retrospect kind of funny that they were lumped in with Nirvana. It makes sense somewhat as they kind of dressed alike, were both from Seattle, and lyrically were a total 180 from the hair metal (which I loved) that still dominated MTV until right around this time. But Pearl Jam were just incredible f'ing musicians - Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard are beasts - and this album is absolutely arena rock for the 90s. Glad to take this ride again, and I think Black is up there as one of the best songs of the 90s.

I used to hate Pearl Jam because the reminded me so strongly of my ex. He listened to these songs over and over while we were in a relationship. Except, now that I'm listening to Ten front to back for the first time in so many years, I'm realizing that I independently like this so much. So many bangers. Eddie Vedder's voice is a bit much for me to consider this for my personal top 10, but it's so distinctive that it makes Pearl Jam what it is.

the title holds true this album is juuust legendary man

A couple of initial comments to make. Black is one of my all time favorite songs. Top 5 probably. Also I finally saw PJ live for the first time in May of this year, and it was one of the best shows I’ve even experienced. The band was amazing, the crowd was rabid, and Eddie was mesmerizing. And they played six songs from this album. To perfection. With all of that being said, I absolutely love this record. I find it crazy that it was their debut, as the songs are so fleshed out and so confidently presented. For me there is no filler, even though it’s front loaded with the hits. Yes, it’s a five.

One of the best true rock ‘n’ roll albums ever made. Every track is a gem. Another classic album from the 90s!

4.5 stars rounded up

I have listed to this album so many times since it came out that it feels like part of the soundtrack throughout my life. Great great album

-good album -first listen okay, after got better... -even flow + alive my favs? -by end of album got kinda monotonous -initially 3.5 but ima give a 4, grew on me -on second thought chnaged to 5, these songs rly grew on me

I think I have to give this a five, even though it's not a perfect album. It speaks a time of my life, and I think I enjoy even more now, for different reasons, than I did then. And it's not even my favourite PJ album, probably (ask me tomorrow).

This album has been in my life since I was 19 and I love it as much now as I did then. Pearl Jam became a much better band in many ways over the years, and this isn’t their best album or maybe even top 3. But it’s still a marvel of 90s guitar riffs, when Stone was the primary songwriter and he churned out classic riff after classic riff for McCready to shred over and Eddie the wail over. One of the best albums of the decade in a decade that has a lot of my favorites.

Great debut album

Oh Yesh! 90-tallet på sitt aller grunge-este! Glimrende album.

Ridiculous the album has this many BANGERS on it in such close proximity. Phenomenal album. No skips. No other words

pearl jam got better albums, but it's still an outstanding one and one i regularly listen to!

One if my favourite albums and arguably the greatest debut album ever.

Some folks don't like Pearl Jam -- I get it. Eddie Vedder can be a bit hard to understand, sometimes. Maybe they just don't like a baritone lead (that makes less sense to me). The primary one that I hear from people is that these songs are played-out; I can't accept that. It's true that the songs on Ten are going to be familiar to you if you were listening to music anytime in the thirty years after its release but that's not a fault in the music. The compositions are interesting and all of the performances are solid. Dave Krusen's drumming is solid and driving. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament serve as an excellent rhythm section, texturally and harmonically. Mike McCready is a hell of a guitar player. Eddie is Eddie -- poetic, emotive, dynamic and a little mumbly, sure. But if you haven't read about Pearl Jam already, I'm not your guy. There are whole books. This is a tremendous album; it's emotion-first, performance-second, coherence-third rock music. It does, indeed, fucking rock. 5/5

Masterpiece. No notes.

Probably my favorite Pearl Jam album. An essential for fans of the 90’s alternative rock scene.

The album that began my love for Pearl Jam. Only 4 single releases - Alive, Even Flow, Jeremy and Oceans - but songs like why go, Black, Once and Release are concert staples. Amazing album. 10 out of 5 stars

Listening to Ten today, it's not "grunge" as the term would often be used today. Pearl Jam was from Seattle and they wore plaid, so they were lumped in with other grunge bands. Considering the work they did with Neil Young, it is clear in hindsight that a more classic rock sound is what they were going for. They succeeded. Not much else can be said for this album that hasn't already been said. The first six songs are all classic songs that pretty much define the early 90's era and the last five songs are pretty good as well. Fantastic album and it absolutely deserves a place on this list. Not a bad song to be found.

When the first six songs on a record are stone cold classics sometimes you just gotta smash that MF 5 star.

Thoughts before listening: One of the first albums I ever owned. This and Nevermind both came out when I was 10 and really defined my musical tastes ever since. While Nirvana was the band that most inspired my punk rock listening teen years, Pearl Jam's more classic rock, guitar solo friendly style has been the one that has had more of a lasting impact for me. This is a great album that I will be giving 5-stars. Review: I just have so many memories tied to this band and in particular this album. It's truly iconic for people of a certain age, and I have been listening to this for 3/4 of my life. There are so many classic songs on here that I had to keep from adding the entire album to my playlist. Easy 5-stars

Ten/10

A stone cold classic.

This album released I think during my 8th grade year, and was one of the records that expanded my musical interests from Poison and Motley Crue (whom I still love) to music with a bit more depth and artistry. This record is a front-to-back classic for me, and it holds a special place in my heart. 5/5

5 all the way. Love it.

I always wondered why this album was called 10 when it has 11 songs. Maybe they were rating the quality, in an Usher-esque display of self-importance. Much like Usher, their arrogance was justified. Absolutely one of my favourite albums and a genuine 10.

Likes it more than I thought I would

A stunning debut that took some of the raw ingredients of grunge - punk infused hard rock - and mixed it with a more classic blues rock aesthetic to create this generation’s Led Zeppelin. It is remarkable how mature this record is for a debut - you can tell the various members have slogged for years in different bands in the Seattle scene. The singles are well known and overplayed, but album tracks like “Once” and “Black” also sparkle. A stone cold classic.

Cover 7.5 One of my favorite albums, having grown up in the 90s, so this isn't really a neutral opinion. To me, this is the quintessential alternative rock album. It starts here. Then Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, etc. I was 16, listening to butt rock like Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, etc. Lyrics didn't seem to matter. I barely paid attention. Then these guys came out and blew my mind. Of course, after a few years of deep, meaningful, and often depressing music, people started to pivot. And then happiness returned with Sum 41, The Offspring, blink 182, etc. I've since learned to be open with most music, though I tend to gravitate to towards rock-oriented music. I'm babbling. This isn't a memoir. Anyway, great, great album.

Probably one of the easiest 5 star albums on this list for me. It’s absolutely perfect, a perfect Ten! This is probably one of the most important albums for me personally, one of those formative albums that will always be special. I have my favourite songs but I could list most any of them. Whether it’s Eddie’s passionate and intense vocals or Mike McCready’s incredible guitar solos, this is a band operating at the peak of their powers, and with their debut release to boot. The fact they are still going strong today, tells you everything about the unity and talent of the band, save the odd drummer problem.

If you don't like this album, I don't like you. 9/10

One of the greatest grunge/rock- bands of our time with their debut- milestone. Full of rock-classics lead by "Alive"! But especially in terms of a whole album and the talent of each single member of the band - simply outstanding! With this album Pearl Jam opened the door to the 90's for melodic, emotional, hard-rock using the key of grunge. And there where still a bunch of more great Pearl Jam albums to come! Ten stars out of five ;)

2nd best grunge album, stacked from start to finish. Difficult to top an album with Even flow, Jeremy, Black and Alive on. Perfection

Great album that they never defeated, imo. 4.5/5

Definitely one of the best debut albums of all time, and one of my favs. Great record. Highlights: Honestly, the whole thing. Standouts for me are "Alive" and "Release"

This is a landmark album for me: one that led me further outside my listening “lane”.

Simply perfect!

Absolutely legendary grunge album. From the opening distortion of Once to the final placid strains of Release, this album is a masterpiece. It's no wonder this was one of the albums that heralded the explosion of grunge in 1991. If you've never listened to this album beyond the hits like Even Flow or Alive, I can't recommend listening to the whole thing enough.

What an album. Masterpiece after masterpiece. Don't think I've ever listened to this all the way through - been missing out. some new favourites. just perfect. Powerful vocals, amazing guitar playing, beautiful lyrics. Wow.

When I was in middle school, I had a music teacher that let us know that this was one of his favorite albums in the world. I really liked this music teacher, I wanted to be this music teacher. So I bought a copy of this album. I knew a few songs by Pearl Jam between Guitar Hero and the radio, but this was my first real experience listening to a whole album by them. I don’t know if I got it back then. I really wasn’t that familiar with grunge, and it just didn’t feel like the kind of music I normally listened to, but I kept listening to it over and over. Eventually I learned the lyrics, the sound of the guitar parts, the drum patterns. But I don’t know that I even got it. But listening to it for this project, I get it. The sound is perfect and the album just has the right tone. So this rating goes out to Greg M, who taught me that musical tastes need expanding.

9/10

Even Flow!!! Rufememuphemereee!! Before there was Mumble rap there was Mumble Rock and it was amazing. Love me some Pearl Jam

Amazing ofcourse

Give me all of that you got

Hell yeah

Mon secondaire se bouscule en écoutant cet album! Mes premiers pas à la radio étudiante, premier party, première blonde…

Album réconfortant pour moi.

5/5 - solid! just a really good album! I really enjoyed it!!!

Fantastic debut record. a 90s banger

What to say, it's Pearl Jam... Not that many banger tracks, but the entire record has a great vibe and amazing sound... All in all 4.5 stars

Thought it was a superb album on release, and it still holds up great today. I don't think its quite as good as Vs, although it's more of a 1a and 1b situation.

I mean, comon.

A lot of the fun of running through this list is hearing a songs, albums, or even bands that you have never heard of before. There's always something cool about discovering new music. This one doesn't fall in that camp in 2025, but it definitely did back in '91 when it came out, and it instantly grabbed me. I wore this album out when it was released right at the forefront of the 90's alternative movement. Even if over the years, I have grown tired of Pearl Jam and a lot of their more recent stuff vastly pales in comparison to me, I still am amazed by this album, as it is great from cover to cover. Tons of singles that hit like Alive, Jeremy, and Even Flow, but songs such as Garden, Porch, Once, Why Go, or others are every bit as great as the singles. Amazing that this was a debut album, as it’s truly a 5 star great record.

Definitely my favorite grunge album of all time with arguably a top 10 song of all time "Black"

What a triumph. What a blessing that they helped make the guitar solo ROCK again. Great songs.

Almost every song on this is a certified classic, and the album as a whole really shows off Vedder's unique vocals and the band's foundational alt-rock style.

Ten out of 10

What a quintessential album for the grunge era I think if Nirvana's nevermind and this album as like the stewards of grunge and alt rock! I always forget how good this album is!

Blew me away

This album did as much as any back in ‘91 to announce the death of womanizing , “ain’t nothing but a good time” hair bands, and that rock was moving in a different, emotional direction. Introspective without being whiny, and angst filled without being offputting. A bit more polished for mass consumption than their grunge brethren, Pearl Jam still set the soundtrack for much of Gen X.

I know it’s called Ten, but this one goes to eleven. Full sound and good production, but the truly impressive thing is the content: these are songs about the downtrodden and misunderstood, set in a way that we root for them. Also, the intro/outro is clever.

A bit sick of Jeremy and Alive, but they're still great songs. Most of my favorites aren't radio releases. Great album. Eddie's unique vocals are the highlight.

I don't know if I've ever listened to this album in its entirety before. It came out before I started collecting music, and I ended up just buying their greatest hits album. While I didn't love the songs on here that I haven't heard a million times already, this still gets a 5. Holds up really well for something that came out in 1991, and the highs are really high. 4.7

Genial album, gran debut. Me encanta

Great Album from the 90's - I still think they should have dropped one song so there were 10 songs (I know the Mookie Blaylock story) but then they had the hidden track so . . . oh well still one the greatest grunge album that changed music forever

Ten isn’t just an album—it’s a memory. My CD belonged to my brother, who passed away in 1994, and every listen feels like a quiet reunion. The raw emotion in Eddie Vedder’s voice, especially on tracks like “Black” and “Alive,” speaks directly to grief and resilience. It’s a poignant, powerful record that helped shape a generation—and for me, it holds the echo of someone I loved.

I was expecting a Grunge album, but this is classic Rock that reminded me a bit of Lynyrd Skynyrd in places. Loved it.

Esplendido. Maravilloso y tremendo debut, grandes Pearl Jam. Jeremy spoke in class todayyyy 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

Nostalgia. This was one of the first CD's I ever owned and it kick started my love of rock and roll. It's also a stone cold classic. One of those albums where you can just press play and not have to worry about any skip-worthy songs coming on.

I like it a lot. The big 3 on it are the best imo. But amazing sounding album.

Day 10! Crazy getting this so early on. My favourite album by my favourite band containing my favourite song of all time in Black An easy 10/10 for Ten on day 10. Hard to pick highlights as there’s not a skippable track on here but I’ll say Alive Black Garden

I am already very familiar with this album. It's one of the best albums of the 1990s. While the bigger hits got major airplay, like Even Flow, Jeremy, Alive, and Black, every song on the album is solid. There isn't a single skip. I could listen to this album every day.

Definitely misbranded as “grunge” 😂 Pearl Jam at this stage is definitely a 70s classic rock band more than a grunge or hard rock band. And hey, thats cool. The sound is still unique. So much more approachable than grunge to the masses and its not like there isnt an edge. Veder is super raspy, overdrive is set to 11, drums are bangin’, lyrics are crazy Overall, this is LOADED with hits. I listened to Jeremy and Even Flow back to back my entire commute home. Release is an underrated cut that I havent heard before. 4.5 stars for me.

The same grade school teacher who did a whole quarter on Elvis and made/let us watch an “Elvis is Alive” conspiracy doc - also had a license plate PJAM. So, I’ve known about PJAM for a long time, but for most of my childhood associated them with one of the biggest radio hits of all time: Last Kiss (OH WHERE OH WHERE COULD MY BABY BE?!?!) Never really got into PJ later in life, but was always buddies with guys who adored them, so have always been interested in diving in. Coming in really only knew Even Flow, Alive, and Jeremy. Black is obviously a hit, but new to me, love it. A little tapered off at the end of the album, but overall incredible combo of songs. High on the bucket list for live shows to catch.

And with this, I have finally talked about an album from every band in the big 4 of grunge! Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains have all gotten their time to shine (though Nirvana does still have 1 more with the Unplugged album), and now it's Pearl Jam's time. No surprise here, I love this album just as much as the others. It's excellent. Somehow, this was the band's debut album! Unfortunately, that does kind of put Pearl Jam in the same camp as other artists and bands like Nas and Boston where the rest of their discography kind of lives in the shadow of the debut, but I digress. Ten is fantastic. Everything is put together so well to create an outstanding debut album. Pearl Jam's sound is top-notch here. The double guitar work from Stone Gossard and Mike McCready does a lot to enrich the sound of the music, with Dave Krusen's drumming and Jeff Ament's basslines supplementing the guitars excellently. You've got strong riffs and solos spread throughout this album and it's great. Of course, a band like this thrives on a great singer. Fortunately, Eddie Vedder puts his soul into these songs and I love it. Of all the big grunge vocalists, Eddie Vedder is definitely the most polarizing of the bunch, but I love his style. But there's another thing that Eddie Vedder brings to this album I think I love even more. You see, we've got to talk about what makes Pearl Jam stand out in comparison to their contemporaries. Each band of the Big 4 has their own masterful elements that come together to form 4 very different bands that help form a singular label of sorts. Nirvana has its aesthetic and angst that captivated the youth so effortlessly, Soundgarden has arguably one of the greatest singers to ever live, Alice in Chains masters melancholy through its more metal-esque sound and harmonized vocals, and I think Pearl Jam's stand-out element is their remarkably mature songwriting. Other bands of the time have a sense of youthful angst to them that works very well in the cases of bands like Nirvana, but Eddie Vedder's lyrics paint him more as a storyteller than anything. Take a song like "Even Flow" for instance. First of all, amazing song. It's never failed to get me hyped up. It's another one of my palette cleanser songs I use whenever I involuntarily hear garbage music. Secondly, though the song may just seem like a fun romp at first, there comes a time when you analyze the lyrics and you're like, "Damn. This song's about homelessness." It kind of makes you appreciate the band even more for writing these sorts of songs. Many of the album's other stand-out tracks do the same thing to similar results. "Jeremy" is probably the most comparable to "Even Flow" in execution. I've always loved that bass intro, and the writing does a great job of blending a haunting story and an energetic instrumental. Then you have some of the songs that put more of those emotions into the instrumentals as well. "Alive" is great. I think this song does a great job of showing off Eddie Vedder's vocals at its best. But if you want to talk about songs that pull at your heart-strings, you can't do better than the masterpiece that is "Black." Oh my goodness. This song. This might just be the best breakup song I've ever heard. That ending really hammers it home and I love it. Of course, those songs have all stood the test of time and become iconic over the decades, but even the deep cuts help to flesh the album out without feeling like filler. Shout-outs to "Oceans." That one's great. So yeah, Pearl Jam really hit it out of the park with their first album. Maybe I should use a basketball metaphor instead since they originally named themselves after a basketball player. Pearl Jam really hit a slam dunk with their first album. That's better! 5/5. Or, perhaps, you could say that this is a Ten out of Ten? I'd say so.

Fire

Damn back to back 5/5

Quintessential

Nirvana's Nevermind gets all the praise for being arguably the greatest grunge album ever. I hate that buzzword grunge. All of those bands at that time weren't playing the same music like boy bands or hair metal, but we've got to classify it somehow. I digress. Pearl Jam's Ten is probably the best grunge album at least the best debut album of that period of time. Each song has meaning and weight. The songs still hold up today as Alive, Evenflow & Jeremy sound just as fresh and vital as when they first came out. It’s hard to believe that 99% of people haven't already heard this album but for those who haven't, it's a must listen.

Great overall

Absolute classic

One of the best albums of all time

best

A landmark grunge record, songs are powerful, lyrics hit like a punch, energy is off the charts. Love it, love it, love it. 10/10

The easiest 5-star for me so far. I loved this album when it came out and I’ve loved it ever since.

I know every second of this album, and it has remained a favorite through the years. I'm pretty sure this makes me extremely uncool, but I've always preferred PJ to Nirvana. There were many years there where PJ was my favorite band, so being objective with this album might be tough. I will say, the 'shabba dabba, wittamovabalfertomovalytikAYYY' vocals run a little too close to the Chilis for my taste and pretty much date this one to about a 2 year period. But c'mon, Black is an all-timer, and the riff from Alive can raise the dead. I've never understood grunge as a genre - it seems more like a 'from Seattle' descriptor more than anything, as PJ definitely skews more into classic rock territory than the other grunge bands, who take more from punk and/or heavy metal, but I digress (again). Ten is fantastic, and while I understand others not liking it as much, it's a 5 for me.

Better than I remember it

I mean, I am not a but-rock guy. I really look at who Pearl Jam likely inspired and am not at all a fan. But "Ten"? "Ten". "Ten" is as close to a perfect album as it gets. Fantastic and memorable songs. Set the tone for the next wave of musicians. Part of a bigger movement. "Ten" man, fuck.

Love it. Pearl Jam is directly responsible for seeding some of my favorite acts of the 90's like they're some sort of Mother Vampire. Plus, their band is named after cum n jizz hahahahahahahahahhaahhahahaahah

Hits, doesn't get better, can't out PJ guitars Alive Even flow Black Jeremy

EVEN FLOOOOWWWW

goated album

I have a ton of nostalgia linked to this album, so it might be difficult to give an unbiased assessment here. The album may just still absolutely rip though. Still rips. This is the least "grungy" grunge album if that makes any sense. The guitar riffs from Mike McCready here remind me of more of what you'd hear in classic rock from the 70's/80's. Yet the sound is rich and modern due to the recording and how the entire group is captured collectively. This is an alt rock classic, led by Eddie Vedder's passionate and vulnerable lyricism. It all sounds so anthemic with the emotion displayed in each track. The run from "Once" to "Oceans" is unparalleled. Maybe a little top-heavy when critiquing the album as a whole, but this was no doubt influential to rock n' roll and where the genre was heading in the early 90's.

Add this to written on my brain forever albums

This album blew my mind!

It’s easy to forget just how amazing and how important this album is. Start to finish, it’s so, so good.

“Once” is like the pathos of my wailing rebellious soul. I love this album

Such a great grunge album

bangers

Awesome. Not much else to say. With such beloved songs like Alive, Jeremy, and Even Flow, this is a damn good album. Pearl Jam rules.

Solid

This is one of the best! I have listened to this album 1000 times and it still gets better with age.

THE “grunge” era must own album. Nevermind Nirvana, Pearl Jam proved from the first riff of Once that they were the voice of a generation.