Ten

The hits

4/5 ⭐ que álbum gostoso de ouvir, classic rock de qualidade impecável

Definitely a cool range of vibes for a grunge era band. Some songs I love the singing but some come off as annoying. Even Flow is definitely the highlight for me, def a reason it’s such a huge radio song

Good stuff. Not a dud on here. Solid songs throughout. Singers voice is memeworthy but I honestly didn’t mind it.Even flow is a jam no pearl yuh. 7/10

dang actually pretty good. Expected it to just be cringey dad-rock but it sounds pretty sick. Besides the singer, but honestly it works

I've always deemed this band as poppy or boring, but to be honest, I never listened to the whole record (prejudices, huh?). Don't get me wrong, I love some late 80s, and early 90s hard rock artists like Rage Against the Machine, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, etc. However, due to the popularity of Pearl Jam, I assumed they were the poppiest. Man, was I wrong was! This is rocker than I thought, and have a good bunch of singles. Great one! Gotta listen to it more (I know it feels weird to talk in these terms of such a renowned album, but I'm just being honest).

👍

This music does not sound bad but it can be a little repetitive at times. Low 4/5

pretty good.

It was good, but alot of the same. Not really my jam, but I understand why people like it

Alright, I'll give this one 4 star for the awesome fucking instrumental. The vocals suck tho

I like the wah & chorus parts. The guitars overall are great as this is arguably the golden age of this kind of harder rock when it wasn't really dated. Solos are some of the best bits, and some bits are really creative. I think his voice seems like a parody of itself. I'm not keen on the ballad ones WHICH ARE SO POPULAR WHAT ON EARTH. Favourite songs: even flow, why go, oceans, porch, garden, deep. Overall around 7/10

Bardzo dobre, kilka klasyków wartych zapisania. Na pewno nostalgiczna płyta.

As one gets older one maybe slides slightly away from nirvana and towards the inevitable Pearl Jam.

Me: (not being able to under stand a single lyrics) Hell yeah, brother

Peak middle-school album, for me, with direct memories linked to Jeremy (on the radio in my Grade 7 math teacher's class), Even Flow (Guitar Hero III all-timer) and Black (feeling as if I understood being heartbroken). The whole first half of this album is unimpeachable. The B-side is merely very good. I'm not going to pretend this doesn't rip.

Stacked with the hits; preferred the 2011 remaster with the modern drum sound.

It’s hard to be objective about one of your favorite bands of all time. I fell in love with Eddie and crew as a teenager and though it comes and goes, Pearl Jam remains one of my faves. It’s frustrating that Ten is their most recognized and acclaimed album, since it’s far from their best. It was made in a rush, the sound muted and rough, and the songs full of lore that may have been better served on an EP elsewhere. And yet, even with that, the energy here is undeniable. The band is mixing classic rock, funk and punk into a potent mix that has so much going on in so many directions. Eddie is on fucking fire, hitting all sorts of emotional peaks and valleys. And if the band isn’t their best, they’ve undeniably got something special, something heavy but vulnerable, which would mark their work for years to come. I’d love if the list included their stronger work but I have to give the dudes a solid 4 stars for this one which still packs a punch.

Excellent. Total dad rock, even helped me connect to my dad more. Pearl Jam 🤝 Red Hot Chili Peppers 🤝 Dave Matthews Band Stand outs: Alive Garden Oceans Once

In my preparation for attending the 2025 Peral Jam Dark Matter tour, I endured the cinema release of their new album Dark Matter. The whole album was played twice through, and after the first round, a lot of people left, including me. I didn’t end up going to the concert but I did hear lots about it through friends and family. Their new album actually put me off wanting to go! I’m glad I had the opportunity to listen to this album, it reminded me that in the day, they were an awesome band (even if they do sound a bit too country sometimes)

Very good rock record. 4/5

A staple

Ten is a really great album but for whatever reason, something about it is preventing me from giving this album 5 stars. Pearl Jam is one of the big two grunge powerhouses (the other being Nirvana) so it does of course have that typical grunge sound that i was expecting and it does sound very good throughout all of the songs. The guitars on the songs are what mainly steal the show as they do sound amazing in a lot of the songs. A lot of the other aspects about the album are great too and of course none of the songs are bad either. I really do like this album but not as much as i feel i should. Best Song: Jeremy Worst Song: Oceans

I don’t super love Pearl Jam or even this album, but Eddie Vedder does have a great voice.

Seems a little fishy that this album was generated just a few days after Nevermind. Naturally, that means they must be pitted against each other. Nevermind is the better all around album but I prefer Ten’s big singles. Pearl Jam sounds like a better band of musicians and Vedder’s dinosaur roar-style or singing is preferably to Kurt. Ten also benefits from having Mike McCready lay down slick guitar solos, while Kurt’s solos usually just follow the verse vocal melody. But, Ten loses the battle because I would say “Oceans”, “Garden”, and “Deep” are all filler tracks and Nevermind is great the whole way through. PJ should’ve swapped two of those songs out for “State of Love and Trust” and “Yellow Ledbetter”.

Nice, high 4

Classic 90s

Not my voice, but nice jamming

I like Pearl Jam, like that nerve, like that voice.

85% Best: Once; Even Flow; Alive; Black; Jeremy; Garden; Release Must-Hear? Sure

Fresh & energizing! Not so heavy anf depressing as I thought!

Amerikanske powerballader for alle penga. Ganske kult egentlig, litt same’y men kunne lett satt på plata på nachspiel eller når det skal drikkes øl og whiskey

Large sounds. Good tracks is black other than Alive

Kinda fun really

Tons of undeniable classics, great riffs, and an excellent vocalist. I have no complaints.

Ah my old friend Mookie Blaylock. Sometimes I think I hate this album, but I’m wrong. It’s a relentless assault of rock songs that are great. It defines Pearl Jam and they will never sound like this again.

This is the album that launched a thousand bands with singers that just mumble-sang everything. Still holds up though!

Pretty golf the whole through. Its best songs are victims of 30 years of radio overplay though

It was nice

Pearl Jam’s Ten isn’t the grunge game-changer some might claim, but it’s an album that resonates through its anthemic power and emotional weight. From Eddie Vedder’s intense vocal growls to Mike McCready’s blistering solos, it’s raw, it’s grand, and it’s undeniably iconic—though not without its flaws. While the polished production sometimes veers into corporate rock territory, the band’s refusal to play the mainstream game helped define their underdog status. Sure, Ten might have its soft spots in the final stretch, but it remains a defining relic of an era—over-polished, occasionally excessive, but forever influential.

What a terrific album. Rock on, dude.

First PJ album I got still a classic

Class

Yes

Fav: Black Least Fav: Once Nearly a Ten/10

Good stuff. Would definitely listen to again. No real favorites as they were all really good. The album started over again and I continued to enjoy it.

I don't, and I probably will continue to not, actively listen to Pearl Jam, but I feel that this album is objectively really good, even though I generally can't understand what Eddie Vedder is saying. The song titles really connected some dots!

I will listen to more of their music.

"Black" was the highlight for me. Had lots of enjoyable songs. May not come back and listen to the whole thing again but definitely had a few standouts that I'll revisit.

I don't think I 100% got it, may need a revisit, but damp, every single part put their all into it.

Great album. First half is definitely better than the second.

Supringly good, which I did not expect. The album was grungy and heavy but still had a good sense of rythm and flow, songs were dark, but it not in any way hard to listen as of this. The album had a good balance with a smart intro and explosive outro, which is perfect. Honestly not much else to say, it was just pretty good. Favorite track: Evenflow. Overall score: 8.2

The very best of melodic grunge, nearly every song can be a lead single in its own right, actually pretty remarkable. Big rock and roll guitars, Veder's iconic vocals, slammin' solos, and a groove-centric sound sometimes missing from rock and roll. Even the ballads hit. The back half of the album is a little forgettable.

Very strong album - no bad tracks. I feel like the 90's, maybe 2000's, was the last era of diverse music before overly commercialized pop took over. And Pearl Jam is an iconic, defining sound of the 90's.

When i was in 8th grade, we did a decades project on the 90s and my english teacher, being a 90s kid, said he was more of a pearl jam kid than nirvana. Which tracks. S/O Mr. Podo. Fav songs Black, alive, release, even flow. Slapped

Powerful and intense. If you wanted one album to represent the sound of 90s rock, this would likely be it. The first half strings together banger after banger after banger it could open its own butchery. Ten is early Zeppelin on steroids and protein shakes. Second half does drag it down somewhat, but still enjoyable. Best Tracks: - Even Flow - Black - Jeremy Worst Tracks: - Porch Rating: 8/10

Goes very hard indeed. As with basically anything of this genre do find myself tuning out and finding it a bit samey as I get deeper into the album but think it’s a me problem. Definitely rewarded when tune back in and listen more actively.

In 2024, dad-rock had a resurgence lead by Pearl Jam and Creed. If you asked me which band was which, it would honestly be hard to determine. This takes nothing away from Pearl Jam's debut "Ten". This album essentially created a whole subgenre of rock and is a quintessential reason for doing this list. I know I don't love this alt-rock, but it was still impactful to listen to. I'm happy to have heard the whole album. Best Songs: Even Flow, Black, Jeremy Worst Songs: Once, Garden

I was about 11 or 12 when this album cane out. Early grunge rock days, i always ignored it cause i was too young to understand. Looking back, its a pretty great album.

Classic rock masquerading as grunge. Some absolute belters, some filler, but ultimately a very good album.

Great. The singles are the most catchy by far, but the rest of the tracks are also enjoyable. It's grown on me over the years.

Eddie Vedder 4eva

Up and down but i think it does enough for a 4. Some real iconic stuff on here and i don't feel like it's dated at all

Its a strong contender

- aah Pearl Jam! - kannte ich jetzt tatsächlich schon, weil wir vor einiger Zeit mal über Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains und Soundgarden gesprochen haben und ich in dem Rahmen alle mal side-by-side gehört habe - ich finds ganz cool, aber im Vergleich mit Nirvana und Soundgarden stinkt es für mich einfach ab - mein Ranking damals war auch Nirvana, Soundgarden, PJ, AIC und ich glaube, dass ich weiterhin so denke (wobei ich AIC auch nochmal hören müsste und PJ und AIC sehr gleichauf sind für mich)

Shut up and take your 4.

7,09

Even Flow was a throwback to Guitar Hero 3 and I rode that high for at least the duration of the album.

Es ist eine beeindruckende Mischung aus Grunge, Hardrock und Metal, die die Essenz der frühen 90er Jahre perfekt einfängt. Das Album markiert den Beginn einer neuen musikalischen Ära, die von der Seattle-Grunge-Bewegung angeführt wurde. “Alive” ist das Highlight des Albums. Mit seinen kraftvollen Gitarrenriffs und markanter Stimme ist es ein Song, der sofort ins Ohr geht und lange im Gedächtnis bleibt. “Black” ist mein persönlicher Favorit. Die emotionale Tiefe und die melancholische Melodie machen diesen Song zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis. Das Album besticht durch seine rohen, emotional geladenen Texte und die kraftvolle Instrumentierung. Jeder Song erzählt eine eigene Geschichte und trägt zur Gesamtatmosphäre des Albums bei.

It's great - I don't like it as much as I used to.

I've listened to it before - nice album

Liked this .

Forgot how many great tracks on this album - just a 4

4 estrelas

Love it, one of the best debut albums of all time

solid, but didn't get into it

the sounds of my youth

One of the great albums of a great decade of music. And they kept it going!

Classic

A very good rock track. Some great throwbacks.

One of the best debut albums of all time, and one of the 4 quintessential grunge albums of the early 90’s. First half is all bangers, giving us some of the most iconic guitar riffs ever with songs like Even Flow, Alive, Black. After Jeremy there ain’t much doing for me though. Release is a great album closer to an overall amazing album that has a place in any collection and has served as the inspiration to many a modern musician.

Loud, rhythmic, gets me in the zone. Maybe a bit too much groove and not enough variety for my liking.

Great album that I’m already very familiar with. I’ve always thought that Pearl Jam actually has some pretty dark themes but it doesn’t come off as overly depressing because the songs rock and a lot of them are relatively upbeat. But if you actually listen to the lyrics there is some heavy stuff here.

This still sounds pretty damned good.

I was familiar with 4 songs before listening. The best songs are Black and Jeremy.

Different (complimentary) than I thought it would be.

I was debating whether to slap a 5 on this thing, but I think it is a very high 4. Some 90s classics on here as well as some other songs that I hadn't heard before but really liked listening to for the first time.

This isn't my genre but this album is rock solid.

I've got this, and it's an excellent album. But I'll still listen to it again, as it's been a long time since I last listened to it all. First heard it because they were at a festival in Finsbury park with 4 non-blondes and Neil Young. A great day.

Nu metal voice. Good album though.

3.5 would be more appropriate, but I’ll round up. A lot of solid/well-known songs on the album but I just am not a huge PJ fan. I can’t put my finger on what it is, just because I truly do like the instrumentals and good song writing, but just doesn’t move me.

Pufffff!! Vibración y electricidad

Nice

IMO dobry album, podejmujący ciekawe tematy, momentami autobiograficzne, ale głównie społeczne. Najmocniejszą stroną jest Vedder i jego głos, ładunek emocjonalny, który za nim stoi (gdyby nie to, moim zdaniem przepadliby marnie w zestawieniu z takim Dirt). Przewrotny jest prawdzuwy sens "Alive" vs to, w jakim kontekście jest śpiewany i pamiętany... przejmujący utwór i chyba najbardziej autobiograficzny. Dobrze dobierali single z tej płyty - "Even flow" uwielbiam, Jeremy też solidny. Tutaj wokal i w dalszej kolejności geneza tekstów robią głownie tę płytę, muzyka to dla mnie po prostu solidnie zrobione tło.

Trodde ikke jeg skulle like det her så bra, merkelig vokal. Men det er jo en skikkelig jam

eu sou do rosque!!!!

4.2

Good enough for Pearl Jam

The first half of Ten fucking slaps, some huge songs, standing up to scrutiny more than 30 years later, genuinely outstanding territory. Second half isn't quite as good, loses its way a bit but Release closes it out in impressive form. Gets a 4 because everything up to and including Jeremy is so fucking good, just a shame it doesn't hold that standard throughout, but such a cool sound, and what a voice Eddie Vedder has.

Enjoyed this, more on a second listen than on the first and will probably improve with each listen for a while (particularly when I can listen to it properly loud, rather than from my tinny laptop speakers). It's a really cool, rough and dirty sound, I like the guy's voice, and there's enough depth and variation in pace to make it an interesting listen as well as a fun one. Will join the regular rotation, a comfortable 4/5.

this surprised me - I came into it expecting to rate it somewhat low, but overall I liked it more than I thought. a 3.5 rounded up, Points deducted for overall churning sludgeyness, but I realize that's probably the appeal for others.

Fantastic album, almost all bangers and certified legendary songs that will be remembered for the time of times. Absolute legends.

As much as I love grunge, I’ve never fully clicked with this record as much as all the critics have. It’s not bad at all; in fact it’s great. The big singles still hit, and the rest of the deepcuts really nail that heavy early 90s sound with some great songwriting and production. I still, however, find it to be a tier lower than Nevermind or Superunknown. Those albums mean a lot more to me personally while Ten has always just been the album that’s really good, nothing more and nothing less.

out of the 3 big grunge albums (and bands) this was probably my favourite Standout: Black

Mostly good stuff. Some great guitar work - Eddie Vedder has a terrific voice and is a skilled vocalist, but he sounds a little strained and pained at times - it's a stylistic choice, but not always a great one.

Almost 5/5. Release is just a bit much at the end. Just quit while you’re ahead.

still holds up after all these years.

Solid

Quintessential Gen X dad rock.

Nice album, the guitar solo in Alive is amazing

Great highlights and decent fillers

I'm not a big Pearl Jam listener, but I bought this album in the 1990s, and I stand by the purchase. It's good enough to draw me in, when much other Grunge stuff could not. I like the voice, the music and the attitude.

ooh yes, another album heard through the wall between mine and my brothers rooms. Great lyrics, not a huge fan of grunge to begin with but they rock hard enough to push past it. Even Flow, Alive, Jeremy are all huge hits for a reason, tackling difficult themes, the rest of the album sounds good too, except Release, 9 minutes was way too long.

Enjoyed this one a lot! Really didn’t like how hard songs about homelessness and school shootings hit in this day and age but what are you gonna do? As someone who isn’t a fan of grunge music… Pearl Jam were the best grunge band

Alive

This is the sound hard rock makes when it's just started therapy. "Jeremy" - heartbreaking, powerful, make sure you know the backstory. Skip everything else, love everything else, but this one is a testament for the ages. Six out of Ten.

No other album inspired more dudes to get ponytails and wear flannel, cargo shorts, and army boots than this one. Great record.

Seeing as the 90s was a formative decade for this reviewer, this album carries with it a certain mythological status. Thirty years later no one questions that this band or album existed, but they want to. Pearl Jam came out of the same place and time as other grunge acts did, but they did not hide the way a lot of grunge did. Where Nirvana wrapped things in lyrical ambiguity, Pearl Jam just put the words and storytelling out there. This album is probably their most evident of that, particularly with "Jeremy". The album takes a narrative position of 90s angst where other Seattle bands took a more abstract up for interpretation one.

This is an album I heard so many times back in the 90s that it’s become tough to stick with it from beginning to end without getting bored and turning it off. That said, I can’t deny the influence it had and how groundbreaking it was for its time. When it came out, it was like nothing else out there, a real breath of fresh air. Although I’m burned out on it now and it lacks the appeal it once had, I have to admit that there was a time when I listened to this album regularly.

An amazing grunge album that defined my teenage years. Every song has its place perfectly on this album, and it is hard to choose a few as standouts. Black, Jeremy, Even Flow and Oceans are my favourites.

Definitely not grunge at its absolute best, but there's no denying that this is still a great album. It keeps everything that's already great about this era of music and adds a touch of theatrics into the mix to make for a really interesting and unique take on grunge.

This album has got some jams on it. Pearl Jam was super inconsistent. Like they put every brain fart that they could flesh out into a song to tape and released it. But what a debut!

Great Pearl Jam album.

Phenomenal album, a real turning point in rock music.

I liked it. maybe have to give another listen to it

Good album. Great singing, instrumental playing and groove.

It’s not really my stuff. This is my first time listening to a full Pearl Jam record and it’s close to what I expected. That being said, it’s still pretty damn good. I might not listen to it again but I can see the appeal.

interesting. cool. so far. till "alive" "why go" very interesting just wish he enunciated lol garden is cool release is nice 4/5

My friend in high school told us about how the members from Mother Love Bone got another band together from a singer originally from our area (San Diego). He got a hold of a demo tape, perhaps from friend-of-friend of a friend. Popped it in the tape player of a friend’s car and said “this is the band I want us to sound like.” Pretty funny looking back and I haven’t given it a complete listen in more than 30 years. Brings back memories. Forgot out great the first 2/3rds of the album are, perhaps loses a little interest towards the end.

Album interesante del grunge, con muchas guitarras distorsionadas y sonido crudo de batería y voces. Es interesante la propuesta que trae la banda en contraposición con Nirvana

Already know this one like the back of my hand.

Classic grunge! Anyone growing up in the 90s should be familiar with this. 4/5

Pearl Jam was definitely my favorite grunge band. Even Flow is an awesome song. Once, Even Flow and Alive is a really strong contender for the best three songs to start a debut album. That's a pretty specific take, but I stand by it. Alive is an all time great song. A lot of good songs on this album...it feels like everything after was a slow decline from this peak. The America of the early 90s was a bleak existence if you were listening to grunge or gangsta rap. I remember liking Oceans more than Jeremy and having them linked in my mind because of their proximity on the album. The album cuts are good too. Something on Garden reminds me of Tenacious D's Tribute. The obsession with ending albums with long/secret tracks was a huge thing in the 90s. The end of secret tracks is hopefully one of the only good things to come out of the digital music revolution. The start of Once and the hidden track both sound a little like the beginning to the PeeWee's Playhouse theme song.

Bought the vinyl at the time, still like it very much today.

Peak Gunge

I've heard the name Pearl Jam previously, but I wouldn't have been able to name a single track of theirs. It just wasn't the sort of music I listened to ... until recently. After being blown away by the Nirvana album, and learning how Pearl Jam were considered to be of a similar genre, I was looking forward to this. The album started slowly, and didn't reach the (admittedly, lofty) heights of Nevermind, but it was still very good.

- Once again an album that I have heard half of from just being a teenager who tuned into alt rock radio. - Surprised by 1) how much more connection there is between Pearl Jam and the hard rock (and even hair metal) of the 80s with regard to the focus on guitar riffs and 2) how much Eddie Vedder's vocals influenced so many, often maligned, bands of the 00s like Creed, Nickeback, etc. - Pearl Jam will never be my default grunge band, but the one-two punch of "Black" and "Jeremy" is nothing short of masterful.

4 - my mother would be annoyed that I didnt give this a 5 but the second half is boring

Fan. How can you not like Jeremy spoke?

A good one, still i always prefer Nirvana

Pearl Jam is a bit overrated, here in NZ I associate them with steak and potato dudes who drink Woodstock excessively and listen to The Rock FM all the time while hooning in their big utes. This is the one album of theirs that is a must listen and admittedly it is a really good one (although Vs is good too). Definitely a quintessential grunge album. Big riffs, rhythm section is tight and relentless. Eddie Vedder’s vocal is a love it or hate it affair, but I quite like it. Favourites are: Black (first song I ever learned on guitar), Once, Even Flow (great solo at the end), Alive, Jeremy.

The high-water mark for grunge, in one's view, with "Black" being the most emotionally susbstantive and resonant song in all that genre (which isn't exactly saying a lot, given the historical perspective). That cut's raw sincerity (and heartbreak [and courage from sad questioning in face of same]) retains its full power today. The supporting cuts include several top-notch cuts (which are too well known to bother naming). However it seems clear now that this was borderline music for muscleheads, in a way, punky/skateboardy kids from (relatively) prosperous suburbs, most likely with permissive parents who were down with long hair and maybe a few tattoos and certainly t-shirts with sleeves torn off and wearing hats backward. If ‘70s arena rock was bloated and gouty, as if it were a non-fit person who never went to the gym, then grunge came to be like dudes who went to the gym too often (after giving up booze, say), and were a bit too bowed out, a bit too angry and ready to assert machismo, maybe even took steroids and so got too rigid/inflexible (which might be this record's one and primary weakness). Vedder's vocal style is at once iconic and caricature-ish; one feels some pain in listening to him sing, actually, but it's amazing what he yields from the instrument, which is truly distinguished and a signature voice / style in all the r&r canon (i.e., not just grunge). the ‘90s were mostly all downhill after this, through one can make a case that the '90s mostly went downhill from here, though one is tempted to argue that Vs. might actually be a touch better, because variety and slightly looser/funner feel.

Great album. Enjoy this album every time I listen.

EEEVEEEN FLOOOOOOW! Great album. Guys voice is borderline cheesey, but still cool to me. It's like a unique type of grunge, that has some classic rock left in it

"Alive", "Even Flow", and "Jeremy"

8.5/10! When it comes to grunge I usually listen to Alice In Chains and Smashing Pumpkins, I never really listened to Pearl Jam. After listening to this album it made me realize how important they are to the genre and how great their sound is. This album was a great listen and I would totally get a cd of this to listen to in the car :)

Come on, with songs like Even Flow and Jeremy on the same album, how is it not going to be a banger? 10 was the first album to come following the dissolution of the band Mother Love Bone, which retained its bassist (Jeff Ament), and guitarist (Stone Gossard). With the inclusion of a new guitarist (Mike McCready), the trio wrote a 5 song instrumental jam demo, and soon found their singer (Eddie Vedder) and drummer (Dave Krusen) who provided their respective and iconic parts on the album. Vedder’s vocals are definitely one of a kind. The band originates from Seattle Washington, but something about their style, and maybe specifically Vedder’s singing draws the picture of a very woodsy, midwest rock sound. Released in 1991, the album sounds very much of its time. The grunginess of their music pairs well with the grunge scene around them (Nirvana and Alice in Chains). The guitars hit even harder during the solos when that wah pedal is activated. Listening to the album makes me want to drive a beat up truck at 5 in the morning towards my job in a factory in the middle of a forest where an accident happens once a month wearing a construction hat and huge thick flannel sweater.

Love this album - was really nice to listen to it again. I was way more into Pearl Jam than Nirvana. This CD basically had a permanent position in my Aiwa 3-disc changer. Was one of the best debut albums of the early 90s and still holds up today. All great, no filler songs (except maybe the final track is a bit too long). 4.5⭐️

It's a good record and a nice alternative to some of the other "grunge" bands of this era. Conversely, I like most of those other bands better. They've got a bit more hair in the mix, not as clean, not as straightforward. Eddie has a distinct voice which you either like or you don't... it spawned a lot of imitators. Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains... I'd rather listen to any of these, but that doesn't make this record bad.

Would it get a 5* review if it wasn’t Nirvana. Good question but academic.

This is a great album, but actually not as good as my memory of it… This seems strange to me as so far my memories of the albums up to this point are generally better than the re-listens. Maybe the four hits (Black included) on Ten have carried it on in my mind through the years? Not sure, but either way it rates (4.4*s) I always thought it was titled Ten because it had 10 songs. Turns out there’s 11. Feel free to explain. One other minor point; I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Pearl Jam song that is not off this album. Also explain that… (One album wonders?)

Good god '91 was amazing year for music (Nevermind a month later!). This album is another iconic one of the decade and ranks of one of the greatest of all time. Side A is stronger than Side B but there really is not a bad song throughout. Practically a greatest hits album. "Jeremy" topping for major impact it had and it being the most put together, story teller with Vedder at his pinnacle performance. The band certainly made the right move in having him audition. His voice is so strong it outdoes the background and acts as its own instrument. No need for shredding guitar solos...Eddie slays. The album even has intro/outro "secret" tracks that perfectly box it up into an epic, musical timescape. This one will be on lists forever...they do know Ten has 11 tracks though right?...4.3.

Just a great collection of songs.

Vedder vocals are the epitome of 90s rock/alternative. Guitarist Mike McCready really pulls some awesome riffs and solos throughout the album. All in all decent listen.

I’ve had this album for 30 years and I haven’t listened to it in at least 25 years. The songs I like the most are the ones that are played on the radio the most. I’ve always felt that Pearl Jam weren’t really a grunge band but more of a standard rovk band. After this album they got much softer. Some of these songs feel like leftover Green River and Mother Love Bone but with a worse singer. I prefer the nasal , wild delivery of Mark Arm over Eddie Vedded but sales show that I’m in the minority. Evenflow, Alive and Black are great, powerful rock songs and Jeremy tells a sad, creepy story that is the template for so many other teenage pain songs. Nothing on this listen made me want to revisit Pearl Jam but I can’t deny the impact of the album.

already in my library :-) 4

https://youtu.be/7g5jjCEVxRY

This is some good stuff

Never been a Pearl Jam hater but don't really seek them out either. This is a good record though

My younger self would have given this five stars. Guess I don't need that much shoe gazing in my life now

Jeremy is an all timer

Listened to this kids while growing up, still prefer vs. Really like Black, porch and release

Classic, more of a Nirvan person. No bad songs.

i liked the majority of this actually, some of the songs were stand alone great and this album prompted me to finally create the 1001 playlist i wanted of all the songs i liked from this project that i didn’t already know, so well done Pearl jam. i would listen to quite a lot of the songs singularly but i doubt i’ll listen to the whole album again.

Grunge era favourite. I never listened to it at the time so perhaps able to hear it now without rose tinted nostalgia lenses on. It’s a surprisingly finely crafted album. It’s more classic rock with grunge overtones than say mudhoney, l7, screaming trees or tad. Not sure I really love Eddie Vedder’s vocal style though (sorry not sorry)

its that one 90s album they are right it is pretty cool. why did they call their first album ten?

peaaarrrllll jamming 4/5

Wow - One of the beginnings of grunge!

Another group I heard of.

Always a great album to listen to - I'd give 5 stars for Jeremy

Very good

It is the ideal ‘Hell Yeah, Brother!’ Album and it’s great. Then the last song is like some shit outta a Bowie album. 8/10

That was class. Didn’t know what he was saying but it sounded class

4 side a would be one of the greatest albums ever but side b is a little week

High four, not quite a five

Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.

Good album, favorite songs were Black and Even Flow. Did get tired of the voice after a while but it’s cool. Good guitar. 3.5

Pearl Jam's debut is without a doubt a landmark album in grunge, as it served as the main blueprint for the terrible post-grunge bands that started appearing later in the decade. Thankfully it is way better than any of them. Key tracks: Once Even Flow Alive Black Jeremy

Best Song: Black. Lyrically by far the best on the album. Close second to the brilliant follow-up in Jeremy. Worst Song: Release. A fine song with an unnecessary 4 minutes of underwater noise appended to it. Overall: Up there with the best that grunge has to offer. I was obviously familiar with the hits, but even the B-sides were really good. The whole albumalso has an introspective, self-aware quality that I feel is missing from a lot of grunge music. Much of grunge is about a frustration with living in a seemingly uncaring and insincere society, but I feel like Pearl Jam is one of the few bands that ever looks at the other side of that disharmony. They have the humility to ask whether we (the grunge audience) have our own failures to blame for contributing to this incompatibility.

Good Stuff

I think my musical tastes have changed a lot from when I first heard this album. The headline tracks (Jeremy, Alive, Even Flow and Black) are still really good and the rest of the album is much better than I remembered.

Loved this a lot!

Leaving Brother and State of Love and Trust on the cutting room floor remains inexcusable, but just about everything prior to "Release" is a firecracker.

This was always my favorite "grunge" album from the Seattle 4. Not really a weak song on here though they are all kinda samey.

Very hip album. Enjoyed it a lot.

Even Flow Alive Black Jeremy

Obviously this is an incredible album. 10/10 songwriting. We love to see it.

somehow probably the most difficult record so far to write Thoughts about. certainly harder then nevermind! i enjoy it even more tho...maybe not by the same margin i once did but pearl jam's hyper-melodic, soulful niche within grunge has always been appealing to me. the big singles are some of the most consistently enjoyable songs im forced to hear at work and sound even better in actual headphones and not fast food speakers...gotta be one of the most lushly produced rock records of the grunge era, and one of the more genuinely beautiful and emotive rock records of the 90s generally. not a huge personal favorite or anything but it was an instant surge of delight to roll this one

nice listen 4/5

Your response to pearl jam definitely depends on how well you can tolerate Eddie Vedders voice. That being said pearl jam was the radio friendly version of grunge. Pulling more from 70s stadium rock than punk. The hits on here still hit pretty hard. 9/10 a Gen X classic.

More hits than misses

If only Jeremy was still doing this 1001 albums when this one came up. He’d feel Alive.

I could've sworn I felt it coming in the air tonight 4/5

As a massive Pearl Jam fan, I really like this album and it is what got me into the band. Lots of classic tracks but also a couple of misses

It's overplayed, but still a classic

This was better than I remember it. I wasn't expecting to like it at much as I did, but it seemed to hold up pretty well.

Gotta be honest I don’t think I’m a huge Pearl Jam person but it’s time to try something new. I think what I’m learning about myself through this project is that… maybe I don’t like 90s rock that much. Which feels like blasphemy. I do have a lot of respect for the guitar though… the guitar solo on “Alive” really got me. I think I’m giving this a 4 because I appreciate that it is good at what it’s doing.

You could chop an easy 10 minutes of this and make it a better album, but the best tracks are undeniable

Chill rock with a dash of nostalgia.

The contradiction of Pearl Jam is that their arrival, along with Nirvana and Alice in Chains and all the brothers-in-arms in grunge, was supposed to herald a new and raw and more authentic brand of rock—and yet this album, even more so than the hordes of hair metal slop being churned out in the late 80s, sounds tailor-made to be blasted over the PA system in your local Home Depot or beer garden. The formula for most of these songs is simple: enough heavy guitar to appeal to the average American macho man, but mild and hook-y enough to serve as inoffensive background music. I would argue Pearl Jam's music, and Ten specifically, became the blueprint for two whole decades of mainstream radio rock, the two decades that completely and utterly killed the format... yes, Pearl Jam fans must confront the uncomfortable reality that there is probably no Nickelback, no Creed, no Hoobastank without this album. Without those bands and their overpoweringly muddy and divisive sound, rock radio stations may never have fallen apart. Based on all this information, you might comfortably assume that the album is trash and it killed an entire genre of music’s mainstream relevance and so it should be hated for generations to come. But the contradiction spreads further and deeper, because you know what? This album really IS good. Like, all-hits-no-misses levels of good. This album's formula works. Pearl Jam knows how to write some melodies, and Eddie Vedder's unconventional wailing and moaning feels like it should be a huge miscue, but instead it suits those melodies perfectly. There really is realness, rawness, and edge here: a song like Jeremy would never have hit the radio before this album dropped, but these guys sell it perfectly. So what do you do with Ten? I would say you can't really blame a band for what record executives and hack imitators choose to do with their style; it would be foolish to blame the Beatles for every two-bit boy band that came in their wake, after all. Still, I don't blame anyone for passing on this one just for how overdone its sound became, and for all it represents. I find it fascinating how you could point to it as the root of rock radio’s demise, but I'm happy to enjoy it for what it is. Best song: Jeremy

Taken as a whole

Very good

Bunch of classics that my dad used to play. Don't listen to a lot of rock music but this album isn't too extreme for me to digest.

Este es uno de esos discos, cuya música nunca había escuchado voluntariamente, pero sin embargo conocía la mayoría de las canciones. Esto habla mucho de la immportancia y vigencia de este. Creo que no volveré a escuchar este disco, no porque no me haya gustado, me gustó, pero no es mi sonido. Si tuviese que mencionar canciones que volvería a escuchar, serían: "Black", "Alive" y "Once". Innegable valor, no mi sonido.

Grunge at its most commercial and watered down. Just slightly about average because the singles are really good. Besides that, this is really exhausting to get through.

has some real bangers on it, but i cannot unhear that the bass line in alive sounds like the first portion of the bass line from give it away by rhcp

This album comes out of the blocks running. 'Once', 'Even Flow', 'Alive' & 'Black' are all great tracks. The sound is a little bit smoother than other grunge bands but it definitely packs a mighty punch. The quality of the songs do start to tail off towards the end and I guess this stops it from getting all 5 stars. 4+ Stars (12/15)

7/10

A lot of nice songs

Quite a good surprise with this album. Strangely enough, I can't single out one particular song that I liked most - it all seemed to flow into a single thing with a side of tasty guitar solos.

v good album

As solid as I remembered it being.

Amazing first album to start this journey on. One I already mostly know and love, full of many of Pearl Jams best hits. Somehow I have never heard Release before, and that was a great discovery!

It’s hard to listen to this one with fresh ears when the songs on it have been so overplayed on the radio over the course of the past 30 years. I sincerely would be happy to never hear the song Jeremy again. However, reading about it and remembering this was their debut album, and seeing how early it came out, I do have to respect this one. May not be one of my personal favorites, (I prefer Temple of the Dog, which was released the same year), but this has become a “classic” for a reason.

Escuché este album hasta el cansancio. Muchos temas memorables que remiten inmediatamente a mi juventud. Definitivamente parte del soundtrack de mi vida.

What a great debut album

Tough to separate early 90s nostalgia from the music, but this has held up well, both as an end-to-end album and on the strength of its individual tracks. Seminal stuff. Makes me want to pay more attention to all the subsequent Pearl Jam albums I neglected over the years.

Me gusto

A fantastic debut album. Both the vocals and instrumentals sound great and flow well. The lyrics are meaningful as well. The only real issue is that it isn't always clear what Eddie is saying. Also, release feels like a weak ending. It lasts around 9 minutes, but spends around 4 minutes fading out with what something that sounds similar to Fallout tribal music. This sort of ruined it for me, so no 5 stars.

This brings back memories. Move in day, freshman year of college, and someone anchored their speakers into their dorm window and blasted this album. Grunge music was everywhere, so naturally I had to hate it. But despite my attitude, this album wormed its way into my consciousness and has stayed with me for years. I usually can’t actively listen to it - the lyrics are too sad - but I appreciate the genius of this album and enjoy hearing it when it’s on.

A little bit too dreary in places but it really grew on me. Some excellant song composition on this album. I love Black.

Some mega hits on the first half but a bit repetitive towards the end. A staple of the genre though.

One of the best of the 90s

This is a true gem. Had no idea this was out there

Excellent album

A quality classic. Still Alive is really good, as is the rest of it.

Dust and sunlight. I missed grunge when it came around as my musical attention was elsewhere in the jazz world and so this is the first time I’ve heard this album. Two gears here. Clean guitars with open tunings and ringing chords and heavy distortion. The bass cuts through everything and is some of the most interesting musicianship on the album. Vedder’s voice was the template for strong reserved rock singing. It makes his strained phrases so much more effective that he spends most of the time sitting in a restrained and thoughtful roar. Nothing too flashy here. The departure from late eighties metal was the addition of space and clean toned sections. And lyrically the subject matter is real, not fantasy which makes it more interesting poetry than the teenaged misogyny of the hair bands. I have no affinity for the band and have never seen their legendary performances. But they are an important part of American music and the is a banging debut in a new subgenre.

Another formative album on the list. They made better music after this one. More nuanced, more opened to the world, less muscular. But this kind of defined an era, for better or worse (the worse being the staggering number of bands that more or less built a career trying to copy this album). It also brought along a better model for masculinity in mainstream rock, where it was possible to play heavy and be compassionate and sensible and generally try to be a good human. How refreshing was that after the 80's? It was near the top of my playlist in the early 90's. It is not anymore, but still brings back good memories and smiles.

4 Favorite song is black. Tasty. Deep is also very good. change dont come all at once, it comes in waves

Didn't know Pearl Jam was groovy like that. I like the variety of genres in the album, even though they follow the same rock pattern. Favorite tracks are "Once" and "Ocean".

3.5/5

our lord and saviour steezus christ blessed this album.

Solid 4. Black is the best song on this album, and showcases the best parts of Vedder's lyricism and singing style. 4/5

Pues Pearl Jam. Termina mejor que empieza.

solid

Once: 6/10 Even Flow: 8/10 Alive: 9/10 Why go: 8,5/10 Black: 8/10 Jeremy: 7,5/10 Oceans: 7/10 Porch: 8,5/10 Garden: 6,5/10 Pearl: 7/10 Release: 5/10

There are clearly some classic tracks on this one. I don't love it like a child of the 90s should. For whatever reason I've always been pretty neutral to Pearl Jam. Anyway, some of the tracks are simply iconic (Alive, Evenflow, Jeremy). Pearl Jam is right there at the turning of the tide when grunge and alternative took over the mainstream in 1991.

Solid 90's rock/alternative album. Lots of really great tracks. "Porch" is a standout. Close to a 4.5 for me.

Great!!

Man what a banger. One of the best debuts of the 90s. Guitars, guitars, guitars, just like I remember it. It was always obvious to me that this record was more a hard rock 70s arena revival than the grunge that grew directly out of punk. For some reason I never got into any later Pearl Jam albums, but this one is perfect. Four stars.

Timless Classic

This album basically is the 90s. With probably 4 of the best songs to come out of grunge, this album undeniably had a major impact on music. Arguably some of the best musicianship of the grunge era, the outro guitar solo on Alive and the guitar tone across the whole album in general is enough to make this one of the best grunge records. Certainly a definitive album and one that I feel like most anyone who's a rock fan would enjoy. 4/5

As far as I'm concerned, the only Pearl Jam album with no skips. A little top heavy? Sure, but no skips

Exceptional. Eddie Vetter with powerful vocals. Excellent guitar playing. Overall just a rocking in your face album. 4.5 due to “Oceans” being meh.

Good stuff. Lot of bangers. Some filler. 77/100

Highlights: Even Flow, Jeremy, Porch, Garden. In a nutshell: a pillar of the Seattle sound. Ten by Pearl Jam is easily one of the best debut studio albums of the 90s. Haunting and piercing are the only words I have to describe songs not overplayed on the radio. PS. if you have the original CD, you will find a secret track which starts at the end of Release (I miss the days of secret tracks on albums). Enjoy! Overall: 8/10

proper vibes this one. clean & well written songs with just the right amount of scuzz 4/5

I've listened to Ten for years, and it's always an amazing experience. Honestly, the first 6 songs (Once -> Jeremy) are perfect in my eyes. The last 5 (Oceans -> Release) are mid to weak tracks. All in all I keep coming back for the first half of the album, but the second isn't strong enough for me to give near a 5. 3.7/5 -> 4/5

More like 4.

what a funny voice he has!

Some bangers here, and I think Pearl Jam get a little too much discredit for their song writing - some songs here are bona fide classics both musically and lyrically. As a record though it sadly tapers very much towards the last quarter, but for most of it, it's a strong debut, and of course, a stalwart of the Seattle-era. Nice to revisit, even though I'm rather weary of it after all these years.

All time great.

Once 3.8 Even Flow 4 Alive 4.3 Why Go 3.6 Black 4.4 Jeremy 4.5 Oceans 3.2 Porch 3.4 Garden 3.6 Deep 3.7 Release 3.3 Score: 3.8

Not a favorite genre of mine but you have to respect the appreciate the significance of this album. Huge hits and the other tracks were good as well. 7/10 (3.5/5)

Classic. 4.75

20 years since I listened to this album. Time machine back to high school.

Surprised by how much even the hits I had thought were overplayed (Jeremy, Evenflow) held up. Given Russ hates Eddie Vedder's voice, it could also be that never getting to listen to a band for 10+ years could make anything sound fresh.

The quintessential grunge album and arguably one that helped usher in 90s rock. Nirvana may get the main credit for this scene, but Pearl Jam were probably the purest demonstration of the sound. The music immediately takes me back to that time. The music holds up incredibly well, particularly given how short lived grunge was.

Kann nicht behaupten, dass ich es schlecht finde Pööhl Dschääm

I could karaoke this whole album without a lyrics screen. And not just the big four radio songs, but Garden and Release too. The first time I went down on a girl, Black was playing (I doubt, looking back, it was probably all that memorable for her, but for me I’ve got a soundtrack!). I remember the texture of the matte silver portable anti shock discman I wore this album out in. And Eddie was just everything a budding surfer wannabe guitarist artistically ambitious kid could want. He embodied the chance we all feel like we have at that age to be on stage in front of an arena crowd. I still get that sense of hunger and pregnancy and possibility listening to this. It still makes me feel like I belong in front of 100,000 people. By the time I started listening to Ten—probably, what, 1994?—there were at least two others out already, but Ten was always my jam. They got better and better, clearly, and Eddie is still getting better, not that Ten is the best, musically, but it’s got the most magic for me.

Great ebb and flow. Good guitar tones and lots of emotion. 4 stars

One of the 90s better rock albums. Really strong start, but tails off a bit at the end.

One of the great 90s albums. I would say Veder is an acquired taste but their popularity would suggest otherwise.

🛹

4/5⭐️ Best song: Even Flow Worst song: Garden Comments: Such a good album, makes me want to skateboard like Jesus

Très bon grunge, Even Flow c’est d’la bombe, mais je trouve que les instruments sont trop pognés en tapon, si c’était mieux mixé ça vaudrait un peut-être un cinq

Very good album. Got a bit muddled 3/4 through where it didn't seem like there was much going on.

Good album, good music, good tunes, good band.

Great Album, very close to 5 stars.

Loses a star because it's been overplayed to death. It's also not my fav PJ album, so I need a star above it for those. Yield and Vs are better in my personal record book.

staple

This is an album that everyone who loves music in general, must listen! 4,5/5

I didn't love it at first but I must admit that this list gave me the opportunity to reevaluate it

Honestly always liked Pearl Jam the least of any of the big grunge 90s bands. That being said, this album is still really good. Top tracks: Even Flow, Jeremy, Oceans

New more songs than I thought I did. Which I could understand the lyrics.

YEAAAaaahieeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. Like the energy and variety of songs. Also good hooks. Would recommend. Voice singer sometimes a tiny bit annoying.

4.5

I dig this! Very solid grunge

There was a student singing Even Flow in Science last week. They immediately gained a bit of cred because if it. I wasn't a massive Pearl Jam fan first time around, but you have to give credit where it is due, and Ten is a work of art.

This is peak Grunge at just about its peakiest. Some real old school corkers on this album.

Damn good album

Not a big PJ guy but it's hard to deny that this album has some bangers. And I know bangers

3,6

Good album

Kinda crummy grandpa rock

I didn't like much that came after it, but this album is a winner. Love it start to finish.

Good noise. Can't always hear him, but the lyrics sink in hard

This has to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time, and it remains one of Pearl Jam's strongest - if not their best record. Overall the songwriting and performances on this are brilliant, it's heartfelt, emotional and full of passion. They mix the raw, brash elements of grunge well, with some obvious 70s rock influences and flourishes of more stadium oriented sounds.

Bangers. 4.

Pearl Jam is so good I won't fault them for one album.

This record is energetic, loud, catchy and Eddie's voice is just incredible. Plus it sounds great. Such an enjoyable listen.

3.63 per track. I like Pearl Jam more that I remember.

Good

This was really great overall. It's a little bit before my time, but it apparently was one of the top selling albums of the '90s and it has most of Pearl Jam's most famous songs ("Even Flow", "Alive", "Black", "Jeremy"). I really enjoyed it overall, and it's earned it's place as an iconic album. It is extra impressive as their debut album, not a lot of bands come out swinging like this right from the start. Pearl Jam is one of the iconic grunge bands, and from what I've heard so far I think I'm higher on them than Soundgarden, but not quite to Nirvana level. I guess Kurt Cobain was not a Pearl Jam fan, and felt like they sold out. I can see it a bit, this definitely has a bit more of a polished sound. It's a little more alt rock than some of the other grunge albums I've heard (I almost hear some R.E.M.-type sounds in here, where I don't feel that way for Nirvana). It's still great though, the highs are really high on this one. I'm really tempted to give this a 5, but I don't think it quite gets there for me. The front half of the album is incredibly strong, but the back half fell a bit flat for me (though I did like "Oceans" a lot). It's very good and in the 4.5 territory, but just a bit lacking on the back side. Favorite song: Even Flow Other: Alive, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, Porch, Release 2/9/24

Große Hits, aber auch ein bisschen Füllmaterial

Great album. Such a powerful voice. The song “Black” just epitomizes heartbreak.

Albumet var bra. Jag tycker om att det är en blandning av rock och grunge. Tycker dock att det kan blir lite väl mycket upprepning och många av låtarna låter väldigt lika. Men utöver det tycker jag om att man tydligt gör instrumenten och speciellt gitarren som ger hela albumet en ikonisk stämpel. Min favoritlåt från albumet var Why go home. Jag älskar trummorna i låten och även gitarrsolot som är i slutet av låten.

Indie rock-ish / grunge-ish but the not annoying one

Veit ekki alveg hvað ég á segja. Hörkugott rokk, en of mikið seventís rokk í þessu fyrir minn smekk. Svo er það Eddie Vedder, sem bara fellur því miður ekki að mínum eyrum. Bestur í rólegu lögunum, fannst mér, finnst miðkaflinn bestur, Black, Jeremy og Oceans. Margt alls ekki fyrir minn smekk, en með áframhaldandi sjálfsvinnu og opnum huga mun ég kannski ná að fíla Even Flow og Alive. Set 4* í þeirri von.

What I was expecting but better, thought it would be butt rock's blueprint. It is, but it is actually good, Black is amazing. Overall good time.