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Ten (Pearl Jam album)

August 18, 2023

Ten is the debut studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991, through Epic Records. Following the dissolution of their previous band Mother Love Bone in 1990, bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard began rehearsing with new guitarist Mike McCready. The group recorded a five-song instrumental demo tape with Matt Cameron on drums. Copies of the demo were eventually given to drummer Dave Krusen and vocalist Eddie Vedder, both of whom were invited to audition for the band in Seattle. Many of the songs on Ten were instrumental jams or reworked Mother Love Bone songs for which Vedder composed new melodies and lyrics.[1]

Ten
Artwork for vinyl releases
Studio album by
Pearl Jam
ReleasedAugust 27, 1991 (1991-08-27)
RecordedMarch 27 – April 26, 1991, June 1991
StudioLondon Bridge (Seattle, Washington)
Ridge Farm (Surrey, England)
Genre
Length53:20
LabelEpic
Producer
Pearl Jam chronology
Ten
(1991) 		Vs.
(1993)
Alternative cover
Ten's cropped CD cover
Singles from Ten
  1. "Alive"
    Released: July 7, 1991
  2. "Even Flow"
    Released: April 6, 1992
  3. "Jeremy"
    Released: August 17, 1992
  4. "Oceans"
    Released: December 7, 1992

Despite its reputation as a quintessential grunge album, Ten is often noted for displaying a stronger classic rock influence than other contemporary grunge releases. In a review for AllMusic, Steve Huey asserted that the band's "intricately arranged guitar textures and expansive harmonic vocabulary... especially recalled Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin" and characterizes the album as having an "anthemic" and "warm, rich sound". Huey also praised Vedder for the "highly distinctive timbre" of his vocals and for the "passionate commitment of his delivery".[2]

Ten was not an immediate success, but by late 1992 it had reached number two on the Billboard 200. The album produced three hit singles: "Alive", "Even Flow", and "Jeremy". "Jeremy" became one of Pearl Jam's best-known songs, and received nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 35th Grammy Awards.[3] MTV put the video for "Jeremy" into heavy rotation; it received four awards at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Best Group Video.[4]

Beyond its role in consolidating the mainstream success of grunge rock in the early 1990s, Ten is generally considered to have been instrumental in the rise and dominance of alternative rock throughout the decade.[5] The album has since been ranked by several publications as one of the greatest albums of all time. By February 2013, it had sold 13 million copies in the US, becoming the 22nd record to do so in the Nielsen SoundScan era[6] and has been certified 13× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Ten remains Pearl Jam's most commercially successful album.[7]

Background

Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament had played together in the pioneering grunge band Green River. Following Green River's dissolution in 1987, Ament and Gossard played together in Mother Love Bone during the late 1980s. Mother Love Bone's career was cut short when vocalist Andrew Wood died of a drug overdose in 1990, shortly before the release of the group's debut album, Apple. Devastated, it took months before Gossard and Ament agreed to play together again. Gossard spent his time afterwards writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously.[8] After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band Shadow had broken up; McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with Ament.[9] The three then went into the studio for separate sessions with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and former Shadow drummer Chris Friel to record some instrumental demos.[10] Five of the songs recorded—"Dollar Short", "Agytian Crave", "Footsteps", "Richard's E", and "E Ballad"—were compiled onto a tape called Stone Gossard Demos '91 that was circulated in the hopes of finding a singer and drummer for the trio.[5]

San Diego musician Eddie Vedder acquired a copy of the demo in September 1990, when it was given to him by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons. Vedder listened to the demo, went surfing, and wrote lyrics the next day for "Dollar Short", "Agytian Crave", and "Footsteps". "Dollar Short" and "Agytian Crave" were later retitled "Alive" and "Once", respectively. Gossard and Ament heard the demo with Vedder's vocals and lyrics, and were impressed enough to fly Vedder out to Seattle for an audition. Meanwhile, Vedder had written lyrics for "E Ballad", retitled "Black". Vedder arrived on October 13 and rehearsed with the band (now joined by drummer Dave Krusen) for a week, writing eleven songs in the process. Vedder was soon hired as the band's singer, and the group signed to Epic Records shortly thereafter.[5]

Recording

The band, then named Mookie Blaylock (after the basketball player of that name), entered London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Washington in March 1991 with producer Rick Parashar to record its debut album. After working with Parashar on Temple of the Dog, Stone and Ament asked him to co-produce and engineer Ten. Parashar also contributed piano, Fender Rhodes, percussion, co-wrote vocal harmonies and co-wrote the intro/outro of the album. A few tracks were previously recorded at London Bridge in January, but only "Alive" was carried over from that session. The album sessions were quick and lasted only a month, mainly due to the band having already written most of the material for the record. "Porch", "Deep", "Why Go", and "Garden" were first recorded during the album sessions; everything else had been previously recorded during demo sessions at some point. McCready said that "Ten was mostly Stone and Jeff; me and Eddie were along for the ride at that time."[11] Ament stated, "We knew we were still a long way from being a real band at that point."[12]

The recording sessions for Ten were completed in May 1991. Krusen left the band once the sessions were completed, checking himself into rehab.[10] According to Krusen, he was suffering from personal problems at the time.[10] Krusen said, "It was a great experience. I felt from the beginning of that band that it was something special," and added, "They had to let me go. I couldn't stop drinking, and it was causing problems. They gave me many chances, but I couldn't get it together."[13] In June, the band joined Tim Palmer in England for mixing. Palmer decided to mix the album at Ridge Farm Studios in Dorking, a converted farm that according to Palmer was "about as far away from an L.A. or New York studio as you can get."[5] Palmer made a few additions to the already-recorded songs, including having McCready finish up the guitar solo on "Alive" and tweaking the intro to "Black". Palmer overdubbed a pepper shaker and a fire extinguisher as percussion on "Oceans".[5]

In subsequent years, band members have expressed dissatisfaction with the way the album's mixing turned out. In 2001, Ament said, "I'd love to remix Ten. Ed, for sure, would agree with me. It wouldn't be like changing performances; just pull some of the reverb off it."[11] In 2002, Gossard said, "It was 'over-rocked', we were novices in the studio and spent too long recording, doing different takes, and killing the vibe and overdubbing tons of guitar. There's a lot of reverb on the record."[14] In 2006, Vedder said, "I can listen to the early records [except] the first record...it's just the sound of the record. It was kind of mixed in a way that was...it was kind of produced."[15]

According to Guitar World, Mike McCready’s undisguised Stevie Ray Vaughan passion saw him bring Strats back into vogue. The guitarist described his playing on Black and Even Flow as an SRV “rip off”. Both guitarists used Marshall JCM800s for dirty tones and Fenders for clean parts.[16]

Music and lyrics

 
"Even Flow"
A sample of "Even Flow", the second single released from the album. The song has a funky riff written by Gossard and lyrics written by Vedder about homelessness.
"Jeremy"
A sample of "Jeremy", the third single released from the album. The lyrics for the song, written by Vedder, were inspired by a true story in which a high school student committed suicide in front of his classmates. It features prominent usage of Ament's 12-string bass guitar, which is pivotal to the sound of the introduction and end of the recording.
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Ten has been described as a grunge,[2][17] alternative rock,[2][17][18] and hard rock album.[2] Several of the songs on the album started as instrumental compositions that Vedder added lyrics to after he joined the band. Regarding the lyrics, Vedder said, "All I really believe in is this fucking moment, like right now. And that, actually, is what the whole album talks about."[19] Vedder's lyrics for Ten deal with subjects like depression, suicide, loneliness, and murder. The album also tackles social concerns such as homelessness ("Even Flow")[20] and the use of psychiatric hospitals ("Why Go").[21] The song "Jeremy" and its accompanying video were inspired by a true story in which a high school student shot himself in front of his classmates.[22][23]

Many listeners interpreted "Alive" as an inspirational anthem due to its decidedly uplifting instrumentals and chorus. Vedder has since revealed that the song tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a son discovering that his father is actually his stepfather (his real father having died long ago), while his mother's grief turns her to sexually embrace her son, who strongly resembles the biological father.[8] "Alive" and "Once" formed part of a song cycle in what Vedder later described as a "mini-opera" entitled Momma-Son[24] (the third song, "Footsteps", appeared as a B-side on the "Jeremy" single). Vedder explained that the lyrics told the story of a young man whose father dies ("Alive"), causing him to go on a killing spree ("Once") which leads to his capture and execution ("Footsteps"). It was later revealed that Vedder's lyrics were inspired by his long-held hurt in discovering at age 17 that the man he thought was his father was not, and that his real father had already died.[5]

While Ten deals with dark subject matter, it has generally been seen as a high-water mark of the early 1990s alternative rock sound, with Vedder's unusually deep and strong (and later much-imitated) voice alternating between solidity and vibrato against the unrestrained, guitar-heavy, hard rock sound that drew influence from Led Zeppelin and other rock bands of the 1970s. Ten's musical style, influenced by classic rock, combined an "expansive harmonic vocabulary" with an anthemic sound.[2] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that the songs on the album fused "the riff-heavy stadium rock of the 1970s with the grit and anger of '80s post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses."[25]

Ten features a two-part track entitled "Master/Slave" that both opens and closes the album. The first part begins the album, before "Once" starts, and the second part closes the album, after "Release". It begins about ten seconds after the album's closer "Release" as a hidden track, but both count as one track on the CD. The song is entirely instrumental (except for random unintelligible words Vedder utters throughout) with a dominant fretless bass line making up the core of the song (which Ament referred to in a 1994 Bass Player magazine interview as "my tribute to (fretless bass instrumentalist) Mick Karn"),[26] along with some guitar and sounds that seem to come from the drums. Producer Rick Parashar stated in 2002, "As I recall, I think Jeff had, like, a bass line...I heard the bass line and then we kind of were collaborating on that in the control room, and then I just started programming on the keyboard all this stuff; he was jamming with it and it just kind of came about like that."[5]

Outtakes

The album's singles featured two B-sides from the Ten recording sessions which were not included on the album, "Wash" and "Yellow Ledbetter". The former was a B-side on the "Alive" single while the latter was featured on the "Jeremy" single and eventually became a radio hit in 1994. Both songs were included on the 2003 Lost Dogs collection of rarities, although the included version of "Wash" is an alternate take. The song "Alone" was also originally recorded for Ten; a 1992 re-recorded version of the song is on the "Go" single. Another version of "Alone", with re-recorded vocals, appears on Lost Dogs.[27] According to McCready, "Alone" was cut from Ten because the band already had enough mid-tempo songs for the album.[27] The song "Dirty Frank", which was released as a B-side on the "Even Flow" single and often thought to be a Ten outtake, was recorded after Ten was released. Thus, "Dirty Frank" is not from the Ten recording sessions.[28]

The song "Footsteps" began as an instrumental demo and was compiled onto the Stone Gossard Demos '91 tape. Vedder added vocals to this version after he received the demo tape. The music for "Footsteps" was also used for Temple of the Dog's "Times of Trouble".[27] "Footsteps" was featured as a B-side on the "Jeremy" single, however this version is taken from a 1992 appearance on the radio show Rockline.[29] This version of "Footsteps" is also featured on Lost Dogs, however a harmonica intro has been overdubbed on to the recording.

Other songs rejected from the album but later included on Lost Dogs are "Hold On" and "Brother", the latter of which was turned into an instrumental for Lost Dogs.[27] "Brother" was cut because Gossard was no longer interested in playing the song, a decision which Ament objected to and almost caused him to quit the band.[30] The version of "Brother" with vocals appears on the 2009 Ten reissue and became a radio hit that same year.[31] Both "Breath" and "State of Love and Trust" were recorded with the intention of the two songs possibly appearing in the film Singles.[32] The versions heard in the film and on its soundtrack were recorded a year later in 1992.[33] The versions from the Ten sessions appear on the 2009 Ten reissue. Other songs rejected from the album but included on the 2009 Ten reissue are "Just a Girl", "2,000 Mile Blues", and "Evil Little Goat".

Release and promotion

Packaging

The album's cover art features the members of the band at the time of recording in a group pose and standing in front of a wood cut-out of the name "Pearl Jam", with their hands risen high and holding one another's. The wood cut-out was constructed by Jeff Ament.[34] Ament said, "The original concept was about really being together as a group and entering into the world of music as a true band...a sort of all-for-one deal."[35] Ament is credited for the album's artwork and art direction,[36] Lance Mercer receives credit for photography, and both Lisa Sparagano and Risa Zaitschek are credited for design.[36] Ament stated, "There was a bit of headbutting going on with the Sony art department at that time. The version that everybody got to know as the Ten album cover was pink and it was originally intended to be more of a burgundy color and the picture of the band was supposed to be black and white."[37] Pearl Jam's original name was taken from the professional basketball player Mookie Blaylock.[25] It was changed after the band signed to Epic Records, as record executives were concerned about intellectual property and naming rights following Blaylock's inking of an endorsement deal with Nike. In commemoration of the band's original name, the band titled Ten after Blaylock's jersey number.[38]

In some versions (mainly CD and cassette releases), the cover is in gatefold form, folded in such a way that only the band members' hands are visible.

Tour

Main article: Ten Tour

Ament stated that "essentially Ten was just an excuse to tour", adding, "We told the record company, 'We know we can be a great band, so let's just get the opportunity to get out and play.'"[12] Pearl Jam faced a relentless touring schedule for Ten.[33] Drummer Dave Abbruzzese joined the band for Pearl Jam's live shows supporting the album. Halfway through its own planned North American tour, Pearl Jam cancelled the remaining dates in order to take a slot opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the band's Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour in the fall of 1991 in North America. The spot was arranged by Jack Irons, who had called his former band asking for them to get an opportunity to his friend Vedder.[39] The Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana were also supporting acts. Nirvana was initially brought in because the tour promoters decided that Pearl Jam should be replaced with a more successful act,[39] but the departure of the Smashing Pumpkins still kept the group in the concert bill.[39] Epic executive Michael Goldstone observed that "the band did such an amazing job opening the Chili Peppers tour that it opened doors at radio."[11]

In 1992, the band embarked on its first ever European tour. On March 13, 1992, at the Munich, Germany show at Nachtwerk, Pearl Jam played Ten in its entirety in order midway through its set.[40] The band would only do this again in 2016 at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, as the arena management homaged the band's tenth straight sellout concert in the city.[41] Following the European leg, Pearl Jam did another tour of North America. Goldstone noted that the band's audience expanded, saying that unlike before, "everyone came."[11] The band's manager, Kelly Curtis, stated, "Once people came and saw them live, this lightbulb would go on. During their first tour, you kind of knew it was happening and there was no stopping it. To play in the Midwest and be selling out these 500 seat clubs. Eddie could say he wanted to talk to Brett, the sound guy, and they'd carry him out there on their hands. You hadn't really seen that reaction from a crowd before..."[11] When Pearl Jam came back for a second go-around in Europe the band appeared at the Pinkpop Festival and the Roskilde Festival in June 1992. The band cancelled its remaining European dates in the summer of 1992 after the Roskilde Festival due to a confrontation with security at that event as well as exhaustion from touring.[42] Ament said, "We'd been on the road over 10 months. I think there just came a point about half way through that tour it was just starting to get pretty intense. I mean just being away from home, being on the road all the time and being lonely or being depressed or whatever."[43] The band would go on to play the 1992 Lollapalooza tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Ministry and Ice Cube, among others.

2009 re-release

On March 24, 2009, Ten was reissued in four editions (Legacy, Deluxe, Vinyl, and Super Deluxe). It was the first reissue in a planned re-release of Pearl Jam's entire catalogue that led up to the band's 20th anniversary in 2011.[35] The extras on the four editions include a remastering and remix of the entire album by producer Brendan O'Brien, re-designed packaging, six bonus tracks ("Brother", "Just a Girl", "Breath and a Scream", "State of Love and Trust", "2,000 Mile Blues", and "Evil Little Goat"), a DVD of the band's 1992 appearance on MTV Unplugged (including a bonus performance of "Oceans", which along with "Rockin' in the Free World" was originally excluded from the broadcast version), vinyl versions of the album, an LP of the band's September 20, 1992 concert at Magnuson Park in Seattle (also known as Drop in the Park), a replica of the original Momma-Son demo cassette, and a replica of Vedder's composition notebook containing personal notes and mementos.

Regarding his remix of the album, O'Brien stated, "The band loved the original mix of Ten, but were also interested in what it would sound like if I were to deconstruct and remix it...The original Ten sound is what millions of people bought, dug and loved, so I was initially hesitant to mess around with that. After years of persistent nudging from the band, I was able to wrap my head around the idea of offering it as a companion piece to the original—giving a fresh take on it, a more direct sound."[35]

The Ten reissue sold 60,000 copies in its first week, the second biggest selling week for the album since Christmas 1993.[44] Since Billboard considers the Ten reissue a catalog item, Ten did not appear on the Billboard 200, Top Modern Rock/Alternative, or Top Rock Albums, since those charts do not include catalog items.[44] Had it been included on the Billboard 200, the 60,000 copies sold of the Ten reissue would have placed it at number five.[45] The reissue also re-entered the Australian Albums Chart at number 11, giving it a new peak chart position in Australia and its highest chart placing since June 14, 1992.[46]

Tying in with the re-release of the album in March 2009, the entire album was made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band series of video games.[47] In addition, three Ten-era bonus tracks were made available for the Rock Band video game for those who purchased the Ten re-release through Best Buy: "Brother", "Alive", and "State of Love and Trust", the latter two as live versions taken from the band's September 20 concert.[48]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]
Blender     [49]
Chicago Tribune    [50]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[51]
Mojo     [52]
Q     [53]
Rolling Stone     [54]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [55]
Uncut     [56]
The Village VoiceB−[57]

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic David Fricke gave the album a favorable review, saying that Pearl Jam "hurtles into the mystic at warp speed." He also added that Pearl Jam "wring a lot of drama out of a few declarative power chords swimming in echo."[54] Allan Jones of Melody Maker suggested in his review of Ten that it is Vedder that "provides Pearl Jam with such a uniquely compelling focus."[58] AllMusic staff writer Steve Huey called it a "flawlessly crafted hard rock masterpiece" and felt that Vedder's "impressionistic lyrics" are more effective through his passionate vocal delivery rather than their "concrete meaning."[2] Q called it "raucous modern rock, spiked with infectious guitar motifs and powered with driving bass and drums," and said it "may well be the face of the 90's metal."[53] Stereo Review said that "the band sounds larger than life, producing a towering inferno of roaring guitars, monumental bass and drums, and from-the-gut vocals."[59] Don Kaye of Kerrang! defined the album "introspective and charged with a quiet emotional force".[60] Greg Kot wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "Occasionally overwrought and unrelentingly humorless, the music nonetheless exerts a hypnotic power at its best."[50]

In a less enthusiastic review for Entertainment Weekly, David Browne found Pearl Jam to be derivative of "fellow Northwestern rockers like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and the defunct Mother Love Bone", and felt that it "goes to show that just about anything can be harnessed and packaged."[51] NME accused Pearl Jam of "trying to steal money from young alternative kids' pockets."[61] Nirvana's Kurt Cobain angrily attacked Pearl Jam, claiming the band were commercial sellouts,[62] and argued Ten was not a true alternative album because it had so many prominent guitar leads.[5] Robert Christgau, writing in The Village Voice, gave the album a "B−" and viewed it as another in a "slew of Seattle albums" that "modulate the same misguided ethos", which he said was "hippie" rather than "punk". Christgau described it as "San Francisco ballroom music" whose "distinguishing characteristics" could only be discerned by listeners if they "take the right drugs".[57] He later gave Ten a two-star honorable mention, citing "Once" and "Even Flow" as highlights, and quipped, "in life, abuse justifies melodrama; in music, riffs work better".[63] Charles R. Cross wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that Ten sounded less original and more self-important than Nirvana's Nevermind, but it also showcases the band's intricate guitar style and Vedder's distinctive singing.[55]

Legacy

Defined by Kerrang!'s George Garner as "arguably the greatest rock debut record of all time",[64] Ten, in 2003, was ranked number 207 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[65] and 209 in a 2012 revised list. In 2020 it was raised to the 160th position on the list.[66] Readers of Q voted Ten as the 42nd greatest album ever;[67] however, three years later the album was listed lower at 59th.[68] In 2003, VH1 placed it at number 83 on their list of the 100 greatest albums of rock and roll.[69] In 2006, British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll of which, 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Ten was placed at number 66 on the list.[70] It was also ranked number 15 in the October 2006 issue of Guitar World on the magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time.[71] In 2007, the album was included at number 11 on the list of the "Definitive 200" albums of all time developed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.[72] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[73] In December 2020, the album was announced as one of many inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as part of the 2021 class.[74]

Accolades for Ten
Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Guitar World United States "100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time"[71] 2006 15
Rolling Stone United States "10 Greatest Debut Albums (Readers' Poll)"[75] 2013 1
National Association of
Recording Merchandisers 		United States "Definitive 200"[72] 2007 11
Pause & Play United States "The 90s Top 100 Essential Albums"[76] 1999 11
Q United Kingdom "100 Greatest Albums Ever"[67] 2003 42
"100 Greatest Albums Ever"[68] 2006 59
Rolling Stone United States "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"[66][77] 2012 209
Spin United States "Top 90 Albums of the 90s"[78] 1999 33
"100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005"[79] 2005 93
VH1 United States "100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll"[69] 2003 83
Kerrang! United Kingdom "100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"[80] 1998 15
Nieuwe Revu Netherlands "Top 100 Albums of All Time"[81] 1994 25
Musik Express/Sounds Germany "The 100 Masterpieces"[82] 1993 68
Rolling Stone Germany "The 500 Best Albums of All Time"[83] 2004 20
Juice Australia "The 100 (+34) Greatest Albums of the 90s"[84] 1999 101
Viceversa Italy "100 Rock Albums"[85] 1996 99

Commercial performance

Ten initially sold slowly upon its release, but by the second half of 1992 it became a breakthrough success, attaining an RIAA gold certification.[5] Almost a year after its release, the album finally broke into the top ten of the Billboard 200 album chart on May 30, 1992, reaching number eight. Ten would eventually peak at number two for four weeks. It was held off the top spot by the Billy Ray Cyrus album, Some Gave All.[86] The album spent a total of 264 weeks on the Billboard charts,[87] making it one of the top 15 charting albums ever. By February 1993, American sales of Ten surpassed those of Nevermind, the breakthrough album by fellow grunge band Nirvana.[88] Ten continued to sell well two years after its release; in 1993 it was the eighth best-selling album in the United States, outselling Pearl Jam's second album, Vs.[89] As of February 2013, Ten has sold 13 million copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan,[6] and has been certified 13× platinum by the RIAA.[90]

Ten produced three hit singles, "Alive", "Even Flow", and "Jeremy", all of which had accompanying music videos (The "Oceans" video was released only outside of the U.S.). The singles all placed on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts. The song "Black" reached number three on the Mainstream Rock chart, despite never being released as a single. The video for "Alive" was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video in 1992.[91] "Jeremy" became one of Pearl Jam's best-known songs, and received nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 1993 Grammy awards.[3] The video for "Jeremy", directed by Mark Pellington, was put into heavy rotation by MTV and became a huge hit, receiving five nominations at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, of which it won four, including Video of the Year and Best Group Video.[4]

Track listing

Original release

All lyrics are written by Eddie Vedder; except for the bonus track "I've Got a Feeling", by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Ten track listing
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Once"Stone Gossard3:51
2."Even Flow"Gossard4:53
3."Alive"Gossard5:41
4."Why Go"Jeff Ament3:20
5."Black"Gossard5:43
6."Jeremy"Ament5:18
7."Oceans"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
  • Vedder
2:42
8."Porch"Vedder3:30
9."Garden"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
4:59
10."Deep"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
4:18
11."Release[I]" (Hidden track "Master/Slave" starts at 5:18.)
9:05
Total length:53:20
European edition bonus tracks
No.TitleMusicLength
12."Alive" (live on August 3, 1991, at RKCNDY in Seattle, Washington)Gossard4:54
13."Wash"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
  • Krusen
  • McCready
  • Vedder
3:33
14."Dirty Frank"
5:38
Total length:67:25
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleMusicLength
12."I've Got a Feeling"Lennon–McCartney3:42
13."Master/Slave"Ament3:48
Total length:60:50
Reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleMusicLength
12."Brother" (with vocals)Gossard3:59
13."Just a Girl" (Mookie Blaylock demo 1990)Gossard5:01
14."Breath and a Scream" (Mookie Blaylock demo 1990)Gossard5:58
15."State of Love and Trust" (Demo 1991)
  • McCready
  • Ament
4:47
16."2,000 Mile Blues"
  • Ament
  • McCready
  • Krusen
3:57
17."Evil Little Goat"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
  • Krusen
  • McCready
  • Vedder
1:27
Total length:78:29
iTunes reissue bonus tracks (December 31, 1992, at The Academy Theater in New York City)
No.TitleMusicLength
18."Why Go"Ament4:01
19."Even Flow"Gossard5:10
20."Alone"
  • Abbruzzese
  • Ament
  • Gossard
  • McCready
  • Vedder
3:26
21."Garden"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
5:42
Total length:96:48

MTV Unplugged DVD

MTV Unplugged track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Oceans" 
2."State of Love and Trust" 
3."Alive" 
4."Black" 
5."Jeremy" 
6."Even Flow" 
7."Porch" 

Momma-Son cassette

All lyrics are written by Vedder; all music is composed by Gossard

Momma-Son track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Alive"4:35
2."Once"3:44
3."Footsteps"4:20

Drop in the Park LP

All lyrics are written by Vedder

Side one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Even Flow"Gossard5:14
2."Once"Gossard3:32
3."State of Love and Trust"
  • McCready
  • Ament
3:44
4."Why Go"Ament3:20
Side two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Deep"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
4:22
2."Jeremy"Ament5:03
3."Black"Gossard5:28
Side three
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Alive"Gossard5:50
2."Garden"
  • Gossard
  • Ament
5:35
Side four
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Porch"Vedder12:42

Personnel

Pearl Jam

Additional musicians and production

  • Dave Hillis – engineering
  • Don Gilmore, Adrian Moore – additional engineering
  • Walter Gray – cello
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Lance Mercer – photos
  • Tim Palmer – fire extinguisher and pepper shaker on "Oceans", mixing
  • Rick Parashar – production, piano, organ, percussion
  • Pearl Jam – production
  • Steve Pitstick – additional art
  • Lisa Sparagano, Risa Zaitschek – design

Charts

Singles

Chart performance for singles from Ten
Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications
US
[139]		 US Main
[140]		 US Mod
[141]		 AUS
[142]		 BEL
[143]		 CAN
[144]		 GER
[145]		 IRE
[146]		 NLD
[147]		 NZ
[148]		 UK
[149]
"Alive" 1991 —[A] 16 18 9 16 — 44 13 19 20 16
  • AUS: Gold
  • IT: Gold
  • UK: Silver
"Even Flow" 1992 —[B] 3 21 22 — 73 — — — 20 27
  • UK: Silver
"Jeremy" 79 5 5 68 — 32 93 10 59 34 15
"Oceans" — — — — 35 — — — 30 16 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
  1. ^ "Alive" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but spent 61 weeks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, peaking at number 7.
  2. ^ "Even Flow" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but spent 52 weeks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart peaking at number 8.

Certifications

Certifications for Ten
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[151]
Re-release edition 		Gold 20,000^
Australia (ARIA)[152] 8× Platinum 560,000‡
Belgium (BEA)[153] Platinum 50,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[154] Gold 100,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[155] 7× Platinum 700,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[156] 3× Platinum 60,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[157] Gold 250,000^
Italy (FIMI)[158]
sales since 2009 		Platinum 50,000*
Netherlands (NVPI)[159] Platinum 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[160] 6× Platinum 90,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[161] Gold 25,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[162] Gold 35,000*
Portugal (AFP)[163] Gold 20,000^
Sweden (GLF)[164] Gold 50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[165] Gold 25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[166] 2× Platinum 600,000^
United States (RIAA)[167] 13× Platinum 13,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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External links

  • Official website  
  • Ten at Discogs (list of releases)

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pearl, album, debut, studio, album, american, rock, band, pearl, released, august, 1991, through, epic, records, following, dissolution, their, previous, band, mother, love, bone, 1990, bassist, jeff, ament, guitarist, stone, gossard, began, rehearsing, with, . Ten is the debut studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam released on August 27 1991 through Epic Records Following the dissolution of their previous band Mother Love Bone in 1990 bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard began rehearsing with new guitarist Mike McCready The group recorded a five song instrumental demo tape with Matt Cameron on drums Copies of the demo were eventually given to drummer Dave Krusen and vocalist Eddie Vedder both of whom were invited to audition for the band in Seattle Many of the songs on Ten were instrumental jams or reworked Mother Love Bone songs for which Vedder composed new melodies and lyrics 1 TenArtwork for vinyl releasesStudio album by Pearl JamReleasedAugust 27 1991 1991 08 27 RecordedMarch 27 April 26 1991 June 1991StudioLondon Bridge Seattle Washington Ridge Farm Surrey England GenreGrunge alternative rock hard rockLength53 20LabelEpicProducerRick Parashar Pearl JamPearl Jam chronologyTen 1991 Vs 1993 Alternative coverTen s cropped CD coverSingles from Ten Alive Released July 7 1991 Even Flow Released April 6 1992 Jeremy Released August 17 1992 Oceans Released December 7 1992Despite its reputation as a quintessential grunge album Ten is often noted for displaying a stronger classic rock influence than other contemporary grunge releases In a review for AllMusic Steve Huey asserted that the band s intricately arranged guitar textures and expansive harmonic vocabulary especially recalled Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and characterizes the album as having an anthemic and warm rich sound Huey also praised Vedder for the highly distinctive timbre of his vocals and for the passionate commitment of his delivery 2 Ten was not an immediate success but by late 1992 it had reached number two on the Billboard 200 The album produced three hit singles Alive Even Flow and Jeremy Jeremy became one of Pearl Jam s best known songs and received nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 35th Grammy Awards 3 MTV put the video for Jeremy into heavy rotation it received four awards at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year and Best Group Video 4 Beyond its role in consolidating the mainstream success of grunge rock in the early 1990s Ten is generally considered to have been instrumental in the rise and dominance of alternative rock throughout the decade 5 The album has since been ranked by several publications as one of the greatest albums of all time By February 2013 it had sold 13 million copies in the US becoming the 22nd record to do so in the Nielsen SoundScan era 6 and has been certified 13 Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA Ten remains Pearl Jam s most commercially successful album 7 Contents 1 Background 2 Recording 3 Music and lyrics 3 1 Outtakes 4 Release and promotion 4 1 Packaging 4 2 Tour 4 3 2009 re release 5 Critical reception 5 1 Legacy 6 Commercial performance 7 Track listing 7 1 Original release 7 2 MTV Unplugged DVD 7 3 Momma Son cassette 7 4 Drop in the Park LP 8 Personnel 9 Charts 9 1 Original release 9 2 Year end charts 9 3 Decade end charts 9 4 Singles 10 Certifications 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksBackground EditGuitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament had played together in the pioneering grunge band Green River Following Green River s dissolution in 1987 Ament and Gossard played together in Mother Love Bone during the late 1980s Mother Love Bone s career was cut short when vocalist Andrew Wood died of a drug overdose in 1990 shortly before the release of the group s debut album Apple Devastated it took months before Gossard and Ament agreed to play together again Gossard spent his time afterwards writing material that was harder edged than what he had been doing previously 8 After a few months Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready whose band Shadow had broken up McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with Ament 9 The three then went into the studio for separate sessions with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and former Shadow drummer Chris Friel to record some instrumental demos 10 Five of the songs recorded Dollar Short Agytian Crave Footsteps Richard s E and E Ballad were compiled onto a tape called Stone Gossard Demos 91 that was circulated in the hopes of finding a singer and drummer for the trio 5 San Diego musician Eddie Vedder acquired a copy of the demo in September 1990 when it was given to him by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons Vedder listened to the demo went surfing and wrote lyrics the next day for Dollar Short Agytian Crave and Footsteps Dollar Short and Agytian Crave were later retitled Alive and Once respectively Gossard and Ament heard the demo with Vedder s vocals and lyrics and were impressed enough to fly Vedder out to Seattle for an audition Meanwhile Vedder had written lyrics for E Ballad retitled Black Vedder arrived on October 13 and rehearsed with the band now joined by drummer Dave Krusen for a week writing eleven songs in the process Vedder was soon hired as the band s singer and the group signed to Epic Records shortly thereafter 5 Recording EditThe band then named Mookie Blaylock after the basketball player of that name entered London Bridge Studios in Seattle Washington in March 1991 with producer Rick Parashar to record its debut album After working with Parashar on Temple of the Dog Stone and Ament asked him to co produce and engineer Ten Parashar also contributed piano Fender Rhodes percussion co wrote vocal harmonies and co wrote the intro outro of the album A few tracks were previously recorded at London Bridge in January but only Alive was carried over from that session The album sessions were quick and lasted only a month mainly due to the band having already written most of the material for the record Porch Deep Why Go and Garden were first recorded during the album sessions everything else had been previously recorded during demo sessions at some point McCready said that Ten was mostly Stone and Jeff me and Eddie were along for the ride at that time 11 Ament stated We knew we were still a long way from being a real band at that point 12 The recording sessions for Ten were completed in May 1991 Krusen left the band once the sessions were completed checking himself into rehab 10 According to Krusen he was suffering from personal problems at the time 10 Krusen said It was a great experience I felt from the beginning of that band that it was something special and added They had to let me go I couldn t stop drinking and it was causing problems They gave me many chances but I couldn t get it together 13 In June the band joined Tim Palmer in England for mixing Palmer decided to mix the album at Ridge Farm Studios in Dorking a converted farm that according to Palmer was about as far away from an L A or New York studio as you can get 5 Palmer made a few additions to the already recorded songs including having McCready finish up the guitar solo on Alive and tweaking the intro to Black Palmer overdubbed a pepper shaker and a fire extinguisher as percussion on Oceans 5 In subsequent years band members have expressed dissatisfaction with the way the album s mixing turned out In 2001 Ament said I d love to remix Ten Ed for sure would agree with me It wouldn t be like changing performances just pull some of the reverb off it 11 In 2002 Gossard said It was over rocked we were novices in the studio and spent too long recording doing different takes and killing the vibe and overdubbing tons of guitar There s a lot of reverb on the record 14 In 2006 Vedder said I can listen to the early records except the first record it s just the sound of the record It was kind of mixed in a way that was it was kind of produced 15 According to Guitar World Mike McCready s undisguised Stevie Ray Vaughan passion saw him bring Strats back into vogue The guitarist described his playing on Black and Even Flow as an SRV rip off Both guitarists used Marshall JCM800s for dirty tones and Fenders for clean parts 16 Music and lyrics Edit Even Flow source source A sample of Even Flow the second single released from the album The song has a funky riff written by Gossard and lyrics written by Vedder about homelessness Jeremy source source A sample of Jeremy the third single released from the album The lyrics for the song written by Vedder were inspired by a true story in which a high school student committed suicide in front of his classmates It features prominent usage of Ament s 12 string bass guitar which is pivotal to the sound of the introduction and end of the recording Problems playing these files See media help Ten has been described as a grunge 2 17 alternative rock 2 17 18 and hard rock album 2 Several of the songs on the album started as instrumental compositions that Vedder added lyrics to after he joined the band Regarding the lyrics Vedder said All I really believe in is this fucking moment like right now And that actually is what the whole album talks about 19 Vedder s lyrics for Ten deal with subjects like depression suicide loneliness and murder The album also tackles social concerns such as homelessness Even Flow 20 and the use of psychiatric hospitals Why Go 21 The song Jeremy and its accompanying video were inspired by a true story in which a high school student shot himself in front of his classmates 22 23 Many listeners interpreted Alive as an inspirational anthem due to its decidedly uplifting instrumentals and chorus Vedder has since revealed that the song tells the semi autobiographical tale of a son discovering that his father is actually his stepfather his real father having died long ago while his mother s grief turns her to sexually embrace her son who strongly resembles the biological father 8 Alive and Once formed part of a song cycle in what Vedder later described as a mini opera entitled Momma Son 24 the third song Footsteps appeared as a B side on the Jeremy single Vedder explained that the lyrics told the story of a young man whose father dies Alive causing him to go on a killing spree Once which leads to his capture and execution Footsteps It was later revealed that Vedder s lyrics were inspired by his long held hurt in discovering at age 17 that the man he thought was his father was not and that his real father had already died 5 While Ten deals with dark subject matter it has generally been seen as a high water mark of the early 1990s alternative rock sound with Vedder s unusually deep and strong and later much imitated voice alternating between solidity and vibrato against the unrestrained guitar heavy hard rock sound that drew influence from Led Zeppelin and other rock bands of the 1970s Ten s musical style influenced by classic rock combined an expansive harmonic vocabulary with an anthemic sound 2 Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that the songs on the album fused the riff heavy stadium rock of the 1970s with the grit and anger of 80s post punk without ever neglecting hooks and choruses 25 Ten features a two part track entitled Master Slave that both opens and closes the album The first part begins the album before Once starts and the second part closes the album after Release It begins about ten seconds after the album s closer Release as a hidden track but both count as one track on the CD The song is entirely instrumental except for random unintelligible words Vedder utters throughout with a dominant fretless bass line making up the core of the song which Ament referred to in a 1994 Bass Player magazine interview as my tribute to fretless bass instrumentalist Mick Karn 26 along with some guitar and sounds that seem to come from the drums Producer Rick Parashar stated in 2002 As I recall I think Jeff had like a bass line I heard the bass line and then we kind of were collaborating on that in the control room and then I just started programming on the keyboard all this stuff he was jamming with it and it just kind of came about like that 5 Outtakes Edit The album s singles featured two B sides from the Ten recording sessions which were not included on the album Wash and Yellow Ledbetter The former was a B side on the Alive single while the latter was featured on the Jeremy single and eventually became a radio hit in 1994 Both songs were included on the 2003 Lost Dogs collection of rarities although the included version of Wash is an alternate take The song Alone was also originally recorded for Ten a 1992 re recorded version of the song is on the Go single Another version of Alone with re recorded vocals appears on Lost Dogs 27 According to McCready Alone was cut from Ten because the band already had enough mid tempo songs for the album 27 The song Dirty Frank which was released as a B side on the Even Flow single and often thought to be a Ten outtake was recorded after Ten was released Thus Dirty Frank is not from the Ten recording sessions 28 The song Footsteps began as an instrumental demo and was compiled onto the Stone Gossard Demos 91 tape Vedder added vocals to this version after he received the demo tape The music for Footsteps was also used for Temple of the Dog s Times of Trouble 27 Footsteps was featured as a B side on the Jeremy single however this version is taken from a 1992 appearance on the radio show Rockline 29 This version of Footsteps is also featured on Lost Dogs however a harmonica intro has been overdubbed on to the recording Other songs rejected from the album but later included on Lost Dogs are Hold On and Brother the latter of which was turned into an instrumental for Lost Dogs 27 Brother was cut because Gossard was no longer interested in playing the song a decision which Ament objected to and almost caused him to quit the band 30 The version of Brother with vocals appears on the 2009 Ten reissue and became a radio hit that same year 31 Both Breath and State of Love and Trust were recorded with the intention of the two songs possibly appearing in the film Singles 32 The versions heard in the film and on its soundtrack were recorded a year later in 1992 33 The versions from the Ten sessions appear on the 2009 Ten reissue Other songs rejected from the album but included on the 2009 Ten reissue are Just a Girl 2 000 Mile Blues and Evil Little Goat Release and promotion EditPackaging Edit The album s cover art features the members of the band at the time of recording in a group pose and standing in front of a wood cut out of the name Pearl Jam with their hands risen high and holding one another s The wood cut out was constructed by Jeff Ament 34 Ament said The original concept was about really being together as a group and entering into the world of music as a true band a sort of all for one deal 35 Ament is credited for the album s artwork and art direction 36 Lance Mercer receives credit for photography and both Lisa Sparagano and Risa Zaitschek are credited for design 36 Ament stated There was a bit of headbutting going on with the Sony art department at that time The version that everybody got to know as the Ten album cover was pink and it was originally intended to be more of a burgundy color and the picture of the band was supposed to be black and white 37 Pearl Jam s original name was taken from the professional basketball player Mookie Blaylock 25 It was changed after the band signed to Epic Records as record executives were concerned about intellectual property and naming rights following Blaylock s inking of an endorsement deal with Nike In commemoration of the band s original name the band titled Ten after Blaylock s jersey number 38 In some versions mainly CD and cassette releases the cover is in gatefold form folded in such a way that only the band members hands are visible Tour Edit Main article Ten Tour Ament stated that essentially Ten was just an excuse to tour adding We told the record company We know we can be a great band so let s just get the opportunity to get out and play 12 Pearl Jam faced a relentless touring schedule for Ten 33 Drummer Dave Abbruzzese joined the band for Pearl Jam s live shows supporting the album Halfway through its own planned North American tour Pearl Jam cancelled the remaining dates in order to take a slot opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the band s Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour in the fall of 1991 in North America The spot was arranged by Jack Irons who had called his former band asking for them to get an opportunity to his friend Vedder 39 The Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana were also supporting acts Nirvana was initially brought in because the tour promoters decided that Pearl Jam should be replaced with a more successful act 39 but the departure of the Smashing Pumpkins still kept the group in the concert bill 39 Epic executive Michael Goldstone observed that the band did such an amazing job opening the Chili Peppers tour that it opened doors at radio 11 In 1992 the band embarked on its first ever European tour On March 13 1992 at the Munich Germany show at Nachtwerk Pearl Jam played Ten in its entirety in order midway through its set 40 The band would only do this again in 2016 at Philadelphia s Wells Fargo Center as the arena management homaged the band s tenth straight sellout concert in the city 41 Following the European leg Pearl Jam did another tour of North America Goldstone noted that the band s audience expanded saying that unlike before everyone came 11 The band s manager Kelly Curtis stated Once people came and saw them live this lightbulb would go on During their first tour you kind of knew it was happening and there was no stopping it To play in the Midwest and be selling out these 500 seat clubs Eddie could say he wanted to talk to Brett the sound guy and they d carry him out there on their hands You hadn t really seen that reaction from a crowd before 11 When Pearl Jam came back for a second go around in Europe the band appeared at the Pinkpop Festival and the Roskilde Festival in June 1992 The band cancelled its remaining European dates in the summer of 1992 after the Roskilde Festival due to a confrontation with security at that event as well as exhaustion from touring 42 Ament said We d been on the road over 10 months I think there just came a point about half way through that tour it was just starting to get pretty intense I mean just being away from home being on the road all the time and being lonely or being depressed or whatever 43 The band would go on to play the 1992 Lollapalooza tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers Soundgarden Ministry and Ice Cube among others 2009 re release Edit On March 24 2009 Ten was reissued in four editions Legacy Deluxe Vinyl and Super Deluxe It was the first reissue in a planned re release of Pearl Jam s entire catalogue that led up to the band s 20th anniversary in 2011 35 The extras on the four editions include a remastering and remix of the entire album by producer Brendan O Brien re designed packaging six bonus tracks Brother Just a Girl Breath and a Scream State of Love and Trust 2 000 Mile Blues and Evil Little Goat a DVD of the band s 1992 appearance on MTV Unplugged including a bonus performance of Oceans which along with Rockin in the Free World was originally excluded from the broadcast version vinyl versions of the album an LP of the band s September 20 1992 concert at Magnuson Park in Seattle also known as Drop in the Park a replica of the original Momma Son demo cassette and a replica of Vedder s composition notebook containing personal notes and mementos Regarding his remix of the album O Brien stated The band loved the original mix of Ten but were also interested in what it would sound like if I were to deconstruct and remix it The original Ten sound is what millions of people bought dug and loved so I was initially hesitant to mess around with that After years of persistent nudging from the band I was able to wrap my head around the idea of offering it as a companion piece to the original giving a fresh take on it a more direct sound 35 The Ten reissue sold 60 000 copies in its first week the second biggest selling week for the album since Christmas 1993 44 Since Billboard considers the Ten reissue a catalog item Ten did not appear on the Billboard 200 Top Modern Rock Alternative or Top Rock Albums since those charts do not include catalog items 44 Had it been included on the Billboard 200 the 60 000 copies sold of the Ten reissue would have placed it at number five 45 The reissue also re entered the Australian Albums Chart at number 11 giving it a new peak chart position in Australia and its highest chart placing since June 14 1992 46 Tying in with the re release of the album in March 2009 the entire album was made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band series of video games 47 In addition three Ten era bonus tracks were made available for the Rock Band video game for those who purchased the Ten re release through Best Buy Brother Alive and State of Love and Trust the latter two as live versions taken from the band s September 20 concert 48 Critical reception EditProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 2 Blender 49 Chicago Tribune 50 Entertainment WeeklyB 51 Mojo 52 Q 53 Rolling Stone 54 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 55 Uncut 56 The Village VoiceB 57 In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone music critic David Fricke gave the album a favorable review saying that Pearl Jam hurtles into the mystic at warp speed He also added that Pearl Jam wring a lot of drama out of a few declarative power chords swimming in echo 54 Allan Jones of Melody Maker suggested in his review of Ten that it is Vedder that provides Pearl Jam with such a uniquely compelling focus 58 AllMusic staff writer Steve Huey called it a flawlessly crafted hard rock masterpiece and felt that Vedder s impressionistic lyrics are more effective through his passionate vocal delivery rather than their concrete meaning 2 Q called it raucous modern rock spiked with infectious guitar motifs and powered with driving bass and drums and said it may well be the face of the 90 s metal 53 Stereo Review said that the band sounds larger than life producing a towering inferno of roaring guitars monumental bass and drums and from the gut vocals 59 Don Kaye of Kerrang defined the album introspective and charged with a quiet emotional force 60 Greg Kot wrote in the Chicago Tribune Occasionally overwrought and unrelentingly humorless the music nonetheless exerts a hypnotic power at its best 50 In a less enthusiastic review for Entertainment Weekly David Browne found Pearl Jam to be derivative of fellow Northwestern rockers like Soundgarden Alice in Chains and the defunct Mother Love Bone and felt that it goes to show that just about anything can be harnessed and packaged 51 NME accused Pearl Jam of trying to steal money from young alternative kids pockets 61 Nirvana s Kurt Cobain angrily attacked Pearl Jam claiming the band were commercial sellouts 62 and argued Ten was not a true alternative album because it had so many prominent guitar leads 5 Robert Christgau writing in The Village Voice gave the album a B and viewed it as another in a slew of Seattle albums that modulate the same misguided ethos which he said was hippie rather than punk Christgau described it as San Francisco ballroom music whose distinguishing characteristics could only be discerned by listeners if they take the right drugs 57 He later gave Ten a two star honorable mention citing Once and Even Flow as highlights and quipped in life abuse justifies melodrama in music riffs work better 63 Charles R Cross wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004 that Ten sounded less original and more self important than Nirvana s Nevermind but it also showcases the band s intricate guitar style and Vedder s distinctive singing 55 Legacy Edit Defined by Kerrang s George Garner as arguably the greatest rock debut record of all time 64 Ten in 2003 was ranked number 207 on Rolling Stone s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time 65 and 209 in a 2012 revised list In 2020 it was raised to the 160th position on the list 66 Readers of Q voted Ten as the 42nd greatest album ever 67 however three years later the album was listed lower at 59th 68 In 2003 VH1 placed it at number 83 on their list of the 100 greatest albums of rock and roll 69 In 2006 British Hit Singles amp Albums and NME organised a poll of which 40 000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Ten was placed at number 66 on the list 70 It was also ranked number 15 in the October 2006 issue of Guitar World on the magazine s list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time 71 In 2007 the album was included at number 11 on the list of the Definitive 200 albums of all time developed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers 72 The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 73 In December 2020 the album was announced as one of many inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as part of the 2021 class 74 Accolades for Ten Publication Country Accolade Year RankGuitar World United States 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time 71 2006 15Rolling Stone United States 10 Greatest Debut Albums Readers Poll 75 2013 1National Association of Recording Merchandisers United States Definitive 200 72 2007 11Pause amp Play United States The 90s Top 100 Essential Albums 76 1999 11Q United Kingdom 100 Greatest Albums Ever 67 2003 42 100 Greatest Albums Ever 68 2006 59Rolling Stone United States The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 66 77 2012 209Spin United States Top 90 Albums of the 90s 78 1999 33 100 Greatest Albums 1985 2005 79 2005 93VH1 United States 100 Greatest Albums of Rock amp Roll 69 2003 83Kerrang United Kingdom 100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 80 1998 15Nieuwe Revu Netherlands Top 100 Albums of All Time 81 1994 25Musik Express Sounds Germany The 100 Masterpieces 82 1993 68Rolling Stone Germany The 500 Best Albums of All Time 83 2004 20Juice Australia The 100 34 Greatest Albums of the 90s 84 1999 101Viceversa Italy 100 Rock Albums 85 1996 99Commercial performance EditTen initially sold slowly upon its release but by the second half of 1992 it became a breakthrough success attaining an RIAA gold certification 5 Almost a year after its release the album finally broke into the top ten of the Billboard 200 album chart on May 30 1992 reaching number eight Ten would eventually peak at number two for four weeks It was held off the top spot by the Billy Ray Cyrus album Some Gave All 86 The album spent a total of 264 weeks on the Billboard charts 87 making it one of the top 15 charting albums ever By February 1993 American sales of Ten surpassed those of Nevermind the breakthrough album by fellow grunge band Nirvana 88 Ten continued to sell well two years after its release in 1993 it was the eighth best selling album in the United States outselling Pearl Jam s second album Vs 89 As of February 2013 Ten has sold 13 million copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan 6 and has been certified 13 platinum by the RIAA 90 Ten produced three hit singles Alive Even Flow and Jeremy all of which had accompanying music videos The Oceans video was released only outside of the U S The singles all placed on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts The song Black reached number three on the Mainstream Rock chart despite never being released as a single The video for Alive was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video in 1992 91 Jeremy became one of Pearl Jam s best known songs and received nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 1993 Grammy awards 3 The video for Jeremy directed by Mark Pellington was put into heavy rotation by MTV and became a huge hit receiving five nominations at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards of which it won four including Video of the Year and Best Group Video 4 Track listing EditOriginal release Edit All lyrics are written by Eddie Vedder except for the bonus track I ve Got a Feeling by John Lennon and Paul McCartneyTen track listingNo TitleMusicLength1 Once Stone Gossard3 512 Even Flow Gossard4 533 Alive Gossard5 414 Why Go Jeff Ament3 205 Black Gossard5 436 Jeremy Ament5 187 Oceans GossardAmentVedder2 428 Porch Vedder3 309 Garden GossardAment4 5910 Deep GossardAment4 1811 Release I Hidden track Master Slave starts at 5 18 GossardAmentDave KrusenMike McCreadyVedder9 05Total length 53 20 European edition bonus tracksNo TitleMusicLength12 Alive live on August 3 1991 at RKCNDY in Seattle Washington Gossard4 5413 Wash GossardAmentKrusenMcCreadyVedder3 3314 Dirty Frank Dave AbbruzzeseAmentGossardMcCready5 38Total length 67 25 Japanese bonus tracksNo TitleMusicLength12 I ve Got a Feeling Lennon McCartney3 4213 Master Slave Ament3 48Total length 60 50 Reissue bonus tracksNo TitleMusicLength12 Brother with vocals Gossard3 5913 Just a Girl Mookie Blaylock demo 1990 Gossard5 0114 Breath and a Scream Mookie Blaylock demo 1990 Gossard5 5815 State of Love and Trust Demo 1991 McCreadyAment4 4716 2 000 Mile Blues AmentMcCreadyKrusen3 5717 Evil Little Goat GossardAmentKrusenMcCreadyVedder1 27Total length 78 29 iTunes reissue bonus tracks December 31 1992 at The Academy Theater in New York City No TitleMusicLength18 Why Go Ament4 0119 Even Flow Gossard5 1020 Alone AbbruzzeseAmentGossardMcCreadyVedder3 2621 Garden GossardAment5 42Total length 96 48 MTV Unplugged DVD Edit MTV Unplugged track listingNo TitleLength1 Oceans 2 State of Love and Trust 3 Alive 4 Black 5 Jeremy 6 Even Flow 7 Porch Momma Son cassette Edit All lyrics are written by Vedder all music is composed by GossardMomma Son track listingNo TitleLength1 Alive 4 352 Once 3 443 Footsteps 4 20 Drop in the Park LP Edit All lyrics are written by VedderSide oneNo TitleMusicLength1 Even Flow Gossard5 142 Once Gossard3 323 State of Love and Trust McCreadyAment3 444 Why Go Ament3 20 Side twoNo TitleMusicLength1 Deep GossardAment4 222 Jeremy Ament5 033 Black Gossard5 28 Side threeNo TitleMusicLength1 Alive Gossard5 502 Garden GossardAment5 35 Side fourNo TitleMusicLength1 Porch Vedder12 42Personnel EditPearl Jam Jeff Ament bass guitar art direction concept Stone Gossard rhythm guitar slide guitar on Deep Dave Krusen drums timpani Mike McCready lead guitar acoustic electric guitar on Alive Eddie Vedder vocals additional artAdditional musicians and production Dave Hillis engineering Don Gilmore Adrian Moore additional engineering Walter Gray cello Bob Ludwig mastering Lance Mercer photos Tim Palmer fire extinguisher and pepper shaker on Oceans mixing Rick Parashar production piano organ percussion Pearl Jam production Steve Pitstick additional art Lisa Sparagano Risa Zaitschek designCharts EditOriginal release Edit Weekly chart performance for Ten by Pearl Jam Chart 1991 96 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 92 14Austrian Albums O3 Austria 93 31Canadian Albums RPM 94 1Dutch Albums Album Top 100 95 14Finnish Albums The Official Finnish Charts 96 14German Albums Offizielle Top 100 97 15New Zealand Albums RMNZ 98 3Norwegian Albums VG lista 99 8Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 100 9UK Albums OCC 101 18US Billboard 200 102 2US Heatseekers Albums Billboard 103 2Chart 2020 PeakpositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 104 34Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 105 101Portuguese Albums AFP 106 12US Top Rock Albums Billboard 107 7Weekly chart performance for the 2009 re release of Ten Chart 2009 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 92 11Croatian Albums Chart 108 24Irish Albums IRMA 109 38Italian Albums FIMI 110 20Portuguese Albums AFP 111 2Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 112 67US Top Internet Albums Billboard 113 1Chart 2014 PositionPolish Albums OLiS 114 1 Year end charts Edit Year end chart performance for Ten by Pearl Jam Chart 1992 PositionCanadian Albums RPM 115 12Dutch Albums Album Top 100 116 15German Albums Offizielle Top 100 117 46US Billboard 200 118 11Chart 1993 PositionCanadian Albums RPM 119 48Dutch Albums Album Top 100 120 56New Zealand Albums RMNZ 121 11UK Albums OCC 122 94US Billboard 200 123 8Chart 1994 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 124 62Dutch Albums Album Top 100 125 71New Zealand Albums RMNZ 126 23US Billboard 200 127 58Chart 1995 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 128 49US Billboard 200 129 106Chart 1996 PositionUS Billboard 200 130 185Chart 2002 PositionCanadian Alternative Albums Nielsen SoundScan 131 167Canadian Metal Albums Nielsen SoundScan 132 85Chart 2019 PositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 133 78Chart 2020 PositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 134 84Chart 2021 PositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 135 121US Top Rock Albums Billboard 136 67Chart 2022 PositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 137 137Decade end charts Edit Decade end chart performance for Ten Chart 1990 1999 PositionUS Billboard 200 138 14 Singles Edit Chart performance for singles from Ten Single Year Peak chart positions CertificationsUS 139 US Main 140 US Mod 141 AUS 142 BEL 143 CAN 144 GER 145 IRE 146 NLD 147 NZ 148 UK 149 Alive 1991 A 16 18 9 16 44 13 19 20 16 AUS Gold IT Gold UK Silver Even Flow 1992 B 3 21 22 73 20 27 UK Silver Jeremy 79 5 5 68 32 93 10 59 34 15 US Gold 150 Oceans 35 30 16 denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory Alive did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but spent 61 weeks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart peaking at number 7 Even Flow did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 but spent 52 weeks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart peaking at number 8 Certifications EditCertifications for Ten Region Certification Certified units salesArgentina CAPIF 151 Re release edition Gold 20 000 Australia ARIA 152 8 Platinum 560 000 Belgium BEA 153 Platinum 50 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 154 Gold 100 000 Canada Music Canada 155 7 Platinum 700 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 156 3 Platinum 60 000 Germany BVMI 157 Gold 250 000 Italy FIMI 158 sales since 2009 Platinum 50 000 Netherlands NVPI 159 Platinum 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 160 6 Platinum 90 000 Norway IFPI Norway 161 Gold 25 000 Poland ZPAV 162 Gold 35 000 Portugal AFP 163 Gold 20 000 Sweden GLF 164 Gold 50 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 165 Gold 25 000 United Kingdom BPI 166 2 Platinum 600 000 United States RIAA 167 13 Platinum 13 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone See also EditList of 1991 albums List of best selling albums in the United StatesReferences Edit Momma Son and the Making of Pearl Jam Northwest Passage Archived from the original on March 4 2021 Retrieved February 20 2021 a b c d e f g Huey Steve Ten Pearl Jam AllMusic Archived from the original on May 31 2012 Retrieved February 1 2012 a b 35th Grammy Awards Rockonthenet Archived from the original on June 29 2012 Retrieved September 5 2007 a b 1993 MTV Video Music Awards Rockonthenet Archived from the original on December 7 2007 Retrieved September 5 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