

Backspacer (2009)īackspacer is Pearl Jam’s easiest album to digest musically. Their 1993 MTV appearance proves the rest. He and Pearl Jam make one hell of a team-up, and these two tracks prove half of it. Yes, that means Neil Young is part of these songs. Yet this is a two-track companion EP to Neil Young’s Mirror Ball. Released between Vitalogy and No Code, these songs could’ve fit in perfectly a few years later on Yield. “Yellow Ledbetter” makes this an essential album all by itself, but happily there are many more great reasons to have this in your collection. It’s an uneven and massive collection, but its highs are way up there, more than making up for any songs you may consider less than stellar. Therefore it was not only high quality, it was immediately rare.

All the while, they’ve been releasing albums, the 11th of which is Gigaton, which comes out March 27. They solidified grunge rock, created a number of hits that need no introduction, and perfected the arena rock experience. Pearl Jam’s been on quite a ride since they introduced themselves to the world in 1991.
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