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All rights reserved.Pearl Jam - Vs. (CD 2001)
| Track Listing 1. Go 2. Animal 3. Daughter 4. Glorified G 5. Dissident 6. WMA 7. Blood 8. Rear View Mirror 9. Rats 10. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town 11. Leash 12. Indifference
Album Notes Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals); Stone Gossard, Mike McCready (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Dave Abbruzzese (drums). Recorded at The Site, Nicasio, California and Potatohead Studio, Seattle, Washington.VS. was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Daughter" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, and "Go" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance.Although it topped the pop charts and sold 5 million copies, Pearl Jam's stunning second album is unknown to much of the rock audience. Recoiling from the octopus-like grasp of the music industry, the group refused to support VS. with either videos, singles or a major tour, and rock radio was given just two acoustic-powered ballads, "Daughter" and "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town," as so-called emphasis tracks. The former was about a sexually abused young girl promising to rise above her past, the latter about a forgotten woman with nothing but long gone memories. The rest of the album rocked significantly harder--harder and more raw, in fact, than anything on TEN--and zoomed in on a cusp between those two stories, on moments when outlaws, outcasts, the dispossessed and the disaffected were being called to political judgment. The woman sheltering a "Dissident" gives in and turns him over to the police. But the abused subjects of "Go" and "Rearviewmirror"--two of the album's most musically heroic songs--manage to turn the tables and get away.There was a suffocating bleakness to much of VS. (in "Rats," humans are compared most unfavorably to those animals) that would have dragged down a lesser rock band. But singer Eddie Vedder had the support of one of the most transcendent of all classic-rock bands, with a supple rhythm section and two creatively complicated guitarists equally at home with the thrashy pulse of "Go," the delicate prettiness of "Elderly Woman..." (check out the layered, stereo guitar work there) and the new wave angularity of a song like "Glorified G." It was serious, but also serious rock and roll. Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone (05/13/1999) Village Voice (03/01/1994) Q (01/01/1994) Entertainment Weekly (10/29/1993) Melody Maker (10/16/1993) Rolling Stone (11/11/1993) Melody Maker (01/01/1994) Village Voice (03/01/1994) Rolling Stone (05/13/1999) | |||||||||||||
Reviews  pearl jam VsReview created: 04/06/08 by: lazarus9675 ( 9 )  i recieved the cd two days after buying it and it arrived in perfect condition it looks brand new and not a scratch on the cd i would certainly buy from this seller again. thank you. Review ID: 10000000007411039 Was this review helpful? Report this review pearl jam-vs 1991- grunge at its finest.Review created: 14/02/08 by: Pearl Jam are explosive. Few American bands have arrived more clearly talented than this one did with "Ten" and "Vs." tops even that debut. Terrific players with catholic tastes, they also serve up singer-lyricist Eddie Vedder. With his Brando brooding and complicated, tortured masculinity, he's something we haven't seen in a while a heroic figure. Better still, he's a big force without bullshit, he bellows doubt. Like Jim Morrison and Pete Townshend, Vedder makes a forte of his psychological-mythic explorations he grapples with primal trauma, chaos, exultation. As guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready paint dense and slashing backdrops, he invites us into a drama of experiment and strife. "Animal," "Daughter" and "Blood," their terse titles urgently poetic, are songs of a kind of ritual passion, tapping into something truly wild. And when Vedder roars, "Saw things . . . clearer . . . Once you were in my rearviewmirror," it seems that it's not only some personal sorrow that he's willing himself to tear beyond but the entire weight of the past itself. anyhoo i just love pearl-jam so just buy it and escape to the wonders of pearl jam. i bet you will get hooked. Review ID: 10000000005654230 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Pearl Jam - Vs.Review created: 01/01/08 by: Love Pearl Jam, and this is a great album!! All the tracks are enjoyable, and it is certainly well compiled, bringing music to the ears in one continuous flow, making it fantastic to chill out to, drive to, or just have on in the background!! Everyone and anyone would enjoy this cd, not too heavy for some, but with plenty of base and excellent tracks, that will put a smile on anyone's face!!! A must have album for anyone's collection, especially if you like your parties, as this is an album you can happily put on, knowing it will be thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish, without any doubt!!! Top notch!! Review ID: 10000000004911813 Was this review helpful? Report this review vs album reviewIf pearl Jam had made video's for some of the songs on this album, I'm sure it would be as famous, if not more so than "Ten", - their debut. As a result, you rarely see these songs on mtv etc, except the occaisional live version (rear view mirror on saturday night live). I think the album really captures the esscence of Pear Jam. "Dissident", "rearview mirror" and "Daughter" are absolute classics, but the whole album is strong throughout. the album is certainly set in the grunge period of the early 90's, but to me pearl jam seem more like a classic rockband, with a grunge mentallity. In some ways its a shame. the lack of video's and overall ethos of the album may mean it will be lost to rock history Review ID: 10000000003515520 Was this review helpful? Report this review the second albumReview created: 01/04/07 by: the eagerly anticipated second album. Hopes were high after the masterpiece that was the debut 'TEN'. Whilst lacking the anthems contained in it's predecessor the music is raw and energy driven. Although 15 years old now still has power and memorable tracks. Bring back grunge I say. Review ID: 10000000003261975 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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