The unofficial "TEN is the greatest album of all time" thread

jonbond1779

I was 13 when TEN was released. I remember listening to the album on repeat in my room. Feels like a lifetime ago. Sometimes find it hard to believe Im still listening to PJ now - with more enthusiasm and understanding of the band and their music.

Its important to have something to believe in!

Niko80

TEN!! YES!!! What an album!

VS started it for me but I agree that ten is a monster! It is and always will be the 'greatest pj album of all time' because of its momentum. The way it impacted on the music scene and how it still, after 16 years, continues to inspire young music lovers.

I wonder where the 'this is bullshit, yield is so much better...' people are. Im surprised they havent started crying about this thread yet..

Viva la Ten

inmyrvm

cough YIELD cough

faithful2you

inmyrvm wrote:

cough YIELD cough

Yield is a kick ass album...y'er right.

I don't take anything away from any of their other stuff.....but Ten grabbed me from the inside and brought so much to light in my life. In a way, Yield did the same thing....it was an important album with what I had going on in my life in 1998. Just like Ten when I was 19 and heard it for the first time.

Long Live Pearl Jam

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

thing is i had barely ever heard of PJ until around 95 or 96 (no rock stations or internet for me). So when i first got it in college i didnt really know much about them. Ten blew me the fuck away. I'm kinda glad i didnt hear them in the early 90s. i had a clean slate to hear it and its still my favorite album.

I love that they change their sound with every new release, but somewhere deep in my cold black heart I still desperately need to hear more Ten like songs. None of their recent albums have had the emotional impact that Ten had on me.

harmless_little_f***

No arguments from here. I was eleven when it came out and I've practically worshipped Pearl Jam ever since.

hrd2imgn

people on this board who have said this is their worst album are just fucking idiots.

I agree with a previous thread, being a fan at the time it was so huge makes it a lot different than a late bloomer coming in.

The rawness, the energy, the amazingness of it being put together in less than a week by guys who were strangers to an extent....unreal.

Soulfire42

Ten is an epic album (no pun intended). It is an album even my mother (fan of Cat Stevens, Joplin, Dylan, etc.) took notice of and she stated that there was power and emotion in it that she hadn't heard from anything new in a long time. I believe it is one of those albums where even the old guard knew that somebody had managed to capture the fire of rock once again. Eddie's vocals were not constrained, nor was he afraid to let emotion carry the music rather than be bound by the law of a sentence. His voice soared into the peaks of the music and dove into the valleys as another stunning instrument to something which was seething and beautiful already. Ten is the music that sparked a fire in the belly of a generation and in the band itself, as you can see by watching any video from that period of time. Ten should be immortalized in rock legend and should be embraced by the fans of Pearl Jam who have done it a great disservice over the years in places like these message forums.

pearlzepfan

Ten always makes me think of Christmas Eve for some reason, I listen to it a lot more in the Winter, but it's still, I think their greatest album, while not my favorite

The Severed Hand

I agree we all can show TEN a whole lot more love. If this album wouldn't have shook the air waves and took the world by storm then Yield may have never been. I rate every song on Ten 5 stars. I can't say that about any of the other albums. PJ has seemed to include tracks that are so forgettable and brings the momentum to a complete halt.(untitled, red dot, bugs, pry to)

Ten is a non stop soul releasing thrill ride. Alive rocks a crowd like no other song I have ever heard.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

The Severed Hand wrote:

I agree we all can show TEN a whole lot more love. If this album wouldn't have shook the air waves and took the world by storm then Yield may have never been. I rate every song on Ten 5 stars. I can't say that about any of the other albums. PJ has seemed to include tracks that are so forgettable and brings the momentum to a complete halt.(untitled, red dot, bugs, pry to)

Ten is a non stop soul releasing thrill ride. Alive rocks a crowd like no other song I have ever heard.

great point....

every song on TEN is KICK ASS!!!!!!!

QuarterToTen

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

great point....

every song on TEN is KICK ASS!!!!!!!

couldn't agree more. there is no break in its intensity.

from the second i hear the opening notes of master/slave
i am hooked. every. single. time.

i think it is the rawness of it, as someone said.

it doesn't get any better than TEN for me.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

definitely the most consistently awesome record.

Horos

I love Ten but I wouldn't call it the Greatest ever. I got really pissed the other day when after hearing Jeremy on the radio the DJ said, "That's Pearl Jam from the good album." As if none of the others are good.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

I'm sorry but Ten hasn't gotten the love it deserves from so called "hardcore" fans yet. I'm bumping this thread.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

bumped in recognition of it cleaning up in the ultimate album thread.


come on lurkers. I know you are out there. you voted. now post damnit!!!

Come Back in Black

MrSmith wrote:

edit: bumped in recognition of it cleaning up in the ultimate album thread.


I know there are different kinds of Pearl Jam fans out there, and I know that one class of fan is the old school Ten lover fan.

I stand before you proudly as one of those fans. To me, Ten is not just the greatest Pearl Jam album, but the greatest rock album of all time. why?

No matter how much I love a new album from PJ or another band, if i play it enough I will get sick of it. But this is not the case with Ten. I must have played through Ten literally thousands of times, and I'm still not tired of it. I've put Alive on replay for days and I CANT GET SICK OF HEARING IT. And MY GOD how can you not hear Eddie's ferocious wail on Porch and not be in total awe. Once is the perfect opener and Release is the perfect closer, and Black is the saddest song ever written by man. I even love the weird ghosty sounding Even Flow. It kicks ass!

Eddie's voice on Ten is what angels must sound like. Angels of an angry God. His sound is what I feel when i'm heartbroken, angry, depressed, or even happy. Some dont like it, and i can accept that. its weird and kinda scary, but nothing sounds better to my ears.

I love that, 15 years later, I can walk into any bar with a juke box and within 30 minutes a Ten song will be played. And if its not I'll play it my damn self.


Sure, I love their other albums (No Code being a close second), and all bring something different to the table, but nothing beats the instant classic that was Ten. Its shear classic rock in all its glory.

just had to get that off my chest...

I 100% agree. Thank you Agent Smith's wife.

damen

"riot act sucks monkey balls........."


You do not like Save You, Ghost, Bushleaguer, I Am Mine, or Green Disease?

Capstoner

I think of Ten as PJ's Mona Lisa. After hearing them in 92, I must have went through 3 cassettes before getting the cd.

SENROCK

MrSmith wrote:

edit: bumped in recognition of it cleaning up in the ultimate album thread.


I know there are different kinds of Pearl Jam fans out there, and I know that one class of fan is the old school Ten lover fan.

I stand before you proudly as one of those fans. To me, Ten is not just the greatest Pearl Jam album, but the greatest rock album of all time. why?

No matter how much I love a new album from PJ or another band, if i play it enough I will get sick of it. But this is not the case with Ten. I must have played through Ten literally thousands of times, and I'm still not tired of it. I've put Alive on replay for days and I CANT GET SICK OF HEARING IT. And MY GOD how can you not hear Eddie's ferocious wail on Porch and not be in total awe. Once is the perfect opener and Release is the perfect closer, and Black is the saddest song ever written by man. I even love the weird ghosty sounding Even Flow. It kicks ass!

Eddie's voice on Ten is what angels must sound like. Angels of an angry God. His sound is what I feel when i'm heartbroken, angry, depressed, or even happy. Some dont like it, and i can accept that. its weird and kinda scary, but nothing sounds better to my ears.

I love that, 15 years later, I can walk into any bar with a juke box and within 30 minutes a Ten song will be played. And if its not I'll play it my damn self.


Sure, I love their other albums (No Code being a close second), and all bring something different to the table, but nothing beats the instant classic that was Ten. Its shear classic rock in all its glory.

just had to get that off my chest...

i LOVE what u wrote here. i agree!