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• Bes pearl jam albums full#

I know this might sound sacrilegious to have Ten ranked so low, but hear me out.

But hey at least it gave us a fucking kick ass tour with Sleater-Kinney opening for many of the dates (go get ahold of these bootlegs if you can, they’re by and large fantastic). Out of all of Pearl Jam’s albums this is by far the one I return to the least. But the rest of the album is largely forgettable at best. Bush (side note it’s scary how accurate Vedder’s lyrics from 18 years ago still resonate today: “A confidence man/ but why so beleaguered?/He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer/Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike/Drilling for fear, makes the job simple/Born on third, thinks he got a triple”). And it features “Bu$hleaguer”, an all time great evisceration of then President George W. “Save You”, “Love Boat Captain”, “I Am Mine”, and “Thumbing My Way” are all stand out tracks. Look I like Riot Act and I think it has some a few really strong moments, but there isn’t much denying that through and through this is the band’s weakest and most unfocused record. For the purposes of Pearl Jam I am only looking at the studio albums and not the 70+ live albums they’ve officially following the Binaural tour.

Bes pearl jam albums full#

Because of that I thought it might be fun to start a series called Discog Dives where every know and again I can look back on artists full discography.

I wanted a little bit of time to think on it and digest it before I offered my thoughts and when I was ready I couldn’t help but think about in the context of their larger discography. Pearl Jam’s 11th studio album Gigaton arrived at the end of last month.