Pearl Jam - Ten (Deluxe Edition) (2CD/1 DVD)
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Free Music Review: Not bad, although most of my nitpicking go in the "can't please every fan" area
Hit: 4 Stars
First off, I was annoyed that to get the Mamasan cassette and the scrapbook I needed to spend $150 and get a bunch of LP's. I don't have a record player and I'm not some collector. I just wanted a shot at those things without being charged an arm and a leg. I decided on just getting the Deluxe version and picking up the rest on ebay in the future. An option to get the Unplugged on disk(remastered) would have been a nice alternative too.
The album itself is an obvious gem. TEN is not even close to my favorite Pearl Jam album, but I would be stupid not to understand what a groundbreaking album it was almost 20 years ago. The remastered part of things sounds great. It is just a louder and crisper version of the 1991 disk. It's a typical remaster that you see all the time with older albums. My main beef is why couldn't the bonus songs on the "remixed" side be on the remaster side? I was dying to have a remastered Breath, Brother, Just a Girl, and State of Love and Trust for my collection.
On the remixed side of things, it was pretty much hit or miss. Overall, I like it, but a few of the tracks blew and I wished I could have just gotten the originals. Jeremy, State of Love and Trust, and Brother sounded awful, while Why Go, Oceans and Garden were awesome.
I guess at the end of the day the band can't please everyone. I can't figure out why some of the cooler memoribilia got stuck with the pricey LP's, and I sure would have liked to see Brother, Just a Girl, and SOLAT untouched from their original(and superior) state. Even with the problems I stated, this was a cool idea, and I look forward to the VS remaster and remix in a few months.
Free Music Review: The remixes are okay, but I certainly wouldn't throw out the original
Hit: 4 Stars
"Ten" is my favorite PJ album, and is probably my favorite grunge-era album, period. I gave this 4 stars, because I would give the original 5 stars... and the remixes don't outdo the original. I did enjoy the bonus tracks... none of which I'd heard before.
I listened to the entire remix album twice through, and didn't find one song I thought, "Finally, they fixed this up!" The original was a more raw and underpolished gem. Instead with the remixes, I heard all the nuanced differences like the extra grunts and moans, modified vocals, changes in speed, modified riffs, and what I swear to god sounds like a screwup in Alive at the end of the first chorus (seriously, what the hell is that?), etc., and it just sounded like a new vision of something that really didn't need fixing to begin with.
It's sort of the difference between owning a classic car that has all original specs or owning a classic car that instead has a modern engine, custom paint, 22" wheels, and a kickass stereo added to it... it may be 'updated', but why? *shrug*
I still have my beat to hell 1991 CD with a cracked cover, torn liner, and scratched disc which I'll keep, and I'll give the reissue away.
Free Music Review: Pearl Jam carries the arena rock torch
Hit: 4 Stars
CONTEXT: Pearl Jam begins their career with possibly their best album. This album difinitively set the tone for the early '90s alternative movement. Often imitated, never duplicated.
MUSIC: Tons of now-classic guitar riffs, with bass lines that wind around the harmony. The group obviously honed their sound for a while, because the musicianship individually and collectively is superb.
LYRICS: Vedder's impressionistic style was often imitated (and sometimes parodied) by lesser groups, but he perfectly captures the feeling of his songs. Feelings of regret and loss fill the songs, but it's actually not as depressing as it's reputation made it seem.
HIGHLIGHTS: Evenflow, Alive, Black, Jeremy
Free Music Review: Stuck in my old ways, I guess
Hit: 4 Stars
I don't see why you remix an album that sold 12 million copies. The remix disc is too pretty. The raw angst and emotion is lost. It now sounds like it was made for radio, just like the remixes on the Greatest Hits CD. I saw Pearl Jam live before Ten ever came out, and I have followed them throughout their career, but I see the remix as a gimmick. Maybe there will be those who like it just as much or better, but I'll have mine original please. This is just an expensive copy of the Unplugged disc for me. I would have liked to see Unplugged offered by itself.
It still gets 4 stars (3 and a half is probably closer) because it is still Ten and I now have the Unplugged.
Free Music Review: Great DVD but .... where is RIFW ??
Hit: 4 Stars
The good about this deluxe edition its the DVD ,as everyone may already have Ten and the extra-songs... So I will only rate the DVD
The DVD is great, the sound and image are great .... I took one star from the fact that they changed the concert format .... Where is rocking in a free world ? I know that Porch was a great ending... but why don't include it as an extra ?? What about the Oceans ending ?Why they cut of part of the song explanation? I really like Pearl jam and how their political engagement which it makes stranger this type of "censorship" on this concert