Band : Pearl Jam
Album title : Pearl Jam 20 years
Label : Sony Music
Distributor : Sony Music
Release Date : 14/10/2011
Release : CD

Released the same year as Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album, Pearl Jam became more or less the second influential group in the grunge scene.  They were overshadowed by Nirvana of course,
This album gives you the full soundtrack from the movie about Pearl Jam by Cameron Crowe that was released in October;.

Now while I’ve never been a big fan of the grunge scene – and even that could be viewed as an understatement, I personally liked the work of Pearl Jam just a tad more then Nirvana.  And to give them credit, they at least continued to release new albums after their first release, whereas Nirvana’s creativity soon dried up, culminating in a suicide by their frontman.
This CD spans the career of the last twenty years of Pearl Jam, and when my opinion about ‘Nevermind’ has not changed in the last twenty years, neither has my opinion about Pearl Jam changed.  They still are a great band to listen to, even if not all of their songs are to my liking.

75/100

Erik Morren.