Pearl Jam

"It's not that hard to make a good record," laughs Eddie Vedder. "You start with a great band, and a dictionary, and it should all go pretty smoothly after that..." It's a lesson Vedder has learned from blessed experience: after all, the Pearl Jam discography has already notched up eight great studio albums thus far, using the same elemental ingredients he lists above.

Earlier this year, Pearl Jam revisited their very first full-length album, 1991's Ten, for a reissue project that saw the group comprehensively remix the original tracks with regular collaborator Brendan O'Brien, presenting the album in a deluxe edition that reproduced all the memorabilia and historical context the...

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