Pearl Jam
Ten

THE REVIEW

“Ten” – Pearl Jam – and that's all there is to say.
Debut album (1991) epistolary to say the least, as a bridge between man and sound.
Influential and far from superficial, I would say essential is the demonstrative power of what music can transmit through the creation of such tracks.

“Ten” is an album of extraordinary and constant beauty, 11 grooves that depict the problematic background of perennial and unfortunately still current situations happening all over the globe: murders, suicides, family misunderstandings, child abuse and more, lies, repression, poverty, runaway youths, beatings, drugs, homelessness, etc., all of which personally affected the band's members. I won’t go into their often-described stories that might bore you, as these issues are already well-known, but I must express the “union,” as I mentioned at the start of the review, between man and sound.
And it's incredible how difficult it is to comment on an album like this, yet doing so makes a difference. And where’s the difference? It is in being great artists and being able to do it through music, a perfect tool for creating and transmitting the release of a transcendent repressed situation and carrying it into the soul of whoever listens.

There's nothing to debate about this; being great means exactly this!
The scream of rage from Eddie Vedder’s incredible and perfect voice remains fresh even 14 years after its release, listening to it now feels timeless.
A strong Hard Rock and Grunge Rock with violent and aggressive nuances introduces equally light and sweet but entirely pure tracks. I adore “Even Flow,” that captures you with a voice that lowers and then rises, but I must say that all four opening tracks are of the same caliber, you feel them penetrate your skin and flow through your veins like an electric shock traverses your body and culminates in a multiple musical orgasm ranging from platonic to concrete, where you just want to stretch out your arms and fingers as if a magnetic force paralyzes you against the wall, anticipating tracks like “Black” and “Release” (which closes the album in an extraordinary way) where they are filled with a unique sweetness, and then “Jeremy” and “Oceans” are beautiful, nothing more to say…

Eddie’s voice hypnotizes and seduces intense spirits, it tears out your guts, tells the facts and makes you fall in love, in short, they are pure animals that create emotions to experience every time you want to feel them. In this case too, as already mentioned, even the cover is a good omen, with the intertwining and firm union of the arms raised to the sky.

A must-have album and the most beautiful by Pearl Jam.