{"id":2370,"date":"2011-07-25T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2011-07-25T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:01:00","slug":"pearl-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/pearl-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"PEARL JAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2371\" title=\"Pearl-Jam-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Pearl-Jam-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Pearl-Jam-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Pearl-Jam-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>P<\/strong><strong>EARL JAM <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>1993-1995 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Epic\/Legacy]<\/p>\n<p><strong> REISSUE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The period following the mammoth success of their 1991 debut album, <em>Ten<\/em>, was a turbulent period for Pearl Jam. The adjustment to stardom was a difficult one, and the strain only grew with the suicide of Seattle contemporary Kurt Cobain, its doomed antitrust lawsuit against promoter Ticketmaster, guitarist Mike McCready\u2019s growing alcohol abuse and the bubbling internal personality conflict between Vedder and drummer Dave Abbruzzese. The group funneled its angst first into two of its finest studio albums: 1993\u2019s tight, aggressive <em>Vs<\/em>. and the following year\u2019s more eccentric <em>Vitalogy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This massive box set includes nicely remastered versions of both of those albums (tagged with three bonus tracks each, most intriguingly a sizzling alternate take of \u201cCorduroy\u201d with markedly different lyrics) and a previously unreleased concert from Boston\u2019s Orpheum Theater, both on CD and vinyl; a cassette featuring material from the band\u2019s guerilla-style \u201cSelf Pollution Radio\u201d broadcasts; and a grab bag of memorabilia. (A three-CD set with <em>Vs<\/em>., <em>Vitalogy<\/em> and the Boston concert is also available, as are <em>Vs<\/em>. and <em>Vitalogy<\/em> individually.) The Boston concert, recorded just days after Cobain\u2019s death, effectively captures Pearl Jam\u2019s onstage ferocity at the time. It\u2019s the sound of a band playing as if every show could be its last\u2014and given Vedder\u2019s mindset at the time that was certainly possible. Something had to snap, and finally did when Abbruzzese was fired in August 1994 (a few tracks here feature his replacement, Jack Irons). A chapter had closed, one this set sums up handsomely. \u2013CN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEARL JAM 1993-1995 [Epic\/Legacy] REISSUE The period following the mammoth success of their 1991 debut album, Ten, was a turbulent period for Pearl Jam. The adjustment to stardom was a difficult one, and the strain only grew with the suicide of Seattle contemporary Kurt Cobain, its doomed antitrust lawsuit against promoter Ticketmaster, guitarist Mike McCready\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1807,1876,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}