Pearl Jam
As you can probably tell, Pearl Jam are my favourite band in the whole world (they share that coveted spot along with the Barenaked Ladies). Pearl Jam are : Eddie Vedder (vocals), Mike McCready (guitars), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (guitars) & Matt Cameron (drums). They have been in the music industry as a band from 1991 when they released their first album (now a rock classic) Ten. Since then they have released 8 studio albums proper, one double disk of rarieties (that actually makes it 11 albums), one official live album and an essential songs double cd. They also created history along the way : They recorded most of their concerts in 2000 & released 72 live albums throughout 2000 and 2001, most of them double CD sets and set a record for most albums to debut in the Billboard Top 200 at the same time.
From the ashes of Mother Love Bone, a Seattle based rock band, came Pearl Jam. The four mainstays of the band are joined by Cameron, a former Soundgarden drummer. Pearl Jam have had drummer problems; Cameron being their third official drummer since the band’s conception. The drums in Pearl Jam have been slammed by:
- Dave Krusen
- Dave Abbruzzese
- Matt Cameron
For a brief time, between the departure of Krusen and the joining of Abbruzzese, former Smashing Pumpkins member Matt Chamberlain played with them for a while. And one cannot forget the contributions of piano & keyboard player Boom Gaspar, whose work has layered the Riot Act & Pearl Jam albums.
Awards
:
- 1993: Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist
- 1993: Favorite New Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist
- 1996: Favorite Alternative Artist
- 1996: Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist
- 1999: Favorite Alternative Artist
MTV Video Music Awards:
- 1993: Video of the Year – “Jeremy”
- 1993: Best Group Video – “Jeremy”
- 1993: Best Metal/Hard Rock Video – “Jeremy”
- 1993: Best Direction – Mark Pellington for “Jeremy”
Grammy Awards:
- 1996: Best Hard Rock Performance – “Spin the Black Circle”
IMPACT Award (from the Pacific Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences):
- 2004: IMPACT Award
Esky Awards (Esquire Magazine):
- 2006: Best Live Act
My 11 Favourite Pearl Jam Songs
- working girl dvd
- Alive
- Jeremy
- Better Man
- World Wide Suicide
- In Hiding
- The Long Road
- Do The Evolution
- I Am Mine
- Evenflow
- Nothing As It Seems
- Off He Goes
Must See Pearl Jam Videos
Songlist
| Song | |
|---|---|
| Even Flow | |
| Better Man | |
| Corduroy | |
| Do The Evolution | |
| Daughter | |
| Given to Fly | |
| Alive | |
| Black | |
| Dissident | |
| Jeremy | |
| Rearviewmirror | |
| Yellow Ledbetter | |
| Animal | |
| Crazy Mary | |
| Hail Hail | |
| I Got Shit | |
| Indifference | |
| Release | |
| Rockin’ In The Free World | |
| Wishlist | |
| Baba O’Riley | |
| Brain of J | |
| Habit | |
| Animal | |
| Breakerfall | |
| Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town | |
| Go | |
| Grievance | |
| Immortality | |
| Insignificance | |
| Leatherman | |
| Life Wasted | |
| Love Boat Captain | |
| Marker in the Sand | |
| Porch | |
| Present Tense | |
| Save You | |
| Severed Hand | |
| State of Love and Trust | |
| Unemployable | |
| World Wide Suicide | |
| 1/2 Full | |
| Blood | |
| Bu$hleaguer | |
| Come Back | |
| Cropduster | |
| Fortunate Son | |
| Fuckin’ Up | |
| Garden | |
| Get Right | |
| Habit | |
| Harvest Moon | |
| I Am Mine | |
| I Believe In Miracles | |
| In Hiding | |
| In My Tree | |
| Inside Job | |
| Last Exit | |
| Leaving Here | |
| Low Light | |
| Lukin | |
| Man of the Hour | |
| Mankind | |
| MFC | |
| Not For You | |
| Nothing As It Seems | |
| Nothingman | |
| Once | |
| Sad | |
| Sleight of Hand | |
| Sometimes | |
| Spin The Black Circle | |
| Thumbing My Way | |
| Wasted Reprise | |
| Whipping | |
| Why Go | |
| You Are | |
| You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away |
