2 - Pearl Jam

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
Can't it be, can't it be mine?

At number 2 is Pearl Jam. Before college, Pearl Jam was really not even a band that I listened too at all. I'm so glad I started to eventually because they truly one of the best groups of all time.

Wiki - Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Mike McCready (lead guitar). The band's current drummer is Matt Cameron, also of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.

Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was criticized early on as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative rock explosion. However, over the course of the band's career its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame."

Since its inception, the band has sold over thirty million records in the U.S., and an estimated sixty million worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. Allmusic refers to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s."

Discography -

Ten (1991)*^
Vs. (1993)
Vitalogy (1994)
No Code (1996)
Yield (1998)*
Binaural (2000)
Riot Act (2002)
Pearl Jam (2006)
Backspacer (2009)
*-best albums
^-top 10 fave album


top 20 PJ Songs

20 - Dissident
19 - All Those Yesterdays
18 - Jeremy
17 - Rats
16 - I Am Mine
15 - Amongst The Waves
14 - Just Breathe
13 - In Hiding
12 - Brother
11 - Given to Fly
10 - Better Man
9 - Nothingman
8 - Life Wasted
7 - Release
6 - Inside Job
5 - Black
4 - Yellow Ledbetter
3 - Come Back
2 - Rearviewmirror
1 - Alive


A lot of people can't get into Pearl Jam (and the band who's at #1) because they don't like the lead singer's voice. And that's fine, there are plenty of bands that I can't get into because I don't like the singer's voice. But even these people cannot dismiss the fact that Eddie Vedder is one of the best lyricists of all time. Where Eddie really excels in his writing is the way that he can tell stories when he writes (see Alive, Present Tense, Gone, Why Go).





Mike McCready's solos are always full of soul and Vedder's passion on the mic is often recipricated through McCready's guitar pick.




These guys also played the best rock concert I've ever seen on October 30, 2009 at the Spectrum.


-I'm the one at 2:03 in the Phillies shirt..easy to see

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