For a band originally assembled almost by accident from leftover parts from other bands, Pearl Jam has had a mighty fine run. And it all started here.

The Seattle quintet's debut album, Ten, wasn't an instant hit on delivery in August of 1991, but by the end of the following year -- thanks to the sticky singles "Alive," "Even Flow" and "Jeremy" -- it had crept near the top of the Billboard album chart in the U.S. and established Pearl Jam as one of the Lollapalooza era's most formidable forces to be reckoned with. Not bad for a band of spare parts assembled from the ashes of Green River, Mother Love Bone, Shadow and whatever other failed attempts at rock stardom in which all involved had previously participated. Maybe luring Eddie Vedder and his sensitive-surfer-poet baritone into the fold was the key, maybe the Nevermind-adjacent timing was just right, maybe Pearl Jam was a classic-rock band rather than a "grunge" outfit all along despite the flannel shirts and Doc Martens but ... hey ... it worked. Ten is never going away. It is itself now a classic rock album.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Once
2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release