![]() They reveled in the angry guitars and relatable messages and just couldn’t get enough of that trademark growl. Teenagers who labelled themselves as outsiders started replicating Vedder’s long hair and knee-shorts with chunky boots. While it was originally slow to sell, it helped mark the commercial success that was grunge and by 1992, Pearl Jam were everywhere. ![]() It was an incredibly dark album with elements of depression, suicide, murder and even a mother falling in love with her son because he resembles his late father (‘Alive’). In 1991, a mere few weeks before Nirvana’s Nevermind, Pearl Jam dropped their debut album Ten. California surfer and singer Eddie Vedder got hold of them, recorded the vocals for ‘Alive,’ ‘Once’ and ‘Footsteps’, aka his ‘mini-opera’, sent back the tape, and the rest is history. After finding guitarist Mike McCready, the three sent out demo instrumentals in search of a lead singer. As the story goes, after Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament’s frontman died from a heroin overdose in 1990, they were in need of someone to save their band. Pearl Jam’s beginnings derived from a broken band, a demo tape, and just a whole lot of ‘right place, right time’ luck. Nirvana, with its poetic and anti-fame Kurt Cobain, who would tragically burn out a few years later but live out a legacy of cool and Pearl Jam, with the edgy growl and attitude of Eddie Vedder, who would continue to impact music for years to come. ![]() And in 1991 two new pioneers entered the game. It documented itself as grunge, a kind of rock music genre that became known more for the aesthetic of its subculture than its actual sound. This new movement was darker, moodier, and sounded like it could be metal, but also sounded kind of ‘rocky’ and ‘punkish’, while also really stripped back. ![]() In the late 1980s, a movement was beginning to rumble underneath the fall of the glam metal bands that had ruled the rock world in the years prior. ![]()
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