Pearl Jam

It has been an exemplary success throughout their career, considering that they are one of the first alternative, grunge, and hard rock bands to have their very first album stay on Billboard charts for five consecutive years.

American rock band, Pearl Jam has separated itself from the section of non-resilient bands of their time to become one of the best Rock & Roll bands of the 1990s. They did this by outselling other alternative bands with a wide margin, thus becoming very influential in their decade.

Pearl Jam was officially formed in Seattle in 1990 with the group’s debut performance on October 22, 1990.

As a band formed by musical geniuses who had played for some of the original Seattle grunge bands for nearly a decade, they had a more experienced front.

The band has an existing line-up consisting of:

• bassist Jeffrey Allen Ament
• rhythm guitarist Stone Carpenter Gossard
• lead guitarist Michael David McCready
• lead vocalist Eddie Jerome Vedder 
• drummer Matthew David Cameron

Achievements

As of this writing, ten of their studio albums won gold and platinum certifications in the UK, Australia, Canada, and the United States among other countries subsequently upon their releases.

Their debut album TEN, for instance, won a 13 times-diamond Platinum certification in the USA.

With an estimated sale of over 85 million albums worldwide and almost 32 million albums in the US by 2012, they became noted as one of the Best-Selling Bands of All Time.

They were ranked number eight in Rolling Stone’s Top Ten Live Acts of All Time and won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the album Lightning Bolt.

They set a record in 2001 for most albums to debut in the Billboard 200 after the release of two live albums.

In 2005, the band was voted the greatest American band in a poll for USA Today readers. 

Pearl Jam received the award for Best Live Act during Esquire’s 2006 Esky Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.

Up until 2017, the group has sold over thirty-two million albums in the United States alone and over 100 million album copies worldwide.

Interesting Facts about Pearl Jam

Lead guitarist Mike McCready suffered from a disease known as “Digestive Illness Crohn’s disease”.

Pearl Jam won the 2011 title for Planet Defenders. They were recognized by Rock The Earth specifically for their environmental activism.

By 2012, the band had sold over 30 million albums in just the United States.

They recorded their single “Even Flow” over 65 times before it was released.

The band’s first name Mookie Blaylock was inspired by New Jersey Nets All-Star player.

The band’s single “Corduroy” was sarcastically named after band member Eddie Vedder’s brown jacket which he owned at the time the song was recorded.

Pearl Jam’s “Wishlist” was written as a paragraph with 15 wishes of each band member put together.

For some time in his life while following his passion for music, Eddie Vedder worked at a gas station to support himself financially.

1993 saw Pearl Jam took the unprecedented move to cut down their involvement in solely chasing after profits. They did this by refusing to release their videos on the MTV platform.

Their artistic rock jam “Elderly woman behind the counter” was written close to 30 times before its release in October 1993.

The band’s debut album “Ten” was supposedly not expected to be the hit it became by the group. In the light of that, the group spent a minimum amount of money as compared to their prior album Mother Love Bone’s production, before they became Pearl Jam.

For a period of time in 1993, the band made a decision to maximize the concerns of their artistic values at the expense of profit-making. They refused to release any music video and other provisions for publicity. Their motive was that they wanted to present music in its real and best form to their listeners so they can fully appreciate it to an extent.

Their eleventh album was scheduled to be released in March 2020 but was halted after the COVID-19 global pandemic broke out.

Top Pearl Jam Songs

Pearl Jam has been touted as “modern rock radio’s most influential band” due to the award-winning albums and singles they have produced throughout their career.

The band has earned worldwide acclaim for believing in their vision to not just produce music but to actually give the music industry and their most cherished fans something to believe in.

They continue to actively tour and serve music lovers with their unforgettable performances. So far, this group has definitely been exceeding its own expectations and vision. Below is a list of some of the most successful songs released by Pearl Jam:

• “Alive”
• “Amongst the Waves”
• “Animal”
• “Can’t Deny Me”
• “Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns”
• “Dance of the Clairvoyants”
• “Daughter”
• “Dissident”
• “Even Flow”
• “Get It Back”
• “Given to Fly”
• “Go”
• “Gone”
• “Hail, Hail”
• “I Am Mine”
• “I Got Id”
• “Immortality”
• “Jeremy”
• “Just Breathe / Got Some”
• “Last Kiss”
• “Life Wasted”
• “Light Years”
• “Lightning Bolt”
• “Love Boat Captain”
• “Love, Reign o’er Me”
• “Man of the Hour”
• “Mind Your Manners”
• “Not for You”
• “Nothing as It Seems”
• “Oceans”
• “Off He Goes”
• “Olé”
• “Quick Escape”
• “Retrograde”
• “Save You”
• “Sirens”
• “Spin the Black Circle”
• “Superblood Wolfmoon”
• “The Fixer”
• “Who You Are”
• “Wishlist”
• “World Wide Suicide”