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* ParentalIncest: "Alive" was originally intended as being about a woman who seduces her son so she can vicariously have sex with her dead husband. Vedder has since [[FlipFlopOfGod modified the interpretation]] to being more about a man grieving his father's death before realizing [[OedipusComplex his strange, unreciprocated attraction to his mother]], and about how that makes him feel alive.
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* ParentalIncest: "Alive" was originally intended as being about a woman who seduces her son so she can vicariously have sex with her dead husband. Vedder has since [[FlipFlopOfGod modified the interpretation]] to being more about a man grieving his father's death before realizing [[OedipusComplex [[UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex his strange, unreciprocated attraction to his mother]], and about how that makes him feel alive.
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* ParentalIncest: "Alive" was originally intended as being about a woman who seduces her son so she can vicariously have sex with her dead husband. Vedder has since [[FlipFlopOfGod modified the interpretation]] to being more about a man grieving his father's death before realizing [[OedipalComplex [[OedipusComplex his strange, unreciprocated attraction to his mother]], and about how that makes him feel alive.
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* AteHisGun: The music video for "Jeremy" ends with the title character sticking a revolver in his mouth and pulling the trigger in front of his classmates, reflecting the fate of the real-life teenager who inspired the song.
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: In the music video for "Jeremy", after the [[spoiler:the title character shoots himself in front of his class, the camera pans across a tableau of his classmates recoiling in shock as his blood gets all over them.them]].
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''Ten'' is the debut album by Music/PearlJam, released in 1991 through Creator/EpicRecords. It was one of the defining albums of the grunge era, and quickly established the band as one of the forerunners of the AlternativeRock and {{Grunge}} explosion in the early nineties, along with Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/AliceInChains, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
The album's songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
''Ten'' remains a seminal album in the darker repertoire of alternative since it helped usher in an experimental sound that had once been relegated to the Seattle underground. However, despite its overnight critical and commercial success, the album was widely panned by AlternativeRock purists--Music/KurtCobain even called the band "commercial sellouts" and claimed the album was not truly alternative since it had production such as EchoingAcoustics on it and it didn't resemble [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth the minimalist style commonly associated with the genre]]. Nevertheless, Cobain would gain respect for the band following their continued experimentation on later albums ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy''.
The album's songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
''Ten'' remains a seminal album in the darker repertoire of alternative since it helped usher in an experimental sound that had once been relegated to the Seattle underground. However, despite its overnight critical and commercial success, the album was widely panned by AlternativeRock purists--Music/KurtCobain even called the band "commercial sellouts" and claimed the album was not truly alternative since it had production such as EchoingAcoustics on it and it didn't resemble [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth the minimalist style commonly associated with the genre]]. Nevertheless, Cobain would gain respect for the band following their continued experimentation on later albums ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy''.
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''Ten'' is the debut album by Music/PearlJam, released in 1991 through Creator/EpicRecords. It was one of the defining albums of the grunge era, and quickly established the band as one of the forerunners of the AlternativeRock and {{Grunge}} explosion in [[TheNineties the early nineties, nineties]], along with Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/AliceInChains, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, and is considered one of the defining albums of the grunge era.
The album's songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos,and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people.people, and vocalist Eddie Vedder's powerful delivery. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
''Ten'' remains a seminal album in the darker repertoire of modern alternative music, since it helped usher in an experimental sound that had once been relegated to the Seattle underground. However, despite its overnight critical and commercial success, the album was widely panned by AlternativeRock purists--Music/KurtCobain even called the band "commercial sellouts" and claimed the album was not truly alternative since it had production such as EchoingAcoustics on it and it didn't resemble [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth the minimalist style commonly associated with the genre]]. Nevertheless, Cobain would gain respect for the band following their continued experimentation on later albums ''Vs.'' and''Vitalogy''.
''Vitalogy''.
The album's songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos,
''Ten'' remains a seminal album in the darker repertoire of modern alternative music, since it helped usher in an experimental sound that had once been relegated to the Seattle underground. However, despite its overnight critical and commercial success, the album was widely panned by AlternativeRock purists--Music/KurtCobain even called the band "commercial sellouts" and claimed the album was not truly alternative since it had production such as EchoingAcoustics on it and it didn't resemble [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth the minimalist style commonly associated with the genre]]. Nevertheless, Cobain would gain respect for the band following their continued experimentation on later albums ''Vs.'' and
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* InTheStyleOf: Jeff Amnet described the bassline on "Master/Slave" as "my tribute to [[Music/{{Japan}} Mick Karn]]."
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''Ten'' is the debut album by Music/PearlJam, released in 1991. It was one of the defining albums of the grunge era, and quickly established the band as one of the forerunners of the AlternativeRock and {{Grunge}} explosion in the early nineties, along with Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/AliceInChains, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. The songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
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''Ten'' is the debut album by Music/PearlJam, released in 1991. It was one of the defining albums of the grunge era, and quickly established the band as one of the forerunners of the AlternativeRock and {{Grunge}} explosion in the early nineties, along with Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/AliceInChains, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
The album's songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
The album's songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
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* LastNoteNightmare: "Jeremy" ends with Eddie Vedder repeating, "Ahh-ah-ahh", as the guitar winds down, followed by a hollow, echoing chord to end the song.
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--> ''Clearly I remember\\
Pickin' on the boy\\
Seemed a harmless little fuck\\
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It is listed as the #209 [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime greatest album of all time]] on Magazine/RollingStone's associated list,''Magazine/{{NME}}'' listed it as the #339 [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime best album]], and it is currently the 136th-most-acclaimed album ever according to Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of numerous critics' greatest albums lists]]. The band does agree that [[CreatorBacklash they are dissatisfied with the heavy mixing]], and this was remedied somewhat with Brendan O'Brien's redux edition of the album in 2009.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: In the music video for "Jeremy", among the shots of words depicting others' presumed descriptions of Jeremy, there are two biblical allusions: Mark 5:13 ("the unclean spirits entered [into the pigs]"), which is actually an excerpt from the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man (Mark 5:1-20; see also Matthew 8:28-34 and Luke 8:26-39); and Genesis 3:6, which is also an excerpt from the creation of sin and the fall of man (Genesis 3:1-24).
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: In the music video for "Jeremy", among the shots of words depicting others' presumed descriptions of Jeremy, there are two three biblical allusions: Mark 5:13 ("the unclean spirits entered [into the pigs]"), which is actually an excerpt from the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man (Mark 5:1-20; see also Matthew 8:28-34 and Luke 8:26-39); and Genesis 3:1 and 3:6, which is are also an excerpt excerpts from the creation of sin and the fall of man (Genesis 3:1-24).
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* SerialKiller: The protagonist of "Once".
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** The music video for "Jeremy" begins and ends with the words "64 degrees and cloudy" and a dangling blackboard.
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Running to, you didn't\\
Leave a message, at least I\\
Could have learned your voice one last time''
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Running to, you didn't\\
Leave a message, at least I\\
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* OneWordTitle: The album title, along with "Once", "Alive", "Black", "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Porch", "Garden", "Deep", and "Release".
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: "Even Flow", about a homeless schizophrenic.
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It is listed as the #209 [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime greatest album of all time]] on Magazine/RollingStone's associated list, and ''Magazine/{{NME}}'' list,''Magazine/{{NME}}'' listed it as the #339 [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime best album]].album]], and it is currently the 136th-most-acclaimed album ever according to Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of numerous critics' greatest albums lists]]. The band does agree that [[CreatorBacklash they are dissatisfied with the heavy mixing]], and this was remedied somewhat with Brendan O'Brien's redux edition of the album in 2009.
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* LoudnessWar: The band has said that the original mix is outright overproduced and deafening, and disavows much of the recording to this day. This was rectified after producer Brendan O'Brien modified the tracks to make them sound better on a reissue, though that got complaints too.
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* LoudnessWar: The band has said that the original mix is outright overproduced and deafening, and disavows much of the recording to this day.day[[note]]Keep in mind that this record was released in 1991, so it's nowhere near as bad as what would come four years later[[/note]]. This was rectified after producer Brendan O'Brien modified the tracks to make them sound better on a reissue, though that got complaints too.
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[[caption-width-right:327:''Now my bitter hands, cradle broken glass, of what was everything...'']]
''Ten'' is the debut album by Music/PearlJam, released in 1991. It was one of the defining albums of the grunge era, and quickly established the band as one of the forerunners of the AlternativeRock and {{Grunge}} explosion in the early nineties, along with Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/AliceInChains, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. The songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
''Ten'' remains a seminal album in the darker repertoire of alternative since it helped usher in an experimental sound that had once been relegated to the Seattle underground. However, despite its overnight critical and commercial success, the album was widely panned by AlternativeRock purists--Music/KurtCobain even called the band "commercial sellouts" and claimed the album was not truly alternative since it had production such as EchoingAcoustics on it and it didn't resemble [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth the minimalist style commonly associated with the genre]]. Nevertheless, Cobain would gain respect for the band following their continued experimentation on later albums ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy''.
It is listed as the #209 [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime greatest album of all time]] on Magazine/RollingStone's associated list, and ''Magazine/{{NME}}'' listed as the #339 [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime best album]]. The band does agree that [[CreatorBacklash they are dissatisfied with the heavy mixing]], and this was remedied somewhat with Brendan O'Brien's redux edition of the album in 2009.
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!!Tracklist:
# "Once" (3:51)[[note]]Begins with the intro to the hidden track "Master/Slave"[[/note]]
# "Even Flow" (4:53)
# "Alive" (5:41)
# "Why Go" (3:20)
# "Black" (5:43)
# "Jeremy" (5:18)
# "Oceans" (2:42)
# "Porch" (3:30)
# "Garden" (4:59)
# "Deep" (4:18)
# "Release"[[note]]Contains the hidden track "Master/Slave" at 5:20[[/note]] (9:05)
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!!Prinicipal Members:
* Mike [=McCready=] – lead guitar
* Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar
* Jeff Ament – bass guitar, art direction/concept
* Eddie Vedder – vocals, additional art
* Dave Krusen – drums
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!!''Even flow, tropes arrive like butterflies''
* AffectionateParody: "Dirty Frank" was recorded in the summer before the album's release, intended to parody Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' "Give it Away" from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik''.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: In the music video for "Jeremy", among the shots of words depicting others' presumed descriptions of Jeremy, there are two biblical allusions: Mark 5:13 ("the unclean spirits entered [into the pigs]"), which is actually an excerpt from the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man (Mark 5:1-20; see also Matthew 8:28-34 and Luke 8:26-39); and Genesis 3:6, which is also an excerpt from the creation of sin and the fall of man (Genesis 3:1-24).
* AxCrazy: The protagonist of "Alive" has reached this point by "Once", having turned into an out-of-control serial killer whose murders have become more or less indiscriminate and whose ability to resist his urges has long since disappeared.
* BedlamHouse: "Why Go" is about a girl confined to a psychiatric hospital, tied up so she can't leave.
* BigRockEnding: "Alive", "Jeremy", and "Black" are the most remembered examples.
* {{Bookends}}: "Once" begins with the intro to "Master/Slave". "Release" ends with "Master/Slave" as its HiddenTrack.
* BreakupSong: "Black". The song is so emotional that the band refused to market it as a single or as a video, claiming that would destroy the poetic beauty of the song.
** "Porch":
--> ''What the fuck is this world running to?\\
You didn't leave a message\\
At least I could have\\
Learned your voice one last time.''
* BSide: "Brother", "State of Love and Trust", "Just a Girl", "Breath and Scream", "2000 Mile Blues", "Wash", and "Dirty Frank" were included on compilation records years later. "Brother" even became an alt-rock radio hit in 2009, eighteen years after the album's release.[[note]] Actually, Ament fought long and hard with Gossard to get "Brother" on the original record, and even threatened to quit the band over this. The fact that it became popular years later could be TakeThat in retrospect on Ament's part.[[/note]]
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Mentioned in "Even Flow". It is about an illiterate homeless man whose thoughts "arrive like butterflies", and who will escape this life to be reborn into a better status.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: "Once", "Jeremy", and "Even Flow" have characters who want to escape their crappy lives. Music critic Robert Christgau even stated that while he didn't like most of the album, he especially liked these tracks since the abuse in these tracks seemed to justify the catchy riffs.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Jeremy" has one of the most iconic (and ironic) ones of the genre:
--> ''Jeremy spoke in class today''
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Ament actually constructed the "PEARL JAM" woodcut found on the front cover, before the band posed in front of it. He intended for the picture of the band to be black and white against a burgundy background, but the colors were changed to the distinctive magenta hue--this was restored for the Brendan O'Brien remix edition.
* DisappearedDad: "Release":
--> ''Oh, dear Dad can you see me now\\
I am myself like you somehow\\
I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me\\
How I've opened up, release me\\
Release me, release me dad, release me''
* DownerEnding: The ending of the music video for "Jeremy" has [[spoiler: the titular character committing suicide in a classroom]].
* HiddenTrack: "Master/Slave". It continues to remain unseparated from "Release" even in mp3 format, since it bookends the album.
* IndecipherableLyrics: Done somewhat intentionally, since Vedder wrote the lyrics after Ament and Gossard had written the melodies.
* {{Instrumental|s}}: "Master/Slave", though it does have some creepy, indecipherable mumbling courtesy of Eddie Vedder.
* LighterAndSofter: This album was one of the first mainstream, accessible [=LPs=] to come out of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, and even softer than the band's previous work in ''Mother Love Bone.''
** Do '''''not''''', however, make the mistake of assuming that being "lighter and softer" than most of what came before it means that ''Ten'' is a lighthearted album.
* LoudnessWar: The band has said that the original mix is outright overproduced and deafening, and disavows much of the recording to this day. This was rectified after producer Brendan O'Brien modified the tracks to make them sound better on a reissue, though that got complaints too.
* MinisculeRocking: "Why Go", and "Porch" are short compared to the other, much longer songs. However, longer versions of these tracks do exist on [=EPs=]; "Porch" reaches a length of about 13 minutes.
* OneWordTitle: The album title, along with "Once", "Alive", "Black", "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Porch", "Garden", "Deep", and "Release".
* PanAndScan: The more popular album cover features a closeup of the band members' hands, which resembles a wave. The above cover is usually reserved for LP versions of the album, most likely because it appeared visually unappealing on small CD covers.
* ParentalIncest: "Alive" was originally intended as being about a woman who seduces her son so she can vicariously have sex with her dead husband. Vedder has since [[FlipFlopOfGod modified the interpretation]] to being more about a man grieving his father's death before realizing [[OedipalComplex his strange, unreciprocated attraction to his mother]], and about how that makes him feel alive.
* PlayingSick: Invoked sarcastically in "Why Go", where the girl considers malingering in order to get back at her parents and doctors for having deemed her insane.
* RecurringCharacter: The kid of "Alive" faces a backlash in "Once", before waiting to be executed for his crime in "Footsteps" (a B-side).
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Jeremy" was directly based on a [[http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/aug99/jeremy_article.shtml boy of the same name who committed suicide in front of his classmates]]. The music video includes headlines and excerpts from news articles about school shootings.
** However, the second verse includes a description of a fist-fight Vedder had had in grade school with another boy. This is intentional, in order to leave the listener to wonder just how many kids could have turned out like the Jeremy from the headlines and done something self-destructive.
* SelfTitledAlbum: PlayedWith. The band's original name was "Mookie Blaylock", who was a professional basketball player. When the name was disallowed due to copyright issues, the band changed its name and decided instead to name the album ''Ten'', after Mookie Blaylock's jersey number.
* SocietyIsToBlame: "Garden", where the narrator walks through a graveyard and blames the dead and previous generations for having instituted absurd expectations on the living.
--> ''The direction of the eye, so misleading\\
The defection of the soul, nauseously quick\\
I don't question our existence\\
I just question our modern needs''
* SpokenWordInMusic: During the instrumental of "Even Flow", Eddie can be heard doing an impression of a homeless man asking for spare change on a street, which lends to the song's subject.
* SurfRock: "Oceans" was inspired by surfing in general.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Oceans", "Black", and "Release" became famous amid all the other, harder rocking tracks.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: No ''decent'' therapists, anyway, according to "Why Go".
--> ''She's been diagnosed by some stupid fuck\\
And mommy agrees''
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: "Why Go" is told from the perspective of a woman confined to a psychiatric hospital. "Once" is about a guy who murders a prostitute after feeling bad about [[OedipalComplex sleeping with his mother]] and [[LukeIAmYourFather meeting his true biological father who left when he was a kid]].
* WritersBlock: Mentioned in "Black":
--> ''Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn\\
And all I taught her was everything\\
I know she gave me all that she wore\\
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds\\
Of what was everything\\
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything''
* {{Yarling}}: This album pretty much codified this style of singing, along with Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', among others.
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[[caption-width-right:327:''Now my bitter hands, cradle broken glass, of what was everything...'']]
''Ten'' is the debut album by Music/PearlJam, released in 1991. It was one of the defining albums of the grunge era, and quickly established the band as one of the forerunners of the AlternativeRock and {{Grunge}} explosion in the early nineties, along with Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/AliceInChains, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins. The songs became well-known for their prominent and complex guitar solos, and powerfully delivered lyrics centered on abusive relationships or disturbed young people. The singles "Jeremy", "Alive", and "Even Flow" forged a distinctive niche in the mainstream for angst-filled teenagers. Even "Black", though never released as a single, became one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the nineties.
''Ten'' remains a seminal album in the darker repertoire of alternative since it helped usher in an experimental sound that had once been relegated to the Seattle underground. However, despite its overnight critical and commercial success, the album was widely panned by AlternativeRock purists--Music/KurtCobain even called the band "commercial sellouts" and claimed the album was not truly alternative since it had production such as EchoingAcoustics on it and it didn't resemble [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth the minimalist style commonly associated with the genre]]. Nevertheless, Cobain would gain respect for the band following their continued experimentation on later albums ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy''.
It is listed as the #209 [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime greatest album of all time]] on Magazine/RollingStone's associated list, and ''Magazine/{{NME}}'' listed as the #339 [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime best album]]. The band does agree that [[CreatorBacklash they are dissatisfied with the heavy mixing]], and this was remedied somewhat with Brendan O'Brien's redux edition of the album in 2009.
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!!Tracklist:
# "Once" (3:51)[[note]]Begins with the intro to the hidden track "Master/Slave"[[/note]]
# "Even Flow" (4:53)
# "Alive" (5:41)
# "Why Go" (3:20)
# "Black" (5:43)
# "Jeremy" (5:18)
# "Oceans" (2:42)
# "Porch" (3:30)
# "Garden" (4:59)
# "Deep" (4:18)
# "Release"[[note]]Contains the hidden track "Master/Slave" at 5:20[[/note]] (9:05)
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!!Prinicipal Members:
* Mike [=McCready=] – lead guitar
* Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar
* Jeff Ament – bass guitar, art direction/concept
* Eddie Vedder – vocals, additional art
* Dave Krusen – drums
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!!''Even flow, tropes arrive like butterflies''
* AffectionateParody: "Dirty Frank" was recorded in the summer before the album's release, intended to parody Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' "Give it Away" from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik''.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: In the music video for "Jeremy", among the shots of words depicting others' presumed descriptions of Jeremy, there are two biblical allusions: Mark 5:13 ("the unclean spirits entered [into the pigs]"), which is actually an excerpt from the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man (Mark 5:1-20; see also Matthew 8:28-34 and Luke 8:26-39); and Genesis 3:6, which is also an excerpt from the creation of sin and the fall of man (Genesis 3:1-24).
* AxCrazy: The protagonist of "Alive" has reached this point by "Once", having turned into an out-of-control serial killer whose murders have become more or less indiscriminate and whose ability to resist his urges has long since disappeared.
* BedlamHouse: "Why Go" is about a girl confined to a psychiatric hospital, tied up so she can't leave.
* BigRockEnding: "Alive", "Jeremy", and "Black" are the most remembered examples.
* {{Bookends}}: "Once" begins with the intro to "Master/Slave". "Release" ends with "Master/Slave" as its HiddenTrack.
* BreakupSong: "Black". The song is so emotional that the band refused to market it as a single or as a video, claiming that would destroy the poetic beauty of the song.
** "Porch":
--> ''What the fuck is this world running to?\\
You didn't leave a message\\
At least I could have\\
Learned your voice one last time.''
* BSide: "Brother", "State of Love and Trust", "Just a Girl", "Breath and Scream", "2000 Mile Blues", "Wash", and "Dirty Frank" were included on compilation records years later. "Brother" even became an alt-rock radio hit in 2009, eighteen years after the album's release.[[note]] Actually, Ament fought long and hard with Gossard to get "Brother" on the original record, and even threatened to quit the band over this. The fact that it became popular years later could be TakeThat in retrospect on Ament's part.[[/note]]
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Mentioned in "Even Flow". It is about an illiterate homeless man whose thoughts "arrive like butterflies", and who will escape this life to be reborn into a better status.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: "Once", "Jeremy", and "Even Flow" have characters who want to escape their crappy lives. Music critic Robert Christgau even stated that while he didn't like most of the album, he especially liked these tracks since the abuse in these tracks seemed to justify the catchy riffs.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "Jeremy" has one of the most iconic (and ironic) ones of the genre:
--> ''Jeremy spoke in class today''
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Ament actually constructed the "PEARL JAM" woodcut found on the front cover, before the band posed in front of it. He intended for the picture of the band to be black and white against a burgundy background, but the colors were changed to the distinctive magenta hue--this was restored for the Brendan O'Brien remix edition.
* DisappearedDad: "Release":
--> ''Oh, dear Dad can you see me now\\
I am myself like you somehow\\
I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me\\
How I've opened up, release me\\
Release me, release me dad, release me''
* DownerEnding: The ending of the music video for "Jeremy" has [[spoiler: the titular character committing suicide in a classroom]].
* HiddenTrack: "Master/Slave". It continues to remain unseparated from "Release" even in mp3 format, since it bookends the album.
* IndecipherableLyrics: Done somewhat intentionally, since Vedder wrote the lyrics after Ament and Gossard had written the melodies.
* {{Instrumental|s}}: "Master/Slave", though it does have some creepy, indecipherable mumbling courtesy of Eddie Vedder.
* LighterAndSofter: This album was one of the first mainstream, accessible [=LPs=] to come out of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, and even softer than the band's previous work in ''Mother Love Bone.''
** Do '''''not''''', however, make the mistake of assuming that being "lighter and softer" than most of what came before it means that ''Ten'' is a lighthearted album.
* LoudnessWar: The band has said that the original mix is outright overproduced and deafening, and disavows much of the recording to this day. This was rectified after producer Brendan O'Brien modified the tracks to make them sound better on a reissue, though that got complaints too.
* MinisculeRocking: "Why Go", and "Porch" are short compared to the other, much longer songs. However, longer versions of these tracks do exist on [=EPs=]; "Porch" reaches a length of about 13 minutes.
* OneWordTitle: The album title, along with "Once", "Alive", "Black", "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Porch", "Garden", "Deep", and "Release".
* PanAndScan: The more popular album cover features a closeup of the band members' hands, which resembles a wave. The above cover is usually reserved for LP versions of the album, most likely because it appeared visually unappealing on small CD covers.
* ParentalIncest: "Alive" was originally intended as being about a woman who seduces her son so she can vicariously have sex with her dead husband. Vedder has since [[FlipFlopOfGod modified the interpretation]] to being more about a man grieving his father's death before realizing [[OedipalComplex his strange, unreciprocated attraction to his mother]], and about how that makes him feel alive.
* PlayingSick: Invoked sarcastically in "Why Go", where the girl considers malingering in order to get back at her parents and doctors for having deemed her insane.
* RecurringCharacter: The kid of "Alive" faces a backlash in "Once", before waiting to be executed for his crime in "Footsteps" (a B-side).
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Jeremy" was directly based on a [[http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/aug99/jeremy_article.shtml boy of the same name who committed suicide in front of his classmates]]. The music video includes headlines and excerpts from news articles about school shootings.
** However, the second verse includes a description of a fist-fight Vedder had had in grade school with another boy. This is intentional, in order to leave the listener to wonder just how many kids could have turned out like the Jeremy from the headlines and done something self-destructive.
* SelfTitledAlbum: PlayedWith. The band's original name was "Mookie Blaylock", who was a professional basketball player. When the name was disallowed due to copyright issues, the band changed its name and decided instead to name the album ''Ten'', after Mookie Blaylock's jersey number.
* SocietyIsToBlame: "Garden", where the narrator walks through a graveyard and blames the dead and previous generations for having instituted absurd expectations on the living.
--> ''The direction of the eye, so misleading\\
The defection of the soul, nauseously quick\\
I don't question our existence\\
I just question our modern needs''
* SpokenWordInMusic: During the instrumental of "Even Flow", Eddie can be heard doing an impression of a homeless man asking for spare change on a street, which lends to the song's subject.
* SurfRock: "Oceans" was inspired by surfing in general.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Oceans", "Black", and "Release" became famous amid all the other, harder rocking tracks.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: No ''decent'' therapists, anyway, according to "Why Go".
--> ''She's been diagnosed by some stupid fuck\\
And mommy agrees''
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: "Why Go" is told from the perspective of a woman confined to a psychiatric hospital. "Once" is about a guy who murders a prostitute after feeling bad about [[OedipalComplex sleeping with his mother]] and [[LukeIAmYourFather meeting his true biological father who left when he was a kid]].
* WritersBlock: Mentioned in "Black":
--> ''Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn\\
And all I taught her was everything\\
I know she gave me all that she wore\\
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds\\
Of what was everything\\
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything''
* {{Yarling}}: This album pretty much codified this style of singing, along with Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', among others.
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