YMMV / Ten (Pearl Jam Album)

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• Awesome Music: The album is one of the highest-selling debut albums of all time, up there with Boston's self-titled and Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction. If every song weren't absolutely amazing, it wouldn't be justified at all.
• Epic Riff: "Once", "Even Flow", "Alive", "Black", "Jeremy" (bass), "Release", the list goes on...
• First Installment Wins: Generally considered to be an iconic album; none of their other albums have matched its popularity.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "Jeremy", especially its accompanying video, after a rash of school shootings in The '90s (especially Columbine), even though in the song Jeremy shoots himself (although the Gory Discretion Shot makes it easy to get the wrong idea). Once again after Virginia Tech, and yet again after the Sandy Hook shootings. And Parkland. And Santa Fe. And...
  • Also, "Alive" gets pretty eerie to listen to once we realize that with Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, Layne Staley's death by drug overdose in 2002, and Chris Cornell's death by suicide in 2017, Eddie is now the last one of the main frontmen of grunge standing.
• Hype Backlash: From anyone who felt either the production on the album was sloppy, or that they were too classic rock to be part of the whole grunge/alternative insurgence. Most infamous among them: one Kurt Cobain. Eddie Vedder actually agreed, which contributed to the experimental nature of Vitalogy.
• Misaimed Fandom:
  • "Alive" (about Parental Incest) might count, but Eddie Vedder is on record as saying that the fans' interpretation of the song actually changed the meaning of the song for him as well.
  • "Jeremy" was one of Barry Loukatis's inspirations for going on a school shooting.
• Nightmare Fuel: The video for "Jeremy" mixed this and Tear Jerker.

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