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Every song on Pearl Jam's Ten ranked from worst to best

Released on August 27, 1991, Pearl Jam's Ten lit grunge's blue touch paper. Here's every track on the album, re-ordered from worst to best

Louder · Aug 28

"When the fans changed the meaning of those words, they lifted the curse." How Eddie Vedder plumbed the murkiest of emotional depths to complete a Pearl Jam classic

Pearl Jam's debut single was an act of catharsis for Eddie Vedder, but the band's audience took it in an unexpected direction

Louder · Jul 28

Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

Louder · Jun 22

“I quit playing music for two years. I was done. Then I got a call from Stone”: Mike McCready followed Duff McKagan to LA to make it big – but he nearly missed his shot in Seattle

Before Pearl Jam, the lead guitarist sought to make a success of his teenage hard-rock outfit, Shadow

Guitar World · Mar 24

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Muse, Crown Lands, the Black Keys and more

Louder · Mar 23

"It's our most emotional and moving song." In 1986, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder taped something off the TV. Years later, that recording would leave fans wondering what in the name of grunge was going on

The story behind the weirdest track on their third album Vitalogy – and it's not Bugs

Louder · Mar 14

"We’re in the lab, we’re woodshedding, excited." Eddie Vedder says that Pearl Jam are preparing for a new era

Pearl Jam look to life after Matt Cameron

Louder · Feb 12

"Any money I will make I will happily give away to others. Print that, because I will stand by that!" He said it would be "counter-productive" if his band's debut album was a huge success. Then it sold 20 million copies

"We are not user-friendly... there is nothing special about me"

Louder · Jan 8

“What came out of a tragedy gave birth to something that was hugely positive in my life.” How the legendary Chris Cornell channelled his grief over a dear friend's death into making one of the 90s' most underrated classics

Members of Soundgarden and a fledgling Pearl Jam came together in 1990 to record a tribute to their late friend and emerged with a grunge classic

Metal Hammer · Dec 25, 2025

“People were going, ‘Hey man, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah, I didn’t play on that.’ They go, ‘Your name’s on it!’”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums has made one of his own – full of one-minute tracks

"I knocked out four or five songs in an evening"

MusicRadar · Dec 3, 2025