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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has comprised Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Mike McCready (lead guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass). The band's fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron (also of Soundgarden), who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar (piano) has also been a session/touring member with the band since 2002. Drummers Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons are former members of the band.

Formed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. One of the key bands in the grunge movement of the early 1990s, over the course of the band's career, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make proper music videos or give interviews, and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame."

To date, the band has sold nearly 32 million records in the U.S. and an estimated 60 million worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of that decade. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s."

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Genres rock alternative rock grunge acoustic hard rock

Albums

  1. Ten
    1991
  2. Vs.
    1993
  3. Surfer Eddie’s Sunshine State
    1993
  4. Vitalogy
    1994
  5. Down Under
    1995
  6. No Code
    1996
  7. Yield
    1998
  8. Binaural
    2000
  9. Riot Act
    2002
  10. SV071 2004-10-02 Toledo, OH
    2004
  11. Pearl Jam
    2006
  12. Backspacer
    2009
  13. Lightning Bolt
    2013

Other releases

  1. Covering Them
    1994
  2. The Versus Sessions
    1994
  3. Evolution 1985 - 1993
    1994
  4. Coverin'
    1994
  5. Deep Through the Years
    1994
  6. Contra
    1994
  7. Live in Stockholm
    1995
  8. The European Concerts
    1995
  9. 1995-09-17: Tad Gormley Stadium, New Orleans, LA, USA
    1995
  10. Neil Young with Pearl Jam
    1996
  11. 1997 Fanclub Single
    1997
  12. Lost Dogs
    2003
  13. Jam Like Hell
    2004
  14. Wishing Well / Redemption Song
    2016
  15. Live on Air (Legendary F.M. Broadcast)
    2017
  16. 1995-08-16: Czechoslavakia Sports Palace, Praha, Czech Republic
  17. The Mirror Ball Show
  18. Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany
  19. 1995-08-26: RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, Ireland
  20. 1995-06-24: Broken Mirror: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA
  21. 1995-06-24: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA
  22. Mirrorball Live
  23. Downtown