Artist.......: Pearl Jam
Album........: Let's Play Two
Label........: Universal
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2017-09-28
Str.date.....: 2017-09-29
Quality......: 261kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://https://pearljam.com/
track title time
1. Low Light 3:16
2. Better Man 5:15
3. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small 3:26
Town
4. Last Exit 2:34
5. Lightning Bolt 5:42
6. Black, Red, Yellow 2:55
7. Black 7:50
8. Corduroy 6:04
9. Given To Fly 3:25
10. Jeremy 5:01
11. Inside Job 5:54
12. Go 2:49
13. Crazy Mary 6:22
14. Release 5:29
15. Alive 6:04
16. All The Way 4:02
17. I've Got A Feeling 3:35
Runtime 79:43
Size 150.12
Release Notes:
Pearl Jam rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone to become the most popular
American rock & roll band of the '90s. After Mother Love Bone's vocalist, Andrew
Wood, overdosed on heroin in 1990, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff
Ament assembled a new band, bringing in Mike McCready on lead guitar and
recording a demo with Soundgarden's Matt Cameron on drums. Thanks to future
Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons, the demo found its way to a 25-year-old San Diego
surfer named Eddie Vedder, who overdubbed vocals and original lyrics and was
subsequently invited to join the band (then christened Mookie Blaylock after the
NBA player). Dave Krusen was hired as the full-time drummer shortly thereafter,
completing the original lineup. Renaming themselves Pearl Jam, the band recorded
their debut album, Ten, in the beginning of 1991, although it wasn't released
until August; in the meantime, the majority of the band appeared on the Andrew
Wood tribute project Temple of the Dog. Krusen left the band shortly after the
release of Ten; he was replaced by Dave Abbruzzese.
Ten didn't begin selling in significant numbers until early 1992, after Nirvana
made mainstream rock radio receptive to alternative rock acts. Soon, Pearl Jam
outsold Nirvana, which wasn't surprising. After all, Pearl Jam fused the
riff-heavy stadium rock of the '70s with the grit and anger of '80s post-punk,
without ever neglecting hooks and choruses; "Jeremy," "Evenflow," and "Alive"
fit perfectly onto album rock radio stations looking for new blood. Pearl Jam's
audience continued to grow during 1992, thanks to a series of radio and MTV
hits, as well as successful appearances on the second Lollapalooza tour and the
Singles soundtrack. Meanwhile, Temple of the Dog's self-titled album became a
platinum-selling hit, thanks to renewed interest in the project (which, in
addition to Pearl Jam, featured grunge heavyweight Chris Cornell) and strong
radio support for the single "Hunger Strike." Stone Gossard also embarked on a
side project called Brad, which released the album Shame in early 1993.
Despite their status as rock & roll superstars, Pearl Jam refused to succumb to
the accepted conventions of the music industry. The group refused to release any
videos or singles from their second album, 1993's Vs. Nevertheless, it was
another multi-platinum success, debuting at number one and selling nearly a
million copies in its first week of release. On their spring 1994 American tour,
the band decided not to play the conventional stadiums, choosing to play smaller
arenas, including several shows on college campuses. Pearl Jam canceled their
1994 summer tour, claiming they couldn't keep ticket prices below 20 dollars
because Ticketmaster was pressuring promoters to charge a higher price. The band
took Ticketmaster to the Justice Department for unfair business practices; while
fighting Ticketmaster, they recorded a new album during the spring and summer of
1994. After the record was completed, the group fired Dave Abbruzzese, replacing
him with former Red Hot Chili Peppers and Eleven drummer Jack Irons.
Vitalogy, the band's third album, appeared at the end of 1994. For the first two
weeks, the album was only available as a limited vinyl release, but the record
charted in the Top 60. Once Vitalogy was available on CD and cassette, the album
shot to the top of the charts and quickly went multi-platinum. Pearl Jam
continued to battle Ticketmaster in 1995, but the Justice Department eventually
ruled in favor of the ticket agency. In early 1995, the band recorded an album
with Neil Young. Meanwhile, Vedder toured with his wife Beth's experimental band
Hovercraft in the spring of 1994 as Stone Gossard founded an independent record
company. Mad Season, Mike McCready's side project with Layne Staley of Alice in
Chains, released its first album, Above, in the spring of 1995. Comprised
entirely of Neil Young songs, Mirror Ball appeared in the summer under Young's
name; although the individual members of the band were credited, the name Pearl
Jam did not appear on the cover due to legal complications. Pearl Jam released a
single culled from the sessions, titled Merkinball and featuring the songs "I
Got ID" and "Long Road," during the fall of 1995.
In late summer of 1996, Pearl Jam released their fourth album, No Code. Although
the album was greeted with fairly positive reviews and debuted at number one,
its weird amalgam of rock, worldbeat, and experimentalism dissatisfied a large
portion of their fan base, and it quickly fell down the charts. The record's
performance was also hurt by Pearl Jam's inability to launch a full-scale tour,
due both to their battle with Ticketmaster and a reluctance to spend months on
the road. The band spent most of 1997 out of the spotlight, working on new
material; Gossard also released a second album with his side project Brad,
titled Interiors. By the end of the year, Pearl Jam had completed a new,
harder-rocking record entitled Yield. The album was greeted with enthusiastic
reviews upon its February 1998 release, but its commercial fortunes weren't
quite as clear cut. While their sizable cult embraced the album, sending it to
number two its first week of release, Yield quickly slipped down the charts.
Pearl Jam supported the record with a full-scale arena tour in the summer of
1998, issuing the concert LP Live on Two Legs at the end of the year; Jack Irons
did not participate due to poor health, prompting the band to bring
ex-Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron back into the fold.
In 1999, Pearl Jam scored an unlikely pop radio smash with their cover of the J.
Frank Wilson oldie "Last Kiss," originally released as the seventh in a series
of fan club-only singles that had also featured several incongruous covers in
the past. Demand from fans and radio programmers resulted in the nationwide
release of "Last Kiss," and it eventually became the band's highest-charting pop
hit to date, peaking at number two and going gold. The group returned in 2000
with the Tchad Blake-produced Binaural. In order to circumvent bootleggers,
their subsequent European and American tours were recorded in full and released
in an unprecedented series of double-CD sets, with each of the 72 volumes
featuring a complete concert. Riot Act, a muscular -- and critically lauded --
collection of new songs that found the group dabbling in experimental art rock,
was released in 2002.
Two anthologies arrived in 2003 and 2004, Lost Dogs: Rarities and B Sides and
Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003. They were followed in 2006 by the
eponymous (and all-new) Pearl Jam, a number two hit on the album charts. As the
band's 20th anniversary loomed on the horizon, Pearl Jam launched a series of
album reissues, beginning with a deluxe version of Ten in 2009. That same year
also saw the release of their ninth studio album, Backspacer, which doubled as
the group's first independently released project, initially appearing
exclusively in Target stores in the U.S. The band supported the album with an
extensive 2010 tour. Live on Ten Legs, a collection of concert highlights from
2003-2010, appeared in January 2011. Later that year, Vedder released a solo
album of standards accompanied only by ukulele, and the band celebrated their
two-decade anniversary by launching a two-day festival in Wisconsin,
commissioning Cameron Crowe to produce a music documentary named PJ20, and
releasing a soundtrack of rare songs from the film. Shortly thereafter, the band
went back into the studio with Brendan O'Brien to start work on the follow-up to
Backspacer. The resulting album, Lightning Bolt, was announced in July 2013 with
the release of the raw single "Mind Your Manners." A darker album, with longer
songs than its short, sharp predecessor, and bearing the influence of both Pink
Floyd and punk, Lightning Bolt appeared in October 2013. Tours of Latin and
North America followed over the next few years and in April 2017, Pearl Jam was
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by comedian David Letterman. In
September of that year, a live double album and DVD set called Let's Play Two
was released chronicling a pair shows recorded at Chicago's historic Wrigley
Field.
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