Actually, it's quite arguable that this lean, muscular remix is a marked improvement on the original mix, as it's easier to focus on both the songs and group's interplay. and Vitalogy without drastically altering its character. Since Ten is the odd man out among Pearl Jam's albums - its shimmering surfaces and gated rhythms too eager to crossover - this revision also seems logical, bringing it closer to the sound and feel of Vs. This isn't full-scale cultural revisionism on the order of George Lucas - the original album is preserved in remastered form on the first disc - nor is it akin to the massive reworking of Raw Power that took liberties with the aesthetics of a classic, altering some crucial reasons why it was influential, but rather like a director's cut that's designed to be closer to the artist's original intentions. All this commotion camouflages the really noteworthy aspect of this anniversary edition: Pearl Jam brought in their longtime producer Brendan O'Brien to remix Ten from the ground up, to strip away the studio affectations of producer Rick Parashar and mixer Tim Palmer that made it a bright, shiny anomaly during the dingy heyday of grunge and make the album sound more liked the rest of the band's work (which O'Brien produced, after all).
PEARL JAM ALBUMS PROPERLY RATED PLUS
First off is a standard two-CD set, followed by a triple-disc set that adds a DVD of the band's 1992 performance for MTV Unplugged and then there's a gargantuan, frankly ludicrous, collectors edition that has all that plus four slabs of vinyl containing the two mixes of the album plus a 1992 live show, one cassette that replicates the original demo Eddie Vedder turned in as his audition, and assorted memorabilia that retails for $200.00. For the twentieth anniversary of their debut Ten - an event that arrives in 2011 and is being celebrated in 2009, but who's counting? - Pearl Jam went all out and delivered not one but three reissues, all in increasing levels of lavishness. Recorded at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington from March to April, 1991. Engineers: Dave Hills, Don Gilmore, Adrian Moore. Additional personnel: Walter Gray (cello) Rick Parashar (piano, organ, percussion). Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals) Mike McCreedy, Stone Gossard (guitar) Jeff Ament (bass) Dave Krusen (drums).
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