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rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)
In an era when pop nihilism fulfilled its dark promise all too regularly, Pearl Jam not only survived, but thrived to become one of rock's greatest bands. This 33-track double-disc career retrospective documents the arc of a career that went from arena and radio triumphs in the early 90's (while Nirvana's promise imploded in the wake of hype, Pearl Jam's crowd-pleasing fame only burgeoned) to the uncompromising, core audience-focused tack that carried the band into the 21st century. Shrewdly compiled by the band into an "Up" disc that chronicles the band's driving, Stone Gossard-Mike McCready fueled hard rock dramatics (including such early career landmarks as "Jeremy," "Alive" and "Even Flow" alongside more aggressive fare like "Go" and "Spin the Black Circle") and a "Down" side that focuses more on Eddie Vedder's brooding, often dark ballads ("Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town," "Yellow Ledbetter," their unlikely hit cover of the oldie "Last Kiss"), it's a collection that underscores both the band's range and musical integrity. Though centered largely on the band's pre-Vitalogy studio era and containing no new material, longtime producer/collaborator Brendan O'Brien contributes remixes of "Once," "Alive" and "Black" that offer new insights on the familiar, while non-album tracks like "Man of the Hour" and "State of Love and Trust" considerably enhance the overall listening perspective here. --Jerry McCulley
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Tracks| 1 | Once (Brendan O'Brien Remix) | | 2 | Alive (Brendan O'Brien Remix) | | 3 | Even Flow | | 4 | Jeremy | | 5 | State of Love and Trust | | 6 | Animal | | 7 | Go | | 8 | Dissident | | 9 | Rearviewmirror | | 10 | Spin the Black Circle | | 11 | Corduroy | | 12 | Not for You | | 13 | I Got Id | | 14 | Hail Hail | | 15 | Do the Evolution | | 16 | Save You | | 17 | Black (Brendan O'Brien Remix) | | 18 | Breath | | 19 | Daughter | | 20 | Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town | | 21 | Immortality | | 22 | Betterman | | 23 | Nothingman | | 24 | Who You Are | | 25 | Off He Goes | | 26 | Given to Fly | | 27 | Wishlist | | 28 | Last Kiss | | 29 | Nothing as it Seems | | 30 | Light Years | | 31 | I am Mine | | 32 | Man of the Hour | | 33 | Yellow Ledbetter |
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