The album closer Indifference is just an emotional bomb, the penultimate Leash is a great hard rock anthem. Vs. has got some acoustic not-quite-ballads in Daughter and Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, a couple of thrashing tunes in Blood and Animal, some speed-rockers with Go and Rearviewmirror, and also whatever the hell is going on with Rats. The only song that felt like it could have been on Ten is Dissident. But Vs. has them veering a little farther into hard rock territory and doing some sonic exploration. Pearl Jam represented the glam-rock end of things, and it shows a lot in Ten, which is essentially a glam-rock album but dark and brooding instead flashy and pompous (that's not a dig, pomposity is a selling point for glam). I've mentioned before that the grunge scene-even in a locale like Seattle-wasn't really one movement but a set of them, with punk acts like Nirvana and Meat Puppets being lumped in with metal acts like Alice In Chains and Soundgarden. Pearl Jam rocketed to success and in 1993 released their follow-up Vs. Pearl Jam's 1991 debut album Ten came at exactly the right moment, releasing a month before Nirvana's Nevermind heralded the beginning of the grunge explosion. (And, because the world is teeny-tiny, Cameron is now Pearl Jam's drummer, although he didn't join until 2002). Afterwards, Cornell and Cameron returned to Soundgarden and the other four became Pearl Jam. The tribute album was called Temple Of The Dog and it spawned two hit singles in Hunger Strike and Say Hello 2 Heaven.
They agreed, and brought on board Soundgarden's drummer Matt Cameron and couple of newcomers that Gossard and Ament had been jamming with, lead guitarist Mike McCready and singer Eddie Vedder.
Wood's roommate, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, approached MLB's bassist and rhythm guitarist, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, about putting together a tribute album. In 1990, singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose a few days before the scheduled debut release from his band Mother Love Bone.
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