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Article: Pearl Jam's second is a gritty step forward
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 8, 1993
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Populist Seattle rockers Pearl Jam sweep back into view next week
with a long-awaited follow-up to their monstrous debut album, "Ten."
That album sold 7 million copies and dramatized the issue of child
abuse (the song "Jeremy"), while its Led Zeppelin-influenced sound
reached out to a boomer generation that didn't know what to think of
the new Seattle rock until Pearl Jam came along. Heck, even Bob
Dylan and Keith Richards asked Pearl Jam to perform with them.
The group's new album, "Vs.," comes out Tuesday on vinyl (a neat
touch), then on cassette and CD a week later. It's another knockout,
as the band explores child abuse again ("Daughter" could be about
Jeremy's sibling), as well as ...