10 Artists That Hate Their Own Albums
5. Ten - Pearl Jam
When Pearl Jam were just starting to make some noise in Seattle, Eddie Vedder wasn't really thinking that he was going to be in one of the biggest bands in the world. Here was just a group of guys playing from the heart and trying to recover from the loss of Mother Love Bone singer Andy Wood, and Eddie would have been content to just play clubs for the rest of his life. A funny thing happened once the grunge wave started to kick into high gear though.
In a matter of a few months, Pearl Jam turned into one of the most beloved bands of their era, with Ten spawning some of their greatest hits they would ever have like Jeremy as well as fan favorites like Black. Though Eddie has been known to stand by his work, he had a particular distaste for the reverb that was used during these sessions, which gives the record the arena rock style bombast that it has.
Not looking to be a part of the corporate rock machine, Eddie used the rest of Pearl Jam's albums in the '90s to deliberately move away from the sound of Ten, like going in a much more heavy direction on Vs. and rarely doing promotional material for any of the records after this. You can have some insecurities about the way that your record was handled, but if you take the arena rock away from this record, it loses 90% of its power.