Pearl Jam celebrate this year their 20th anniversary. The Seattle band has proved that they are one of the best of the 90s, selling more than 60 mill. albums worldwide.
After 7 studio albums and 9 live albums, they are celebrating their anniversary releasing a doble album ("Twenty") featuring 15 live recordings (on disc one) and 15 B-sides, demos, and rarities (on disc two) that spans the band's career. In the beginning of 2011 they released a live album called "Live on Ten Legs".
This new album is also the soundtrack to Twenty, a documentary film about the quintet directed by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Singles), and it's loaded with goodies. The documentary will premier on 20 September at selected cinemas worldwide (view the list here), the same day the album will be released in USA.
Before the movie and soundtrack's release, a book featuring a foreword by Crowe as well as interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Dave Grohl, among others, will drop on September 12.
The soundtrack and the book are available to pre-order on Ten Club.
Pearl Jam will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a music festival also featuring the Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudhoney, X's John Doe, Joseph Arthur, Glen Hansard and others at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, Wisconsin (USA).
Official tracklist:
Disc One, Pearl Jam Twenty
1. Release – Verona, Italy 9-16-06
2. Alive – Moore Theatre, Seattle 12-22-90
3. Garden – Zurich, Switzerland 2-19-92
4. Why Go – Hamburg, Germany 3-10-92
5. Black – MTV Unplugged, NYC 3-16-92
6. Blood – Auckland, New Zealand 3-25-95
7. Last Exit – Taipei, Taiwan, 2-24-95
8. Not For You – Manila, Philippines 2-26-95
9. Do The Evolution – Monkeywrench Radio, Seattle 1-31-98
10. Thumbing My Way – Chop Suey, Seattle 9-6-02
11. Crown Of Thorns – 10th Anniversary, Las Vegas, NV 10-22-00
12. Let Me Sleep – Arena di Verona Steps, Verona, Italy 9-16-06
13. Walk With Me (w/Neil Young) Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA 10-23-10
14. Just Breathe – SNL, Rockefeller Center, New York City 3-13-10
Disc Two, Rarities and Inspiration
1. Say Hello 2 Heaven – Temple of the Dog Demo, 1990
2. Times Of Trouble – Demo 1990
3. Acoustic #1 – Demo 1991
4. It Ain’t Like That – Demo 1990
5. Need To Know – Demo 2007
6. Be Like Wind – McCready Score 2010
7. Given To Fly – McCready Instrumental 2010
8. Nothing As It Seems – Demo 1999
9. Nothing As It Seems – Seattle, 10-22-01
10. Indifference – Bologna, Italy 9-14-06
11. Of The Girl – Instrumental 2000
12. Faithfull – Pistoia, Italy 9-20-06 (Soundcheck)
13. Bu$hleaguer – Nassau, NY 4-30-03
14. Better Man – New York City 5-21-10
15. Rearviewmirror – Universal City, CA 10-1-09
This new album is also the soundtrack to Twenty, a documentary film about the quintet directed by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Singles), and it's loaded with goodies. The documentary will premier on 20 September at selected cinemas worldwide (view the list here), the same day the album will be released in USA.
Before the movie and soundtrack's release, a book featuring a foreword by Crowe as well as interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Dave Grohl, among others, will drop on September 12.
The soundtrack and the book are available to pre-order on Ten Club.
Pearl Jam will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a music festival also featuring the Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudhoney, X's John Doe, Joseph Arthur, Glen Hansard and others at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, Wisconsin (USA).
Official tracklist:
Disc One, Pearl Jam Twenty
1. Release – Verona, Italy 9-16-06
2. Alive – Moore Theatre, Seattle 12-22-90
3. Garden – Zurich, Switzerland 2-19-92
4. Why Go – Hamburg, Germany 3-10-92
5. Black – MTV Unplugged, NYC 3-16-92
6. Blood – Auckland, New Zealand 3-25-95
7. Last Exit – Taipei, Taiwan, 2-24-95
8. Not For You – Manila, Philippines 2-26-95
9. Do The Evolution – Monkeywrench Radio, Seattle 1-31-98
10. Thumbing My Way – Chop Suey, Seattle 9-6-02
11. Crown Of Thorns – 10th Anniversary, Las Vegas, NV 10-22-00
12. Let Me Sleep – Arena di Verona Steps, Verona, Italy 9-16-06
13. Walk With Me (w/Neil Young) Bridge School Benefit, Mountain View, CA 10-23-10
14. Just Breathe – SNL, Rockefeller Center, New York City 3-13-10
Disc Two, Rarities and Inspiration
1. Say Hello 2 Heaven – Temple of the Dog Demo, 1990
2. Times Of Trouble – Demo 1990
3. Acoustic #1 – Demo 1991
4. It Ain’t Like That – Demo 1990
5. Need To Know – Demo 2007
6. Be Like Wind – McCready Score 2010
7. Given To Fly – McCready Instrumental 2010
8. Nothing As It Seems – Demo 1999
9. Nothing As It Seems – Seattle, 10-22-01
10. Indifference – Bologna, Italy 9-14-06
11. Of The Girl – Instrumental 2000
12. Faithfull – Pistoia, Italy 9-20-06 (Soundcheck)
13. Bu$hleaguer – Nassau, NY 4-30-03
14. Better Man – New York City 5-21-10
15. Rearviewmirror – Universal City, CA 10-1-09
Watch the trailer of documentary “Twenty” below:
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