Band even released a new version of the album in the late 2000s to correct what he considers his main problem
Soon with your debut album, Ten (1991), the Pearl jam He won fame. Pudera: the strong repertoire presented by the group brought successes like “Live”, “Uniform flow” AND “Jeremy”Furthermore “Black”ballad that has been successful even without going out as a single.
The public, in particular, loved him. It is not to be surprised, Ten It accumulates more than 13 million copies sold only in the United States. Their songs guide the band’s most performed list on platforms such as Spotify and YouTube.
However, group members are not exactly fans of the album. The sound engineer Dave Hilliswho worked on the material, guarantees it – and there are clear evidence of this “disgust” in the catalog of the group formed in Seattle.
In an interview from 2021 at Podcast Cobras & Fire (via Definitive guitar), Hillis revealed that the members find the sound of the album “loaded” too much regarding the use of effects, in particular the delay and the reverberation – which, in a very simplified explanation, favor echoes and make everything more “large”. Then they chose to relaunch it in 2009 with a new mix, under the title Ten Redux and the manufacturer’s witness Brendan O’Brien. The original project had the production of Rick Parashar.
Hillis, in fact, sees the original sound of Ten as a merit – and he underlined that the great guardian was Tim Palmerwho signs the mix of the material. For the engineer, this aspect helped directly so that the songs came to the radio. On the other hand, he underlines:
“I know Jeff [Ament, baixista] I didn’t like this “loaded” sound. I know Eddie [Vedder, vocalista] Nor did I like it, and went more and more to the punk side of things. “
Has Pearl Jam regretted ten?
In the understanding of Dave Hillis, Pearl Jam in one way has regretted how Ten Has been released. This not only was reflected in the 2009 mix, but the sound of the albums available after the debut, such as Vs. (1993) e Vitology (1994).
“I saw how they regretted and saw the direction they would bring to the next albums. I think, after all, they always wanted to see how Ten I would be like this [mais enxuto]So I was not so shocked. This is one of the greatest albums in history. “
What the members say
On more than one occasion, the members of Pearl Jam criticized the Mix of Ten. In the 2001 interview, before mixing was released, Jeff Ament had revealed that he would like to rework the material in the studio, not to change the performances, but give a new treatment to the effects. The following year, he commented:
“It was” too rock “. We were beginners in the studio and we spent a lot of time recording, making different filming, putting an end to the atmosphere and overduBS [gravações adicionais] guitar. There is a reverberation for a long time on the disc. “
In 2006, Eddie Vedder went further and admitted: Ten It is the only album you can’t hear. The reason? The sound “excessively produced”.
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