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The best album of the 90's - Dookie vs Ten

Which is the better album?

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milo

milo

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Our first game of the first round see's Green Day up against Pearl Jam. The poll is open for 24 hours.

Green Day - Dookie

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Wikipedia said:
Dookie is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day, released on February 1, 1994, through Reprise Records. It was the band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo and its major record label debut. Dookie became a worldwide commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 and charting in seven countries. The album helped propel Green Day, and even punk rock music into mainstream popularity. Dookie was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America for the shipment of 10 million copies.

Dookie produced five hit singles for the band: "Longview", "When I Come Around", "Basket Case", a re-recorded version of "Welcome to Paradise" and the radio-only single "She". The album has garnered considerable acclaim, from its release to present day, winning a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1995 and being ranked No. 193 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. As of 2014, Dookie is the band's best-selling album with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide.
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Pearl Jam - Ten

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Wikipedia said:
Ten is the debut studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard's previous group Mother Love Bone, the two recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder, guitarist Mike McCready, and drummer Dave Krusen to form Pearl Jam in 1990. Most of the songs began as instrumental jams, to which Vedder added lyrics about topics such as depression, homelessness, and abuse.

Ten was not an immediate success, but by late 1992 it had reached number two on the Billboard 200 chart. The album produced three hit singles: "Alive", "Even Flow", and "Jeremy". While Pearl Jam was accused of jumping on the grunge bandwagon at the time,Ten was instrumental in popularizing alternative rock in the mainstream. In February 2013, the album crossed the 10 million mark in sales and has been certified 13x platinum by the RIAA. It remains Pearl Jam's most commercially successful album.
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I'm completely undecided on this, I can't say that I like either band particularly but I'm open to being persuaded. Who should I vote for and why?
 
milo said:
I'm completely undecided on this, I can't say that I like either band particularly but I'm open to being persuaded. Who should I vote for and why?
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Pretty much the same for me, however i have gone for Pearl Jam mainly because i saw them once with Neil Young in the states in the 90's and they were very good.
 
parklane1 said:
Pretty much the same for me, however i have gone for Pearl Jam mainly because i saw them once with Neil Young in the states in the 90's and they were very good.
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I never got the metal/rock bands that got lumped in with grunge. It always seemed the antithesis of what the scene was meant to be about to me and a bit careerist (which was also against what the scene was meant to be about).
 
Yeah I agree, PJ were always a bit too "rock" for me. I quite like the songs you picked out, but it always felt like a rock vibe rather than grunge, not the same thing at all.

I went for Dookie as I owned it and enjoyed it... although Green Day slowly seemed to morph into the fatcat bloated rockers that they seemed to hate to begin with... all a bit confusing.
 
milo said:
I never got the metal/rock bands that got lumped in with grunge. It always seemed the antithesis of what the scene was meant to be about to me and a bit careerist (which was also against what the scene was meant to be about).
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It was and still is some cases putting artists/bands into boxes to suit narratives, personally its all music to me and i ( usually) can enjoy/listen to most genres ( except Jazz).
 
milo said:
I never got the metal/rock bands that got lumped in with grunge. It always seemed the antithesis of what the scene was meant to be about to me and a bit careerist (which was also against what the scene was meant to be about).
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anything that uses a distortion pedal got included as far as I can tell

it's all rock n roll to me
 
Not a fan of either, but I was at that PJ concert at Roskilde in 2000. Horrible scenes! PJ gets my vote.

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It's true - this is all just a lead up to RATM being voted best album of the 90's...which is nuts IMO

As for this round, I'm going for Pearl Jam - Ten

The track Release is a brilliant end to a genre-defining album

Vedder's voice is great on every track, but Why Go is my favourite

One of the few true albums on this list, in terms of tracks bleeding into one another, and not just a collection of songs
 
I've gone for Dookie. Basket Case is an alright song and I don't like Vedder's voice.
 
Ten for me. Both fantastic albums, but in terms of which album affected me most, Ten wins hands down. Lyrically sublime, beautiful craftsmanship, every song on this album is single-worthy (well, when singles actually meant anything).

Massive soft spot for PJ and Eddie in general, seen them many times.


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AuroRaman said:
Ten for me. Both fantastic albums, but in terms of which album affected me most, Ten wins hands down. Lyrically sublime, beautiful craftsmanship, every song on this album is single-worthy (well, when singles actually meant anything).

Massive soft spot for PJ and Eddie in general, seen them many times.


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Ditto. I can listen to any song from Ten and I'm instantly back in the early 90s. Brilliant album.
 
Bossing out Ten right now, simply immense album. Feel they were unfairly shoved into the 'grunge' genre in terms of their music. It's much more of a classical rock album, harking back to Led Zep (especially the riffage and composition).

The grunge factor probably came from their general ethos and ethics as a band, plus the Seattle connection. Was a lovely bit of footage in their PJ20 doc, a home recording of Jeff Ament and Mike McCready (if memory serves), backstage at a Soundgarden gig, and they were gushing over being in the presence of Chris Cornell. How things would change over the next couple of years!
 
AuroRaman said:
Bossing out Ten right now, simply immense album. Feel they were unfairly shoved into the 'grunge' genre in terms of their music. It's much more of a classical rock album, harking back to Led Zep (especially the riffage and composition).

The grunge factor probably came from their general ethos and ethics as a band, plus the Seattle connection. Was a lovely bit of footage in their PJ20 doc, a home recording of Jeff Ament and Mike McCready (if memory serves), backstage at a Soundgarden gig, and they were gushing over being in the presence of Chris Cornell. How things would change over the next couple of years!
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I'm not about unfairly shoved, I suspect that their record company saw an opportunity and went for it. I agree that they are more of a classic rock band though. It's their rockisms that I could never get on with.
 
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