Pearl Jam’s success has been attributed to its sound, which fuses "the riff-heavy stadium rock of the '70s with the grit and anger of '80s post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses." Gossard's rhythm guitar style is known for its sense of beat and groove, while McCready's lead guitar style, influenced by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, has been described as "feel-oriented" and "rootsy." Pearl Jam has broadened its musical range with subsequent releases. Pearl Jam has cited many punk rock and classic rock bands as influences, including The Who, Neil Young, and the Ramones. Allmusic calls Pearl Jam "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s." Compared with the other grunge bands of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam’s style is noticeably less heavy and harkens back to the classic rock music of the 1970s. Pearl Jam has outlasted many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame." Since its inception, the band has sold over thirty million records in the U.S., and an estimated sixty million worldwide. However, over the course of the band's career its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was criticized early on-most notably by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain-as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative rock explosion. Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard's previous band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten. The band's current drummer is Matt Cameron, formerly of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Mike McCready (lead guitar). "Parting Ways" (Vedder) - 7:17 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. "Sleight of Hand" (Ament, Vedder) - 4:47 12. "Light Years" (Gossard, McCready, Vedder) - 5:06 5. Pearl Jam - Binaural (2000) Pearl Jam - Binaural by RDaneel Title: Binaural Years: 2000 Genre: Rock - Grunge Production: Epic 1.
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