Along with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Pearl Jam's debut album "Ten" helped define a music…

[Alan B. Cook]

Along with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Pearl Jam's debut album "Ten" helped define a musical generation. According to the band's website March 24th will see the re-release of the album in no fewer than FOUR editions. Anyone who considers themselves a Pearl Jam fan that isn't excited by the Super Deluxe Edition should check their pulse, because there is a good chance they have died and no one has bothered to notice yet:

1. Legacy Edition (2-disc set in mini-LP style slipcase):
* Disc 1: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered (original mix)
* Disc 2: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered and remixed by Brendan O’Brien, plus six bonus tracks: "Brother," "Just a Girl," "State of Love and Trust," "Breath and a Scream," "2,000 Mile Blues" and "Evil Little Goat"
* Re-designed packaging

2. Deluxe Edition (2-disc set plus DVD specially designed hardbound package):
* Disc 1: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered (original mix)
* Disc 2: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered and remixed by Brendan O’Brien, plus six bonus tracks: "Brother," "Just a Girl," "State of Love and Trust," "Breath and a Scream," "2,000 Mile Blues" and "Evil Little Goat"
* DVD of Pearl Jam’s previously unreleased 1992 MTV Unplugged performance including never before seen bonus performance of "Oceans" with 5.1 surround sound audio remix

3. Vinyl Collection (2-LP set)
* LP 1: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl
* LP 2: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl and remixed by Brendan O’Brien

4. Super Deluxe Edition (2-disc set plus DVD, 4 LPs and replica cassette in linen-covered, slip-cased box):
* Disc 1: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered (original mix)
* Disc 2: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered and remixed by Brendan O’Brien, plus six bonus tracks: "Brother," "Just a Girl," "State of Love and Trust," "Breath and a Scream," "2,000 Mile Blues" and "Evil Little Goat"
* DVD of Pearl Jam’s previously unreleased 1992 MTV Unplugged performance including never before seen bonus performance of "Oceans" with 5.1 surround sound audio remix
* LP 1: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl
* LP 2: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl and remixed by Brendan O’Brien
* LP 3 & 4: Drop in the Park – Live at Magnuson Park in Seattle on September 20, 1992 (audio mixed by Brendan O’Brien)
* Cassette: replica of original "Momma-Son" Pearl Jam demo cassette featuring "Alive," "Once" and "Footsteps"
* Package also includes an Eddie Vedder-style composition notebook filled with replica personal notes, images and mementos from the collections of Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament, a vellum envelope with replicated era-specific ephemera from Pearl Jam’s early work and a two-sided print commemorating the Drop in the Park concert.

[Rick Shoup]

YES!! I placed my order for this bad boy a couple months ago. Can't wait. I hear they are readying the rest of their catalog for upgraded re-release over the next year as well.