20 Years Ago: Pearl Jam Release ‘Vs.’
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２０年前の今日（１０月１９日）リリース
Selling millions of records has helped more than a few artists mellow out, but watching their debut album climb the charts only made Pearl Jam angrier. They took out their aggression on the follow-up, 1993′s ‘Vs.’
Released on Oct. 19, 1993, ‘Vs.’ found the band — who were already in a pretty dark spot on their first release, 1991′s ‘Ten’ — reacting to their newfound celebrity by unleashing a torrent of dark chords, crashing drums, howling guitar solos, and anguished vocals that sounded even rawer than what came before. Like Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero,’ which arrived in stores just a few weeks before ‘Vs.,’ it served as a defiant rejoinder to a record industry eager to capitalize on the band’s first flush of success — and just like Nirvana, Pearl Jam quickly discovered that its efforts to dodge the mainstream only brought the mainstream to its door.
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