Pearl Jam's debut video was the first non-lipsynched MTV video ever, because they didn't go in for that phoney bullshit thank you very much.
To insist on this sort of thing BEFORE you're famous shows some conviction. This commitment to doing what they want without care for what's good for their career has largely been behind their mixed commercial fortunes since the mega-sales of their first two LPs in the early '90s. Recent albums have sounded indifferent.
Now it's 2006, they're all in their 40s and it's album #8. The long slow slide into obscurity and irrelevance must've really sunk in by now right? Fuck off. The fire is back. This is a cracker.
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