Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is a grunge band popular since the nineties and one of the original members of the Seattle sound. They have had numerous bestselling albums with their debut album going diamond. They have also had numerous hit singles, especially on the rock charts. Pearl Jam was a major part of the album rock revival. Consumers were seeking artists who performed their own songs, not had machines do it. They wanted music played on instruments, not computers. They wanted artists who wrote their own music, not covered other artists. They wanted singers, not instrumentalists. They wanted acoustic music, not electronic. Pearl Jam was named for a Native American concoction which included the hallucinogenic peyote.