Pearl Jam to Reissue Ten...and the Kitchen Sink

Seattlest's inbox delivered gasp-inducing news for Pearl Jam fans this morning: The band is reissuing their 12-million-unit-selling 1991 debut, Ten. In four different "packages": On CD and vinyl, and in two versions—the one we all know and love, and a new edition, completely remixed by Brendan O'Brien.

What's included in the various packages? From the press release (which you can find on Pearl Jam's freshly-redesigned site):

Remaster of original Ten album + remix by producer Brendan O’Brien
DVD of previously unreleased 1992 Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged performance with 5.1 surround sound audio remix
LP of the band’s 1992 “Drop in the Park” concert
Replica of Pearl Jam three-song demo cassette with Eddie Vedder’s original vocal dubs
Recreation of Eddie Vedder composition notebook
Never before seen memorabilia
Bonus tracks and more.

Each version of Ten will hit stores on March 24, 2009, but you can preorder the "super deluxe edition" (above) today. ("Random sets signed by PJ.") Yes, it is worth $140.

Better than all of this, though: "The reissue of Ten serves as the launch of a planned two-year catalogue re-release campaign leading up to the band’s 20th anniversary in 2011."

With any luck, they'll play a Seattle show between now and then.

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By Clint in Arts & Events on December 10, 2008 5:30 PM

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herbisara

Am I the only one around these parts that's just flat out sick of Pearl Jam?

partyfernandez

i'm with bilco.....can't they throw in a flannel or something?

also, i like to think a band needs to EARN charging $140 for a collectable like this, and frankly, pearl jam has never struck me as a band that's "given back to it's fans" enough to warrant this (ie, how 'bout playing a show every few years?)

bilco

Lemme get this straight -

4 LPS, 2 CDs, 1 DVD, a cassette (wtf?) and a bunch of mass produced crap for $140. Let's do the math...

Hard to figure the value of vinyl, but they're not touting this as some fancy-ass high-end hydrocarbon. Let's use the a vinyl copy of Abbey Road as a comparison - 14 bux at Amazon, so that's 56 bux, cds routinely cell for 10 bux, bringing it to 76 bux, and a dvd (MTV Unpluggeds are selling between 10 and 15 on Amazon). Maybe 91 bux top, and almost forgot a 'replica 3 song cassette' and buncha printed crap.

Oh and by the way - it's the same fucking album on all of these, the one you already have on CD!

Extra bonus - Brendan (Wall o Mush) O'Brien doing the producing. $140 ?? You need to be a real hardcore PJ freak to think this is anything approaching a good, or even decent, deal.