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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.

back in 1993, music was, well, pretty much where it is now: A boys' playground of aggressive, booze- and drug-addled hyper-aggressive music, a scene that women fit into either by imitating the boys or by settling for the marginal spaces reserved for women, whether that was soul-searching singer-songwriter strumming an acoustic guitar, or tramped-out pop vixen delivering sugary three-minute radio singles. Into this toxic mix of misogyny, Liz Phair dumped an epic, brilliant 18-song LP that, even it hasn't changed the world, stands the test of time as having expanded the language in which a woman could communicate.