Pearl Jam Twenty (soundtrack)
2011 album
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Pearl Jam Twenty (also known as PJ20) is a live compilation album by American alternative rock band Pearl Jam and is the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released on September 19, 2011 in Europe and September 20 in the United States.[11]
| Pearl Jam Twenty | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | September 19, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 1990–2010 | |||
| Genres | ||||
| Length | 128:06 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Pearl Jam chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 78/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| American Songwriter | [3] |
| Chicago Tribune | [4] |
| Classic Rock | [5] |
| Consequence of Sound | [6] |
| Kerrang! | [7] |
| PopMatters | 9/10[8] |
| Rolling Stone |  [9] |
| Uncut | 8/10[10] |
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Eddie Vedder; all songwriting credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[12]
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Release" (live in Verona, Italy, September 16, 2006) | Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, Dave Krusen | 4:46 |
| 2. | "Alive" (Mookie Blaylock live in Seattle, WA, December 22, 1990) | Gossard | 4:47 |
| 3. | "Garden" (live in Albani Bar Of Music, Winterthur, Switzerland, February 19, 1992) | Gossard, Ament | 6:08 |
| 4. | "Why Go" (live in Hamburg, Germany, March 10, 1992) | Ament | 3:22 |
| 5. | "Black" (MTV Unplugged in New York, NY, March 16, 1992) | Gossard | 5:39 |
| 6. | "Blood" (live in Auckland, New Zealand, March 25, 1995) | Dave Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder | 3:15 |
| 7. | "Last Exit" (live in Taipei, Taiwan, February 24, 1995) | Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder | 2:46 |
| 8. | "Not for You" (live in Manila, Philippines, February 26, 1995) | Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder | 6:19 |
| 9. | "Do the Evolution" (Monkeywrench Radio, Seattle, WA, January 31, 1998) | Gossard | 3:42 |
| 10. | "Thumbing My Way" (take 2, Seattle, WA, September 6, 2002) | Vedder | 4:22 |
| 11. | "Crown of Thorns" (live in Las Vegas, NV, October 22, 2000) | Ament, Gossard, Andrew Wood, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore | 6:45 |
| 12. | "Let Me Sleep (Christmas Time)" (live in Verona, Italy, September 16, 2006) | McCready, Vedder | 2:15 |
| 13. | "Walk with Me" (live with Neil Young, Mountain View, CA, October 23, 2010) | Young | 4:10 |
| 14. | "Just Breathe" (live at 30 Rock, Studio 8H - Saturday Night Live in New York, NY March 13, 2010) | Vedder | 3:39 |
| Total length: | 62:06 | ||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Say Hello 2 Heaven" (Temple of the Dog demo, 1990) | Chris Cornell | Cornell | 7:04 |
| 2. | "Times of Trouble" (Gossard, Ament, McCready and Cameron demo, 1990[note 1]) | (Instrumental) | Gossard | 4:13 |
| 3. | "Acoustic #1" (Vedder and Gossard demo, 1991) | Gossard | 2:49 | |
| 4. | "It Ain't Like That" (Alice in Chains cover, Mookie Blaylock demo, 1990) | Jerry Cantrell | Cantrell, Mike Star, Jeff Kinney | 1:27 |
| 5. | "Need to Know" (Matt Cameron demo, 2007[note 2]) | Matt Cameron | Cameron | 1:52 |
| 6. | "Be Like Wind" (Mike McCready score, 2010) | (Instrumental) | McCready | 1:53 |
| 7. | "Given to Fly" (Mike McCready acoustic instrumental, July 29, 2010) | (Instrumental) | McCready | 2:42 |
| 8. | "Nothing as It Seems" (Jeff Ament Montana demo, 1999) | Ament | Ament | 4:41 |
| 9. | "Nothing as It Seems" (live in Seattle, WA, October 22, 2001) | Ament | Ament | 5:42 |
| 10. | "Indifference" (live in Bologna, Italy, September 14, 2006) | Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder | 5:02 | |
| 11. | "Of the Girl" (instrumental, 2000) | (Instrumental) | Gossard | 5:06 |
| 12. | "Faithfull" (soundcheck in Pistoia, Italy, September 20, 2006) | McCready | 4:26 | |
| 13. | "Bu$hleaguer" (live in Uniondale, NY, April 30, 2003) | Vedder, Gossard | Gossard | 4:49 |
| 14. | "Better Man" (live in New York, NY, May 21, 2010) | Vedder | 6:49 | |
| 15. | "Rearviewmirror" (live in Universal City, CA, October 1, 2009) | Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder | 7:12 | |
| Total length: | 66:00 | |||
Personnel
All credits for Pearl Jam Twenty are adapted from the album's liner notes.[12]
Pearl Jam
- Eddie Vedder – lead vocals (disc 1: all; disc 2: 3, 9-15); guitar (disc 1: 8, 10; disc 2: 14, 15)
- Stone Gossard – guitar (disc 1: all; disc 2: 1-4, 8-15)
- Jeff Ament – bass (disc 1: all; disc 2: 1-4, 9-15); vocals, guitar, strings (disc 2: 8)
- Mike McCready – guitar (disc 1: all; disc 2: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9-15)
- Matt Cameron – drums (disk 1: 1, 10-14 ; disc 2: 1, 2, 5, 9-15); vocals, guitar, bass (disc 2: 5)
- Dave Krusen – drums (disc 1: 2; disc 2: 4)
- Dave Abbruzzese – drums (disc 1: 2-5)
- Jack Irons – drums (disc 1: 6-9)
Additional musicians
- Neil Young – vocals, guitar (disc 1: 13)
- Chris Cornell – vocals (disc 2: 1)
Production
- Pearl Jam – production
- Cameron Crowe – executive production
- Brett Eliason – mixing engineer
- Ed Brooke – mastering engineer
- Lance Mercer – photography
- Kerensa Wight – photography
- Karen Loria – photography
Chart positions
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[13] | 14 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14] | 48 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[15] | 26 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[16] | 33 |
| Croatian International Albums (HDU)[17] | 18 |
| Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[18] | 45 |
| Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[19] | 37 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[20] | 12 |
| French Albums (SNEP)[21] | 140 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22] | 37 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA)[23] | 21 |
| Italian Albums (FIMI)[24] | 12 |
| Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)[25] | 36 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[26] | 10 |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[27] | 33 |
| Polish Albums (ZPAV)[28] | 24 |
| Portuguese Albums (AFP)[29] | 1 |
| Scottish Albums (Official Charts)[30] | 38 |
| Spanish Albums (Promusicae)[31] | 33 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[32] | 35 |
| UK Albums (Official Charts)[33] | 47 |
