Why Pearl Jam have become such a polarising band?

Update: 2024-10-03

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Seattle band Pearl Jam have recorded 11 studio albums, sold 85 million+ albums, played over 1000 shows and had 5 albums reach number one. But after over thirty years of success, biographer Ronen Givony asks: Why are Pearl Jam not thought of as fondly as other bands like Nirvana?

Music 101 revisits this interview ahead of the band's New Zealand shows.

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