How to create a really successful band.
Pearl Jam broke bigger than anybody else in Seattle because the band’s 1991 debut, Ten, satisfied a social need: It was spectacularly good at making alienated teenagers (i.e. all teenagers) feel less alone whenever they felt misunderstood by the rest of the world (i.e. every waking hour of the day).Â
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Or to quote Bart Simpson: Making teenagers feel sad is like catching fish in a barrel.