Blog: The Sly Oyster

The AV Club has a serious looking back at "alternative" culture in the early 19902s - best epitomized by grunge, Seattle and that Cameron Crowe movie Singles. The third part examines Pearl Jam's rise to fame and their subsequent disappearing act .  It's an exceptional piece of music history/writing by Stephen Hyden. Ten was already in the upper reaches of the  Billboard chart by the time Pearl Jam’s third video, “Jeremy,” went into heavy rotation on MTV in August ’92. Watching it now, the “Jeremy” video has lots of [...]