Opting for the vinyl edition, you get a gatefold sleeve, two heavy-weight (180g) vinyl discs and what looks like a promotional card (a piece of circular card with the album artwork and details printed upon it). As a result the bare edition comes shorn of extras, but it does offer two versions of a classic album and it has never sounded better. Working on a similar principal to the masterful reissue of the Manic Street preachers’ ‘Holy Bible’, ‘Ten’ comes as standard spread over two discs, but the basic version eschews the usual array of b-sides and live tracks to offer a re-mastered version of the original mix and a ‘redux’ mix courtesy of long-time band producer Brendan O’Brian. For this review we will be looking at the vinyl edition. Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ album is the platter in question and it was recently re-released as a special edition (over a variety of formats detailed below), heavy enough on features to satisfy even the hardiest of fans. Retrieved February 3, 2011.It is not a little terrifying when an album you identify so closely with your own musical development is re-issued as a ‘legacy’ edition some eighteen years after you first heard it.
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