December marked 20 years since the release of Pearl Jam’s third album, Vitalogy, in 1994. While I’m not sure how many fans would consider it Pearl Jam’s best album, it is certainly their strangest strangest and most awkward. Vitalogy could be said to have marked the first conscious step in the direction away from the kind of insane commercial success PJ had experienced with their first two albums. According to statements made in interviews at the time, they were literally intent on shrinking the size of their audience to a more manageable level; a process that had already begun with … Continue reading Pearl Jam’s VITALOGY: The Brave and Uncompromised Experiment…