The vocals are loud, the words are incomprehensible. My question remained as Vedder began his signature lyrical delivery, a kind of muttering that’s also somehow screaming. For a moment I thought to myself “what the f–k is this?” The hypnotic elements went away as shredding guitars and crashing drums broke through. The first song on the album began with some weird hypnotic percussion while Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam’s frontman, hummed and made weird noises. I carefully dropped the pristine vinyl onto the record player and as the needle dropped we all sat in meditative silence. My aunt and uncle, the gift givers, pleaded for the three of us to head to the basement record player as soon as dinner was finished.Īs soon as the yuletide meal was wrapped up we ran to the basement - much in the same way I did when I was given a new set of Hot Wheel race cars in the Christmases of my childhood. But I vividly remember the first gift I received - a vinyl copy of Pearl Jam’s debut album “Ten.” I’m not entirely sure what the first gift I gave in the swap was, probably clothes or something. No longer would I be relegated to purchasing Lego sets for my ten and 11-year-old cousins, I was now a member of an exclusive club of old people. A number of years ago I was finally promoted into the “grown ups” Christmas gift swap.
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