Uncut magazine (UK) has a rather cool little piece on Pearl Jam, with the band briefly talking through 6 of their albums (Ten, Vs, Vitalogy, No Code, Binaural, Pearl Jam)
I'll type out the snippet on 'Pearl Jam' and if anyone's interested could transcribe the rest.
"PEARL JAM (2006)
Partly a continuation of the overtly politicised post-9/11 Riot Act (2002), anti war sentiment here alternates with songs like 'Big Wave', where Vedder seems to want to get away from the whole mess. Their hardest-rocking set for a decade.
GOSSARD: This record has a little bit of AC/DC or the Stones. We can play it top to bottom live. The lyrics run the full gamut. They're politically engaged, but then "Severed Hand"'s about somebody just indulging to the ultimate degree. You don't get that out of Ed a lot.
VEDDER: It's healthy to limit yourself, when you can, to things that actually concern you. Musically, we know we're going down roads that have already been cut, by The Who or Springsteen or The Stooges or the Velvets or Talking Heads, or even some of the side-paths cut by Sonic Youth or Fugazi. I think at this point we're trying to keep that spirit and legacy alive.
CAMERON: The initial blast of Pearl Jam came when there was a palpable groundswell. People wanted to hear something different, and our association with that initial realism in rock has carried over. Not necessarily in the industry. They probably think we're a bunch of old greaseballs, and I love that. It's great that we're seen as underdogs when we're still really successful.
VEDDER: Did pulling back save my life? I've fallen off a number of cliffs since. If they'd been higher, I could have died. Yes. "
