Having been remastered by Adam Ayan - whose website says he has overseen the mastering and remastering of albums by artists including Nirvana, Phish, Nine Inch Nails and the Rolling Stones - each track on “vs.” and “Vitalogy” carries a newfound life that only amplifies the band's studio craftsmanship. Whereas the concert isn't complete - six songs have been left off from the show's 22-song set list - the studio albums contain every track that originally hit store shelves almost 20 years ago. Each disc contains three bonus tracks recorded during the era and, if purchased together as part of the three-disc Deluxe Edition, comes packaged with the band's legendary April 12, 1994, concert from Boston's Orpheum Theater.
This month, music fans get the chance to relive that moment with the re-release of a “vs.” as well as the band's third album, the eclectically raw “Vitalogy,” released about 14 months later.
That was more than all other entries in that week's Billboard magazine's Top 10 combined, and it was a record that stood until 1998. The result was a shattering of sales records as Pearl Jam's “vs.,” released in both CD and vinyl, moved 950,378 copies in its first week of release. 19, 1993, thousands of music fans poured inside the brick-and-mortar walls of record stores across the country to buy one of the most anticipated follow-up albums of the grunge era.
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