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Let's say you found yourself stranded on an island inhabited only by hungry wolves. And let's say these wolves were not regular wolves, but they were special wolves who, for some reason, very much like the sound of Neil Young but with much more wah pedal. They don't mind regular Neil Young, but they find Neil-Young-but-with-much-more-wah irresistable. There is a small boat with which you could make your escape, if only you could get past this pack of pesky unusual wolves.

To your North is a PA system with about 5000 watts of power (RMS) and you are confident this could draw the wolves away from your escape boat, if only you had a recording of Neil-Young-but-with-much-more-wah. Next to the mixer is a tape deck. Considering a somehow-working PA system with a tape deck to be less weird than a pack of wolves with particular muscial taste, you investigate.

You find two tapes: Nirvana and Pearl Jam. You look at the wolves, snarling and doing other sorts of general threatening wolf business, and look back at the tapes.

"Nervermind has been described as Steve Albini's worst work", you think to yourself, "but the familiarity of the songs and the consistency of the hooks should surely help to calm these wolves to the point where they could forgive such glossy production on what probably could have been a more honest punk rock record". You look at the other tape. "Ten", you think. "Whatever." A wolf growls or barks or does whatever wolves do as you're about to throw the Pearl Jam tape into the sand, and it hits you: this is your way out.

You load the Pearl Jam tape into the deck press play. A hiss, followed by a riff so well-known it seems built-in to today's guitars, floods the island. "Alive", you say to the sand, "that's about track three." You decide not to rewind. Vedder noises happen. The wolves approach.

Your plan works! The wolves believe Ten is actually Neil Young but with much more wah. You get in the boat safely and survive and live a happy life and perhaps write a couple of blog posts about your time on the island.

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This is the only scenario I could think of, in which Pearl Jam is better than Nirvana.
	Let's say you found yourself stranded on an island inhabited only by hungry wolves. And let's say these wolves were not regular wolves, but they were special wolves who, for some reason, very much like the sound of Neil Young but with much more wah pedal. They don't mind regular Neil Young, but they find Neil-Young-but-with-much-more-wah irresistable. There is a small boat with which you could make your escape, if only you could get past this pack of pesky unusual wolves.

	To your North is a PA system with about 5000 watts of power (RMS) and you are confident this could draw the wolves away from your escape boat, if only you had a recording of Neil-Young-but-with-much-more-wah. Next to the mixer is a tape deck. Considering a somehow-working PA system with a tape deck to be less weird than a pack of wolves with particular muscial taste, you investigate.

	You find two tapes: Nirvana and Pearl Jam. You look at the wolves, snarling and doing other sorts of general threatening wolf business, and look back at the tapes.

	"Nervermind has been described as Steve Albini's worst work", you think to yourself, "but the familiarity of the songs and the consistency of the hooks should surely help to calm these wolves to the point where they could forgive such glossy production on what probably could have been a more honest punk rock record". You look at the other tape. "Ten", you think. "Whatever." A wolf growls or barks or does whatever wolves do as you're about to throw the Pearl Jam tape into the sand, and it hits you: this is your way out.

	You load the Pearl Jam tape into the deck press play. A hiss, followed by a riff so well-known it seems built-in to today's guitars, floods the island. "Alive", you say to the sand, "that's about track three." You decide not to rewind. Vedder noises happen. The wolves approach.

	Your plan works! The wolves believe Ten is actually Neil Young but with much more wah. You get in the boat safely and survive and live a happy life and perhaps write a couple of blog posts about your time on the island.

	---- END ----

	This is the only scenario I could think of, in which Pearl Jam is better than Nirvana.