“Deep” by Pearl Jam

"Deep" comes from Ten, the debut Pearl Jam released on Epic on August 27, 1991, and it's built the way much of that record was: Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard wrote the music, and Eddie Vedder, the singer who'd found the band through a demo tape, wrote the words and sings them. The band had grown out of the breakup of Mother Love Bone, with Ament and Gossard rehearsing with Mike McCready before Vedder and drummer Dave Krusen were invited to Seattle to audition.

Here McCready and Gossard play guitars, Ament bass and Krusen drums. Rick Parashar produced with the band, Tim Palmer mixed, and Don Gilmore, Dave Hillis and Adrian Moore handled extra engineering. Ten leaned on Hendrix and Zeppelin more than most grunge records did, and it went on to sell 10 million copies in the US.

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