Vs.
by Pearl Jam
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Vs. is ranked 2nd best out of 85 albums by Pearl Jam on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pearl Jam is Ten which is ranked number 51 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,965.
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Vs. track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Vs. rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | jackq | Top 6 Music Albums of 1993 | 6/6 | 1 |
| 2026 | Brando1788 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 30/100 | 71 |
| 2026 | pinkfreud1981 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 71/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  meccalecca | Top 61 Music Albums of 1993 | 59/61 | 0 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 1/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 72 Music Albums of 1993 | 54/72 | 1 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 24 Music Albums of 1993 | 5/24 | 4 |
| 2026 |  SomethingSpecial | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 15/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 27 Music Albums of 1993 | 3/27 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Best of The 90s Pt.2 (101-200) | 67/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 699 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 5,243 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 44 hours ago | Siromynian | 1,773 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2026 02:42 | Beot_Tea | 13 | 89/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2026 21:07 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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Vs. forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 4 days ago in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026 BestEverAlbums 09/26/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5447): By adbrack1988
Romanelli 09/09/2026 18:00 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Vs. comments
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This is slightly different to their debut but there is still loads to love on this record and it is an under rated follow up. It is very tough to follow an album as good as Ten is and you can see they struggled a little to figure out which way they wanted to take the music. Once the record gets started though we are kicked right into a storm with 2 extremely energetic tracks which are possibly my favourite on the record. This really gives us an idea of what the rest of the album is going to be like and they follow this pattern, to a varying degree of success, on the rest of the tracks. It can be a bit up and down in spells but when the group get going they really create some powerful and enjoyable songs. Songs like Daughter and Rearviewmirror are prime examples of this and are very catchy. It does drag on a little too long for me however and it is let down by some filler cuts. Overall, this flies a little under the radar of some listeners due to the quality of Ten even though it deserves a lot of praise and is a very strong follow up.
desh79 12/22/2016 15:09 | #180726 | TOP COMMENT
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It's easy to forget what a huge deal this album was when it came out. Vs was the fastest-selling album EVER at the time, which I guess means that Pearl Jam were the Adele of their day. Seriously, if you'd told someone in, say, 1988 that five years in the future a quasi-punk genre called grunge would conquer the globe and an album that didn't have a single or a music video (and some highly politicised lyrics for good measure) would sell in the millions, you probably would've been sectioned. Nowhere near as good as Ten, but then not many albums are. Back in 1993 the only Christmas present I really wanted.
A different feel and sound than, ten, but still Pearl Jam. Personally, I prefer the previous record but this is still another top album from a top band.
Dr. Mambo 08/28/2008 21:47 | #963 | TOP COMMENT
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Following up the brilliant debut that is 'Ten', Pearl Jam certainly had their work cut out for them. Despite this, 'Vs.' was the best that anyone could have hoped for. It retains the concentrated angst of their first album, yet it boldly goes where Seattle grunge had not gone before. This album ensured the music universe that Pearl Jam were not merely a product of the times; they had places to go and bodies to move.
jhuik TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/31/2011 23:55 | #34069 | TOP COMMENT
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No, no, no, people.... THIS is the best Pearl Jam album ever. THIS is the band at its peak.
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