Claude says:Pearl Jam's 2004 retrospective hits you with the Seattle sound at its most crystallized—a decade-plus of Vedder's gut-wrenching vocals and McCready's textured guitar work distilled into one place. You came to it late enough to hear it as a greatest-hits comp should work, letting Yellow Ledbetter and Dissident remind you why these songs stuck around while the remixed versions of Alive and Black gave the catalog a slight new sheen.