h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Additions and some small corrections:
Mike's surname is "McCready", not "McReady".
Their first Drummer's surname is "Krusen", not "Krussen".
The demo tape that Jack Irons eventually handed to Ed Vedder was entitledd "The Stone Gossard Demos".
"Vs" was, in 1993, the fastest selling album in history. It has only been superceded by 2 other artists in the past 10 years. I can't recall who they are. I think one was Garth Brooks -- who only sold so well in pre-orders over several months (however, the speed at which a record sells can only be taken from the date it was commercially released, yet the pre-orders still count). The other could have been Michael Jackson, but I'm not sure.
The album following "Yield" is called "Binaural", not "Binural".
The band's first full video after "Jeremy" was actually fully titled "Do the Evolution", not "Evolution" (however it is commonly nicknamed "Evolution" by the band and fans). The song was never a single. It was only a video because Todd McFarlane, the creator of Spawn, was so taken with the song that he made the video and asked the band if it could be released. The band agreed, but rumour has it that they were not pleased with the final product.

Also, for my two cents' worth, I generally don't consider Pearl Jam as grunge. I think of them as a rock band. "Grunge survivors" is an apt name, but I have always felt that "grunge" was a name invented by the media as a means to pigeonhole all the music coming from Seattle. All the bands had distinctly different sounds; Pearl Jam being hard rock, Soundgarden being Metal, and Nirvana being an updated form of punk. Of course, the common thread is that no Seattle bands really sang about the same subject matter as the hair metal or pop bands of the late 80s / early 90s. They were more honest in their lyrics and, consequently, their music. So that's what the youth of that time responded to, because they were tired of the music scene and pop culture condescending to them and telling them how to feel and act.
Needing a name to explain all this, the media coined the term "grunge", and as seen in the documentary film "Hype" -- which is about the Seattle music explosion -- everything just got crazy from there.

Phew, I think that's all. Sorry to be so anal, but hopefully your article can benefit from these tidbits.