Released 08 Oct 1993

Information:

Produced by Brendan O'Brien and Pearl Jam. Assisted by Nick Didia, Kevin Scott and Adam Kaiper. All lyrics by Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam. Created at Potatohead in Seattle and The Site in Nicasio, CA. Published by Innocent Bystander/Pickled Fish Music/Jumpin' Cat Music/Write Treatage Music/Scribing C-Ment Songs (ASCAP)/Polygram International Publishing, Inc.

Dave Abbruzzese, drums
Jeff Ament, basses
Stone Gossard, guitars
Mike McCready, lead guitars
Eddie Vedder, vocals

Tracks:

1. Go
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
2. Animal
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
3. Daughter
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
4. Glorified G
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
5. Dissident
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
6. W.M.A.
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
7. Blood
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
8. Rearviewmirror
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
9. Rats
   

   Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

   
   
10. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
    

    Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

    
    
11. Leash
    

    Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

    
    
12. Indifference
    

    Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

    
    

Trivia:

• Vs. debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Albums listing at number 1 for the week of 8 Oct 1993.
  
  
• Vs. also set a record for the fasting selling album on SoundScan's system of album tracking, racking up 950,378 copies in it's first week. The previous record holder was Guns n' Roses Use You Illusion 1 and 2. Over 350,000 of those copies were sold within the first 24 hours of release.
  
  
• Original copies of the album were shipped untitled. The name Vs. was added to subsequent runs, although the proposed name of the album was 'Five Against One'.
  
  
• DigiPak copies of Vs. are floating around out there, but they're relatively rare compared to the standard jewel case version.