Connections to Pearl Jam are many. Where I worked here in the lowlands, back in the day they used the vinyl sleeve of Badmotorfinger as packing material. Must have been misprints, but that is how I learned they existed and after getting my ass to the record shop learned how good that album is.
I hear you.
For me, it’s their first album I really dig, not so much the MTV and VH1 stuff on repeat like Black Hole Sun, kinda lost them there.
I like the simplicity of songwriting with garage rock, punk, post punk like Sonic Youth, Siouxie and the Banshees, the Pixies…
Badmotorfinger to me seemed a logic iteration of that but much heavier. There is nothing on that album in my opinion (which is worthless), that seems contrived, overproduced Et Cetera. It’s stripped to the bare bone of rock, imo.