Pearl Jam is the transition from the early '00s to the era we are still in today (unless you consider Gigaton the start of the next era...which Roche may agree with).
It's the band's first album without the shackles of a major label and because of that, they were much more "available" to do promotion of it. In this episode of Jamily Matters,
Roche and Billie Jean reminisce about the release of Avocado and how the experiences around its release are in a lot of ways more memorable than the songs themselves. Come for the rankings of this solid (but unspectacular) album, stay for the comps to...Collective Soul!?!?!?