Like Pearl Jam? Listen to these bands

Screaming Trees came barreling down from the Cascade Mountains to become an integral part of Seattle's music scene. The boys from Ellensburg wrote catchy rock songs, with a fuzzed, psychedelic edge that paired perfectly with singer Mark Lanegan's deep, melodic voice.

Kiss is another group that influenced many of the bands formed in Seattle during the 1980s. Mike McCready wrote in 2014 for Rolling Stone about how Kiss inspired him to learn the guitar. He even dressed up as Kiss for Halloween when he was 13. "They were the Beatles to me. They are the reason I started playing music," McCready wrote. Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley played "Black Diamond" with Pearl Jam at a show in Madison Square Garden in 2008.

Chances are if you were listening to "Ten," you were also listening to Nirvana's "Nevermind." The bands were musically different, yet after the release of their 1991 albums, both achieved superstar status and helped blow away the hair bands that dominated the airwaves in the 1980s. "Nevermind" is the rare album that changed music and awakened the masses to something completely different from what radio and MTV were feeding them.

Punk's fury and power chords can be heard in several Pearl Jam songs like "Lukin," "Supersonic" and "Mind Your Manners." Fans who like when Pearl Jam strips their music down should give the Dead Kennedys a listen. "California uber alles" is a good place to start.

Before there was Pearl Jam, there was Mother Love Bone. Before there was Mother Love Bone there was Green River. Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard were in Green River with Mudhoney's singer Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner.

The Melvins hailed from the Aberdeen/Montesano area and were close to Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, who were from Aberdeen. Like so many bands that started in 1980s Seattle, The Melvins were connected to Pearl Jam. Matt Lukin, who was The Melvins' first bassist, moved on to help form Mudhoney and was friends with Eddie Vedder. Vedder wrote the song "Lukin" about Matt Lukin.

Grunge was never the best term to describe the varied music happening in Seattle during the 1980s and early 1990s. But if there was one band that best embodied the term, it was Tad. Give Tad a listen if you are in the mood for a sonic assault that doesn't let up, pounding listeners into submission. Their 1991 release "8 Way Santa" was produced by Butch Vig, who famously produced "Nevermind."

Malfunkshun is a band lost to time and tragedy. The band, which was founded by Bainbridge Island brothers Kevin and Andy Wood in 1980, was an influential group to many bands that came after them. Andy eventually left the band and formed Mother Love Bone with Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard. Their first proper LP "Return to Olympus" was released in 1995, despite Andy's death in 1990 and the band being inactive since the late 1980s.

Finding bands influenced by the Ramones is easy. Pearl Jam can be counted as one. Eddie Vedder has often talked about the Ramones' influence on him. You don't have to listen too hard to hear the Ramones' DNA in Pearl Jam's music.

Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament left Green River shortly after playing a show with Jane's Addiction. In a Jane's Addiction biography, "Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction," Ament said, "Jane's had a lot to do with what Mother Love Bone became; they helped define what Stone and I wanted to do musically, to be a heavy groove hard rock band with some arty leanings."

Mad Season was another Seattle supergroup that included Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Alice In Chains' Layne Staley and Screaming Trees' Barrett Martin. Mad Season released "Above" in 1995. The album was a success but would be the band's only record. Bassist John Baker Saunders died in 1999, and Staley died three years later.

The fall of 1991 was an extraordinary time for Seattle music. Pearl Jam's "Ten" was released Aug. 27, Nirvana's "Nevermind" on Sept. 24 and "Badmotorfinger" from Soundgarden on Oct. 8. "Ten" and "Nevermind" launched Pearl Jam and Nirvana into the stratosphere, while Soundgarden wouldn't enjoy the mega success of their Seattle brethern until 1994's "Superunknown." That doesn't mean "Badmotorfinger" wasn't a special album. It is arguably their best.

Alice In Chains came up in Seattle the same time as Soundgarden and Nirvana and were going strong when Pearl Jam burst onto the scene. Of the big four Seattle bands, Alice In Chains most easily fits into the category of metal. Despite the band's heavy sound, Alice In Chains could downshift from their blistering 1990 debut LP "Facelift" to the acoustic "Jar of Flies" EP. The band is still putting out good records despite the death of singer Layne Staley in 2002.

While Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains were winning over fans around the world, Mudhoney brushed the periphery of the limelight, all the while putting out some of grunge's best and most memorable albums, like "Superfuzz Bigmuff" and "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge."

The suddenness of not only Pearl Jam's success, but the band's existence was jarring considering it happened about a year after the death of Andrew Wood. Wood fronted Mother Love Bone with Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament. Mother Love Bone was a band ascending quickly and seemed primed for the big time with the dynamic Wood at the helm. Wood died shortly before their debut LP "Apple" was released.

Led Zepplin set the standard for dynamic, melodic hard rock. It's something that the best of Seattle bands from the 1980s and early 1990s displayed. Pearl Jam, like, Zepplin, can also change the pace and unplug like on "That's the Way."

Temple of the Dog is a true Seattle supergroup. The band consisted of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron and Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament. The group formed for one album in honor of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood, who died of a drug overdose. Wood, Gossard and Ament were in Mother Love Bone at the time of Wood's death, and Cornell was his roommate. Eddie Vedder has a cameo on the song "Hunger Strike."

Any discussion of Pearl Jam has to include the soundtrack from the movie "Singles," on which Pearl Jam contributed two songs, "State of Love and Trust" and "Breath." Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard were also cast as members of the band Citizen Dick, which was fronted by the character played by Matt Dillon. The soundtrack featured Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees and Mother Love Bone. The album also includes a couple of gems from The Replacements' Paul Westerburg.