premise: Pearl Jam is a rock band.
hypothesis: `` Animal '' is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam , released in 1994 as the third single from the band 's second studio album , Vs. ( 1993 ) . Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle , Washington , in 1990 . Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s , and is considered one of the most influential bands of that decade . Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as `` the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s '' . Pearl Jam ( sometimes referred to as The Avocado Album or simply Avocado ) is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Pearl Jam , released on May 2 , 2006 on J Records .