grunge is a made up term anyway, most of them were punk or heavy metal ish, really.
just like new wave was basically a radio-safe name for punk (for a while anyway)
I own (notice how I DIDN'T this time, I'm actually serious) all their studio albums, bar the latest one, and I have 'live on two legs' as well.
Pearl Jam were my favourite band before I 'discovered' metal..... and while I still like them, to some extent, I'd say the quality of there music pretty much steadily but slowly went downhill after 'no code'.
What ever made you think people here would hate Pearl Jam?