The new 'I f***in' feeel like talking about 'Riot Act' thread.

yosi1

SLH916 wrote:

I love Riot Act, too. Just didn't want you to feel alone in a world filled with Riot Act haters. What's your favorite song?

Haha. Thanks, I'm used to it, sadly. My favorites on this album are Ghost, Help Help, 1/2 Full and All or None. Not sure I can choose one though. What about you?

SLH916

yosi wrote:

Haha. Thanks, I'm used to it, sadly. My favorites on this album are Ghost, Help Help, 1/2 Full and All or None. Not sure I can choose one though. What about you?

THUMBING MY WAY and YOU ARE, but I pretty much like everything on it, even BUSHLEAGUER.

Two things that everyone is always complaining about that I just don't understand:

1. The Production.

I don't know anything about record production, but I love the arrangements. I love the variety of tones that they get out of their guitars, and I love the slow build to the climax of many of the songs. They have an almost operatic quality.

2. Eddie's singing.

I love the reflective quality of it. Eddie's singing on LOVE BOAT CAPTAIN is some of the best he's ever done. I don't think that he sounds like he just rolled out of bed. Eddie just isn't as aggressive as he usually is.

Hope that you're feeling better.

yosi1

SLH916 wrote:

THUMBING MY WAY and YOU ARE, but I pretty much like everything on it, even BUSHLEAGUER.

Two things that everyone is always complaining about that I just don't understand:

1. The Production.

I don't know anything about record production, but I love the arrangements. I love the variety of tones that they get out of their guitars, and I love the slow build to the climax of many of the songs. They have an almost operatic quality.

2. Eddie's singing.

I love the reflective quality of it. Eddie's singing on LOVE BOAT CAPTAIN is some of the best he's ever done. I don't think that he sounds like he just rolled out of bed. Eddie just isn't as aggressive as he usually is.

Hope that you're feeling better.

I totally agree with you on both parts. Especially the singing too. I feel like he sang the way he did on purpose, and in fact, I think that he sounds like he's singing with a lot of passion, instead of just yelling. It really sounds like he's sad, and that the music reflects it. I think its some of the most passionate singing he's ever done.

And thanks, I am feeling a little better.

YieldInHiding

Time to shut this thread down, yeah?

yosi1

YieldInHiding wrote:

Time to shut this thread down, yeah?

Time to go back to your new forum, yeah?

YieldInHiding

yosi wrote:

Time to go back to your new forum, yeah?

I'm teasing...you guys do a great job of keeping on topic. I'm personally not a fan of the topic, so good on you.

Oh, LBC is their best work on this album. Thanks, Kenneth.

yosi1

YieldInHiding wrote:

I'm teasing...you guys do a great job of keeping on topic. I'm personally not a fan of the topic, so good on you.

Oh, LBC is their best work on this album. Thanks, Kenneth.

Yea, I was just teasing back, because all you guys no longer post over here (at least for the most part).

By the way, what's the link for that new forum, I seem to have lost it.

yosi1

So, for my 5,000th post, I guess I'll throw out an idea that I've been kicking around with this album for a little while. Its not totally complete, so don't judge it too harshly.

I've been thinking recently that Riot Act is Pearl Jam's existential album. Its starts off with songs like Can't Keep, and Save You, which is the person viewing the world in the "natural light", kind of without reflection (think Husserl before epoche, Levinas before hypostasis, Soleveitchik's Adam 1, Sartre before the existential crisis, etc). Than the existential crisis happens, the relation with death, Love Boat Captain. Here, you have the death of 9 people, and the person is left to consider their place in existence. Cropduster is about a person realizing their place in existence, reflecting on themselves, being in an existential crisis (Soleveitchik's Adam 2), "I thought I thought the world, turns out the world thought me. It's all the other way round, its upside down". You have Ghost, the person still in crisis, and then I Am Mine, is the beginning of a person coming to grips with reality, and their place in it. Thumbing and You Are, is the self relating to another person and the self beginning to try and integrate back into society.

I have more analysis, but not enough patience to really continue this now, and make it coherent, but I will continue later.

fanch75

Set YIELD free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mookie_in_eugene

I'm starting to love Ghost more and more.

PissBottleMan

fanch75 wrote:

Set YIELD free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed.



PBM

rival.

this album is a snoooooze!

svanzon

Great album! Save You, Cropduster, Ghost, I Am Mine, You Are, Get Right, 1/2 Full, All or None, all amazing It grows on you this album, really does.

I love every PJ album in its own way.. the only two I still need to get are Vitalogy and Binaural.

michaeljamesmccabe

I absolutely love "You Are". It's such an incredible song, especially live where it blows doors off. Love Stone's guitar on this one!

Lukin66

Riot Act is in the hizzie for shizzie

electronblue

Help Help, Ghost, Save You, All or None, I Am Mine, BU$HLEAGUER, ARC, Cropduster..heck, i'm gonna go and listen to it right now.. ...~

no1fromnowhere

I like most of Riot Act, I Am Mine & All Or None are stellar. I've seen some reviews that describe the album as having a "Folk Rock" sound that I just dont see (or hear I guess.)

Milestone

As the years go by.....Riot Act becomes more and more of a PJ classic.

Alex_Coe

svanzon wrote:

Great album! Save You, Cropduster, Ghost, I Am Mine, You Are, Get Right, 1/2 Full, All or None, all amazing It grows on you this album, really does.

I love every PJ album in its own way.. the only two I still need to get are Vitalogy and Binaural.

You need Binaural, if only for Greivance.

harmless_little_f***

no1fromnowhere wrote:

I like most of Riot Act, I Am Mine & All Or None are stellar. I've seen some reviews that describe the album as having a "Folk Rock" sound that I just dont see (or hear I guess.)

I'd agree with that, but would apply that description to Binaural aswell.