Riot Act is a great album I suppose, but I don't find it to be very interesting listen. The reason I fell in love with pj was their ability to be soulfull, yet hard rocking at the same time. The last few albums have offered little of this unfortunately. Into the Wild has eddie more inspired, and I am interested to see how that album influences the next pj album. Alot depends on what Eddie does imo.
my list
1. vs
2. ten
3. no code
4. vitalogy
5. binaural
6. yield
7. riot act
8. pj
Riot Act does does a few things right though, namely can't keep, all or none & you are. Bushleaguer had a great medody, shame george w. sealed its fate. Could have been a great song!
All things considered, probably my least favorite Pearl Jam album. Still better than most everything else out there, but aside from a few songs it just hasn't ever resonated with me like other PJ stuff has.
Vs will always be my favorite. I could power my house for years with all the energy in that record. No Code was the only record that took me awhile to warm up to. Came out in what, August/September 96? November of that year I listened to the Checkpoint Charlie show on the radio and I became a fan of No Code.
As far as Riot Act goes, I think its a solid record. LBC is my favorite off that one.
as a fan of the 'early stuff' i can totally see why haters hate on poor RA, but don't agree with them. pearl jam has grown musically and i just love being able to be around for the changes.
My order has always been fluid and still is, but as of now:
VS
Ten
Vitalogy
No Code
Yield
Avacado
Binaural
Riot Act
Pearl Jam Shows: 1998 - 9/11 New York, NY (MSG night 2); 9/13 Hartford, CT || 2000 - 8/24 Wantagh, NY (Jones Beach 2); 8/27 Saratoga Springs; 8/29 Mansfield, MA (night 1); 8/30 Mansfield, MA (night 2) || 2003 - 4/29 Albany, NY; 5/3 State College, PA; 7/2 Mansfield (night 1); 7/6 Camden, NJ (night 2); 7/8 New York, NY (MSG night 1) || 2004 - 9/28 Boston, MA (night 1); 9/29 Boston, MA (night 2) || 2005 - 10/3 Philadelphia, PA || 2006 - 5/12 Albany, NY; 5/13 Hartford, CT; 5/24 Boston, MA (night 1); 5/25 Boston, MA (night 2); 5/27 Camden, NJ (night 1); 5/28 Camden, NJ (night 2)|| 2008 - 6/19 Camden, NJ (night 1); 6/24 New York, NY (MSG night 1); 6/25 New York, NY (MSG night 2); 6/27 Hartford, CT; 6/28 Mansfield, MA (night 1); 6/30 Mansfield, MA (night 2); 7/1 New York, NY (Beacon Theater)|| 2009 - 9/21 Seattle, WA (night 1); 9/22 Seattle, WA (night 2); 10/27 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 1); 10/28 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 2); 10/30 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 3); 10/31 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 4)|| 2010 - 5/15 Hartford, CT; 5/17 Boston, MA; 5/20 New York, NY (MSG night 1); 5/21 New York, NY (MSG night 2)|| 2011 - 9/3 East Troy, WI (PJ20); 9/4 East Troy, WI (PJ20) || 2012 - 9/2 Philadelphia, PA, 9/30 Missoula, MT || 2013 - 7/19 Chicago, IL (Wrigley Field), 10/12 Buffalo, NY, 10/15 Worcester, MA (night 1), 10/16 Worcester, MA (night 2), 10/18 Brooklyn, NY (night 1), 10/19 Brooklyn, NY (night 2), 10/25 Hartford, CT || 2014 - 10/22 Denver, CO || 2015 - 9/26 New York, NY (Global Citizen Festival) || 2016 - 5/1 New York, NY (night 1), 5/2 New York, NY (night 2), 8/5 Boston, MA (Fenway Park night 1), 8/7 Boston, MA (Fenway Park night 2) || 2018 - 9/2 Boston, MA (Fenway Park night 1) || 2020 - 3/30 New York, NY Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
Riot Act is my favorite. I think the songs flow perfectly and I think the lyrics are the best of all albums. I think anyone who lists this one low on their list really should give it another try. Smoke a fatty, turn out the lights and listen carefully. When you get to You Are I promise you will have an out of body experience.
Can't Keep - the song is so beautiful and so perfectly true.
Save You - powerful. If you have lived through this situation you get a different feeling I'm sure.
Love Boat Captain - "hold me and make it the truth" "constant recoil, sometimes life wont leave you alone" The increasing intensity gives me goose bumps.
Cropduster - "I was a fool because I thought the world...turns out the world thought me" Ed brings life and death up close and makes it ok.
Ghost - Here is a song that is Ament at his best.
I am mine - "I know I was born and I know I'll die...the inbetween is mine" This is a pj classic.
Get Right - Matt's contribution is awesomely simple and strong.
Green Disease - G.R.E.E.D. great live song.
All or None - perfect closer
Riot Act is great. It's a perfect example of the unsuspected turns PJ tends to take, which keep me hanging on..
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Although, Yield is probably my all time favorite PJ album...Riot Act is right up there. I really love it and it has my favorite song on it...I am Mine!!
I love Riot Act, it took a few listens to grow on me, but it is definately in my top 3 PJ albums. 1st is Yield, and the 2nd and 3rd spots go back and forth between No Code and Riot Act. So many great songs on RA. When I came home for my dad's funeral in December Thumbing My Way was the song playing as the plane touched down, and that became my go to song over the course of his wake, funeral and mourning process.
I always liked it. It was actually the first PJ album I bought and listened to where everything was completely new to me. (knew ten-vitalogy before it) For some reason I tend to buy the newest albums by artists, something about it being new to me makes me want it more.
from the first listen I liked it. but if I like a band, I will pretty much like whatever they throw at me regardless. (unless they pull a chris cornell haha)
if they ever recorded shit crap then I would quit it
all has been excellent IMHO
i attended one RA tour concert. shame on me.
but it was KC in the rain and PJ played this mess -
06/12/03
set: Release, Breakerfall, Brain Of J., Get Right, Ghost, Immortality, Whipping, Not For You, Off He Goes, Help Help, 1/2 Full, MFC, You Are, Better Man, Save You
enc 1: Go, Corduroy, Glorified G, Even Flow, Alive
enc 2: Fuckin’ Up, Baba O’Riley
6 RA tracks and 5 Vitalogy tracks and "Hi Dad"
Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
Riot Act is a good album, I would not say great. A solid effort. An album that took me years to really appreciate. I don't listen to it hat much though. I could say the same for Binaural as well though.
Ten Redux
Vs.
Yield
Vitalogy
Pearl Jam
No Code
Binaural
Riot Act
Toronto 2000
Buffalo, Phoenix, Toronto 2003
Boston I&II 2004
Kitchener, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto 2005
Toronto I&II, Las Vegas 2006
Chicago Lollapalooza 2007
Toronto, Seattle I&II, Vancouver, Philly I,II,III,IV 2009
Cleveland, Buffalo 2010
Toronto I&II 2011
Buffalo 2013 Toronto I&II 2016 10C: 220xxx
It really depends on what mood Im in. It feels like their most chillout album to me. Some of their best experimental stuff is on this. You Are is just great and 1/2 Full is amazing live. It's somewhere around the middle for me, but the top guys always shift and change
1. No Code
2. Yield
3. Vitalogy
4. Vs
5. Riot Act
6. Binaural
7. Ten
8. Avocado
"The mind is a wonderfull thing to be altered"
The Point, Dublin 2006
Bercy, Paris September 11, 2006
ISS Dome, Dusseldorf, 2007
Great, Great album. Does not get the love it should.
agree. i think it's a beautiful album. it may not have many "hard" songs like in other albums, but i think that's the whole point of the album. somber time in american history, somber album.
I wouldnt say I "HATE" Riot Act...."HATE" is a strong word....
what i will say is....
Riot Act has a bunch of songs that i dont enjoy listening to.
Which is why I havent listened to that album in YEARS...
And im pretty sure i will never put Riot Act in my CD player ever again.....
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Comments
my list
1. vs
2. ten
3. no code
4. vitalogy
5. binaural
6. yield
7. riot act
8. pj
Riot Act does does a few things right though, namely can't keep, all or none & you are. Bushleaguer had a great medody, shame george w. sealed its fate. Could have been a great song!
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
As far as Riot Act goes, I think its a solid record. LBC is my favorite off that one.
as a fan of the 'early stuff' i can totally see why haters hate on poor RA, but don't agree with them. pearl jam has grown musically and i just love being able to be around for the changes.
Yield
V's
Vitology
No Code
Ten
Riot Act
S/T
Binaural
VS
Vitology
Pearl Jam
Yeild
No Code
Binural
Riot Act
It's really hard to put them in order.
VS
Ten
Vitalogy
No Code
Yield
Avacado
Binaural
Riot Act
Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
it takes turns the the top of my pj list...along with vitalogy
1998 - DC RFK Stadium, Virginia Beach, Columbia Maryland, DC Constitution Hall
2002 - Seattle Key Arena I+II
2003 - Raleigh, Charlotte, State College, Bristow, Camden II
2004 - Asheville
2006 - Boston II, Camden I+II, DC
2008 - Virginia Beach, Camden I+II, DC
2009 - Philadelphia I, II, III, IV
2010 - Bristow
2013 - Philadelphia II, Baltimore, Charlottesville, Charlotte
2022 - Camden
Riot Act is my favorite. I think the songs flow perfectly and I think the lyrics are the best of all albums. I think anyone who lists this one low on their list really should give it another try. Smoke a fatty, turn out the lights and listen carefully. When you get to You Are I promise you will have an out of body experience.
Can't Keep - the song is so beautiful and so perfectly true.
Save You - powerful. If you have lived through this situation you get a different feeling I'm sure.
Love Boat Captain - "hold me and make it the truth" "constant recoil, sometimes life wont leave you alone" The increasing intensity gives me goose bumps.
Cropduster - "I was a fool because I thought the world...turns out the world thought me" Ed brings life and death up close and makes it ok.
Ghost - Here is a song that is Ament at his best.
I am mine - "I know I was born and I know I'll die...the inbetween is mine" This is a pj classic.
Get Right - Matt's contribution is awesomely simple and strong.
Green Disease - G.R.E.E.D. great live song.
All or None - perfect closer
This is my favorite album.
Thanks for this Pearl Jam!!
I'm with you on that! Jeff never disappoints!
Riot Act is great. It's a perfect example of the unsuspected turns PJ tends to take, which keep me hanging on..
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Seattle Key Arena 9-21-2009
Seattle Key Arena 9-22-2009
from the first listen I liked it. but if I like a band, I will pretty much like whatever they throw at me regardless. (unless they pull a chris cornell haha)
8/7/08, 6/9/09
if they ever recorded shit crap then I would quit it
all has been excellent IMHO
i attended one RA tour concert. shame on me.
but it was KC in the rain and PJ played this mess -
06/12/03
set: Release, Breakerfall, Brain Of J., Get Right, Ghost, Immortality, Whipping, Not For You, Off He Goes, Help Help, 1/2 Full, MFC, You Are, Better Man, Save You
enc 1: Go, Corduroy, Glorified G, Even Flow, Alive
enc 2: Fuckin’ Up, Baba O’Riley
6 RA tracks and 5 Vitalogy tracks and "Hi Dad"
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
one of my all-time favorites....I've yet to hear it live though :-(
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
Ten Redux
Vs.
Yield
Vitalogy
Pearl Jam
No Code
Binaural
Riot Act
Good album, not great.
Buffalo, Phoenix, Toronto 2003
Boston I&II 2004
Kitchener, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto 2005
Toronto I&II, Las Vegas 2006
Chicago Lollapalooza 2007
Toronto, Seattle I&II, Vancouver, Philly I,II,III,IV 2009
Cleveland, Buffalo 2010
Toronto I&II 2011
Buffalo 2013
Toronto I&II 2016
10C: 220xxx
1. No Code
2. Yield
3. Vitalogy
4. Vs
5. Riot Act
6. Binaural
7. Ten
8. Avocado
The Point, Dublin 2006
Bercy, Paris September 11, 2006
ISS Dome, Dusseldorf, 2007
eV: 8/4/08, 8/5/08, 6/21/11
SG: 10/4/08<-- MET STONE!!!
what i will say is....
Riot Act has a bunch of songs that i dont enjoy listening to.
Which is why I havent listened to that album in YEARS...
And im pretty sure i will never put Riot Act in my CD player ever again.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Vs.
Ten
No Code
Yield
Pearl Jam
Vitalogy
Riot Act
Binaural