have pearl jam done a bad album?

danny
danny Posts: 2,283
edited December 2007 in The Porch
i honestly dont think they have some patchy songs yes but what about the rest of the songs pure magic!
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    yes. riot act.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    riot act. its best songs dont hold a candle to the most mediocre of their other releases.
  • spicewalton
    spicewalton Posts: 41
    Riot Act
    Pearl Jam
  • tama_drummer91
    tama_drummer91 Posts: 205
    I knew some people would reply Riot Act. More than likely half the people who put that are those who believe Yield is the bands best. I love Riot Act 100% more than Yield. No they dont have a bad album.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I think Avocado is a slightly lukewarm album... apart from that though, nope, they definitely haven't.
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  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    I would think even Pearl Jam would admit that Riot Act wasn't their best effort.
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  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    No, they haven't!
    Their debut was invincible, second was absolutely mindblowing, the third was fantastic and the rest (incl. Riot Act and Binaural!!!) is still fuckin good IMHO.
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  • NC_Irie
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    tama_drummer91 wrote:
    I knew some people would reply Riot Act. More than likely half the people who put that are those who believe Yield is the bands best. I love Riot Act 100% more than Yield. No they dont have a bad album.

    2 completely different releases that are incomparable IMO. I love both but on some days would pick Yield until I start listening to Riot (or any other). Thats the beauty about this band. You cannot go wrong with anything they have done.

    i will say that Yield definitely flows better for me though.

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  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    NO. jesus people, get over this whole riot act bashing :rolleyes: even if it's my least fav out of the eight, to say it's a BAD album is fuckin crazy talk. you crazies.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    tama_drummer91 wrote:
    I knew some people would reply Riot Act. More than likely half the people who put that are those who believe Yield is the bands best. I love Riot Act 100% more than Yield. No they dont have a bad album.

    nope. i prefer no code and vitalogy to yield. even like the new one as much as yield. riot act just sucks.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    itsevobaby wrote:
    NO. jesus people, get over this whole riot act bashing :rolleyes: even if it's my least fav out of the eight, to say it's a BAD album is fuckin crazy talk. you crazies.

    it is a bad album. it's only got about 3 or 4 tracks worth hearing and even those are pretty average. on top of that is a ton of shitty filler.
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    tama_drummer91 wrote:
    I knew some people would reply Riot Act. More than likely half the people who put that are those who believe Yield is the bands best. I love Riot Act 100% more than Yield. No they dont have a bad album.

    yield is in the middle of the list for me. i prefer no code, vitalogy, vs and binaural over yield.
  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    soulsinging wrote:
    it is a bad album. it's only got about 3 or 4 tracks worth hearing and even those are pretty average. on top of that is a ton of shitty filler.
    i can't agree, can't keep, save you, LBC, ghost, thumbing, you are, 1/2 full, all or none. it doesn't stand up to the other 7 albums. but 8 great songs constitutes a better than bad album. as always though, different strokes for different folks i guess.
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  • muppet
    muppet Posts: 980
    I think with every Pearl Jam album, you can pretty much guarantee that there's gonna be some fucking amazing songs on each. Sometimes though there's some crap. Riot Act suffers from this, IMO.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    i like Riot Act alot more than i like Yield. it's not even close for me.
  • ewokpelts
    ewokpelts Posts: 730
    i llisten to riot act less, but that dosent mean it's a shiity album....
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    Genreally, I think their last two efforts have been disappointing. There are some standout tracks on both, but that doesn't make them good albums. I was excited with pearl jam for while, but after hearing these songs live, the album production has ruined it for me. Too clean sounding..
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  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    No they haven't. Anyone who considers any one of the albums bad needs to listen that album more. C'est tout.
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    tama_drummer91 wrote:
    I knew some people would reply Riot Act. More than likely half the people who put that are those who believe Yield is the bands best. I love Riot Act 100% more than Yield. No they dont have a bad album.
    nope.. I think Riot Act is their worse album (even they would say it..just look how many RA songs they played in the last 2 years! and in the Euro dates, that didn't even have a RA tour!)..but I don't put Yield in the top half of theirs either...

    frankly, most people will say RA was the low point, the ones who don't are the exception.
  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    I prefer Riot Act to Avacado..... :(

    it just has more depth, apart from Come Back and Marker in the Sand nothing really moves me on Avacado...I dislike most stuff about Avacado, unfortunately i think im also constantly put off by the awful artwork.....
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