WHY!? dont people like riot act?

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

tremors wrote:

I'm partly in the gang, and partly out of it. I love No Code, like Riot Act, but Binaural is my least favourite album - I love all the 90s albums plus riot act and backspacer - but I think you're probably right that I am out of step with this board on the post-2000 albums - liking riot act and backspacer and disliking Avocado and Binaural :shock: I don't know either - I just know what I like If I had to explain it, I would probably say the main factor is the quality of the songwriting on the albums I dislike

No one can tell you what you like or dislike; that's a given!

Does this mean I can keep listening to Riot Act and Backspacer? Cool!

Im not saying it's wrong, but anyone who does not like riot act, cannot be trusted, i've decided (btw, binaural had it all, uniqueness/solidness .. can't beat that with a stick )

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

Only as long as I can keep listening to No Code and Binaural. If not, no deal.

You can listen to No Code for the rest of your days. Binaural you're allowed one more year, and then it goes in the bin.

tremors wrote:

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

abhijeet wrote:

To me, it's just odd that the album is so disliked. Riot Act is in my Top 4 PJ albums - Ten, Vs, Vitalogy and Riot Act. I am not a fan of No Code or Binaural.

It's funny how you say it's odd for people to dislike Riot Act so much, and then you turn around and say that you're not a fan of No Code and Binaural. Did you really just do that??

To the rest of us, it's odd that you are not a fan of No Code or Binaural! lol

Binaural is, objectively speaking, Pearl Jam's worst album


edit - meaning, I am not part of this 'rest of us' your describe!

Binaural is my least favorite album of Pearl Jam's. I love Riot Act.

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

abhijeet wrote:

To me, it's just odd that the album is so disliked. Riot Act is in my Top 4 PJ albums - Ten, Vs, Vitalogy and Riot Act. I am not a fan of No Code or Binaural.

It's funny how you say it's odd for people to dislike Riot Act so much, and then you turn around and say that you're not a fan of No Code and Binaural. Did you really just do that??

To the rest of us, it's odd that you are not a fan of No Code or Binaural! lol

Riot Act is what No Code should have been, experimental but still rocks hard. No Code is just too much like EV's solo work and not enough like Pearl Jam.

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Why dont people like Riot Act?

I can only speak for myself...

Simple...Its a bunch of songs I dont like


I havent listened to it in YEARS
I will never listen to that full album again

Oh well....

I will never listen to that album with Help Help in it again. I don't even have that song on my ipod/phone with the rest of the album. And the one Riot Act song they played at Alpine 1.......Help Help!!! :roll:

I like most of the other Riot Act songs though..at least enough to have them saved and listen to them every so often..but that album is still my least or 2nd least favorite PJ album.

Riot Act=KING OF REBELLION

So gorgeously BADASS....

Just look at these lyrics and think about what's going on right about now on a certain street in NYC:

A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
'What's the ruckus?'
The haves have not a clue
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life,...
And a keyboard reaffirmation

And then think about when this song was written.....Pretty sad really but it also reveals the brilliance of one FRONTDUDE we all know. He often comes up with most clever shit you can imagine.

TroubledSoul wrote:

people don't like it because it's a shit album with copious amounts of boring filler.

pretty simple really.

I really hope you get a show completely made of RIOT ACT songs next time you see Pearl Jam.

Ahh, the exquisite Riot Act, a fine piece which seems to reserve itself for those attuned to appreciating the finer substance, subtleties, nuances, and sheer brilliance contained therein.

The winning-touchdown-head shake in Help, Help, the drag-yourself-across-the floor sleeze in Half Full, and the African Tribal dance in Can't Keep, are not recognized by all listeneners, as hard as that is to imagine by those so intuned.