brianlux
Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,683
One thing that would make Riot Act even better for me would be to reissue it on vinyl. I've played the CD a million times but I haven't heard it on vinyl so I cannot say I've truly, fully heard this great record.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
With all the positive comments about Cropduster I threw on the vinyl and played it a few times today. Realized that I like the song more than I thought, I just don't like it's placement on the album. Maybe it's because Ghost is right after and I find it has a similar tempo.
Yeah went and bought this Album the day after it came out and couldn't really get into it at first then I saw Pearl Jam here in Perth in 2003 then after hearing other Live Boots through out 2003 come Mid Year I was Hooked
Love this album. My favourites are Save You, Can't Keep and Thumbing My Way. I have been listening to their State College, PA 5-3-03 and it's phenomenal! This album is definitely underrated.
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It would be interesting to see how people would re-track the album If they were to do it differently. It's a good record and I think I appreciate it more recently than I did a year or two ago. I feel Ed's voice / vocals aren't quite right to me!? Just my opinion.
brianlux
Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,683
Of the many things I really like about Riot Act one of the more interesting aspects is that the lyrics often make nature-related, earthy, rooted, organic and atmospheric references:
All this life
Like an ocean
In disguise
earthquakes making waves
Light green to green, dark green, brown..
Every life is falling down
Brown to black, it's coming back
Dies to be part of the ground
Seed to seedling, root to stem
Swallowing seeds on the deathbed,...
Dig a hole in,... the garden
The moon is rolling round the world
A place in the clouds
There's east and there's west and there everywhere life
The ocean is full cause everyone's crying,
The full moon is looking for friends at high tide.
No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun.
I am the shore
But you're the sea.
I'm searching the haystacks, water is sunshine
And like weeds,.. with big leaves
Stealing light from what's beneath
Shell of the man from the sea
Climbing on a mountain
Floating out on the sea
Whispering that life
Existed long before breed
Balancing the world
On it's knee
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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Love boat captain
Take the reigns,.. steer us towards the clear.
M.Y.T.H. is
Belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear
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All this life
Like an ocean
In disguise
earthquakes making waves
Light green to green, dark green, brown..
Every life is falling down
Brown to black, it's coming back
Dies to be part of the ground
Seed to seedling, root to stem
Swallowing seeds on the deathbed,...
Dig a hole in,... the garden
The moon is rolling round the world
A place in the clouds
There's east and there's west and there everywhere life
The ocean is full cause everyone's crying,
The full moon is looking for friends at high tide.
No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun.
I am the shore
But you're the sea.
I'm searching the haystacks, water is sunshine
And like weeds,.. with big leaves
Stealing light from what's beneath
Shell of the man from the sea
Climbing on a mountain
Floating out on the sea
Whispering that life
Existed long before breed
Balancing the world
On it's knee
Can't go past I am Mine.