When did Riot Act get awesome?!

mjb · July 2008

Just popped it in and realized how much it has grown on me.

Can't Keep
Save You
LBC
I Am Mine
You Are
All or None

There is some good shit there. Love it when that happens.

Peace.

LukinFan · July 2008

11-12-02

stickfig13 · July 2008

If it did....It's news to me....

I can only listen to a few songs from RA. That was a great tour, but the boots just wear on me now.

mjb · July 2008

LukinFan wrote:

11-12-02

good answer.

Yellow Ledbelly · July 2008

LukinFan wrote:

11-12-02

Exactly right. No more needs to be said

bvkess · July 2008

Don't forget G-R-E-E-D..GD is a great tune, and even Thumbing My Way is a real nice tune. RA is a great album

whgarrett · July 2008

Riot Act is my favorite Pearl Jam album as of now. Has been for a couple years. I always think of it as Yield Part II, but better.

prodacake · July 2008

BeerBaron wrote:

All or None is my fav PJ song. It is brilliant.

I have always loved Riot Act. It gets dissed a lot on here, but should get more repsect.

Agree all or none is one of the pj's best

muppet · July 2008

I know that not a lot of people read this sort of thing but I'll do it anyway because I like doing it

Can't Keep - love this song. Amazing opener. Brilliant drums and the folky sound is great.

Save You - never liked this song. Vedder sounds bored (like on the rest of the album) and the song isn't heavy enough, despite the nature of the lyrics.

Love Boat Captain - Great song for the first two minutes, then after that it loses me.

Cropduster - Unremarkable and goes nowhere

Ghost - kind of catchy but similar to Cropduster, I don't think it goes anywhere.

I Am Mine - beautiful. One of the first Pearl Jam songs I loved.

Thumbing My Way - I know this gets a lot of love but it just plods along for me. Boring.

You Are - best song on the album, and I'd put it in the top 10 Pearl Jam songs. Everything about this song is just funky and cool. 2:59 - 3:10 = probably some of the coolest pieces of guitar ever recorded for a CD

Get Right - it's okay, the verses seem a bit flat. Vedder sounds energised here, which is good.

Green Disease - another amazing song, even better live. Love it.

Help Help - it baffles me to this day the amount of hatred this song gets. The way it builds up at the end is just epic. It's different certinally. But, along with You Are, it's one of those "Pearl Jam Experimental Songs (tm)" that actually suceeds.

Bushleaguer - brilliant music ruined by hungover vocals and fucking annoying lyrics. I'm not a fan of Bush and I'm glad that Pearl Jam has never resorted to been a greatest hits set. The politics sets them apart from other bands, but here they go a step to far. If you want to see a Bush-bashing song done right, check out Livin In The Future by Bruce Springsteen, or even some of the stuff on Avacado.

1/2 Full - second best song on the album behind You Are. Pearl Jam really need to try their hand at this blusey sound again. Guitar is outstanding.

All Or None - really depressing and gets me in a bad mood, but I guess that's the point. A real downer of a closer but still a great song.

I guess I liked this album more than I thought, but it's still not their best.

jimc3 · July 2008

the only thing really wrong with RA is that it has too many songs on it.

they left Sad and Fatal off of Binaural, but they kept Help Help and Bushleaguer on RA? those songs have their place...it just should have been on Lost Dogs

I personally like Cropduster, Ghost, and Get Right (which I know a lot of people don't), but I don't like You Are and Green Disease (which I know a lot of people do).

I think this would have been a great tracklist for RA

1. Can't Keep
2. Save You
3. Love Boat Captain
4. Cropduster
5. Ghost
6. I Am Mine
7. Thumbing My Way
8. Get Right
9. 1/2 Full
10. Other Side
11. Arc
12. All or None

just my opinion

callmedaughter · July 2008

muppet wrote:

I know that not a lot of people read this sort of thing but I'll do it anyway because I like doing it

Can't Keep - love this song. Amazing opener. Brilliant drums and the folky sound is great.

Save You - never liked this song. Vedder sounds bored (like on the rest of the album) and the song isn't heavy enough, despite the nature of the lyrics.

Love Boat Captain - Great song for the first two minutes, then after that it loses me.

Cropduster - Unremarkable and goes nowhere

Ghost - kind of catchy but similar to Cropduster, I don't think it goes anywhere.

I Am Mine - beautiful. One of the first Pearl Jam songs I loved.

Thumbing My Way - I know this gets a lot of love but it just plods along for me. Boring.

You Are - best song on the album, and I'd put it in the top 10 Pearl Jam songs. Everything about this song is just funky and cool. 2:59 - 3:10 = probably some of the coolest pieces of guitar ever recorded for a CD

Get Right - it's okay, the verses seem a bit flat. Vedder sounds energised here, which is good.

Green Disease - another amazing song, even better live. Love it.

Help Help - it baffles me to this day the amount of hatred this song gets. The way it builds up at the end is just epic. It's different certinally. But, along with You Are, it's one of those "Pearl Jam Experimental Songs (tm)" that actually suceeds.

Bushleaguer - brilliant music ruined by hungover vocals and fucking annoying lyrics. I'm not a fan of Bush and I'm glad that Pearl Jam has never resorted to been a greatest hits set. The politics sets them apart from other bands, but here they go a step to far. If you want to see a Bush-bashing song done right, check out Livin In The Future by Bruce Springsteen, or even some of the stuff on Avacado.

1/2 Full - second best song on the album behind You Are. Pearl Jam really need to try their hand at this blusey sound again. Guitar is outstanding.

All Or None - really depressing and gets me in a bad mood, but I guess that's the point. A real downer of a closer but still a great song.

I guess I liked this album more than I thought, but it's still not their best.

it's personal preference.... LBC and TMW are my two favorites..... but I'm partial to the slower "prettier" PJ tunes....

Sian-of-the-dead · July 2008

Riot Act is a fantastic album

1/2 Full is in my top 5 PJ of all time and you can't deny the quality of songs like I Am Mine, You Are, Save You and LBC

Glad you've found an affinity for it

John Briggs 2008 · July 2008

I don't love this album but I do like it. "You Are" is simply the best in my personal view for my own tastes.

UpSideDown · July 2008

1/2 full is awesome live.................

gotta love Ed screamin WHAT THE FUCK!

Stephen Flow · July 2008

1/2 Full is my favorite song on the album, I just love it... I also think it's the best live song off of RA.

luvisatower · July 2008

as already metioned riot act was awesome the minute it was recorded
2cnd fave PJ album behind No Code

Cob · July 2008

What's crazy is I just put the record on my turntable, I'm listening to side 3 right now and I see this post. I like this album a lot, there are a few songs I don't care for, but for the most part I like it. I like having the actual "album" and not the cd, the booklets and packaging are awesome, listened to No Code yesterday on vinyl also, cool booklets and packaging as well, LONG LIVE VINYL.......

petrocs · July 2008

LukinFan wrote:

11-12-02

I concur

EBowie · July 2008

LukinFan wrote:

11-12-02

Exactly what I was going to put down...couldn't have said it better.

i_am_mine · July 2008

when i first bought riot act me and my brother cruised around listening to it and i remember after every song thinking this is really good. green disease is one of my favs..and live that song is so awesome!

falcon · July 2008

Ever since No Code, they have been really treating their fans with remarkable respect in writing songs that aren't meant to be catchy on the first listen, but are meant to grow and get more complex and beautiful with each successive listen. Like great wine. Binaural is DEFINITELY one of those albums, and Riot Act is also.

When did Riot Act get awesome?!

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