A dark day in Pearl Jam history: 13 years ago today (riot act)

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  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    You are all insane.  But it is entertaining.  
    His eminence has yet to show. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    fanch75 said:
    brianlux said:
    I still hold to the believe that Riot Act is the pinnacle achievement of Pearl Jam and one facet of the Pearl Jam Holy Trinity:

    Riot Act, the Father
    Yield, the Son
    No Code, the Holy Spirit

    Whoah.  You would have been one of the Jihadists back in the Riot Act Wars.
      I do believe I've had a few "WTF" responses at times.  And those were the nice ones.   :lol: 

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • deweil
    deweil Posts: 245
    interesting. I saw them on Yield tour, but then missed out on a decade plus of shows for a variety of reasons. My gf at the time bought me Riot Act as a birthday present. I think it's a really strong album, although it's taken me time to appreciate Can't Keep and I Am Mine. Save You is one of the best rockers they've ever made IMHO. Was the schism music-based or politics-based (or both)? 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    deweil said:
    interesting. I saw them on Yield tour, but then missed out on a decade plus of shows for a variety of reasons. My gf at the time bought me Riot Act as a birthday present. I think it's a really strong album, although it's taken me time to appreciate Can't Keep and I Am Mine. Save You is one of the best rockers they've ever made IMHO. Was the schism music-based or politics-based (or both)? 
    Seems to me a lot of it was based on the love or hate of Bu$hleager.  Which is too bad, really because that one was tucked toward the end of the record and the live versions were great performance art.  The album's music itself I don't see as a problem.  The songs you mentioned- great examples.  "Can't Keep"- what a great composition with it's smokey jazz underpinnings.   "I Am Mine", one of the best power ballads ever.   And "Save You"--  that one rocks so hard that at the Showbox (as seen on the DVD) it drove Mike to slamming his guitar down seemingly virtually as a rapid-fire  impulse. Killer!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    edited November 2019
    If you think the American political climate now is divisive, you should have been on this forum for THE RIOT ACT WARS.  
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  • PhillyPJ
    PhillyPJ Posts: 1,268
    fanch75 said:
    A dark day: On Nov 12, 2012, Pearl Jam released the "work" riot act upon an unsuspecting public, setting into motion a series of events that would echo through time. The Riot Act Wars resulted, the PJ internet community was torn, the drinking of Natural Light was shamed, and thus many of the followers of YIELD were exiled into dark corners of the web. The Pearl Jam boards were never the same. "The stories (YIELD, Natty Light, the YIELD COUNCIL, YIELD NIGHT), they were true. All of them." http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/3821/the-riot-act-wars/p1
    Don't you mean November 2002?? Ha ha.
    And the YFC was real.....very real

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