Best Riot Act song?

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  • curly
    curly Posts: 704
    green disease,cropduster,lbc,can't keep,saveyou,thumb,bush,arc,i am mine,etc. ....these are my favorites and probably in order...in cropduster "everyone is practicing, but this worlds an accident" is he talkin about having sex or making babies...or am i way off base.
  • curly
    curly Posts: 704
    Listless wrote:
    SAVE YOU!!! by far...rockin' tune and emotional lyrics, can't get aby better than that..my friend and I have a dilema about the meaning..she thinks eddy's singing to a drug-addict friend but I think it's for a girl, wife..in short femmale...do you have any insight on that question?
    I think or relate the song like your friend..."I'm gonna save you fucker" fits perfect with me on saving a lot of my addict friends...its a violent song for violent times...it even helps me save myself
  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    curly wrote:
    I think or relate the song like your friend..."I'm gonna save you fucker" fits perfect with me on saving a lot of my addict friends...its a violent song for violent times...it even helps me save myself

    even at my age, olderman, i have friends that are no longer alive ..

    Get Right is my message to those whose particles yearn for stimulation..

    Get Right can be interpreted as a slap upside the head ..

    or

    as an amazing guitar jam by PEARL JAM.
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • Joseph
    Joseph Posts: 3
    This is to my surprise, clearly not this thread's favorite!!
    The guit riff, the guit groove, the drum's ponctuations along with the base ahhhh and the poem, the words paint awsome images and
    "Love is a Tower and you're the Key...Leading me higher and let me in"
    "Keepin us close,,so close,,ahh down the line(This "line" is the exploded road from the intro, but when shit hits the fan you still need to power through, and that is when love becomes a tower, a pillar, a roman pillar that still to this day still stands in the ruins, eroded by time as a witness to the Empire's strength. So much to expand from this song...
    "Sometimes I burn like a dot un the sun...With no one knowing, But you keepin me strong movin along with you"

    I find the Blue'sy tunes hit the spot, Nothing as it seems (Binaural), 1/2 Full, I am mine, All or None. I feel that in the past 2 albums, this is where they've expanded their creativity in a not too experimental way!!! I think Mat Cameron has help this a great deal, finally its seems that the chemestry from the early days is back.

    Cheers
    Future: MSG 24&25/06/08
    Montreal #49 01
    Montreal Live on two legs 98
    Toronto 94 W/Soundgarden+Mr N. Young
  • EDDIEisMINE
    EDDIEisMINE Posts: 101
    I think I am Mine is my favorite. It. Love the tune and the meaning. Such a catchy little thing.
  • dkfan9
    dkfan9 Posts: 75
    Joseph wrote:
    This is to my surprise, clearly not this thread's favorite!!
    The guit riff, the guit groove, the drum's ponctuations along with the base ahhhh and the poem, the words paint awsome images and
    "Love is a Tower and you're the Key...Leading me higher and let me in"
    "Keepin us close,,so close,,ahh down the line(This "line" is the exploded road from the intro, but when shit hits the fan you still need to power through, and that is when love becomes a tower, a pillar, a roman pillar that still to this day still stands in the ruins, eroded by time as a witness to the Empire's strength. So much to expand from this song...
    "Sometimes I burn like a dot un the sun...With no one knowing, But you keepin me strong movin along with you"

    I find the Blue'sy tunes hit the spot, Nothing as it seems (Binaural), 1/2 Full, I am mine, All or None. I feel that in the past 2 albums, this is where they've expanded their creativity in a not too experimental way!!! I think Mat Cameron has help this a great deal, finally its seems that the chemestry from the early days is back.

    Cheers

    I agree about them expanding their creativity by going more into bluesrock. Definitely for the best.
    dkfan9
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    All or None....so powerful, nothing short of amazing.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • signaltonoise
    signaltonoise Posts: 241
    Thumbing My Way
    Per sognare altri mondi non è mai troppo tardi
    Another world is possible
  • scarlet phoenix
    scarlet phoenix Posts: 2
    All or None is a trip. Best song on that album.
  • coleen
    coleen Posts: 938
    all or none
  • LimeDisease
    LimeDisease Posts: 89
    Cropduster is a great Pearl JAm song. One of my all time favorites.
  • tony the terrible
    tony the terrible Posts: 1
    None
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    My favorite Pearl Jam album!.. It's close. So many good songs. Cant Keep, Save You, Love Boat Captain, I Am Mine, You Are, Green Disease.. I think it's a tie between Cant Keep and Save You. The best thing ever is the transition from Cant Keep into Save You!
  • Thin Air 211
    Thin Air 211 Posts: 114
    save you, love boat captain
    `~.:.~`.History doesn't make something right`~.:.~`
  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    i love this album and especially GET RIGHT and 1/2 FULL... and especially live.. PJ is one rockin fuckin band!!
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • pearljammer
    pearljammer Posts: 237
    You know, I couldn't pick one single 'best' song off Riot Act.. This album is so incredible, and it came out at a time in my life when it was perfect for me.. There are so many memories, my greatest memories really, tied to that album.. But for arguments sake,

    Can't Keep.

    "I will live for ever, you can't keep me here."

    holy ravioli.
    EvenFLOW PsYcHo #29

    ~ is your Pearl Jam cup half empty, or 1/2 Full?
  • Innocent_Bystander
    Innocent_Bystander Posts: 615
    You Are
    Save You
    Bushleager

    Anything but HelpHelp
    Life reveals what is dealt through seasons
    Circle comes around each time
  • Imagine_that
    Imagine_that Posts: 4
    Ghost, Save You, You Are, Get Right and All or none.
    'The Oceans made me'
  • STXLAX
    STXLAX Posts: 46
    I Am Mine
    Thumbing My Way
    "And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
    -Nietzsche

    EMPATHY
  • nevmiles
    nevmiles Ottawa, ON Posts: 1,363
    Thumbing . . .
    My . . .
    Way . . .

    Best by far (LBC a close second)
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