Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:37 pm Posts: 15767 Location: Vail, CO Gender: Male
PJ4Life wrote:
RiotAct is popular with a lot of the "new" PJ fans of the younger generation, who were around when this one came out. However for the older fans like myself, who lived through all of their albums before....RiotAct is definitely their least impressive. RiotAct cannot touch Vitalogy,No Code, or Ten at any level. I even think Binaural is better than Riot. Hopefully their next album will go back to their strengths as a band.
why do people say things like this?
or maybe i just really love the album?
ive been around since Ten. been through every album, interview, live show, bootlegs etc etc...
Riotact is a phenonemal album for me. No Code is the most inconsistant album theyve made in my opinion. great songs, but the album has no flow. but i guess im just not a "real" fan because i think this. no code is still better than any other bands albums...but for PJ...it was their state of mind at the time, for me, riotact flows perfectly from start to finish.
ive been a hardcore fan since the first time i heard even flow on MTV when Ten was out. and i think pearl jam's later work is much better. and more exciting. better written. more meaningful.
and matt cameron IS a fucking God. and his guitar skills are beyond amazing, his drumming....there are no words....
Joined: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:32 pm Posts: 719 Location: Originally from the big city of Oslo, Norway. Studying in Ås at the moment.
I think Ed should quit smoking..... I do'nt like the ''mud'' on his vocal cord.... F.ex. ''...come on HIT me instead....'' The ''hit'' on Save you is really awful... Please Ed! Cut down on the cigarettes.
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I think some of the songs are just sung in another character, its part of the song, like a tired person in all or none, a dissonant one in Ghost, its not that ed was just too lazy to get off the couch and make the vocal track that day.
Like a lot of people I just though it was too fragmented. I think the band needs to hole up together somewhere for a couple weeks and keep it real.
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
PJ4Life wrote:
RiotAct is popular with a lot of the "new" PJ fans of the younger generation, who were around when this one came out.
My brother recently became a pearl jam fan, and this was the album that came out at the time. He says it's his favorite. I'm sure we all have sentimental attatchments to whatever got us into the band. Having said that, of course that is not the only reason to like the album
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:56 am Posts: 386 Location: Chicago area
RiotAct has some of their best songs, Can't Keep, Save You, LBC, I Am Mine, Green Disease, All or None,.. but it also has some of their worst songs, Cropduster, Ghost and Help, Help. It's a hard album to decide apon. It's my favorite, but definately has some moments that drag it down a little.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:58 am Posts: 2105 Location: Austin
Well this is one of those threads, but I have to give RiotAct some props. For me, Vitalogy and Binaural are the worst. Vs., Code, and RiotAct are at the top, Ten and Yield are in the middle. But RiotAct is so much better then Binaural and Vitalogy, it just isn't funny. Bin and Vit each have 3 really good songs, a few good ones, and the stink of the PJ catalogue remaining. I don't think RiotAct has a truly bad song. It definetly doesn't have many of their best songs, but every song is good. It doesn't have a single God's Dice, Evacuation, Satan's Bed, or FoxyBugsaDevinta on it.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:36 pm Posts: 25824 Location: south jersey
i know "love boat captain" isnt underrated, but i personally think its one of the best songs they've ever written. probly the best song i can think of since "given to fly"
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warehouse21sj wrote:
i know "love boat captain" isnt underrated, but i personally think its one of the best songs they've ever written. probly the best song i can think of since "given to fly"
im actually not the biggest fan of this song..its not bad but not their finest work IMO
Joined: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:57 am Posts: 274 Location: paradise
all or none...can't stop playing it...love boat captain (not underrated, but never played on the radio)...but all or none...can't even begin to describe....i always turn up the "to myself i surrender" part...live @ benaroyal is a great rendition of that beautiful song...yeh, it's that good
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