Post subject: USA Today review 3 1/2 stars (out of Four)
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:42 am
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Pearl Jam (* * *1/2) The grunge-era survivors who never lost their moral compass finally rediscovered their rip code. The urgent, guitar-shredding rock measures up to the intensity of the Seattle band's well-known political stands. Both aspects coexist in ear-popping harmony on this welcome return to the boxing ring that produced 1993's Vs. and 1994's Vitalogy. Life in these disunited States provides ample fodder for the band's scalding attacks on the dehumanizing systems of corporations (Unemployable) and the military (Army Reserve). World Wide Suicide, already frying the airwaves with indignation, is a stormy anti-war rant tailor-made for Eddie Vedder's howling rasp. Unapologetically political, Pearl Jam's tunes, fueled on dread, defiance and determination, wouldn't get past the leaflet stage without the music's muscular pounding and the volcanic guitars of Mike McCready and Stone Gossard. —Edna Gundersen
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