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Riot Act  (Audio CD) 
by Pearl Jam

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It's strange to think Pearl Jam was once herded under the grunge umbrella alongside pathos-spewing acts like Nirvana and Alice in Chains. The Seattle group's eighth album (give or take the 72 bootleg-style double CDs they released in 2001) has more in common with classic rock institutions like Crazy Horse and the Band than the snarling forces that were trying to tear away at their legacies. Appropriately, Riot Act is built on thematic pillars--love, death, politics--and fueled by dense, uncompromising power chords. It takes yet another step away from the courteous tones of the band's cornerstone LPs, Ten and Vs, and proudly flaunts egotism ("I know I was born and I know that I'll die/ The in-between is mine," Eddie Vedder sings on "I Am Mine") and a dark underbelly ("Green Disease"). But it's far from insufferable: If any band can make self-obsession sound hospitable, it's Pearl Jam. And when Vedder sneaks in the line "All you need is love" on the rollicking "Love Boat Captain," he proves that despite his furrowed-brow demeanor, he's a born entertainer. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: November 12, 2002
Studio: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Average Customer Rating: based on 399 reviews
Track Listing:
1. Can't Keep
2. Save You
3. Love Boat Captain
4. Cropduster
5. Ghost
6. I Am Mine
7. Thumbing My Way
8. You Are
9. Get Right
10. Green Disease
11. Help Help
12. Bushleaguer
13. 1/2 Full
14. Arc
15. All Or None
 
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review:4.5
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5Possibly their best...  Aug 25, 2009
How was this one ignored? It's dark and brooding, but very emotional and moody. A really great album that really clicks after the second or third play.

5Pearl Jam Ten   Apr 04, 2009
I bought this as birthday gift for my husband. Pearl Jam is all he listens to. He loves it.

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2A lifeless riot  Dec 19, 2008
This is Pearl Jam in full on geezer rock mode complete with aged, uninspired riffs, cynical political lyrics, and an overall inescapable apathy within a once rocking exterior and sensitive interior.

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5One of the most underrated albums of the 2000's!  Apr 21, 2008
Helped to begin to heal what was then an open wound from 9/11 ("I Am Mine" in particular). Though not always uplifting, it really reflected what was going on at the time. And it still holds up (as do all of Pearl Jams albums). "Can't Keep" gets better with every listen.

Awesome album from start to finish.

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5Pearl Jam has Stayed True  Apr 16, 2008
Somewhere over the years Pearl Jam fans seem to have lost interest in the band. They haven't yet to make a horrible album, but with the saturation of copycat bands like Creed, Nickleback and Live, they seem to have been lost in the crowd.

"Can't Keep" is a groovin' rocker with a big sound and Middle Eastern overtones. Then the album has "Save You", which is simply Pearl Jam's most rocking, energetic and exciting song in a while, along with the other Big Rock tunes on the album like "Got Right" and "Ghost". "1/2 Full" has an amazing, smoking guitar solo that you can't help but to rock out to.

Vedder has some songs that take a stab at President Bush in the lyrics like in "Help Help" with "the more you read, we've been deceived, every day it becomes clearer". Vedder has always been known for his out-right political lyrics and this album contains it's fair share of them. The band has stayed true to each other and their beliefs over the years.

 
 
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