Riot Act

A quality Pearl Jam album. The good songs are outstanding but a couple do feel like fillers. Without wishing to appear sarcastic, it's Pearl Jam, you know what you're getting.On a side note the vinyl has been troublesome. I had to return 3 as the warping on the 1st vinyl was terrible. One of them was 8mm!Even the one I kept is giving my tone arm a workout. As usual Amazon have been great with returns but I am beginning to get concerned that a number of discs are arriving warped recently.

In my opinion as far as the outstanding quality of music Pearl Jam have released down the years I personally believe this is the bands weakest effort. Bought it on release way back when and it is the only time I have actually put a PJ CD on and not instantly found something incredible to listen to. Let's say it took a few listens. Fortunately a few of the tracks grew on me and on reflection at the time I think it was a difficult CD for them to do. For me Bushleaguer is the most interesting track, although probably dated now as time has moved on! Green Disease became infuriatingly catchy along with Save You. The rest of the tracks are OK to patchy without really challenging the rock landscape to any degree. And of course I am bound to say,even at their weakest, Pearl Jam still churn out stuff better than some bands strongest, so there!!

What can I say? Pearl Jam rock. Pearl Jam are the greatest band in the history of music. For me, this is one of their best studio albums, along with No Code, Binaural and Yield. From other CD's/Vinyl available ( not including the Bootlegs) I also recommend the mind-blowing Lost Dogs album. Enjoy!

This album often gets picked on as Pearl Jam’s least succesfull critically and commercially . However I’d rank it above a few of their later albums.It has many tracks I really like and I do listen to this album over 15 years since it was released. I Am Mine, can’t keep, crop duster, you are , all great and overall a great album.

Great album