Riot Act: Official Album Thread

[bada]

A live version of You Are was on Sirius the other night. It sounded great.

[epilogue]

A live version of You Are was on Sirius the other night. It sounded great.

Because it's a great song!

[bada]

A live version of You Are was on Sirius the other night. It sounded great.

Because it's a great song!

[RockPusher]

You Are is great. You Are live is (in my experience) even better.

[epilogue]

I don't care which version speaks to you. I'm just glad A version speaks to you.

I love the song so goddamn much.

[Ms Harmless]

spinning this album now!

[epilogue]

spinning this album now!

Always time well spent.

[PHATJ]

A live version of You Are was on Sirius the other night. It sounded great.

Because it's a great song!

You Are rules. Best song on Riot Act and its my favorite track on the Live From the Garden DVD.

[epilogue]

A live version of You Are was on Sirius the other night. It sounded great.

Because it's a great song!

You Are rules. Best song on Riot Act and its my favorite track on the Live From the Garden DVD.

Oh man, I haven't watched the Garden DVD in ages. But yeah I do remember You Are being a stand out. Thanks for the reminder.



I'm totally gonna listen to Riot Act on the way home from work tonight.

[Ms Harmless]

Live from The Garden is so great

[liebzz]

Live from The Garden is so great

Agreed, though I was there so I am a bit biased. The encores in that show, as an experience, were like an out of body experience. I can recall just looking around the room during Do the Evolution and it legit looked like the place was beckoning the end of the world. You don’t get to see that on the dvd because the camera is either in tight, or all you can see is those two crowd participants at varying levels of somewhat excited.

[Ms Harmless]

Live from The Garden is so great

Agreed, though I was there so I am a bit biased. The encores in that show, as an experience, were like an out of body experience. I can recall just looking around the room during Do the Evolution and it legit looked like the place was beckoning the end of the world. You don’t get to see that on the dvd because the camera is either in tight, or all you can see is those two crowd participants at varying levels of somewhat excited.

sounds amazing

[PHATJ]

A live version of You Are was on Sirius the other night. It sounded great.

Because it's a great song!

You Are rules. Best song on Riot Act and its my favorite track on the Live From the Garden DVD.

Oh man, I haven't watched the Garden DVD in ages. But yeah I do remember You Are being a stand out. Thanks for the reminder.



I'm totally gonna listen to Riot Act on the way home from work tonight.

[stip]

Live from The Garden is so great

Agreed, though I was there so I am a bit biased. The encores in that show, as an experience, were like an out of body experience. I can recall just looking around the room during Do the Evolution and it legit looked like the place was beckoning the end of the world. You don’t get to see that on the dvd because the camera is either in tight, or all you can see is those two crowd participants at varying levels of somewhat excited.

sounds amazing

It was. An all time experience for me. I was on the floor for night one, too.


While a few Riot Act songs have actually gone up a few notches in my recent listens (All or None, maybe Green Disease) or I got a nice fresh reminder of how much I like my favorites (Can't Keep, Save You, Ghost, Cropduster, I am Mine, Get Right), You Are actually went down a bit for me. The music is pretty cool, but I find Eddie's performance pretty unengaging.

[Ms Harmless]

Live from The Garden is so great

Agreed, though I was there so I am a bit biased. The encores in that show, as an experience, were like an out of body experience. I can recall just looking around the room during Do the Evolution and it legit looked like the place was beckoning the end of the world. You don’t get to see that on the dvd because the camera is either in tight, or all you can see is those two crowd participants at varying levels of somewhat excited.

sounds amazing

It was. An all time experience for me. I was on the floor for night one, too.


While a few Riot Act songs have actually gone up a few notches in my recent listens (All or None, maybe Green Disease) or I got a nice fresh reminder of how much I like my favorites (Can't Keep, Save You, Ghost, Cropduster, I am Mine, Get Right), You Are actually went down a bit for me. The music is pretty cool, but I find Eddie's performance pretty unengaging.

there are ways that I think Matt brings it down from its potential too, e.g. I don't understand why he keeps the hi-hat closed throughout? I've got used to it but it's one of those weird little decisions he makes that I wouldn't

[stip]

for a non drummer, what does opening up a high hat do?

[guitar_davey]

Live from The Garden is so great

I saw them live for the first time a couple of shows beforehand, so this tour and DVD have always resonated very personally with me.

[Ms Harmless]

for a non drummer, what does opening up a high hat do?

context if it's needed (sorry if not!): the hi-hat is usually the cymbal (or set of two, with a pedal) that taps the pulse (in this case 1 2 3 4) along with the bass drum and snare drum in the rhythm

opening the hats turns the hats from a tap tap to a tssshhhh, where the two cymbals are reverberating together; it's a bit of a hard rock convention to open the hats during choruses and close them again during verses; it kind of helps to separate the parts so they're not just constant and monotonous, and also (I think) adds some emotional excitement

"Alive" is a good example of a song that shifts dynamics this way; it's the same kind of tempo as "You Are" but open hi hats lend it a "grungier" feel

[Kalevi]

I like Showbox better than live at the garden

[liebzz]

I like Showbox better than live at the garden

For the main set, maybe, but the encores at Live at the Garden are exceptional.