Live on Two Legs: Official Album Thread

[B]

Nah, that's Fresh, New, Cutting Edge B

[VinylGuy]

Blasting this one

Hail, Hail sounds wonderful, full garage, everyone locked in, very tight

[dad]

they need to make another '98 tour comp, or release the rest of the tour.

cowards.

[VinylGuy]

The tag in Daughter is great, super intense too

[Higgs]

they need to make another '98 tour comp, or release the rest of the tour.

cowards.

Please do this thing, Pearl Jam.

[Anders]

Live on Two Legs is great. I know people overall prefer the full shows we got for later tours, but I listened a lot more to LOTL, than any show I ever bought.

[liebzz]

they need to make another '98 tour comp, or release the rest of the tour.

cowards.

Please do this thing, Pearl Jam.

Priorities, folks! Let’s start with the 96 tour and see where it takes us.

[Anders]

Agreed.

[Let's all laugh at Rangers]

Should have released it with Binaural to make their own Ummagumma in my opinion. Carly Anna on YouTube has just said "in my opinion" just after I typed that. Spooky...

[Rangi Guy]

they need to make another '98 tour comp, or release the rest of the tour.

cowards.

Give Way?

[liebzz]

M.S.G.

[dad]

they need to make another '98 tour comp, or release the rest of the tour.

cowards.

Give Way?

It’s a concession at best.

[liebzz]

This is next for me!

[VinylGuy]

This is next for me!

Ill dive tomorrow into Vs and Vitalogy

[liebzz]

From 1994 through 1997, and really way beyond that, I needed every little piece of Pearl Jam music I could find. The albums, the singles, I went to these independent music stores, one called Rock Fantasy and the other Soundtrax II, who had these bootleg CDs with sometimes questionable quality music and always questionable quality track listings (the greatest hits include Butter Man, Sting of Love and Trust, Drop the Leads), all the while wondering when Pearl Jam would release their live album. And then the time finally came and I was…disappointed. I thought their full shows were the only way to properly digest the experience and for years I was annoyed even though I knew what they included was pretty great. I probably also secretly hoped that they would include the shows I went to on the ‘98 tour as part of it and was bummed that MSG and Hartford weren’t there (save for the liner notes).

With many years gone by and listening again having long found an appreciation for this, I can say I am no longer disappointed but blown away at what they were as a band at that point. Having stripped off some of the reckless intensity, but gaining in an energized precision is more than evident. The band still shows the power of their days of old on Go and Do the Evolution, can bang out rockers like Corduroy and Hail Hail nearly effortlessly, and work through slower songs like Small Town still without the air of celebration tied to it. Red Mosquito on this is also a beast and the Untitled/MFC pairing gets its moment and from this becomes an essential live fixture of the band from this tour through the 2003 tour. This is great great stuff.

[VinylGuy]

I agree with you that this one felt off when it came out, and mostly because of the setlist maybe. Getting live PJ wasnt wasy here in 1998 and it seemed at the time there was too much stuff from Yield No Code and very little from Ten Vs for example.

[stip]

I agree with you that this one felt off when it came out, and mostly because of the setlist maybe. Getting live PJ wasnt wasy here in 1998 and it seemed at the time there was too much stuff from Yield No Code and very little from Ten Vs for example.

this was my initial reaction as well