Live on Ten Legs: Official Album Thread

[stip]

the original is archived here

[Kevin Davis]

This album stunk. I sold my copy.

[bodysnatcher]

I heard they are releasing a new live album for the Lightning Bolt tour called Live on 36 Legs

[Rangi Guy]

I never bought a copy of this - and I feel no regret

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[McParadigm]

Hey me too!

[matt reeder]

Ditto, Rangi.

Ditto for me too. I listened to it once and decided I'd rather make my own mixes.

FWIW I'm not a huge fan of the sequencing or track selection on Live on Two Legs either, but the performances are just so strong I can overlook it because it's all solid gold.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[joostone]

there are some good versions on this record. But it does not flow very well. And after they released soo many official bootlegs this release feels redundant.

It's suppose to be a 'sequel'' to LO2L. But that one was more thought out. It was released in 1998 after they released 5 albums. For the tracklist they decided that every album should have 3 tracks on LO2L, they closed the set with 1 cover.

Between LO2L and LOTL they have released: Binaural, Riot Act, Lost Dogs, S/T and Backspacer.

Tracklist should have been this:

01-Severed Hand
02-Got Some
03-Grievance
04-Save You
05-Worldwide Suicide
06-All Night
07-I am Mine
08-Nothing as it seems
09-Sad
10-Down
11-Just Breathe
12-The Fixer
13-Life Wasted
14-Insignificance
15- 1/2 full
16- Arms Aloft

[stip]

this suffers from the feeling of redundancy more than anything. I agree L02L is a better set of performances, but it is also greatly enhanced by the fact that it was the first extended set of official live songs we had other than the Atlanta concert. It made everything feel special in a way that could never happen today

[bodysnatcher]

That makes sense. It's almost the opposite at this point. They release so many live albums, a studio album is going to be a true event. A real rarity.

[dprival78]

this seems like it was just slapped together with little thought (fitting for the PRAMG era). sloppy performances.. the questionable inclusions of those covers as some attempt to say "hey look, we have punk cred".. this album is completely "meh".

i never listen to it. in fact, i don't think i've ever actually listened to the whole thing front to back.

[Kevin Davis]

this suffers from the feeling of redundancy more than anything

Redundancy, yes, but also randomness -- and worse, randomness that the album's programming asks us to accept as uniformity. Unlike "PJ20," which is elevated by its sort of iPod-shuffle, storytelling-via-scrapbooking aesthetic, this album asks that we suspend our disbelief enough to accept that sixteen performances of wildly variable sonic and performance quality across a six-year timeframe comprise a single concert experience which only vaguely resembles the actual flow of one of their shows. With as much live music as is available from PJ, it's probably impossible for any collection of this nature not to feel a bit random, but it should not be difficult to (1) find 16 excellent performances and (2) sequence them sensibly. RM's amateur archivists have proven time and again that these are completely achievable, if not easy, tasks. This album fails on both counts.

[Strat]

They aren't even good performances of most of those songs.

[Strat]

This release is actually the only thing i believe to be a legit PRAMG

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Strat]

uh oh. Trag woke up on the wrong side of the bed today

[Jorge]

He's upset because Dev muted him on tinychat last night

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[VinylGuy]

Have this one on vinyl, but i dont really listen to it.