Lets Actually Listen to the Album: Riot Act

[Norah]

Is it wrong that I like Get Right, Help Help, Can't Keep, Green Disease, and Ghost more than Cropduster?

All are great songs but cropduster is best.

[bodysnatcher]

i hated Cropduster when Riot Act first came out.

obviously my brain hadn't finished developing.

[LetMeSleep]

For months Riot Act ended as I Am Mine started for me. Fuck I hated that song and TMWay.

[bodysnatcher]

For months Riot Act ended as I Am Mine started for me. Fuck I hated that song and TMWay.

I hated TMW also, but it grew on me. I love most of that album now, except LBC. I'll never like that song. I'm also not fond of Save You for some reason.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I'm also not fond of Save You for some reason.

Baby, let yourself fall, I'm right below you now

[gardenparty]

This is how i like them. favorite to least

Help Help
All or None
Save you
Can’t Keep
Cropduster
½ Full
I Am Mine
Get Right
Green Disease
You Are
Ghost
Thumbing My Way
Love Boat Captain
Bushleaguer
Arc

[bodysnatcher]

I'm also not fond of Save You for some reason.

Baby, let yourself fall, I'm right below you now

Ruddo take the wheel!

[guestT]

I overrated Save You when it came out because it was the first riff-based rocker they had done in what seemed like forever, and it had a guitar solo. I remember listening to them debut it on some horrible east coast rock radio show and being like, .

Now I think it's kinda bland and boring and it sounds like Eddie's making up the lyrics and melody on the spot.

[Birds in Hell]

Yeah, Save You's no good.

Cropduster is great, Ghost is great, Get Right is great.

[Kevin Davis]

"Save You" is okay but the band seems to have an inflated sense of its significance to their catalog. Historically they've treated it as if a "Hail Hail" or a "Brain of J" -- position of prominence on the album, follow-up single release, nightly play in the 3 or 4 spot live. It's just not cut out to carry that kind of weight. Woulda been a solid "Lost Dog."

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Strat]

I love Save You. It's PJ at their most earnest, and it rips. No, it's not Hail, Hail or Brain of J, but it deserves way better than Lost Dogs status.

I love you when you are right

[Kevin Davis]

Don't get me wrong, I like "Save You," but I also get feeling like underneath all its rippin', it doesn't really have much going on. That's cool though. It does rip.

[Strat]

Don't get me wrong, I like "Save You," but I also get feeling like underneath all its rippin', it doesn't really have much going on. That's cool though. It does rip.

I think the immediacy of it all really resonates. The lyrics match the manic playing of the band. Its an emotional response to someone who is collapsing beside you. Its not something that is to be taken back home and contemplated.

[Strat]

Its an unhinged response to a loved one who is unhinged and falling apart.

[Strat]

if i need a quick kick in the nuts in my day....I can put this song on....

[Norah]

Save You is good, but I'd rather listen to Habit.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Norah]

Yeah, finally a pearl jam song with a quiet bridge.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now