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Pearl Jam - Riot Act (CD)

Album Details: Riot Act

Release Date:11/12/2002
Label:Sony
UPC:696998682528

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User Reviews: Riot Act

  • Overall:

    Disappointed PJ Fan

    By Greg  Nov 30, 2002 | 1 out of 1 found this Riot Act review helpful

    There are a couple really good songs and then a ton of filler. This is the first really disappointing effort from one of my favorite rock bands. Maybe next time...

  • Overall:

    i can read the headlines now...

    By Dan  Nov 20, 2002 | 1 out of 1 found this Riot Act review helpful

    Pearl Jam incites a riot! Hordes fill the streets and promptly fall asleep!

    Listening to this makes me feel tired. I Am Mine is good as well as some Cameron tunes, but overall it is an album written by weathered old men.

Pro Reviews: Riot Act

  • All Music Guide

    In some ways, Riot Act is the album that Pearl Jam has been wanting to make since Vitalogy -- a muscular art rock record, one that still hits hard but that is filled with ragged edges and odd detours. Vitalogy found the band sketching out their ideas for their brand of artsy rock, separating bracing hard rock and experimentalism throughout that fascinating album, and since then they bounced between those two extremes: indulging themselves on No Code, over-compensating with the streamlined Yield. Here, they manage to seamlessly blend the two impulses together in a restless, passionate record that delivers musically and emotionally. If it doesn't announce itself as a comeback or a great step forward, it's because the changes are subtle -- it's a process of their post-Vitalogy sound finally gelling, not making an artistic breakthrough. Given the appealing but haphazard nature of their late-'90s work, it's quite satisfying to have a Pearl Jam album play as strongly as Riot Act, and again s...ome credit must be given to drummer Matt Cameron. He enlivened 2000's Binaural, but his forceful drumming gives the weirder songs and ambitions support and urgency. Also, the production is the best in nearly a decade -- a warm, burnished sound filled with details that enhance the basic song instead of overwhelming them (in other words, it's not No Code, nor is it the Spartan Yield). Again, these are subtle shifts in sound, but they are notable and, given several plays, this does indeed seem like the richest record Pearl Jam has made in a long time. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone to become the most popular American rock roll band of the '90s. After vocalist Andrew Wood overdosed on heroin in 1990, guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament assembled a new band, bringing in Mike McCready on lead guitar and recording a demo with Soundgarden's Matt Cameron on drums. Thanks to future Pearl Jam d... Read more