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Live On Two Legs - Pearl Jam |
| Date: |
31/07/00 (59 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: A lot of potential
Disadvantages: Unfulfilled potential
The first official live album to be released by Pearl Jam is long over due. Five studio albums behind them may not seem odd, but you have to consider that they have one they the best live reputations on earth.
The album consists of seventeen songs picked from across their whole back catalogue, a cover and a new one too. Its not one complete show, but songs picked out from across the whole 98/99 US tour. Unfortunately the title is a bad play on words of an old Queen song. (Can’t remember the title exactly)
What you don’t get here “Alive” or “Jeremy”, this is a shame as they are probably the most well known songs to the uninitiated. What you do get a well performed live album, crowed screams, unfortunately it lacks the charisma of a real ‘live’ Pearl Jam concert, as it seems to lack a real edge and bite.
The songs are well selected, “Corduroy” is as good an opener you could wish for, “Given to fly" is well performed. The song “Untitled” leads very well into “MFC”. The album lacks any real faults, but also lacks the edge of actually being there. A lot of potential unfulfilled.
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- 17/09/00 i think you might have been a bit harsh on Live on Two Legs. Whilst it does fail to capture Pearl Jam in all of their live glory, it is still a very good effort and an easy-to-listen-to set of songs. I, like yourself, cannot understand the abscence of Alive on this album, and to a lesser extent Jeremy.
The version of Daughter on L.O.T.L is brilliant, and I especially like how they incorporate Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" and W.M.A. into it. This is my favourite track on the album, but Corduroy is great too (much better than the studio version). |
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