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essential recording
Seventy-one
minutes of live Pearl Jam plus an unreleased song? It's
aural nirvana for fans of the reclusive, integrity-driven
Seattle quintet. Pearl Jam are nothing if not passionate and
unabashedly rocking, and this 16-track offering, recorded
during their Yield
tour, illustrates why the mumbly voiced rock deity and his
band of merry men inspire such ardor in their followers. Eddie
Vedder's emotive vocals, Mike McCready and Stone Gossard's raw
and raging fretwork and edgy, catchy, whisper-to-a-scream
dynamics are deftly and inspiringly captured. Though a few
staples (including "Jeremy") are missing, songs
running the gamut of the band's seven-year career--from
"Corduroy" to "Nothingman" to the Neil
Young-penned "F*ckin' Up"--more than make up for any
exclusions. The breadth and scope found on Live on Two Legs
(a take on the Queen song, "Death on Two Legs"?)
proves the once όber-"alternative" Pearl Jam
have struck a loud chord in the mainstream...and that's not a
bad thing.
--Katherine Turman
Spin
None of the
band's five albums gets its feelings hurt, so the only hit
here is "Even Flow." But this same even-handedness,
by forgoing both radio hits and lectures ... brings Pearl
Jam's compassion to life.
New
Musical Express
This album is far
from uneventful. It charts the evolution of a band from a
bunch of grunge laughing stocks to pillars of the alt rock
community. It's the sound of a band at ease with themselves.
But most of all there are a bunch of great rock songs on it. |