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Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs Audio CD

A fair review of the Pearl Jam "Live on Two Legs" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Pearl Jam reviews here, or go back to the Pearl Jam tabs.

Pearl Jam Band: Pearl Jam
Title: Live on Two Legs
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Release Date: 1998-11-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Corduroy 2: Given to Fly 3: Hail Hail 4: Daughter 5: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town 6: MFC 7: Go 8: Red Mosquito 9: Even Flow 10: Off He Goes 11: Nothingman 12: Do the Evolution 13: Betterman 14: Black 15: Fuckin' Up

1998 Pearl Jam Live.
There was a Live EP in the early days, after VS. This might have been the beginning of the Live Pearl Jam Cd's, which came out afterwords in a series, taken from almost every show that they performed at on tour. , came out.


Pearl Jam cd Live on Two Legs review
Awesome. . . it was almost like a dream. . . . it was as if i went to the store and bought a brand spanking new cd but got an incredible discount
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Best live pearl jam album
I got really burned-out from the constant overplay of songs from the TEN album around 7th grade and that was over TEN years ago. I have been very impressed with this live album since the first time that i heard it about eight years ago. So, now, i downright can't stand the radio songs. This live album is absolutely perfect. It has the songs that i wish the 3 disc live albums had, and they are played and sang the way i like. That being said, I highly recommend this album to anyone: From the flannel wearing grunge junkies, to the polo wearing frat kids trying to learn a tune to play to the ladies. All crowds satisfied. .


Not a good represntation of Pearl Jam live
It is 71 minutes long. Released in 1998, this is a selection of songs pulled from different concerts during the tour to support the CD, Yield.

The sound quality is good but the mix is poor. The sound quality is not excellent, or on par with a studio album, but it is still better than many live CD's. The mix is bad in that many parts, the audience noise is cranked up way too high. You end up getting whistling and whoops over powering the music in most parts where an acoustic guitar is played.

I don't think this is a very good representation of how good Pearl Jam could be in concert. I think the song selection is poor.

Pearl Jam typically plays for over 2 hours. They would play some songs straight up, close to the studio versions. On other songs, the group would really open up, playing them much differently than the studio version. And it would change every night.

On this CD, most of the songs chosen were played very close to the original studio album. There is not enough difference between many of these live versions form the studio version that would make them note worthy. Many are just a short run through of the song (under three minutes). So, you just end up noisy versions of the songs with poorer sound quality and lots of annoying audience noise mixed in.

There are only a few songs where the group opens up and plays them differently than the studio versions, like an excellent Daughter, Do the Evolution and Black. It is not necessary that the group jams, or stretches the songs out to 10 minutes (as Pearl Jam does a lot), it is only necessary that the group does something different with the songs.

I am not one of those that prefer whole concert albums. I like the concept of taking songs from several different concerts, but you have to pick the best songs and best performances from the tour. I have a recording of a radio broadcast from one of the shows during this tour. Half of the songs from the broadcast are better than anything on this CD.


just jumped into my top 10
Well, when 10 first came out, honestly it didn't impress me that much. i've always craved Pearl Jam music. Maybe all the frat boys at UTexas blaring it at keggers put a bad taste in my mouth.
but then vs. came out. and with Go, I went. Their stuff has enthralled me until Yield, I pretty much wrote them off as being done.
Boy was I wrong - i just recently discovred Live on Two Legs - I'm not a big "live" album person yet this thing gripped me. Most live albums there's too much feedback, yelps, and "c'mon sing this with me" that kills the feeling of the songs. But not with Edie Vedder - the man simply supercedes all singers I've ever heard since Odetta. She's the only other voice out there that sounds so alive.


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