One can be forgiven for not getting worked up over a new live Pearl Jam CD. Between the myriad official bootlegs, the PJ20 soundtrack, the free complete live show downloads that came with Backspacer <\/i>and the Immagine In Cornice<\/i> DVD, it\u2019s pretty easy to find quality concert recordings from these guys.<\/p>\n
Thus, Live On Ten Legs <\/i>tries to stand out by offering a smattering of songs recorded between 2003 and 2010, divided neatly between newer tunes and the older \u201890s alt-rock stuff that brought the band to prominence. As usual, a couple of covers are thrown in, and of course the whole thing ends with \u201cYellow Ledbetter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two most recent Pearl Jam discs have been short, to the point and free of clutter or experimentation, but still retaining the band\u2019s classic punk-meets-arena rock sound. Some of those newer tracks are here \u2013 \u201cGot Some,\u201d \u201cThe Fixer,\u201d \u201cWorld Wide Suicide,\u201d which dovetail nicely with 1995\u2019s \u201cSpin The Black Circle\u201d and the covers of \u201cArms Aloft\u201d and \u201cPublic Image.\u201d <\/p>\n
Those who know and love the big sounding, moody Pearl Jam from Ten <\/i>and Vs. <\/i>will be rewarded with \u201cAlive,\u201d \u201cYellow Ledbetter,\u201d \u201cPorch,\u201d \u201cJeremy,\u201d and \u201cAnimal,\u201d all great songs, all performed pretty much the same as any previous approach. Of note are \u201cRearviewmirror\u201d and \u201cState Of Love And Trust,\u201d two of the more intense and enduring songs of this era.<\/p>\n
And finally, the sensitive side of the band is evident on \u201cI Am Mine,\u201d the excellent \u201cJust Breathe\u201d and album tracks \u201cIn Hiding\u201d and \u201cUnthought Known,\u201d a couple of left-field choices probably designed to draw in longtime fans.<\/p>\n
What this adds up to is a balanced portrait of the old and the new, making it a pretty decent best-of and\/or introduction to the band. Yet as with Live On Two Legs<\/i>, the 1998 live disc that encompassed the first eight years of the band, there is little here that is truly transcendent; rather, Live On Ten Legs <\/i>is a solid, steady offering from perhaps the best rock band of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":31177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5726],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-42869","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pearl-jam","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42869"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}