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Track Listings
| 1. Arms Aloft |
| 2. World Wide Suicide |
| 3. Animal |
| 4. Got Some |
| 5. State Of Love and Trust |
| 6. I Am Mine |
| 7. Unthought Known |
| 8. Rearview Mirror |
| 9. The Fixer |
| 10. Nothing As It Seems |
| 11. In Hiding |
| 12. Just Breathe |
| 13. Jeremy |
| 14. Public Image |
| 15. Spin The Black Circle |
| 16. Porch |
| 17. Alive |
| 18. Yellow Ledbetter |
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The spiritual successor, and something of a companion piece, to 1998’s Live on Two Legs, Live on Ten Legs was recorded around the globe between 2003 and 2010, offering 18 freshly remixed and re-mastered tracks spanning the band’s entire career. Eschewing the greatest hits package formula, the emphasis and omission in the song selection tells its own story: five Ten-era tunes, four from their most recent outing Backspacer, nothing from the unpopular No Code and a track or two from the rest. All of which indicates that even if they tacitly – perhaps subconsciously – now acknowledge that their 1991 debut Ten remains their best album, this is a band moving forward in the firm belief that their greatest work may still lie ahead of them.
Kicking off with a rousing cover of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros’ Arms Aloft, Live on Ten Legs achieves an odd coherence given its cut-and-paste nature. It’s easy to forget the fact that some of these recordings are separated by seven years, and by the time Jeremy rolls around three quarters of the way through, the atmosphere of a single, emotionally-charged event has just about been established. The crowds are uniformly huge – no intimate one-on-one exchanges here – and although the most rapturous responses are reserved for Ten’s heartfelt vignettes, the band injects every performance with a unique fervour. This is unlikely ever to be regarded as a great live album, but it’s about as slick a stitched-together affair as you’ll hear.
Pearl Jam took a lot of flak in the early days. Despite their enormous success – some would say because of it – sections of the media lambasted their lack of grunge credentials. Seattle scene contemporaries such as Nirvana, Mudhoney and Alice in Chains certainly exuded an air of danger, which Pearl Jam just didn’t share. But that’s probably why they survived where so many others did not, and in Live on Ten Legs we have another quiet celebration of what this band has always been about: music.
--Greg Moffitt
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Brilliant, energetic performances from a band that still has that stage "magic" 20 years into their career.
No disputing the quality of the album itself then but it's quite hard to see who this release is aimed at:- live albums don't tend to attract the casual listener, appealing more to the established fan who already owns the studio albums but wants the "live experience". The problem is, such fans are already spoilt for live material, with most Pearl Jam shows available in full and unedited on their official bootleg releases.
Maybe this explains the inclusion of 2 cover versions on the album - an attempt to reach a wider audience? PJ are a great covers band but these particular tracks (Public Image in particular) are, for me, the weaker performances of the set when compared to the band's original material. Otherwise there's a good spread of old / new material here, but inevitably one CD won't ever include all your personal PJ favourites...!
It's hard to capture on record the essence of a great live band but this offering comes close and is a great addition to the ever-expanding Pearl Jam catalogue! Long may it last!
perfect for people who doesn't have listened live records of pearl jam since live on two legs, otherwise if you have brought some official bootlegs... Read more
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