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Not a good represntation of Pearl Jam live
just jumped into my top 10
Pearl Jam Live - Nothing Better Man!
A good live record, but lacks the energy of the unedited shows.
wow.. Paul Samuels must be the biggest idiot on Amazon

Live on Two Legs
Pearl Jam
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000FC86
Release Date: 1998-11-24

Tracks:

Corduroy
Given To Fly
Hail, Hail
Daughter
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Untitled
MFC
Go
Red Mosquito
Even Flow
Off He Goes
Nothingman
Do The Evolution
Better Man
Black
F*ckin' Up

Amazon.com 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 über-"alternative" Pearl Jam have struck a loud chord in the mainstream...and that's not a bad thing. --Katherine Turman

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Not a good represntation of Pearl Jam live.......2007-06-01

Released in 1998, this is a selection of songs pulled from different concerts during the tour to support the CD, Yield. It is 71 minutes long.

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.......2006-07-26

i've always craved Pearl Jam music. Well, when 10 first came out, honestly it didn't impress me that much. 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.

Pearl Jam Live - Nothing Better Man!.......2005-09-15

Pearl Jam headed by the front man 'Ed Vedder' delivers a stunningly magical CD that covers the old songs with the newer sounds of Pearl Jam. I have yet to see PJ live in concert but hearing them on a LIVE CD is the next best thing. 'On Two Legs' is supposedly Pearl Jam's first LIVE CD coming out of the 1998 Tour around the US. This CD includes 17 songs includes the hits of 'Given To Fly', 'Daughter', 'Even Flow', 'Nothingman' and 'Black'. These songs are also great to listen to LIVE with audience participation and the ever clear deep resonant voice of Vedder. Other songs I enjoyed and many PJ fans should also enjoy are the songs 'Better Man', 'Go' and 'Off He Goes'.
This is a must CD for any fan wanting a great CD of Pearl Jam for their library.

A good live record, but lacks the energy of the unedited shows........2005-08-30

Known by its fans for its stunning live performances and having flooded the market with seemingly endless (146 as of now) live albums, selecting a live Pearl Jam record can be a bit of a chore. "Live on Two Legs" has two distinctions the other live work doesn't-- it's the only live record from the 1998 tour and its a compilation of shows rather than a single show.

What does this mean? Simply put, the performances are stunning start to finish-- there's no flub ups, there's no forgotten lyrics, and there's no songs that feel a bit flat. But with that, there's a sort of lack of coherence in performance-- Pearl Jam is one of the few bands that's translated well from a live act to record BECAUSE their live albums don't edit out the goof ups, the crowd chats, and so on, well, except for this one. But because it's a compilation, it is rather well polished.

Still, it's a good set-- fantastic perforamnces of, among others, "Daughter" (featuring parts of "Rocking in the Free World" and "W.M.A." on the tag), the "Untitled"/"MFC" suite boils and blows over, and "Do the Evolution" is always just a monster at the live shows. And with each album that was then-available represented (with four from the then new "Yield", three each from "Vs." and "Vitalogy", and a pair each from "No Code" and "Ten"), fans of any of the material are likely to be happy.

Still, I'd check out any of the commercially available 2003 shows (particularly the mostly acoustic Benaroya Hall show) before this one, but if you're nervous about where to jump in and want a polished but somewhat inauthentic feel for the band's live show, this might be a good place to look.

wow.. Paul Samuels must be the biggest idiot on Amazon.......2005-08-19

wow Pauly, you and your imaginary friend Jawn[whoever the h*ll he is] go to every freakin Pearl Jam album and say they suck, Creed ?rocks?, and RAAWWWRR...?
Anyway, Pearl Jam are the best band ever, and I couldnt imagine anyone who gives Pearl Jam 1 or 2 stars knows good music at all.