Product Description

After spending most of the '90s charting an independent course, Pearl Jam makes LIVE ON TWO LEGS its live debut after recording five studio albums. Recorded during a 1998 tour, TWO LEGS is an excellent representation of PJ's mid-'90s material. The urgent "Corduroy" opens this record and from here, the band is firing on all cylinders. Eddie Vedder shreds hisvoice on the primal "Do The Evolution" but sounds almost bored as he introduces "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town" before giving it as heartfelt reading as he did on the previous song "Daughter".
Former Soundgarden drummer and longtime friend-of-the-band Matt Cameron fills in behind the excellent interplay of guitarists Mike McCready andStone Gossard, particularly on "Even Flow", a song that still sounds fresh despite being the oldest one in the set. NO CODE's "Off He Goes" has an easy-going tempo and guitar phrasing reflecting the prior year spent recording and touring behind Neil Young. Young is given further props with a slightly turgid reading of his "F*ckin' Up". LIVE ON TWO LEGS doesn't break any new ground, but does reverberate with a passion for music that burns deep within the soul of Pearl Jam.

Track Listing

1. Corduroy
2. Given To Fly
3. Hail Hail
4. Daughter
5. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
6. Untitled MFC
7. Go
8. Off He Goes
9. Even Flow
10. Red Mosquito
11. Nothingman
12. Do The Evolution
13. Better Man
14. Black
15. Fuckin' Up

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10955 in Music
• Released on: 1998-11-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

From Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Pearl Jam's One Slip Up
I guess for the uninitiated, Live on Two Legs would offer a good start to listening to Live Pearl Jam. The hundreds of bootlegs released since 2000 might be a little daunting. However Live On Two Legs is not a good representation of Pearl Jam live. The sound is tinny, and rather feeble. The tracklisting is fine, although perhaps a little too on the mellow side, but the songs have the life sucked out of them by the dodgy production. My advice would be to buy a proper bootleg, State College 2003, Milan or London 2000, and the Gorge Set. Also pick up the DVD Touring Band 2000 to see how great Pearl Jam are live.

The most unlikely live album yet
Bands of many styles have released live albums throughout the history of music, however this is the first one which completely surprised me.

Being a fan of Pearl Jam I expected the songs here to be all the greatest successes from each of the albums, yet surprisingly there are only three major songs (Given to fly, Do the evolution and Even flow) the rest are all ALBUM tracks.

Yet does this disappoint? hell no it doesn't! What makes this so great is the way that all the songs here sound absolutely amazing, even songs of the poor album 'Vitalogy' sound incredible!

Having heard some classic live albums in the past this is the only one that has simply left me dumbstruck, I could have never imagined a band going on stage and performing eleven album tracks, a cover song and three hits yet still sound like an amazing piece. Forget the crap live albums, unearth this one and go mental as it is absolutely incredible!

If you're going to buy a live album, buy this!
Even though Pearl Jam have released live CD's of every gig on their last tour of both Europe and America, none of them that I have heard match up to the quality of this one. It is the best of the best. The version of 'Black' is the best I have ever heard with the band really going off on one at the end of it. Absolutly amazing, the best band in the world at thier best, what more can you say.