Good. At least unique. Dance of the Clairvoyants is unique too and fun with headphones. Gives us a lot at what PJ would have been if they had lured David Bryne away the The Talking Heads instead of hiring Eddie.
There's one other song that I liked, that would have been a filler #10 song on post-Yield albums but that's it for me.
You mention Riot Act, there's no I Am Mine, Love Boat Capt or McCready gold like 1/2 Full. Plus Comes Then Goes sounds more like Eddie's Into the Wild.
The library is still more than you can catch in a show so I'm good. Favorite band to see live, will be as long as I am too.
I agree with you on Dance of the Clairvoyants. You can tell it sounds like they wrote the song right after listening to the Talking Heads on repeat.
Those three songs on Riot Act put it well above Gigaton for me. I think, song for song, it's better than Lightning Bolt and Backspacer. However, give me Unthought Known and Lightning Bolt (the song, not entire album) over any song on Gigaton right now.
Comes Then Goes and Retrograde feel like Vedder wrote them the same time he was doing Into The Wild, but weren't good enough for the album. So he put the rest of the band on Retrograde but kept Comes Then Goes with just him and his guitar (I think this song is 100% about Cornell, but that's a different discussion).
Love the Pearl Jam talk, perhaps we'll run into each other at a show.
