Wow
This is an amazing CD, the first time through I've listened and I cannot say how impressed I am with it
The full band version of Gone has to be my favorite track so far, but I also really really really like Life Wasted and Parachutes.
There is no real throw away track on here, there is a lot of angst and bad feelings that are just oozing out of the whole thing and the rage, the sadness and the whole thing is just wonderful.
And this is on the first listen. It took a long time for me to even force myself to like more than a few tracks on Binaural or Riot Act, there was a lot of crap on both of those. Not so much here...maybe because its a lot more melodic and anthemic...a return to the roots they seemed to leave after Yield
On an OCB scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the lowest and 10 the highest, I'll give Pearl Jam's Pearl Jam an 11
