This is the time of year that always gets me itching to put Riot Act into heavy rotation.

YES. Riot Act, No Code, and Vitalogy are great for Fall/Winter.

Binaural too, let's be honest.

Binaural is much more humid, to me. It's a Spring/Summer album. Ditto No Code.

But really I can jam on any of these albums all year. It's so much about my own mood, really.

Glad to see RA getting some love. It and ST are two albums I find myself listening to a lot lately. I love both and both I think are severely underrated

agreed. I typically associate RA, No Code, and Vitalogy as Fall/Winter albums based on the time they were released.

So I was bored and playing around with songs from ST and RA that rock well together for me. Alternating albums on the playlist. It's a fun listen, for what it's worth.

Can't Keep
Severed Hand
Save You
Comatose
Ghost
Life Wasted
Get Right
Marker in the Sand
You Are
Unemployable
Cropduster
Army Reserve

a lineup of studs right there.

Wasn't No Code released in the summer though?

Replace Comatose and I'd listen to that all the time! Good work, Rudds

yeah, but closer to fall, 27 Aug.

Where do you live?

Okrahoma

today is 9 October 2021.

Thank you

Boomer.

Esiason.

Gave this a full listen today. Sounds so good. I'm not even an amateur audiophile, but for me I think this album, No Code, and Gigaton are my Tier 1 "production" records.

This, maybe more than any other album, leaves me conflicted about songs that I adore musically but leave me underwhelmed lyrically. I like almost every song, but many of them either don't hit emotionally the way I wish they did, and/or don't hit intellectually and politically the way they aimed to.

By today's accounting, there are no definite 5-star songs for me on Riot Act. At times I've given Can't Keep and Cropduster the full five, but they're not no-brainers.

Can't Keep – Great song. 4 stars on its worst day, usually 4.5/5
Save You – Very good song. 4 stars.
Love Boat Captain – Exhibit A for "underwhelms lyrically." I always want it to be great, but it's only very good. 4 stars.
Cropduster – Great song. 4.5 stars. Satisfyingly cryptic/abstract lyrically. Tremendous musically.
Ghost – Took a long time to come around on this one, but it's great musically and fine lyrically. 3.5 stars.
I Am Mine – Exhibit B for "underwhelms lyrically." Another one that hints at greatness but doesn't get there. 3.5/4 stars.
Thumbing My Way – I tend to think this is a solid, lovely song. Today, it struck me as a notch better than that. 4 stars.
You Are – Very worthwhile, unique musical moment. Hit or miss lyrics, but a fantastic closing couplet. 3.5/4 stars.
Get Right – I continue to listen with an open mind, but it always falls flat. 2 stars.
Green Disease – Exhibit C for "underwhelms lyrically." I enjoy it musically, though not quite as much as I once did. 3 stars.
Help, Help – Love it musically, but its cryptic lyrics are also a bit thin. Still, it all sounds great in the end. 4 stars.
Bushleaguer – Tremendous musically, and we'll leave it at that. 3 stars.
1/2 Full – Love the musical journey here, but lyrically I tend to have one foot out the door. Tremendous outro. 3.5 stars
Arc – It is what it is. 2.5 stars.
All or None – Another that has the musical makings of a classic, but lyrically falls short. 3.5 stars

“No matter how cold the winter, there’s a springtime ahead” is a very hopeful line in an otherwise hopeless and depressing song. I really enjoy the song and all but was never able to come to grips with this line in the context of “thumbing my way back to heaven.”