Live at Benaroya Hall

Live at Benaroya Hall is a two-disc live album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, recorded on October 22, 2003 at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington and released on July 27, 2004 through BMG.

Overview

The concert—which took place on October 22, 2003 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Washington—is acoustic, and was performed and released as a benefit for YouthCare, a non-profit charity in Seattle. The album was also released as a limited edition quadruple vinyl through Ten Club, Pearl Jam's fan club. Only 2,000 were pressed—each individually numbered by hand—and sold out within minutes of being on sale.Template:Citation needed

Live at Benaroya Hall was released through a one-album deal with BMG,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and the band used the experiment to later sign with BMG subsidiary J Records to produce the album Pearl Jam (Avocado).<ref name=new>Template:Cite web</ref> It debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200 chart and sold approximately 52,000 copies in its first week.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> As of April 2006, Live at Benaroya Hall has sold 168,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.<ref name=new/>

Reception

AllMusic staff writer Jason Birchmeier gave the album two and a half out of five stars, writing, "Of the many, many live albums Pearl Jam publicly released, their October 23, 2003, show at Benaroya Hall is one of the more novel ones... Such novelty, of course, doesn't make Benaroya Hall an especially excellent set (in fact, it feels a little one-dimensional and subdued because of the acoustic instrumentation), though it is one of the more unique and interesting of the many, many shows Pearl Jam released publicly over the years."<ref name="allmusic"/> Rolling Stone staff writer Christian Hoard gave the album three out of five stars, writing that the " album's warm, wizened feel and unusual set list are appropriate for souvenir-collecting obsessives and lapsed fans looking for a new take on Pearl Jam's substantial catalog."<ref name="rollingstone"/>

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Of the Girl" (Stone Gossard) – 5:22
2. "Low Light" (Jeff Ament) – 4:18
3. "Thumbing My Way" (Eddie Vedder) – 4:49
4. "Thin Air" (Gossard) – 4:25
5. "Fatal" (Gossard) – 3:49
6. "Nothing as It Seems" (Ament) – 7:29
7. "Man of the Hour" (Vedder) – 3:58
8. "Immortality" (Dave Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, Mike McCready, Vedder) – 6:18
9. "Off He Goes" (Vedder) – 5:53
10. "Around the Bend" (Vedder) – 5:37
11. "I Believe in Miracles" (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey) – 5:29
12. "Sleight of Hand" (Ament, Vedder) – 5:13
13. "All or None" (Gossard, Vedder) – 7:42
14. "Lukin" (Vedder) – 2:07

Disc two

15. "Parting Ways" (Vedder) – 5:24
16. "Down" (Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:08
17. "Encore Break" – 0:49
18. "Can't Keep" (Vedder) – 3:15
19. "Dead Man" (Vedder) – 4:24
20. "Masters of War" (Bob Dylan) – 6:06
21. "Black" (Vedder, Gossard) – 7:41
22. "Crazy Mary" (Victoria Williams) – 7:40
23. "25 Minutes to Go" (Shel Silverstein) – 4:43
24. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 6:30
25. "Encore Break" – 1:06
26. "Yellow Ledbetter" (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 6:01

Personnel

Pearl Jam

• Jeff Ament – bass guitar, double bass
• Matt Cameron – drums
• Stone Gossard – guitars
• Mike McCready – guitars
• Eddie Vedder – vocals, guitars, ukulele

Additional musicians and production

• Ed Brooks at RFI CD Mastering – mastering
• John Burton – recording
• Brett Eliason – mixing
• Boom Gaspar – Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes
• Brad Klausen – design

Chart positions

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Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)<ref>Pearl Jam in Australian Charts Template:Webarchive. Australian-Charts.com. Retrieved on May 28, 2008.</ref>	27
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)<ref name="AUT">Template:Cite web</ref>	31
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref name="BEL">Template:Cite web</ref>	38
Canadian Albums (Billboard)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	10
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)<ref name="NLD">Template:Cite web</ref>	25
French Albums (SNEP)<ref name="FRA">Template:Cite web</ref>	116
Irish Albums (IRMA)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	48
Italian Albums (FIMI)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	10
New Zealand (RMNZ)<ref>Pearl Jam in New Zealand Charts . Charts.Org.NZ. Retrieved on May 28, 2008.</ref>	12
Portuguese Albums (AFP)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	2
UK Albums (OCC)<ref name="zobbel">Template:Cite web</ref>	76
US Billboard 200<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	18
US Top Internet Albums (Billboard)Template:Citation needed	1

External links

• Live at Benaroya Hall information and lyrics at pearljam.com