- 1/2 Full
Infobox Song
Name = 1/2 Full
Artist =Pearl Jam
Album = Riot Act
Background = lightsteelblue
Released = November 12, 2002
track_no = Track 13
Recorded = February 2002 – May 2002 at Studio X,Seattle ,Washington
Genre =Alternative rock
Length = 4:10
Label = Epic
Producer =Adam Kasper , Pearl Jam
Writer =Jeff Ament ,Eddie Vedder
prev = "Bu$hleaguer"
prev_no = Track 12
next = "Arc"
next_no = Track 14"1/2 Full" is a song by the American rock bandPearl Jam . The song is the thirteenth track on the band's seventh studio album, "Riot Act" (2002).Origin and recording
The song pairs lyrics written by lead singer
Eddie Vedder with music written by bassistJeff Ament . GuitaristStone Gossard on the song:A Jeff Ament rocker. He came in with "Ghost" and "1/2 Full" -- he had the basic parts. Literally, he showed them to me. Then, everyone came in and played them two or three times, then those were done. Ed either came in and sang them right with us, or put lyrics on them over the course of the next week. We literally played those songs maybe two or three times before recording them. There's some rawness. You can hear it in the drums.Cohen, Jonathan. [http://web.archive.org/web/20021030103813/www.billboard.com/billboard/specialreport/pearl_jam/pearl_jam3.jsp "Inciting a 'Riot': Pearl Jam's New Album"] . "Billboard". November 2002.]
Ament on the song:
That was kind of a last-minute deal. We went out and started playing it. Matt came in and we knocked it out in less than an hour. Ed, within a few days, had lyrics for it. I walked in one day and all the sudden the lyrics were over it!
Lyrics
The song references the Pearl Jam song "Porch" with the lyrics "There's ain't gonna be/No middle anymore/It's been said before." At the band's February 23, 2003 concert in Perth,
Australia , Vedder said, "Alright, this next song’s off the last record and it’s all about...uh...nature talking to you when you...uh...when you spend time in it, maybe when there’s no other humans around nature keeps you company, and...uh...this is what it said to us." [Vedder, Eddie. (Speaker). (2003). "2/23/03, Burswood Dome, Perth, Australia ". [Audio Recording] . Epic.]Reception
"
Seattle Weekly " called "1/2 Full" a "brawny, old-school blues-rocker". [Mills, Fred. [http://www.seattleweekly.com/2002-11-06/music/yield-not/ "Yield Not"] . "Seattle Weekly ". November 6, 2002.]Music video
". The video was released in late 2002.
Live performances
The song was premiered live at the band's December 5, 2002 concert in
Seattle ,Washington . [ [http://pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=12Full "Pearl Jam Songs: "1/2 Full""] . pearljam.com.] A live performance of "1/2 Full" can be found on the live album "Live at Easy Street ". Performances of the song are also included on the DVDs "Live at the Showbox " and "Live at the Garden ".References
External links
* [http://pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=12Full Lyrics]
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