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  • Irish Al
    Irish Al Posts: 6,236
    Arabesque wrote:
    As I said in another Live thread here, I have bought every Live album. Mental Jewelry is really good, Throwing Copper is classic, Secret Samhadi is great, the Distance to Here is good, V is experimental and has some interesting tracks, but overall it lacks the power of their other albums. Birds of Prey is generic, dilluted, and mostly crap. There may have been two decent songs on it.

    Despite Birds of Prey, I decided to pick up Songs from Black Mountain to see if the guys went in a different direction. UGH! The CD is pukeworthy. It's more acoustic and toned down than Birds of Prey, but it still has the same over-polished, effect-heavy, sound with the same mindless, flighty choruses that attempt to get your heart jumping but fail miserably. I will say that it has more interesting parts than BoP, but the song quality is just so bad I couldn't even listen to the whole CD. I had to turn it off before I got too sick.

    To hear the band that once gave me Ghost and Heropsychodreamer pump out crap like Sofia is painful. RIP Live. You were once one of my favorite bands but I can't handle the pop/rock schlop you're delving out.

    (and by the way, I did see Live perform at the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ for the Secret Samhadi tour and it was AWESOME. But I don't go to too many concerts, so the fact that Live may still put on a good show means nothing to me).


    Spot on, the new album is absolutely shite :mad: Can't believe that this is the same band that I fell in love with during throwing copper. Its trip and the are like Nicklebacks bitches now.

    I could listen to all the albums including the last two, which weren't the best but still had some great tunes but this one.....I will never listen to it again, can't believe I paid good money for it.

    I am not happy, if anyone wants to buy my album, they are more than welcome. Disgusted :mad:
    I need a coffee!
  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    I still like it - like someone said yesterday, fans who liked the band's "Mental Jewelry" side will like this album...

    Some of the songs are shite, as you say - but there are some good tracks on this album:

    Show
    Sofia
    Where do We Go From Here
    Home
    Night of Nights

    It got me thinking - this band has experienced the same waning album sales as most 90's rock bands have. But I thought hell, there is enough good stuff off of the last three albums to make a pretty stellar new album. So here's my tracklisting - a "best of" the last 3 albums, which would be a good album on its own:


    SHOW
    SOFIA
    LIKE I DO
    WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
    LIGHTHOUSE
    RIVERTOWN
    FOREVER MAY NOT BE LONG ENOUGH
    HOME
    RUNAWAY
    OVERCOME
    NIGHT OF NIGHTS

    Now that would be a good disc...
  • JasonVaritek
    JasonVaritek Posts: 94
    I love the new album. Better then V but not as good as Birds Of Prey. Nothing will top the 1st 4 albums in my opinion.

    SS
    DTH
    TC
    MJ
    BOP
    SFBM
    V
    Casper, WY 06/16/95
    Park City, UT 06/21/98
    Mountain View, CA 06/01/03
    San Diego, CA 07/07/06
    San Francisco, CA 07/15/06
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    I dont have it yet. The last album was okay but not the greatest.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Live have lost any of the grit and passion that was so vital to their sound, without it they sound bland and tired. It seems like they are just going for that simple generic sound, it really is hard to distinguish them from loads of other MOR dross out there. I know Ed has always written some odd lyrics, but the new stuff is just so cheesy...... It absolutely pains me to say that, cause I LOVE their older stuff. I'm glad some people can appreciate the new stuff, but please, don't anyone say it compares to anything from Throwing Copper, cause it really doesn't.
  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    facepollution wrote:
    Live have lost any of the grit and passion that was so vital to their sound, without it they sound bland and tired. It seems like they are just going for that simple generic sound, it really is hard to distinguish them from loads of other MOR dross out there. I know Ed has always written some odd lyrics, but the new stuff is just so cheesy...... It absolutely pains me to say that, cause I LOVE their older stuff. I'm glad some people can appreciate the new stuff, but please, don't anyone say it compares to anything from Throwing Copper, cause it really doesn't.

    I don't think anyone is comparing it to TC - just that there are a few songs on this album that are good +LIVE+ tunes...

    But maybe I'm the only onw that hears it... I think those five songs I mentioned before off SFBM are pretty good...

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