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   I made a thread about Weezer the other day and Live are quite a similar prospect. They started off as a great rock band but eventually became a bit of a joke and these days people tend to forget their early glory. So if you haven't tried them already or have and want to talk about them, go ahead.

Live's "good" years are confined to their first three albums which are all excellent alternative rock with unusual passion in the vocals, strong writing, good lyrics and great drumming. Unfortunately their fourth album found them, seemingly deliberately, going for a tepid, college rock market. From the fourth album on, Live have made the odd good song, but not an overall worthwhile album.

Of their first three albums, 1994's Throwing Copper, which contains mega-hits Selling The Drama and Lightning Crashes, is the strongest. But beyond the hits are fantastic album cuts like White Discussion and Pillar Of Davidson, very worth checking out. At times its like REM if REM were capable of really rocking out. But 1991's Mental Jewelry and 1997's Secret Samadhi are also very good. After that, there's some diamonds in the dungheaps but be careful.

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Textbook Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281	Topic: Live Posted: June 20 2010 at 03:37
	I made a thread about Weezer the other day and Live are quite a similar prospect. They started off as a great rock band but eventually became a bit of a joke and these days people tend to forget their early glory. So if you haven't tried them already or have and want to talk about them, go ahead. Live's "good" years are confined to their first three albums which are all excellent alternative rock with unusual passion in the vocals, strong writing, good lyrics and great drumming. Unfortunately their fourth album found them, seemingly deliberately, going for a tepid, college rock market. From the fourth album on, Live have made the odd good song, but not an overall worthwhile album. Of their first three albums, 1994's Throwing Copper, which contains mega-hits Selling The Drama and Lightning Crashes, is the strongest. But beyond the hits are fantastic album cuts like White Discussion and Pillar Of Davidson, very worth checking out. At times its like REM if REM were capable of really rocking out. But 1991's Mental Jewelry and 1997's Secret Samadhi are also very good. After that, there's some diamonds in the dungheaps but be careful.

Textbook Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281	Posted: June 20 2010 at 03:43
	I googled these guys to see what they'd been doing since 2006's pretty weak Songs From Black Mountain and was surprised to see that they've broken up and that singer Kowalczyk's debut album Alive is out next month. Same source said that he's now on very bad terms with the rest of the band- apparently in 2005 he more or less blackmailed the other group members saying that he would leave to begin a solo career unless they signed over 70% of all royalties to him alone. They agreed at the time but now regret it and are in court over withheld payments due the band. They also allege that he credited songs written by other band members to himself and kept the money resulting from them. Tsk tsk.