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| ARTIST: | Live. |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mca |
| TYPE: | Pop, Rock |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Heaven, She, Sanctity of Dreams, Run Away, Life Marches On, Like I Do, Sweet Release, Everytime I See Your Face, Lighthouse, River Town, Out to Dry, Bring the People Together, What Are We Fighting For? |
| UPC: | 008811324124 |
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Customer Reviews of Birds of Pray
Live without Tricky and pretentious Electronica Birds of Pray, Live's 5th studio album since 2001's disappointing V, brings the band back to its guitar driven brand of alternative rock and more convincing lyrics which were both compromised (temporarily) at SOME points in V. Cheesy lines such as "I will go on like a soldier through the storms of love" in Like a Soldier from V are traded with more meaningful, honest, and simple verses in Birds of Pray: "I don't need no one/To tell me about Heaven/I look at my daugther and I believe." Perhaps what turned most people off about V was the inherent lack of catchy tracks..a staple of Live's sound. In Birds of Pray, songs such as Like I Do, Runaway, the first single Heaven, and perhaps the best song in the album Life Marches On, are anthems in themselves capable of making believers once again out of those who fell out during the V era. Although Throwing Copper is unarguably their best album, Birds of Pray, in my opinion, is Live's most warm and envigorating offering to date.
Forget it.
"Birds of Pray" isn't so much a shock as it a sigh. It's Live running on auto-pilot, and coming from a band that had up to this point been progressive, it just seems like a regression (into something far paler than they ever appeared to be).
This is far and wide the least creative Live album, musically and lyrically. Hell, it's just downright boring. The songs here are all very similar in style and composition, with gimmicky hooks and lame, lame vocals. It's all musically adept, but the melodies are just generally uninteresting. There's absolutely nothing special about Birds of Pray. Nothing makes me want to put it back in my CD player. Whereas "Throwing Copper", "Secret Samadhi" and "Distance" had elaborate musical soundscapes within each individual song -- layered and complex -- "Birds of Pray" just feels shallow and empty. There's an energy to it that Live is known for, but there's nothing supporting that energy...
There are a few catchy numbers. "She", "Like I Do", "Sweet Release", "Rivertown" and "Out to Dry" are all good on the most fundamental of levels, but even they would be the weakest links in all of Live's previous releases. They're simply too formulaic and simple.
I initially saw Ed play "Heaven" acoustic on Late Night with Craig Kilborn when the album came out, and at that point I figured he was doing some solo work. To my surprise, Live was back at it again. To my surprise, they pumped out their weakest album. I don't know if they've just run out of steam or ideas, or are just getting old and concentrating on other things, but the only reason to pick up "Birds of Pray" is the fact that not even a year after the CD's been released you can find it brand new for a buck or two.
I'm a longtime Live fan, and really disappointed
I wrote a review of this earlier but it seems to have disappeared! I bought this CD the day it came out and was initially very disappointed in it, but I figured I'd keep it around and see if it grew on me. I didn't love all of Live's CDs the first time I heard them (The Distance to Here took quite a while to grow on me, but I ended up really loving it) so I thought I'd wait and see on this one. Sorry guys, but a year or so later I'm still not really digging it. In fact, I've only put in my CD player a couple times in the past year and each time I was disappointed. This is not the Live that I know - this is any other band you could hear on the radio. What I loved about Live was that every album was a little different than the ones before, and I've listened to them since Mental Jewelry. Ed's lyrics were always kind of earnest and a little cheesy sometimes but often they were really thought-provoking too; unfortunately the lyrics on this album are lacking any real fire or passion. Even "What Are We Fighting For?", which is in my opinion the best song on this CD because it comes closest to the old Live I knew in subject matter, still seems like it's just lacking any sort of substance or *punch*. I don't mind that they went in a different direction from their previous albums; in fact, I expect it of them. What's so disappointing to me about this one is that they did change from what they did before, but there's nothing really different or unique about this one at all. Like I said above, there's not a whole lot to distinguish this from other mediocre bands on the radio like Three Doors Down, or even worse, Creed. I once said Live was my favorite band. I don't know if I'd say that anymore because I'd hate for someone to pick up this CD and think it represented Live at all. Instead, while I wait to see if their 7th album will be any better, I'm thinking of them as though their career ended after V. I really don't want to claim this one because in my mind, they were a much better band than this. I hope they get their passion and creativity back.