• Record Label: MCA
  • Release Date: May 20, 2003
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 38 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 38
  2. Negative: 7 out of 38

Review this album

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
  1. MArtinj
    Jan 8, 2007
    0
    13 years ago 8 million America got a copy of throwing copper 13 years later only 50,000 people got a copy of their recent album
  2. littledragoon
    May 30, 2003
    0
    worst band ever, no competition. worst album ever, no competition. i have never heard more righteous bilge in all my born days
  3. JohnG
    Jan 2, 2004
    3
    After the trend following V, Live felt the need to make an inoffensive album to regroup the fans. The result is the gutless Birds of Pray. Live is at their best when they believe in what they're doing (Throwing Copper, Distance to Here).
  4. ErwinK
    May 28, 2003
    0
    Truly, one of the worst bands on the planet.
  5. luckyme
    Dec 15, 2004
    3
    Why are so many people giving this album 8's, 9's, & 10's?? Well, hopefully they're all being sarcastic and are actually rocking out at home to the likes of the Velvet Underground or Bob Dylan or the Pixies or David Bowie or Radiohead or--hell, even Throwing Copper or Mental Jewelry, for crying out loud. But this album is just... downright unlistenable.
Metascore
50

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Birds of Pray, their sixth album, sounds a lot like the previous five.
  2. Do you have any idea how dull it is listening to someone being calm and content?
  3. Birds of Pray just seems clueless, like a high school kid who doesn't realize that his strident need to seem interesting just makes him a joke, and not a particularly funny one at that.