Songs From Black Mountain - Live
  • Band Name: Live
  • Record Label: Epic
  • Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
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50 out of 100

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5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings

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  • Summary: Going on 15 years of recording, the once-popular Ed Kowalczyk & co. return with a follow-up to 2003's 'Birds Of Pray.'

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. All Music Guide
    80
    It's the sound of the band maturing, and while it's certainly more laid-back than any of Live's previous records, that low-key approach feels right for the music on Songs from Black Mountain and helps make it one of their most consistent and successful records.
  2. Rolling Stone
    40
    Kowalczyk is revisiting themes he's been mining for years. The band's signature sound of slowly rising choruses punctuated by Kowalczyk's rumbling wail has also grown quite stale.
  3. Slant Magazine
    30
    It's sad to see a once-promising band reduced to dribbling out a mewling, half-baked effort such as this, an album with no redeeming value beyond soundtracking your next visit to Supercuts.
  4. musicOMH.com
    20
    It's downright bad.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 4 out of 11
  1. DanD
    10
    This album is so good, its like laying on a beach in 80 degree weather with watermelon and hot chicks
  2. CampbellL
    8
    Admitadly there is a lack of powerful songs on this album, but "The River", "Love Shines", and "Where do we go from here" redeem this album in my mind, the reason Live's record sales declined was not because the quality of the music was going down, but rather the people who had the soul to listen to throwing copper 13 years ago have grown far too old a gray and souless to respect it.… Expand
  3. PasqualeD
    7
    Not their best, maybe the worst, but still a good Live album.
  4. MattD.
    4
    This is exactly the type of album I hope former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry DOESN'T do. Live has become too watered down.

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