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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.'
- Record Label: Epic
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
You Are Not Alone | |
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So many people die everyday Who lived everynight without hope Spendin' their time just standin' in line Tuggin' on society's coat So many people... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 2 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 3 out of 7
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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.
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Entertainment WeeklyProves they can still write hummable pop-metal anthems and equally clunky lyrics. [16 Jun 2006, p.75]
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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.
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BillboardLive has settled too comfortably into the skin of a middle-of-the-road rock act. [17 Jun 2006]
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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.
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It's downright bad.
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Paste MagazineEarnestly pompous. [Apr/May 2006, p.105]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 4 out of 11
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DanDOct 27, 2006This album is so good, its like laying on a beach in 80 degree weather with watermelon and hot chicks
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ToddJJul 21, 2006
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CampbellLJun 27, 2007
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JWOct 19, 2006Not bad, not great. Good background music while your doing something like typing a review on line.
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MattD.Jul 18, 2006This 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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CharlieMAug 22, 2006
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MArtinJJan 8, 200713 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
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