Kowalczyk's got a guru now and he just won't shut up about it. Is it too much to hope that he becomes alternative rock's Cat Stevens and follows him to the top of some...
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"Selling The Drama" was the name of one of the big hits on
Live's 1994 breakthrough album
Throwing Copper. Rarely has a song title so aptly captured a band's modus...
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Throwing Copper made the members of Live into stars, but it didn't necessarily earn them respect. Evidently, the bandmembers thought that the problem lay with Jerry...
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When I was a small child many years ago I used to dream about "rocking" one
day, being in a band that played loud, aggressive music that changed the
world and...
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After the tepid reaction to the subdued, over-produced Secret Samadhi, Live took some time off to rethink their direction. For their fourth full-length studio album The...
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On Throwing Copper, Live tightened their sound, added crashing crescendos for dramatic effect, and injected some anger into their sound and songwriting. They also eased up a...
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Live's debut album was an impressive set of righteous, hard-driving alternative rock; Mental Jewelry was in the vein of such college-radio favorites as U2, but was more...
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After Mental Jewelry, Live released this EP with two tracks that made that debut album ("Operation Spirit" and "Good Pain") and two that did not ("Heaven Wore a Shirt" and...
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The spiritual qualities in Live's music have often inspired comparisons to Bono and U2, and some admirers have noted the parallels between Ed Kowalczyk's reflections and the...
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At 12 years and six albums into Live's recording career, the bandmembers have fewer qualms about letting their spirituality and big themes rise to the surface, as the very...
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In the wake of Nirvana's breakthrough in 1991, countless bands that were consigned to the college-radio ghetto had a chance to hit the big time, and Live were in a unique...
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In the wake of Nirvana's breakthrough in 1991, countless bands that were consigned to the college-radio ghetto had a chance to hit the big time, and Live were in a unique...
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