Press release for White, Discussion (1995) Options

[dangum]

Live release 'White Discussion'
Their second single & video from 'Throwing Copper' LP

With its jangly guitar and unwavering vocal, the songs begins unassumingly.

The singer relays a conversation between two people: "I talk of freedom, you talk of the flag." Then he observes the gap widening: "I talk of revolution, you'd much rather brag." It seems like an obvious discourse in contrast, but out of nowhere, the beat stammers, the guitar goes haywire and the singer becomes possessed, "Look where all this talking got us, baby!" and all hell breaks loose. In a snarled moment of ascending angst and unhinged emotion, an exercise in composure is turned into a sonic haze of bedlam.

Coming off the success of their last single "Selling The Drama" (which secured the #1 position on alternative charts for six weeks straight and continues to command heavy Buzz Bin rotation on MTV) and a sold-out tour of the states, Live are set to release "White Discussion." the incendiary follow-up from their second Radioactive album Throwing Copper. It is yet another supremely moving, unpretentious slice of guitar-soaked rapture from the band that perfected the art.

"White Discussion" documents a dramatic conversation between two people a few minutes before the end of the world. Held together by singer Ed Kowalczyk deceptively simple word-play, it harbors a compressed intensity which comes about through an edgy mix of sharp-minded rock 'n' roll and bludgeoning riffs. Naturally, it's the song the band uses to close out its wrenching live set.

"White Discussion"'s video, directed by Tommy Giovarelli, takes a more organic approach than its predecessors to reflect the naked emotional impact of the song. Recorded at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia and the Stone Pony in New Jersey, it shows a stripped down Live through straight, scratchy black and white concert footage. The walls are dripping in sweat, the crowd is going bonkers and the band leaps about intently, all while Kowalczyk, shirtless and shorned, juts around in trance-like motions with his eyes bulging and his voice soaring. "White Discussion" is an uncompromising, moving extension of Live's unashamedly serious approach to rock 'n' roll.

High resolution photo
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[Bremang]

What was the order of the singles? I would guess WD was not their second single. I'm guessing the mtv videos were selling the drama, i alone, lc, white discussion, chronologically. However, they did have two videos for white discussion. Maybe they had the black and white video between std and ia, and then the more polished one after lc. All over you was a radio single too I think.

This post has been edited by Bremang: Oct 17 2015, 11:17 pm

[Fool_By_The_River]

White, Discussion was their last video single off TC, i'm sure of it, not the second.

This post has been edited by Fool_By_The_River: Nov 15 2016, 11:58 pm