Like I Do, Why so much contempt? Options

[donno]

I'm the 1st person to say and understand everyone is different and everyone has different tastes. But as Live fans I'm really interested on feedback on how you can't like this song? I never understood why there was so much contempt for this disc, but yet such a affinity for the abortion that was V? I'm not stirring the hornets nest here, I'm really just curious. Like I Do came up on shuffle mode on my drive home and I cranked the shit out of it and loved it. So just wondering why so many people dismiss this song like it was Call me A Fool or some P.O.S. from SFBM.

OK, go....

http://youtu.be/DUNANoV_BMw

[OutToDry]

Like I Do has been spoken of here in many circles as a track that would have made Live relevant if it was released as the first single from BOP.

I've touted this in a few other older threads.

http://www.mediafire.com/?deun4mdnkxg


the link above is proof how it would have been received by fans (in this case someone not a fan of Live)

Why did we get Heaven? Run Away? No need to discuss that again but Ed took this right from Tom Lord Alge's miami south beach studio right to the radio for talk up.

WTF??

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Like I Do has been spoken of here in many circles as a track that would have made Live relevant if it was released as the first single from BOP.

I've touted this in a few other older threads.

http://www.mediafire.com/?deun4mdnkxg
the link above is proof how it would have been received by fans (in this case someone not a fan of Live)

Why did we get Heaven? Run Away? No need to discuss that again but Ed took this right from Tom Lord Alge's miami south beach studio right to the radio for talk up.

WTF??

I assume the label was trying to broaden the appeal of the band into adult contemporary since they were getting older. It's common knowledge that Live as we all love it owes at least part of its demise to bad label management.

[Lebanon Corvalis]

I assume the label was trying to broaden the appeal of the band into adult contemporary since they were getting older. It's common knowledge that Live as we all love it owes at least part of its demise to bad label management.

So true. Birds of Pray not a great album. I remember the 1st time I listened to it, I hated it! I was in my office and it was going to be one of those crazy all night shifts. I went Down to AArons records (Non Existant now) to buy some tunes. I didn't even know they released a new album? Went back put it into my stereo all excited and shit. All of sudden "Heaven" comes on... WTF! fellow employees were like "what are you listening to?" (not asking in the good way either.) I said +LIVE+ . "Really this isn't +LIVE+? this sucks (a few of them started going down LIVE's hits some of them trying to remember the lyrics and sing them ) . They Made me turn it off. I was plenty bummed out, I actually felt like shit.

Later in the morning driving home I put it into my car stereo and listening to it and I was dude "really?" I had a 1/2hr drive so i was going to get pretty far into the cd. Suddenly I heard "Life Marches On" and I was like "thats it this goes out the window!", suddenly the next track came on "Like I do" and I told myself if this song sucks I'm really going to through this out here on the 118 fwy!

LID is one of my favorite LIVE songs. I always rock out to it when it comes on. It actually made me give BOP a few more listens. BOP is not a great album but as a whole its not horrible. I would take another BOP over V and SFBM any day.