post reviews for SFBM here Options

[Wambangalang]

If anyone finds a review for the album post it, this way we can get an idea of how the album is recieved if anyone cares about that. I found two, one alright, one bad.

http://www.xpressmag.com.au/archives/cd_reviews/

http://www.theage.com.au/news/cd-reviews/s...4521394712.html

enjoy!

[Senghe]

I don't if I should add this, but hey ho:

Kerrang! Issue 1109, May 27 2006

Valley Deep - gutless 7th album from complacent radio rockers
KK (that's poor for the uninitiated)

It's hard to understand how a band as great as Live can possibly have been reduced to peddling second tier radio pap like this. Can this really be the same band that recorded the exquisite Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi albums? Is the weary crooner the same Ed Kowalczyk who sang with such piercing emotion on songs like Selling The Drama and The Dam At Otter Creek? Kowalczyk has often been described as the ahrd rock equivalent to REM frontman Michael Stipe, but when did he start actually pretending to be the egg head wonder?

If only that were the worst of it. On the nauseating Love Shines (A Song For My Daughters About God) Kowalczyk purrs stuff about Jesus and sounds more like Will bloody Young than Stipe. Rock stars should be banned from parenting after this. The River and Mystery are nearly as bad: semi acoustic plodders that Live have chosen to open thei album with. Occasionally Chad Taylor's guitar reaches out of the murk, small slivers of quality reminding of glories past. Wings and Sofia actually manage to take flight with proper, melodic conviction. These, though, are scraps - sad echoes of something that was once vivid and meaningful.

After a 20 million album sales career, Live has become a toothless lion - captive, tame and bloated. This is music honed to the industry's calling. It's the sound of a band not so much selling the drama as selling it's soul.

Steve Beebee

I get the feeling that this reviewer actually liked Live rather than bashing for the sake of it, which makes it all the more sad.

This post has been edited by Senghe: May 25 2006, 1:42 pm