Siren's Call, Now in iTunes Options

[Old Man Withers]

SirensCall is now available on iTunes. I have to say, very solid song!

[pizan0]

I think the issue with the way some critique the songs is to compare them to something else Live has done. Why does this song need to sound exactly like the songs on TC? or SS? or MJ?
The thing that I always loved about Live 1991-1999 was that every album was different, and different in a good way. MJ did NOT sound like TC. TC did NOT sound like SS. SS did NOT sound like TDTH. And in point of fact, there were some fans that fell off the Live fan base at each of those albums because they weren't in love with the "direction" the band was going in at each phase. I think most of the core fans that have stuck around somehow understood that while the albums were different, they all had an 'essence' that was Live...a certain style at the heart of it, but with flashes of creativeness and variety.

I really do try to respect other's opinions regarding which albums they prefer -- but anyone who tells me that think Live post-TDTH was better than Live pre-TDTH is, in my honest opinion, crazy. Simply put, with the exception of only a few tracks, Live post-TDTH was not nearly as good. We all know the many reasons for this, but I think the major 2 were that Ed's vision for his music was going in a very poppy/more overtly Christian direction, and the other 3 guys (for various reasons) were not as creatively involved.

The reason why I am excited about Siren's Call is because it harkens back to that spirit of Live 1991-1999. It harkens back to the darkness of a song like TDAOC, LJ, Graze, etc. What always made Live special to me was how they could go from a dark, brooding song like TDAOC into a motivating, uplifting song like STD, and back again in one album. I'm NOT comparing the new songs to the previous albums at all, and I am happy not to do that. What excites me about the new album is that I've started to hear that same range of song tempos and similar 'style' that we used to hear 1991-1999.