Happy Champagne Birthday Secret Samadhi! Options

[swami]

Secret Samadhi was released 18 years ago today. Holy fuck.

[Bremang]

I was young and hardly understood the concept of albums, release dates, or singles at the time LJ debuted. I caught the LJ video debut on MTV and loved it. The song was so awesome and uniquely Live. I remember following the MTV top 20 countdowns each week, and LJ didn't get past #6, which blew my mind. And #1 was U2's discotheque which wasn't nearly as cool. I already thought Live was the best band in the world, but this video clinched it for life. When I got SS on the release date at the record store in the mall, and listened for the first time on the 3-disk Sony stereo at home, I was spacey listening to the first chords crash in Rattlesnake. By the end of the album, I was disappointed that it wasn't better than Throwing Copper, or that they hadn't made another Lightning Crashes. My expectations were so unreasonably high. But like every single Live album, I started out unsatisfied, and grew to like it much more.

This post has been edited by Bremang: Mar 3 2015, 4:23 am