Songs from Black Mountain Turned 10, Your thoughts in retrospect? Options

[Unsheathed]

Quite a few months back Songs from Black Mountain turned 10 years old.

With a decade of retrospection, what are your thoughts on Live's last effort with the original lineup?

This post has been edited by Unsheathed: Oct 17 2016, 1:28 pm

[Lakini's Juice]

I was especially enamoured with Night of Nights, Get Ready and Show. That didn't change, for me still the strongest tracks on the album.
Some songs are better played live, like Mystery, Wings and Sofia.
The rest is still a huge 'meh' for me.

The cover i still find contrived, my opinion on that never changed. The artwork on TC, SS and TDTH was really strong and striking. They especially missed the mark with this one.

The fact they really didn't appear for PR outings together anymore (BOP and onwards) also was weird at the time. It was just Ed, doing acoustic appearances plus interviews.

Overall didn't really listen to it that much since its release. Went to their gigs and really enjoyed that, but that was about it.

Still rank it higher than The Turn, Alive and TGF.
Not my favourite album, but it has its moments.

[Fool_By_The_River]

Still rank it higher than The Turn, Alive and TGF.

Yeah, i don't get the love for the TGF album, i really like "Crying Time" and "Rest of You" but the rest are really not that good, average at best. The Turn is decent, i really like "Natural Born Killers" from that album.