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

[Liveman94]

In support of Hood the production was better on Alive than Tfatm - the band sound suited Ex. I think some of the songs were stronger on Tfatm though. Both not great.

I'll go ahead with an SFBM comment though; you are not alone is atrocious and always will be.
Home is lyrically anaemic and the guitar and vocals sound like grated testicles.
All I need is cheesy and the bridge is ok but overall not a good song lyrically or musically.
Sofia was a production misfire Ed's vocals were not good enough to make so prominent on what should have been a bluesy band jam of a song.
Love shines was ruined by the over long parentheses sub title and added "shine shines shines" triple Ed backing vocals - it was ok live.
Show lyrically was terrible and again neutered rock wise in production.

There's some good. The River catchy and light. Get ready and where do we go from here are the albums best IMHO - most fully formed ideas. Wings is cool but overproduced and night of nights is good but lacked chorus distortion punch and again was messy in production. Good idea though.

Overall I like the album although it disappoints me as a whole there's a few songs that make me feel like it had hope as an album if it'd been taken seriously by all of them and not just been a vehicle for eds "female bent" songs and a lazy producers unwieldy and epileptic hacks at song craft.