SFBM Fan Reviews Options

[fearisnottheend]

I got up early and went to Wal-Mart to get my copy of SFBM and they didn't have it. I called later on while at work and they found "them" in the back. So i drove down the street on break and picked it up.

I'd only heard the 30 second clips of most of the album before today. I was pleasantly suprised that i liked several songs i didn't expect to like much like Home, WDWGFH, Get Ready.
Show and Sofia are just ok but i'm sure they will grow on me. Right now, Wings is my favorite. It makes me smile just like They Stood Up For Love. Night of Nights is awesome. I like the slower verses more than the chorus but the change makes the song interesting. The slower verse part has that magical feeling that Pillar of Davidson and Gas Head Goes West had for me. Love Shines chorus is awesome. Can't wait to play these songs on guitar.

Reading on-line reviews on this site and many others, i got the impression that this album would be terrible. Mostly negative reviews wanting the band to get back to being "angry".
Now, if it would get us another Lakini's Juice than i'm all for that. I've found that, growing up listening to Live and being just a few years younger than them..........i feel like as they've matured and gotten older....i have to. It seems like the music fits me. I'm really enjoying it so far.

Its way to early to tell where this album will rank overall but i am happy with it. It is so cool to go pick up a new Live disc and anxiously listen to each song. I was thinking as i listened to it...after this listen the song won't really ever sound exactly the same. You only get that one "first time listen". Awesome experience. And this is the only band that i get hyped up about.

Can't wait to see them in concert again.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

^ It's called an opinion, everybody has one. There are actually people out there who really enjoy the V album. Amazing, I know. I don't think that anyone's musical opinion has anything to do with their IQ, because it is just an opinion. Somebody isn't an idiot just because they disagree with you.

[beau99]

^ It's called an opinion, everybody has one. There are actually people out there who really enjoy the V album. Amazing, I know. I don't think that anyone's musical opinion has anything to do with their IQ, because it is just an opinion. Somebody isn't an idiot just because they disagree with you.

I officially like you.

I happen to enjoy V myself, and think Mental Jewelry blows hard.

[HiItsNino]

Well, I haven't posted in a loooong time. For the first time in the last 3 Live CD's I did not download or listen to any of the new stuff, other than what I heard at shows.

Hre's what I think: MJ is a lyrical masterpiece but its delivery is amiture. TC has lyrics and performance on its side. SS was harder, darker, deeper - more of a concept album that fused the positive elements of the first 2. TDTH is Lives masterpiece, imho. You cannot top this one. V largely disappointed me, though I still enjoy it. It was a new sound, the start of a new direction that was not aimed at the important, bigger picture that the first four all seemed to capture. BOP grew from there and Live improved in that sound, kept the signature Live sound, but employed it in a different style. SFBM has perfected that new direction, with a style and complexity that Live can deliver very well. Ed lyrics are great again - not world changing great - but self-reflectively great.

I remember a long time ago someone posting on Live web that they would love a Live album that you could put on at parties. This is that album. Lets face it, the older stuff is way to philosophical to listen to at parties. SFBM is fun, catchy, diverse, deep, shallow, and great to listen and sing to. Live have proven themselves capable of delivering this new direction in a way worthy of the old days.