Should Live Call It Quits?, Is it time? Options

[Hoodstock]

I am a huge Live fan. I have enjoyed every CD (except V, which I can't even listen to except for Simple Creed) but I'm finding that the band has lost originality. I tried making a CD of my favorite songs recently and had trouble placing songs in order since every song is about love or includes water in it in some way. I miss the fun songs like Waitress and Shit Towne, they are lacking from newer live CD's. Instead we get songs that include earth elements, are about love over and over again, and sorry attempts to protest the war in some way. I would appreciate a new live CD that did not include songs about love, and had nothing to do with water (streams, rivers, ect.) or the sun, and did not mention the war (those songs especially never even seem to be very good at all) (p.s. I am not stating this as any type of comment on the war). Unless Ed can come up with lyrics on original topics that are radio worthy in the U.S., or that make me want to turn up Live and rock my speakers again , maybe live should hang up their hat and do greatest hits tours ever so often.

The newer Live seems stale and old before I even replay the CD.

[rocknerd]

Im sorry you feel this way. however it does stand to fact that if songs arnt about love or war then all we have left is some kind of pop idol music which represent premiscuity, indifferance and complacancy.
if bob dylan wrote songs about just do what your told and be happy your alive great movements would never have happened. perhaps you should listen to the to the pussy cat dolls and wonder if your girlfriend did look like an exploited whore. Sure alot of fans arent into the white light sound that LIVE are making but id rather listen to protest and songs and songs about over whelming love than to some generic music that exploits women, indorses violents of any kind, and all sounds the same. I stopped listening to hip-hop and rap when it became generic and stopped being about fighting for equallity. Public Enemy did more for African Americans than Martin Luther King Jr. but Tupac and Snopp draged a great movement into the gutter and made it about sex, drugs and gang violence.

ROCK will forever be about love, ANTI-war and protest. You may have just out grown the band but that happens. I used to love the offspring and Greenday but they have become old and generic like the RHCP.
Just remember the stuff you like and pray that they make an album you can crank up again.

And on the Water theme. ED has always stated that water is the most powerful element and thats why it feature so much in his lyrics. and if you think about it you can remove all the elements with water land erodes, fire is quenched, and air is unbreathable without it.

these are my thoughts on the topic not an attack on you. just remember why you love early live and enjoy it. no one can make you like something your not into.

[ntslash]

Public Enemy did more for African Americans than Martin Luther King Jr.

I sincerely hope that you are kidding.

[rocknerd]

I sincerely hope that you are kidding.

Judge my comment if you will but remember MLKj was about compromise. public enemy were about reenergising the new youth who grew up with out a strong role model.

it was one of the great black pather leaders that said it is time to stop using the pen it has no strenght it is the fist that will liberate black america from the white politicians who seek to oppress us.

I read and learn. to many people care less about has actually taken place then what history tells us.

The white panthers were the violent group along with the weathermen. yet the black panthers took most of the heat.

[sandkind]

Judge my comment if you will but remember MLKj was about compromise. public enemy were about reenergising the new youth who grew up with out a strong role model.

it was one of the great black pather leaders that said it is time to stop using the pen it has no strenght it is the fist that will liberate black america from the white politicians who seek to oppress us.

I read and learn. to many people care less about has actually taken place then what history tells us.

The white panthers were the violent group along with the weathermen. yet the black panthers took most of the heat.

you really need to study history a lot more