The reasons for Live's album disparity? Options

[AgentK7]

Instead of providing opinions for why Live's last couple of albums haven't met with the best success, I'm going to give you a breakdown of the album credits (verbatim from the cd booklet when practical):

Mental Jewelry (1991)

• Produced by Jerry Harrison for Construct Music, Inc.
• All Songs written by Edward Kowalczyk, Chad Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Gracey

Throwing Copper (1994)

• Produced by Jerry Harrison
• Lyrics: Kowalczyk Music: Live

Secret Samadhi (1997)

• Produced by Jay Healy and Live
• Written and Performed by Live (Lyrics by Ed Kowalczyk)

The Distance To Here (1999)

• Produced by Jerry Harrison and Live
• Lyrics by Ed Kowalczyk. Music by Ed Kowalczyk (except "Run To The Water" Kowalczyk, Dahlheimer "Voodoo Lady" Kowalczyk, Taylor "Where Fishes Go" Kowalczyk, Taylor and "They Stood Up For Love" Kowalczyk, Taylor,Dahlheimer)

V (2001)

• Produced by Live, Railo and Alain Johannes*
• Lyrics and Music by Ed Kowalczyk*
• *Forever May Not be long enough has writing and production credits to Ed Kowalczyk AND Glen Ballard

Birds Of Pray (2003)

• Produced by Jim Wirt
• Lyrics by Ed Kowalczyk. Music by Ed Kowalczyk (except "Like I Do" Ed Kowalczyk, Patrick Dahlheimer, Chad Taylor and "Lighthouse" Ed Kowalczyk, Chad Taylor)

Songs From Black Mountain (2006)

• Produced by Jim Wirt
• Songs by Ed Kowalczyk

I know my interpretation of this information, I'm curious what others think....

This post has been edited by AgentK7: Sep 13 2007, 3:48 pm

[ponzu]

I think some of their misfortune lies in PR. I never heard Live on the radio after TC, in fact, I didn't even know they were still together for the longest time. When I did catch up with them again (Magni sang TDC on Rockstar Supernova) I started looking for them. I then bought all the other albums that I did not have and ended up having to order some on line because they were not in music stores. I absolutely love V with maybe the exception of two or three songs and BoP is great too. In my car, I never am without those two albums. Right now they have a concert on the 28th in NO and no radio stations around here are promoting them - what's up with that? Get new PR people.

This post has been edited by ponzu: Sep 13 2007, 12:42 pm

[SinfulEyes]

I wouldn't exactly call Live's recent failures misfortunes. A misfortune is something with that of a poor outcome that was out of the person(s) control.

In the case of Live and their recently embarassing albums, it was poorly written music that resulted in their failures.