Live At The Paradiso and Radiant Sea, Fan Favor or Money Grab? Options

[Hoodstock]

With info now released about "Live At The Paradiso" I'm seeing this connection. Radiant Sea and Live At The Paradiso have a collection of live songs (RS has random concert recordings and LATP has parts of a concert) and two previously unreleased and unheard songs each.

Essentially they are the same type of album (with the exception of the DVD).

First of all, is this now the type of release that we can expect from Live - live material with a pair of new songs?

Secondly, why is Live doing this? They are essentially releasing the same type of album to their fanbase twice in a row. Why release them both back to back?

I know that fanclub members only had to pay shipping for RS, but do you feel that Live is doing this for their fans or they are attempting a money grab at their fanbase with the release of 4 new songs on 2 seperate albums.

I'm actually happy about both releases but I want to ask an honest question based on the connection I see between the albums.

[SecretInsomnia]

With info now released about "Live At The Paradiso" I'm seeing this connection. Radiant Sea and Live At The Paradiso have a collection of live songs (RS has random concert recordings and LATP has parts of a concert) and two previously unreleased and unheard songs each.

Essentially they are the same type of album (with the exception of the DVD).

First of all, is this now the type of release that we can expect from Live - live material with a pair of new songs?

Secondly, why is Live doing this? They are essentially releasing the same type of album to their fanbase twice in a row. Why release them both back to back?

I know that fanclub members only had to pay shipping for RS, but do you feel that Live is doing this for their fans or they are attempting a money grab at their fanbase with the release of 4 new songs on 2 seperate albums.

I'm actually happy about both releases but I want to ask an honest question based on the connection I see between the albums.

to be honest: I don't see a link between the two releases at all!
- Radiant Sea was very obvious for the fans, and Ed stated that several times ('the old cool fanclub feeling').
- O'right, the Paradiso thing will ALSO contain a cd, but they would never released it if it wasn't for the dvd. The DVD is a project 15 years in the making, as Chad called it. The cd is an extra, to make the package complete. While theyre adding a live CD of Paradiso with the DVD (which keeps the main thing), they were able to but some other, not live recorded stuff on it. So than it was perfactly possible to put a single on it to promote it. I really think they went into the studio to record A SINGLE (or two maybe), and that's the first time ever, because they wanted some promotional music for the DVD. That makes it a lot different from the fanclub release Radiant Sea, which contained b-sides as new songs that were never singles.
And to answer the question about the future: no I don't see them releasing live recordings any time soon again.

[Hoodstock]

to be honest: I don't see a link between the two releases at all!

For someone who did not belong to the official fan club both CD's are new to me and are the exact same thing. When you get the actual CD's show both of them to any friend who does not follow Live and just ask them. You are blinded by your fandom. They are both are live songs and two new songs. In fact they:

1. Both have a collection of live songs.

2. Both albums share many of the same songs.

3. One has random songs from various shows (a few of which were from the same show) and the other has some of the songs performed at one show.

4. Neither is a full concert.

5. They both have two unheard songs.

The only real difference to me is that the new CD has a few more songs. Saying the LATPD is simply going to be better is bullshit unless the live recordings are that much better or if both new songs blow RS and BI out of the water.

For either I'll have to wait and see. I hope it's great and I'm sure that I'll love it, but they just released the same thing twice in a row and threw in a CD. Wake Up!

This post has been edited by Hoodstock: Oct 20 2008, 9:41 pm