Does Live Get More Hate than the Average Band? Options

[Schlomo]

I'm sure there are a ton of band's from the 90's that people don't care for, but a lot of times if you mention Live people will laugh and call them terrible.

You have the hate from websites like Blender (any others?)

They get backhanded compliments from places like MTV for being the chick flick of rock bands.

On a basketball website I was participating in a song draft where try to pick the best songs of all time and somehow Live was brought up and the consensus was that they were awful.

Just my experience?

This post has been edited by Schlomo: Aug 17 2009, 2:48 pm

[Pokey]

Yeah I think Bono is much worse than Ed could ever be ... maybe because Ed talks spirituality and there's hardly anyone to listen ... Bono gets audiences with world leaders and royalty for god knows whatever reason and has more pull.
I'm sure if Bono were actually given a place in politics some of his views would change very quickly when he has to look at things in a different light.
It's like Peter Garrett, former front man for Midnight Oil, spent years in a band singing about climate change and environmental issues, he leaves music and gets into politics, suddenly finds himself as the federal environmental minister and instead of having a microphone in his hands he has a pen and paper where he can actually make changes, except the things he does is contradicting a lot of what he was preaching earlier ... most people blindly call him a sell out ... I'm sure what's really happend is that he's realised how easy it is to stand on stage and sprout out about peace and how to save the world ... now that he's actually involved he's realised it's not as easy as that and things aren't just black and white.

That's why it always amazes me how much people care about singers opinions on world issues, like somehow they're more important or valid, especially when they get preachy because most of the time they're way out of their depth, they're just the same as everyone else but with an device to project their voices.

Kinda strayed from the point there, but I think a lot of people see Ed as preachy and are put off by that.