If "Alive" Was A Live Album Options

[LiveFan92]

Forget all of the recent crap for a moment... If "Alive" was a Live album and all of the boys had played their parts, etc... where would you rank it? Obviously not in the band's top 4, but what about in comparison to the post 2000 stuff? Better? Worse? The same?

[Infrequent Poster]

Eh, hard to say where it ranks. Below V and BoP for sure but deciding whether it ranks above or below SFBM is hard. SFBM had higher high points but also lower low points. Alive is a more consistent experience. I could listen to Alive straight through and only skip one song, whereas I'd skip three or four on SFBM. However, Sofia, Show and Night of Nights were (in my opinion) very good songs and only Grace compares well to those.

I think I'd have to rank SFBM slightly higher if only because Sofia is a great song and it carries the weaker songs. Regardless, if Alive was a Live album I'd have probably left the band behind. It comes off better as an EK solo experience then it would have if it had the Live name on it.

[ItchyTriggerFinger]

However, Sofia, Show and Night of Nights were (in my opinion) very good songs and only Grace compares well to those.

Apparently we share the same 3 favorite songs from SFBM. Though I do have a slight quibble with Night of Nights which is enough for it to be pushed to #3 for me. It's the way the timing of the songs seems to slow down when they get to the chorus. Every single time I hear it, I keep thinking "Man, if they had just cut loose right there." But, it's a minor quibble.