Top Live studio albums, ** Update ** With final totals ... Options

[T.B.D]

I have a feeling many of these will be similar, but thought it would be interesting to see where everyone ranked Live's studio albums ...

1. Throwing Copper
2. Secret Samadhi
3. V
4. Mental Jewelry
5. The Distance to Here
6. Songs from Black Mountain
7. Birds of Pray

I said it in another post, but Simple Creed is still one of my top five songs. And Overcome was so powerful here in the US, I had to put V up there. As for SFBM not being last, for some reason I like Wings and Get Ready a lot. Sophia live is still awesome (or was awesome anyways).

This post has been edited by T.B.D: Sep 11 2010, 9:45 am

[Infrequent Poster]

Incoming blasphemy:


1.) The Distance to Here
2.) Mental Jewelry
3.) Throwing Copper
4.) Secret Samadhi
5.) Birds of Pray
6.) V
7.) Songs from Black Mountain

If I could, I'd put a huge gap in between 4 and 5. After those four you go from great albums to albums with some great songs. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a huge difference. I can play TDTH, MJ, TC, and SS straight through, no skips and love everything I hear. BOP, V, and SFBM are all cherry picked songs. I never play those albums straight through anymore, and other then BOP, never did after the first week or so they dropped. Sure, Like I Do, Sofia, and Simple Creed are all individually great songs but as a whole the last three albums are significantly weaker, so while I may rank Lighthouse over Horse song to song, BOP can't hold a candle to TC overall.

Now I know my top four is blasphemous as neither TC nor SS are number one, and even more insulting, neither are they number two. I ranked my albums on the whole package, sound, lyrics, feel (just for a completely ambiguous term) as well as my personal attachment to each one. TDTH was, for me, the whole package. It was musically fantastic and Ed (in my opinion) was at his lyrical best.