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

[PillarOfDavidson]

Throwing Copper is the pinnacle for me. TDTH may have been a more prolific writing period for the band, but the raw, punch-you-in-the-gut sound and the writing all combined to make this one hurricane of an album. Plus, this is the album that got me into the band in the first place. Everything else gets compared to it by default in my mind.

Btw, while I think The Distance To Here is a fine album, and has some incredible songs on it, I also think that Mental Jewelry gets left out in the cold too often in rankings like these and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the production on the album may not have been good as the other major releases. Plus, the songwriting was still maturing at that point. But from the standpoint of where the band was, the strength of the songs on the album, the relatively decent production quality, and where the band wound up on its very next album I decided to put MJ ahead of TDTH

1) Throwing Copper
2) Secret Samadhi
3) Mental Jewelry
4) The Distance To Here
5) Birds Of Pray




6) V









































7) That other album that I refuse to name here...

This post has been edited by pho3nixtar: Sep 10 2010, 10:31 am