Birds of Pray, What do you think of it anno 2010? Options

[SecretInsomnia]

Live fans on these board often say that Live didnt make anything goo after TDTH.
V, BoP and SFBM are regarded as 'Live going downhill'. Although I can enjoy some parts of each of those 3 albums, BoP is (for me) still an album that I can listen very often and to which I always look back to with joy for some reason. (must also have to do with the period it was released, it had some quite hopefull and upflifting energy for me in spring/summer 2003).

Ofcourse not all on the album is as creative as in the 90ies, certainly not. But for me it's for some reason still a really "Live" album and for some part breathes the atmosphere that I think about when I think of Live in general. I don't really have that with "rapping and experimental V" or "too much Ed focussed SFBM" (although, as I said, they had their "Live" moments as well).

Heaven is still (commercial sounding or not) a very nice song. Like I do is for me up with Live's best work. And Lighthouse touches me again each time I listen to it. I really like Sanctity of Dreams (and yes I know most don't), as it just grabs you from beginning to the end. Out to Dry is POP, but not pop like most of Alive, for example.

Listening to SoD, I also notice that back then, Ed still wrote about different topics on the album. Compare for example topics in: SoD, Heaven, River Town and Out to Dry.
SFBM had not much variety in topics, and on Alive it seemed to be gone completely.

What do you think about Birds of Pray, now 7,5 years after its release? For me it's not a bad album at all, although I know it's not their best work ever.

This post has been edited by SecretInsomnia: Dec 8 2010, 6:51 pm

[sh4rpz]

I always liked BOP for the most part. There are tracks that I feel are really LIVE to the core - and others that are just bad.

For whatever you wanna say about the album, the tour was off the charts! I still think LIVE were immense during the period 2002-2005 on stage. They did a lot of touring around that time - and most of the BOP bootlegs and concert videos really captured LIVE in their element on stage.

CT really seemed to step to the front a lot more too, where he had this stage presence all of a sudden - be it the stomp, the LJ tribal like dance with Ed, the mohawk - I don't know - but it was just an awesome era. Well, for me anyway. Although BOP itself had very few gems on the album, the way LIVE lit up the concerts - wow!

Edit: there's a picture I have from the FOL site back then, taken by Jimmy I think, truely capturing the energy and emotion of those shows - I will see if I can find it and post it here. When I think of BOP, I think of pics like those.

This post has been edited by sh4rpz: Dec 20 2010, 5:40 pm