Birds of Pray Options

[deepenoughtodive]

I haven't listened to this album in a long time. I am surprised that i'm enjoying a lot of it. Somewhere in my mind I had this notion that LIVE had just quit rocking the last few albums but that's not true. Now SFBM was way too poppish for my taste but BOP was pretty good. I'm ok with Heaven as a single but Run Away was a horrible choice. That has to be one of my least favorite LIVE songs of all time. I think She or Like I Do would have been much better.

Of the 13 tracks on the album, only 3,4,5, and 12 should have been left off in my opinion.

What do y'all think of this album?

[FishOutaWater]

I haven't listened to this album in a long time. I am surprised that i'm enjoying a lot of it. Somewhere in my mind I had this notion that LIVE had just quit rocking the last few albums but that's not true. Now SFBM was way too poppish for my taste but BOP was pretty good. I'm ok with Heaven as a single but Run Away was a horrible choice. That has to be one of my least favorite LIVE songs of all time. I think She or Like I Do would have been much better.

Of the 13 tracks on the album, only 3,4,5, and 12 should have been left off in my opinion.

What do y'all think of this album?

BoP is my least favorite Live album. I can't even listen to it anymore. There is something about it that I don't like. It may "rock" more than SFBm or V, but it lacks something to me. It is too shallow and simple-minded. I remember when they played Life Marches On for the first time ever at Franklin and Marshal College in Lancaster. I imediately liked it because I thought the riff was cool. But now when I listen to it and Ed is singing:

In the country
The farms and the orchards swell
With oranges and peaches
A little bit of truth as well

I actually vomit a little in my mouth. Bad lyrics on this album.

And Sanctity of Dreams - Paint a mustache on the Mona Lisa, drive a Harley through the heart of danger?!?! That song makes me want to break into Ed's house, find the lyrics sheet and tear it up.

The Crucifix Ain't no baseball bat?!?! Bad lyrics. At a time when they could have come out and taken a real position against an immoral war in Iraq, Live (Ed) chose to take a mealy-mouthed, neutral, politics-aside approach with What Are We Fighting For. I was disappointed in the easy way out that was taken with that song, and I don't particularly like the song.

It's my understanding that Like I Do was the offering of CCP, which made it through to the light of day only after much cajoling. Funny how that was the one song on the album that everyone went nuts for when they heard it and everyone whined that it should have been the single that launched the album.

I like Bring the People Together and Heaven.

I will tell a little secret that I have never told anyone before. Before BoP was released, I heard a rough version of the demo tracks for the album - and it sounded better than the ultra-glossy-polished final product.

[Hoodstock]

I will tell a little secret that I have never told anyone before. Before BoP was released, I heard a rough version of the demo tracks for the album - and it sounded better than the ultra-glossy-polished final product.

Do you recall anything you heard that didn't make the final cut?

[FishOutaWater]

Do you recall anything you heard that didn't make the final cut?

Not that I recall.