home, too political? Options

[arlecia]

what do you think about this song?
for me is some kind of scream for the end of the "war" in Iraq. but should they so loudly show us their in some way political ideas?
maybe for me it inst so obvious because I live in a country which has send there not so many people...and here we hardly ever even hear about this problem.

[figure8]

Ok, so someone has mentioned that this album is a work of art, it is definitely not - it is like selling the fake Adidas shoes on car boot sale. If there was something really unique about LIVE back in the days, on the last 2 albums (BOP, SFBM) they have lost it. And this is not in regards to the anti-war songs that they have made (Home, WAWFF), this is about LIVE in general.
What I don't understand is - how can people actually enjoy SFBM. Yes, I would've understood that if this was a new band, with their debut CD, and this was actually their style of music. But when you know LIVE by MJ, TC, SS, TDTH and V (do not have any problem with V what so ever) how can the last to albums be called a work of a art, or be enjoyed? Yes, BOP had dome descent tracks, but SFBM? Common!
The thing that separated LIVE from all the other rock & roll bands was their unique sound. I cannot tell you what exactly it was, but they definitely had it. With the last 2 alums it was lost. And it is not a matter of success.
There are lot's of American (and not only American) bands that do sound the same. Back in the early 2000's there were lot's of them, now possibly even more (thank God I do not listen to the radio): Creed, Nickelback, The Calling, 3 doors down and so on, but there were also the ones, that when you heard them, you knew, oh this is - Pearl Jam, or Tom Waits, or Radiohead, Lou Reed, REM, etc (each one has their favourites) - for me LIVE was always in the context of those unique bands who had the unique sound and with the single note you would know who they are.

But this was in the past...

This post has been edited by figure8: Oct 14 2011, 2:03 pm