The Distance to Here, Interesting note Options

[SJN1279]

Ed gets all the crap for the lack of commercial success(at least in the US) for LIVE's later albums. However, Ed wrote 9 of 12 songs for The Distance to Here(including the albums biggest hit, The Dolphin's Cry), yet he doesn't get the majority of credit for its success. In many countries it was actually a bigger album than Throwing Copper, and to many it contains LIVE's best work.

So why the double standard?

[Pokey]

I see you're starting threads now to get attention.

This is one that you won't get much argument from, TDTH always seemed to be a lot of Ed's brain child and the majority of us all love it. You might not have picked up on it but we all loved Ed at one point and it was when he actually was producing amazing stuff like this. It's obvious that TDTH was still a much bigger collaboration of the 4 as opposed to the next 3 albums. But once again, most of us don't think of "success" in terms of how much fucking money it makes. We care about the artistic success, and at the period of TDTH, Ed was still filled to the brim with creativity. I'd give Ed an enormous amount of credit for TDTH, even CT said that if SS was his vision of Live, then TDTH was Ed's, and they both worked. It's everything that came after that didn't. There are no double standards because no one is denying Ed's level of involvement on TDTH. Ed was amazing, its what made his fall from grace in so many of our eyes so horrid. We know how great he was with things like TDTH so it just highlights his own personal creative fall after this point.
This thread is making a point no one is really arguing.