Live - Rank The Albums, You Asked For It! Options

[Hoodstock]

When was the last time there was a post where everyone ranked the Live albums in order?

Ask and you shall recieve!

If you are inclined rank Live's albums from favorite (#1) to least favorite. If you want to go big time include it all!

Feel free to throw in any commentary.

Live Studio Albums:

- Mental Jewelry
- Throwing Copper
- Secret Samadhi
- The Distance To Here
- V
- Birds of Pray
- Songs From Black Mountain

Other Live Albums (If You Want To Include):

- Death Of A Dictionary
- Radiant Sea
- Live At The Paradiso
- Awake

Other Works By Live Members (If You Want To Go Big!):

- Alive
- The Gracious Few

[Badman]

1. Throwing copper - Easily slides into first.
2. MJ - So much meaning!! doesn't translate to being performed live very well if you have ever heard ed belt mirror song.
3. S.S. below the rest because the songs seem to lack the common strain that linked the first two. The songs are still gold though.
4. TDTH & V - I can't rank one above the other. TDTH has wfg and sparkle but The dolphin's cry and the distance just drag the album down. I can't believe they chose the dolphin's cry for the single. V is just plain fun and wasn't meant to be a real album. They messed up the cover and chose a dumb name which drags it down. The energy, the experiment, the drugs, the FORCING themselves into the spotlight for a moment tell a story that the other albums don't and I remember this each time I hear ed say that line about making a midget grow.
5. DOAD - Oh god, paper flowers... this song gets NO TALK here. I love most of the songs on this album but it's rough and raw. It also features live's worst song (well, home was bad too) Ball and chain. That song is a trainwreck. Once again live gets the last song wrong.
6. TGF - Good... but honestly (no pun) forgettable. I know sing, trecidim, and honest man but the rest just don't wander into my head to make me pick up the album. The give one hell of a live show though!!
7. BoP - Once again, I don't ever recall any songs that make me want to pick it up. the closest I get is lighthouse but then I remember that that song isn't as good as anything on TC so I pick up TC instead. All around forgettable. I remember being in denial that heaven was a pro-religion song... oh how blind I was
8. Alive - Great title but a lukewarm set of songs. Very forgettable and Ed's people made a blatant money grab by leaving off the best songs (eat your love and new world) and making us illegally download them. If not for representing the destruction of live 1.0 This would be even with BoP for me. Zion was alright... the acoustic version of that and everlasting love had me excited but he messed up both.
9. SFBM - Shameful. We were all in denial when we thought NoN was a good song. I can't believe I paid money for it. Alive is heaps better though on a good note. The real terrible thing about this album is just how often these songs got played live on the tour... Ed really loved these songs and most of them got played at some point. WHY??


I'm not putting RS or Alive on here... those aren't albums.