Expectations?, for the new LIVE album Options

[possum]

After seeing LIVE at the Strand and hearing the re-records of the Throwing Copper classics I'm starting to get very excited for their new shit. I have been listening nonstop to everything Shinn has done in the past and I still can't wrap my head around what LIVE's new tunes will sound like. OTD has mentioned the clips he has heard sound very Secret Samadhi. In my opinion they could never go wrong with that direction/sound. Hopefully we'll get a little teaser clip soon to give us a taste of what's to come. Sorry if this was already a previous topic, but I'm getting kind of antsy for some updates. I guess no news is good news???

[+Ed+]

12 songs
2 ballads
rocking guitars
no commercial success
tour longer than TGF first tour
have several stops over Europe
fanbase getting back together

[dancing queen]

12 songs
2 ballads
rocking guitars
no commercial success
tour longer than TGF first tour
have several stops over Europe
fanbase getting back together

I agree. I hope for a 13th song - like Horse on TC - something completely different... not exactly like Horse was, I mean, but what Horse was to TC. Certainly CS is capable of something with a completely different pace and feel.

I would also love an instrumental. Incubus does that. just a one or two minute something amazing. There's no reason CCP can't just shine for a minute or two. They are, after all, wonderful

I expect the guys know how important Australia is - and I know Live had a big enough following in Australia that it would be worth it to make the trip. i would suspect that after some touring here and in Europe, Aus would be on the list.

I'd love it if they had enough commercial success (somewhere, I don't care where) to have a legit bona fide world tour (Aus, Europe, South Africa (it's been forever since they've been there, right)) and then they have no choice but to play 5 or 6 shows within driving distance of me... if the world tour gets huge - they might have a chance to get noticed here... maybe grab a little radio play... tons of shows for me to go to.
that's how the math works in my head, anyway, probably not in real life.
and also, it's all about me. ("I hope they have enough success that I can see them 12 times a summer" is how my mind works)

[FishOutaWater]

My predictions:

The band will take its time with the lyrics and music to get it perfect. The band will try hard to emulate the authentic sound of Live from the MJ and TC and SS days.

It will be released in early 2013.

It will have 12 songs.

Two of them will be softer songs like those on Shinn's solo album.

Eight of them will rock and/or have a TDTH feel to them.

Two of them will be flat out heavy.

The lyrics will sound like they were demo tracks from Mental Jewelry - peace, love, light and energy, becoming un-attached to conditioning, bias and influences.

There will be NO references to fish, water, Jesus, or the Buddha.

Chris Shinn will sounds amazing.

The album will be a thousand times better than V, BoP and SFBM and will have a balanced emphasis on music and lyrics.

It will have little commercial success, and Rolling Stone and Billboard won't even mention it.

Live fans who discover the album will absolutely love it.

Ed fans will complain and criticize it on completely baseless and factually and artistically incorrect grounds.

We will all still be here in mid-2013 reviewing the album and saying it is the greatest thing ever. We will still be fighting with Nick, obsessing over every little move that Live makes and acting as if this is exciting to more than just the two dozen of us who come here every day to get our daily "fix" of whatever strange and unexplainable pleasure this place seems to give us.