An Experiment: if The Flood and the Mercy was by Live Options

[LiveFan92]

Over the Easter weekend, I saw some old friends that I used to listen to Live with in high school when we were growing up in the York area. They hadn't really liked anything after V, although they still bought each album and listened a few times with hope, etc. They hadn't even really heard the band had broken up.

So I invited them over to my place to listen to "something cool" and I played The Flood and the Mercy for them. I didn't say it was Live or just Ed, but I could tell they hadn't heard any of it before.

The general reaction was: "Wow, Live is really getting back to good form! If they keep this up, the next album could be amazing."

And then I had to tell them it was just Ed, etc, and explain about the new Live with a new lead singer, etc.

But they really got me thinking... if The Flood and the Mercy had been put out by Live after The Distance to Here or maybe V, how would it have been received?

Any thoughts on that?