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[Hoodstock]

I never knew they made a video for this song until I found it today:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-PN2COATU8&NR


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-PN2COATU8&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Was this just played in Australia?

This post has been edited by Hoodstock: Jul 25 2011, 7:34 pm

[OutToDry]

Did you not see the Awake DVD with all videos Hoodie?

[Hoodstock]

Did you not see the Awake DVD with all videos Hoodie?

I got it, I just don't remember that one I guess.

It was such a great song ya know

[OutToDry]

It's all the way at the end, where things kind of you know get lame.....

[thefunkyredcaboose]

This video is so good it makes a midget grow

[SinfulEyes]

This video is so good it makes a midget grow

Live songs like these are the reason why Live is anonymous in most music listener's eyes/ears.

Disgusting.

[Pokey]

Ah yeah I remember being at one of the gigs where Ed said they were filming this (they played the song twice that night!) ... what I still don't get is how that $100US bill made it all the way across the pacific ocean to land on our shores for an Aboriginal to pick it up, theres some luck!

[Merica]

Aahhh man... good old V. Good old musically decent but lyrically trashy, tashy V...

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Live songs like these are the reason why Live is anonymous in most music listener's eyes/ears.

Disgusting.

I always liked the music and melodies on V. But the lyrics... oh the lyrics.

[FishOutaWater]

I always liked V and I liked the spirituality of the lyrics.

But something definitely happened between 1999 and 2001. I'd love to know what changed during that period of time. It's like the "on" switch that controlled Ed's ability to write with metaphor and symbolism and depth got switched off. Or more accurately, the fuse blew and he never figured out how to fix the fuse. After TDTH, everything was "this is like that" using writing skills that were barely above second grade-level childrens books.

I've said it before, but the way I track Live's career is:

MJ and TC were urgent calls to wake up and shed your beliefs and conditioning and let go of everything that you've been taught to believe - and discover the truth for yourself.

SS was the album that reacted to the overwhelming commercial success of TC, where they proved to the world that they were artists first and foremost for themselves and their fans and not for the commercial music industry. It was like "Oh yeah? Take this!"

THDTH was no longer angry and rebellious against authority. Ed no longer rejected beliefs and conditioning and organized, formalized structures. TDTH was more like "ahah, I've found it!" Or more accurately: "ahah, I've experienced it!" It was happy and satisfied, but expressed lyrically and musically in a beautiful masterpiece. The last "great" Live album.

And after TDTH, that fuse blew. The lyrics said to all of us "I can no longer express it..." It was one frantic atempt after another to recapture their Throwing Copper audience. Latch on to rock-rap. Try to reclaim the "rock" sound of TC but fail to deliver. Capitalize on Daughtry and American Idol. Put out Paradiso to regain the attention of the fans that lost interest after they realized that SS was not a TC sequel. But all of Live's new music was created using a new recipe. A new formula. Instead f the four working together, in an environement that inspired great new music and allowed them to feed off of each other, it became the Ed show. With adult-contemporary songs that sounded like mayonaise jingles, backed by great musicians that had been totally neutered by their lead singer who gave the ultimatum - play the rythm and drum beat behind my layered chorus of Ed vocals singing la da da - oh Lord, or I will leave Live and destroy your livelihoods. So on they went like that, until Live died an ugly death, and only the last remaining die-hards were left here to remember, like a handful of people floating on a wooden raft with Kevin Costner in Waterworld.

But it sounds like 3/4 of Live have come back from the dead to reclaim the sound and spirit of Live from MJ, TC, SS and TDTH. That was the real Live that made a difference in the world. Oh my how I wish that I could hear a new album that sounds like MJ. If that happens, just watch me let go of all of my reservations about having a new lead singer of Live. Just watch me let go of my desperate clinging to "old" Live. I will keep its memory alive - but move forward with a new Live that I can also love.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Jul 26 2011, 12:13 pm

[Sonic Tonic]

It took me years to forget they made a video for this song. Thanks a lot hoodie lol.

[OutToDry]

Drugs are Bad!! Hmmmmmkay!!

[OutToDry]

I always liked V and I liked the spirituality of the lyrics.

But something definitely happened between 1999 and 2001. I'd love to know what changed during that period of time. It's like the "on" switch that controlled Ed's ability to write with metaphor and symbolism and depth got switched off. Or more accurately, the fuse blew and he never figured out how to fix the fuse. After TDTH, everything was "this is like that" using writing skills that were barely above second grade-level childrens books.

I've said it before, but the way I track Live's career is:

MJ and TC were urgent calls to wake up and shed your beliefs and conditioning and let go of everything that you've been taught to believe - and discover the truth for yourself.

SS was the album that reacted to the overwhelming commercial success of TC, where they proved to the world that they were artists first and foremost for themselves and their fans and not for the commercial music industry. It was like "Oh yeah? Take this!"

THDTH was no longer angry and rebellious against authority. Ed no longer rejected beliefs and conditioning and organized, formalized structures. TDTH was more like "ahah, I've found it!" Or more accurately: "ahah, I've experienced it!" It was happy and satisfied, but expressed lyrically and musically in a beautiful masterpiece. The last "great" Live album.

And after TDTH, that fuse blew. The lyrics said to all of us "I can no longer express it..." It was one frantic atempt after another to recapture their Throwing Copper audience. Latch on to rock-rap. Try to reclaim the "rock" sound of TC but fail to deliver. Capitalize on Daughtry and American Idol. Put out Paradiso to regain the attention of the fans that lost interest after they realized that SS was not a TC sequel. But all of Live's new music was created using a new recipe. A new formula. Instead f the four working together, in an environement that inspired great new music and allowed them to feed off of each other, it became the Ed show. With adult-contemporary songs that sounded like mayonaise jingles, backed by great musicians that had been totally neutered by their lead singer who gave the ultimatum - play the rythm and drum beat behind my layered chorus of Ed vocals singing la da da - oh Lord, or I will leave Live and destroy your livelihoods. So on they went like that, until Live died an ugly death, and only the last remaining die-hards were left here to remember, like a handful of people floating on a wooden raft with Kevin Costner in Waterworld.

But it sounds like 3/4 of Live have come back from the dead to reclaim the sound and spirit of Live from MJ, TC, SS and TDTH. That was the real Live that made a difference in the world. Oh my how I wish that I could hear a new album that sounds like MJ. If that happens, just watch me let go of all of my reservations about having a new lead singer of Live. Just watch me let go of my desperate clinging to "old" Live. I will keep its memory alive - but move forward with a new Live that I can also love.

Gotta love how you framed this.

[tiger]

I got sucked into the video, not bad, until the rapping that is. WTF? Now I remember one of the things I couldn't stand about V. I actually don't mind a lot of the songs, minus Ed's over the top vocals, rapping, and the production. Not one of their better songs but better than most of the stuff that followed it.

[Rupe]

like a handful of people floating on a wooden raft with Kevin Costner in
Waterworld.

Love how you incorporated a unique, and quite accurate, analogy like this into a critique of Ed's lame analogies. Well done, as always, Fish.