Live for the Universe Options

[Wambangalang]

if you could....

put one live song in a time capsule and shoot that shit out into space for the next couple of million years, for some distant faraway intelligent civillization to intercept and use as the sole basis of learning about this strange, carbon-based race of advanced monkeys that exist on the planet Earth..........what would it be?

Im going for "They Stood up for Love". I got toasted today and listened to and watched the video for this song and i fucking cried my eyes out. What a beautiful summation of life on this unbelievable magnificent planet, of the pettiness and trivial way we conduct our lives and miss out on the truly holy and wonderful gift of a trillion set of random genetic accidents which led to each and every one of us to be here and now celebrating the channel of love which is +Live+.

Constantly, we look back to our birth to explain ourselves, to excuse our faults and lay blame on circumstance and parents for what we are now, and we relieve those anxieties with our misguided and pretentious plans for the future, not understanding that these ideas are nothing but abstractions implanted by the mechanism of psychological conditioning. To shed this conditioning is the beginning of wisdom. This is the "Human story".

No other song by Live is so total in its resolve to expose mankind to itself as a greedy and callous creature, who cannot possibly enjoy the beauty of living unless it observes itself without the barrier of the ego, all while being restrained enough to not be as preachy as some of their other songs, thanks to its laid back and funky construction, and tongue-in-cheek video (the aftermath of western nightlife-indulgence is a teriffic metaphore for the artificial avenues we persue to reslove our suffering, which lead only to pain and confusion). In many ways, it is a summation of the artistry of Ed Kowalczyk. Everything he and the brand live stands for is contained in this song, all of the influences of J. Krishnamurti and the dedication to penetrating the consciousness of the listener beyond what is expected from mainstream rock.

It is not my favourite live song by any means, but if i wanted an intelligent alien race to learn about and truly understand us, this is THE song i would throw out into the void.

what song do you pick?

Fuck Im maggot.

[ShadowStormEK]

I'd have to agree with you.

TSUFL.

It's complete. From beginning to end. Nothing more to be said.

[Badman]

TSUFL?? What are you talking about, Deep Enough will be the best song evar!

I guess if I had to pick one I'd choose the same song as you guys but for a second I nominate Good Pain. I feel it highlights the conflict yet regret we feel for going into conflict. Also, it shows that as the years go on we are tiring of "Good Pain" and want to achieve peace all over the world even if it is just ideological garbage.

[Existentialist]

10,000 years peace is now

[Hoodstock]

TSUFL?? What are you talking about, Deep Enough will be the best song evar!

That shit would get our planet destoyed by an alien race.

I'm going with TSUFL - acoustic version!

[LiveRoCkS77]

if you could....

put one live song in a time capsule and shoot that shit out into space for the next couple of million years, for some distant faraway intelligent civillization to intercept and use as the sole basis of learning about this strange, carbon-based race of advanced monkeys that exist on the planet Earth..........what would it be?

Im going for "They Stood up for Love". I got toasted today and listened to and watched the video for this song and i fucking cried my eyes out. What a beautiful summation of life on this unbelievable magnificent planet, of the pettiness and trivial way we conduct our lives and miss out on the truly holy and wonderful gift of a trillion set of random genetic accidents which led to each and every one of us to be here and now celebrating the channel of love which is +Live+.

Constantly, we look back to our birth to explain ourselves, to excuse our faults and lay blame on circumstance and parents for what we are now, and we relieve those anxieties with our misguided and pretentious plans for the future, not understanding that these ideas are nothing but abstractions implanted by the mechanism of psychological conditioning. To shed this conditioning is the beginning of wisdom. This is the "Human story".

No other song by Live is so total in its resolve to expose mankind to itself as a greedy and callous creature, who cannot possibly enjoy the beauty of living unless it observes itself without the barrier of the ego, all while being restrained enough to not be as preachy as some of their other songs, thanks to its laid back and funky construction, and tongue-in-cheek video (the aftermath of western nightlife-indulgence is a teriffic metaphore for the artificial avenues we persue to reslove our suffering, which lead only to pain and confusion). In many ways, it is a summation of the artistry of Ed Kowalczyk. Everything he and the brand live stands for is contained in this song, all of the influences of J. Krishnamurti and the dedication to penetrating the consciousness of the listener beyond what is expected from mainstream rock.

It is not my favourite live song by any means, but if i wanted an intelligent alien race to learn about and truly understand us, this is THE song i would throw out into the void.

what song do you pick?

Fuck Im maggot.

WHOA!!!!! Is that you WAM!!!!!

This post made me have to post one more time....at least. Good on you man, I agree with you 100%. I love this song and think it's one of the best written songs ever.

I'm a fucking maggot too, now fuck all of you...carry on.

[Pokey]

Depends on the meaning, if it were to shoot one song off into space never to be seen or heard of again by us and have all traces of it wiped from the face of the earth? Home.

If not then I'll have to go with White, Discussion ... mostly because whilst the idea is noble that Wam has, the far away race will most likely not be able to understand a word of TSUFL so the message will be completely lost and it will just be noise. W,D or maybe Stage or Lakini's Juice will be loud and angry and tell them not to come and mess with us cos we'll fuck their shit up if they try to invade ... ironically then Live who always preach love will have saved the world and billions of lives through angsty music.

[Badman]

the far away race will most likely not be able to understand a word of TSUFL so the message will be completely lost and it will just be noise.

I thought of that but the general consensus was that the aliens could somehow understand it. If we are just going for noise though, Mirror Song. I would want to be represented in that song.

[SecretInsomnia]

if you could....

put one live song in a time capsule and shoot that shit out into space for the next couple of million years, for some distant faraway intelligent civillization to intercept and use as the sole basis of learning about this strange, carbon-based race of advanced monkeys that exist on the planet Earth..........what would it be?

Im going for "They Stood up for Love". I got toasted today and listened to and watched the video for this song and i fucking cried my eyes out. What a beautiful summation of life on this unbelievable magnificent planet, of the pettiness and trivial way we conduct our lives and miss out on the truly holy and wonderful gift of a trillion set of random genetic accidents which led to each and every one of us to be here and now celebrating the channel of love which is +Live+.

Constantly, we look back to our birth to explain ourselves, to excuse our faults and lay blame on circumstance and parents for what we are now, and we relieve those anxieties with our misguided and pretentious plans for the future, not understanding that these ideas are nothing but abstractions implanted by the mechanism of psychological conditioning. To shed this conditioning is the beginning of wisdom. This is the "Human story".

No other song by Live is so total in its resolve to expose mankind to itself as a greedy and callous creature, who cannot possibly enjoy the beauty of living unless it observes itself without the barrier of the ego, all while being restrained enough to not be as preachy as some of their other songs, thanks to its laid back and funky construction, and tongue-in-cheek video (the aftermath of western nightlife-indulgence is a teriffic metaphore for the artificial avenues we persue to reslove our suffering, which lead only to pain and confusion). In many ways, it is a summation of the artistry of Ed Kowalczyk. Everything he and the brand live stands for is contained in this song, all of the influences of J. Krishnamurti and the dedication to penetrating the consciousness of the listener beyond what is expected from mainstream rock.

It is not my favourite live song by any means, but if i wanted an intelligent alien race to learn about and truly understand us, this is THE song i would throw out into the void.

what song do you pick?

Fuck Im maggot.

TSUFL is really an amazing song and lyrically a beautiful and unique song.
The Paradiso performance was also really good. I really like the end when Ed keeps singing: they stood up for love (and lets the audience repeat it), and in between screams
"...In every place, in everytime, you know... that someone shows up,.... and stands up, STANDS UP!... stood up for love!!!"


This post has been edited by SecretInsomnia: Nov 28 2008, 12:57 pm