Throwing Copper - Live

Throwing Copper by Live (1994) Chad Taylor - guitar Edward Kowlacyk - lead vocals, guitar Patrick Dahlheimer - bass Chad Gracey - drums The second studio album by Pennsylvania band Live, Throwing Copper sold eight million copies in the United States and featured a number of singles that for a time were ubiquitous on MTV and on the soundtracks of angsty television shows aimed at young adults in the mid 1990s. The band had struck upon the winning formula of combining the melodic sound of REM with the rougher edge of hard rock (Soundgarden, perhaps), although today the record sounds very much a phenomenon of its era. The band's other ...  Read the complete review

Never wanting to be one stuck in a rut, I thought it was about time I wrote a music op on something other than girly singer-songwriters, so where better to start than one of my favourite albums of all time; Live's "Throwing Copper". Live had a couple of moderately successful hits in the UK around 1995 with "I Alone" and "Selling the Drama". Both were spawned from the album "Throwing Copper". I initially purchased this album as a birthday present for a friend. Luckily for me, it didn't come wrapped in cellophane so I was able to have a sneaky listen myself before wrapping said present. (Come on - you ...  Read the complete review