"Lakini's Juice" C or D?

First one forgot his sticks again?

What the fuck dance is Ed doing in that vid?

Why is he singing it like a pisstake?

https://img.youtube.com/vi/FNrQOUtXYOo/hqdefault.jpg

Insane that there’s two guys named Chad in this band.

― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Friday, June 11, 2021 6:51 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

as crucial a detail in explaining this band as the fact that there are two guys named "gord" in the tragically hip

The lyrics to this song are hilarious

No one has annotated this on Genius and that makes me sad

awww I was going to look :(

wait, can we make this a group project? and just come up with off the wall interpretations and upvote each othera?

From song meanings.com:
The entire song represents a transition from the illusion of Christianity to the enlightenment of Hinduism.

taking water from the ladies room toilet is apparently reverse baptism that makes you an Un-Christian?

I just love the Hindu nationalist interpretation.

now it's annotated! kinda

https://genius.com/23274151

i recently subjected my friends to this and the consensus is that it's cringe but also that the 'let me ride' bit is pretty great. i feel like this song has a spiritual connection to 'hold me thrill me kiss me kill me' with the cartoonish riff and the orchestral stuff and the vocal over-performance

I still unironically love the song. I used to play the cd backstage in high school while waiting for my entrances in The Music Man.

missed many cues.

they didn't shark jump until THE DERPHINS CRAYYY

the lyrics to the entire album this song is from are genuinely inexplicable imo

"turn my head" is such a pretty song until [ed kowalczyk voice] DRUNK ON YOUR JUICESSSSS

it's a CRAZY, CRAZY, MIXED-UP TOWN

Gas Hed is fun

"White, Discussion" is still their best though cos the chorus has no vocals

The rack is full and so are we
Of laughing gas and ennui

wait wait how did I miss that they released an album called Birds of Pray

featuring a song called "Heaven"

that song got some adult alternative heat and i used to hear it once a day while mopping the ice cream store i worked in during hs/college

it is total dogshit

I knew it existed, I just...didn't know it was on an album called Birds of Pray, lmao

^^Was that the album that not one but two movie themes on it? One of them was for Mummy II.

lol one of our ILXors took it down for Stylus back in the day: http://stylusmagazine.com/review_ID_611.html

Self-XP It was the album before that, entitt V, which had songs from Mummy Returns and the first Fast & Furious film.

The collection of songs that became V was never intended to be released as an album. Guitarist Chad Taylor said, "The goal was to prepare songs for the next studio session. MCA got a hold of the material and pushed us to call it an album." The songs were originally going to be released free to fans as a collection called Ecstatic Fanatic.

LET ME DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE (mom)
https://mediafiveent.com/archive/artistlist/publicaffectionarchive/picture.jpg

"I like Flock of Seagulls"

“I, Alone”, the second single off of Throwing Copper, according to Songfacts, this song is an adaptation of The Bible’s Luke 8:22-25, where Jesus Christ uses his holy powers to put a storm at bay.

lol @ citing other Genius.com-adjacent site as your source

MORE SKIN

wooooow

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/

these URLs are why the band name is unfortunate

two paragraphs in and already wtffffffffff

Ed K. In Being Manipulated By Charismatic Conman SHOCKAH!

oh yeah it's amazing

wait what?

yes, but growing up in SE PA, these guys were so dudly they willed themselves classic. they wouldn't stop touring the area! and the mythology surrounding them was ridiculous. every roommate i had in college would tell me something about this band (they useta be skinheads/nazis, you know) - one d00d went so far as to hang a picture of them promoting whatever tour it was in '97 in our room!

VISIT ONE CHAMELEON CLUB.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:36 AM (seventeen years ago)

That seems apocryphal but I've wondered about that post

I used to remember people saying that's why Ed shaved his head, but it always felt urban legend-y, like a twist on Marilyn Manson's ribs or whatever.

we already did this here btw: Defend the Indefensible: Live (the band)

so thoughts after reading this:

*Tynes talks a lot of shit for someone with a demon's resume
*How could you file bankruptcy 5 times in an 8 year span when a Chapter 11 takes 7 years to discharge
*The fucking Charlotte Hornets's owner's kid was their temporary lead singer for a few years...lol
*it's kinda not shocking that Ed just fired everyone and went on with hired guns. there's very little distinct about the bass, guitar playing, and drumming in this band, they sort of live or die by his vocals and songwriting (for better or worse). this isn't like Slayer changing drummers and having a different feel rhythmically, very plug and play.
*Taylor seems naive to a ridiculous degree and he was a dick for what he did to his other bandmates in taking a larger cut
*of course Gracey is a Trumper
*Ed seems to let Hynes way too far off of the hook because of his anger at Taylor

I wonder if Ed K. is mad about wasting his last good scalp years with a shaved head.

"Taylor tried producing movies, like the 2010 Ernest Borgnine-Cybill Shepherd film Another Harvest Moon"

"“They’d take money from one to pay for the other … and they were able to get meetings because they were the guys from Live. That’s what got them in the door. They used that all the time.”

who are these gullible people

Live fans.

Back in the 1990s I went on a summer trip bringing together different high schools. One of the participants was Ed Kowalczyk’s sister. Some Live fans kept hovering around her, expecting her to give insights into Kowalczyk’s lyrics, even though she was years younger than her famous brother and probably wouldn’t know anything.

But I still remember decades later that these fans raved around <i>Throwing Copper</i>, but whenever the conversation turned to <i>Secret Samadhi</i> (then the most recent release), they seemed confused and somehow disappointed by the album.

whereas that was the one I did like, lol.

embarrassed that I purchased Mental Jewelry shortly after it came out, partly because of Jerry Harrison, partly because I actually liked a song on it

everyone in high school called this album Secret Sodomy
― miccio (miccio), Monday, March 14, 2005 2:32 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

addendum: I have it on good authority that the people at Pachyderm Studios found a "metric ton" of porno mags stashed all over the place after Live vacated the premises.