"Lakini's Juice" C or D?

Everyone knows that Live only had one great song ,and this really wasn't it.

I was really into Live in middle school, then this song came out and I was like "fuck these dudes"

she now has the trump card in any future arguments about our collections.

Anyway, Secret Samadhi might have been the first album I ever bought on release date, but it was definitely the first album I ever regretted purchasing. I wore out a dubbed cassette of Throwing Copper and I liked the guitar in "Lakini's Juice," but Secret Samadhi was so terrible on the whole that I felt personally wronged. I don't think I listened to it much after the first week.

LABOR LABOR LABOR

The milk-bar video was so bizarre.

Of course, I like the single from the album after this one about the dolphins, so what the hell do I know?

oh you have got to be shitting me

I also like "White: Discussion" OK and the bridge to "I, Alone" is pretty awesome, but besides that "Lightning Crashes" towers miles above the rest of their catalogue.

It was Live who paved the way for Creed, who as everyone knows is the devil. So in essence, Live was the antichrist.

VISIT ONE CHAMELEON CLUB.

i couldn't escape this band between '94 and '97. even my dud first host brother in DENMARK like these fukkers.

ME: WHY DO YOU LIKE THEM, ANDERS?
ANDERS: FORDI DE ER SAA GODE?
ME: OH I GET IT. YOU LIKE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE SO GOOD.

/conversation. things didn't go well with that host family. (he also loved pearl jam.)

-- blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.lif...), March 15th, 2005.

haha, yeah, everyone I know who's from a certain part of Pennsylvania seems to have a "we saw Live when they were just getting started" story.

I think the sequence of Throwing Copper singles/videos was:

Selling The Drama -> I Alone -> Lightning Crashes -> White, Discussion

with All Over You somewhere in there as a big radio hit with no video. White, Discussion was the one that I thought was tolerable, at least at first.

in fact, it's hard to imagine them having been that famous now. also: alanis morrissette to thread (re many hit singles, and then poof!)

SEE ONE RATTLE & HUM

CALL ONE WHO ROCK OPERA.

Bush to thread, better that the rest, green to red, Bush to thread.

oh I'm not pretending this song could exist in a "Kashmir"-free world

"Greedy Fly" and "Swallowed" off Razorblade Suitcase were both pretty big in my high school, tho. And I remember seeing a video for the "Mouth" remix on MTV.

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.

A lotta Lakini's Juice spilled, no doubt.

MORE SKIN

I've had "Selling the Drama" (I think that's what it's called) playing non-stop in my head the last couple of days since reading that rolling stone article. These songs are so annoyingly catchy and this is reminding me why I got rid of "Throwing Copper" about a year after buying it (one of a handful of CDs I ever sold)

all it took was the article quoting the lyrics "and for christ the cross / and for me the chair". My brain does some dumb shit sometimes.

" there's very little distinct about the bass, guitar playing, and drumming in this band"

What was that <i>Throwing Copper</i>-era video where Kowalczyk is singing and grooving with great rockstar chrisma, while the rest of the band look confused at the camera like doofuses?

Ah, it was "I Alone". Yeah, after I saw this a few years ago, I pretty much wrote off the rest of the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrQOUtXYOo

Cosmic Egg Healing
11 months ago
can confirm: it’s 2022 and this song still goes hard af!

Valeen OI
2 years ago
This song is a masterpiece.

Matt Barringer
6 years ago
One of the best bands of the 90's hands down. Such intensity in Ed's voice.

tangobasso
2 years ago
Can confirm: It’s 2021 and this song still goes hard af.

Baron Von Sparklefarts
6 years ago
The intro of this song is utterly unmistakable. 10/10

Baby Polo
6 years ago
Listen closely to the bass in the verses.....so ominous and chilling....sounds like a living creature, its breath rising and falling. Amazing. Track gives me goosebumps. Earphones, loud!

SystemFailure
8 years ago
Live has always been a thinking persons type of band. The way the music and lyrics are laid out are very artistic and intelligently arranged. One of my favorite bands from the 90's

Jonas Butler
6 years ago
This is the one song that convinced to buy some good speakers. It was about twenty years ago. Live deserves the best. My Mom loves Live. They are easily underrated, but loved by all.

i associate this band with a friend i had from about 13-15 yo named m!tch. his dad was a software guy who did office-y looking mini wood and wire sculptures on the side - lots of aquamarine speckled with yellow, that sort of thing - dilbert vibes. m!tch and his dad were alright, i went with them to my first concert (dave matthews band lol). i never quite had m!tch's enthusiasm for live though.

highly recommend anyone who hasn’t heard it check out their song about having sex on a couch in the middle of the club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScl9sX3Inw

key lyrics

We hit a couch, the place was packed
With sweaty palms, sweaty thongs, and sweaty backs
My mouth was dry, my brain cold high, the groove was right, so I decided to ignite
Your eyes met mine, you skirt began to rise, and so did I
Now you know that i took that prize
In the middle of the club, in the middle of the club, in the middle of club
Now tell me!

I like how there’s a completely baffling reference to the death of Christ just so you know you’re still listening to Live.

i try to ruthlessly interrogate the opinions i had when i was a teenager but one that's remained unshakable is that the lyrics on secret samadhi are among the most embarrassing ever penned. and they just got worse from there

i love "lakini's juice" though i can't deny, potentially because it is one of the dumbest songs ever made

I keep hearing MORE SKIN

in the voice of that one zombie from Return of the Living Dead

no one:
ed kowalczyk: DRUNK ON YOUR JUICES

Nothing was worse than "Heaven" imo

i got the juice like lakini

rappers feel free to use that

Lol

still baffled that i would hear "heaven" occasionally on the adult alternative station that played all day long when i worked at carvel. a band that ran out of ideas several albums ago was now trying to become christian train

Nobody call me on the phone
Like Live, I alone

lakini pouring from the sky, let's get rich what

It was the type of Christian song for Protestants who smoked

Xxxpost

lakini pouring from the sky, let's get rich what

― c u (crüt), Friday, February 24, 2023 12:46 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahaha omg

damn wish id thought of that one lol

lmao

Secret Samadhi by Live: its bathetic and grotesque lyrics