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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I have always hated LIVE so much. something about their smugness gets to me.
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I'm right there with you on that. He (Ed Kolwalczyk) and his Neal Peart-esque "poetic truth of high school journal keepers" (way to go Lee, ha) lyrics can screw off. I remember cringing the whole time when being dragged to a concert of theirs because this Brazilian girl was all into them from the radio and MTV. I actually like J. Krishnamurti who served as the source for some lyrical ideas, but what dude did with his lyrics, phrasing and presentation is ridiculously cheesy.
Glad to see good musical appreciation won out over ideology, because I figured Rob might dig them because of their early atheist anthem, "Operation Spirit." The guy and his bandmates have always churned out hackneyed schmaltz; they quite simply have no critical capacity to work out good songs because they obviously think they shit bricks of gold.