Pop Music's Heaven

The title might be one album too late as the first song on "Birds of Pray" was called "Heaven", but what has begun with "Birds of Pray" is now brought to perfection: Live is not making rock music anymore but pop music. Their seventh studio album "Songs from Black Mountain" offers 42 minutes of easy listening radio suitable music. Twelve songs, but not a single touching ballade or pumping, driving rock song like their were on previous albums (even on "birds of Pray" there was "Lighthouse"). The best song is perhaps "Home". You can still feel the band's potential power in that song and the lyrics are not bad either. A friend of mine might not like the political implications though she knows the feeling that are described. It deals with soldiers and their loved ones anpactsd the question when they will coming home.
Most of the songs on the album follow the same principal that alomost every Live-song follows. It starts quietly and gets loud and booming in the chorus. But as the whole band is not as wild as it used to be, htis time I miss the bang. The album gets better after the second or third listening but not better than nice. Nice is much more than a lot of other bands and so called artists produce but it is not enough for a good band. When they had published their fifth album, I had the theory that the albums with odd numbers were their experimentel ones leading to really good following albums (with even numbers). The theory did not work with number six and crashed now with number seven. There is nothing experrimental on this album and if it leads the way to a new style then it is more pop music. If that happens, Live will loose a fan. I should not have spend 17 Euros for "Songs from Black Mountain". Next time I will not spend that much before listening to the songs.