a real Live poll - Lakini's Juice v Lightning Crashes

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Lightning Crashes may have the highest SAR of any Live song (Syllables Above Replacement), and he says words in way nobody else has never pronounced them in human history.

Lakini's Juice benefits from one of the simplest riff of all time and Ed howling about drinking water from the lady's room toilet.

this is going to be a hard one.

Lightning Crashes has a way better chorus

lightning crashes vs. i alone might be a contest

this is not

and not least because the lightning crashes video featured 'philip chancellor' from 'the young and the restless'

I heard this recently and was kind of stunned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-_0wyKi1a4

gotta vote for the juice

let me riiiiiiiiiiide >>> anything that happens in lightning crashes

It's hard for me to be objective about Live because Throwing Copper was my favorite album in the world in 1996 when I was 10. That didn't last long, but I still think it holds up better than like 90% of alt-rock from that era.

Listening to "Lightning Crashes" now it still sounds beautiful and cathartic to me. If you can handle the over-the-top earnestness, I guess. I do think the faux-R.E.M. bridge is unnecessary--they could have just rode the chorus out after the last verse and shaved a minute off. On the other hand, breaching the 5-minute mark imparts "epic" status...

"Lakini's Juice" sounded bizarre and kind of scary to me in 97. Still sounds edgy and menacing, but also sublimely ridiculous. The riff/beat goes SOOO hard though...

Going with LC

Let me riiiiiiiide
The placenta, as it falls to the floor

xpost i relate completely. i grew up with the most absurd grunge vocal stylings in the ether around me--90s rock radio, home cd collection sourced from the columbia house catalog--so they bypassed my critical judgment and therefore 'lightning crashes' is a portal straight back to my 10-year-old self's earnest idea of adult emotions, experienced while looking out the window on the way to soccer practice, for example. in general i find this post-grunge era's clumsily cathartic masculine emoting to be campy and oddly affecting in a late period michael mann kinda way

^ So OTM re: clumsily cathartic masculine emoting

xps I just listened to "Deep Enough" and.... absolutely nothing could have prepared me for that. Holy shit.

This insane version of "Lightning Crashes" with samples of news coverage of the Timothy McVeigh Oklahoma City bombing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_XYCdLWuu8

Was this ever officially released? I remember this getting a fair amount of radio play in the Midwest in 1995, though maybe some ambitious DJ put this together.

I like all three of these songs (and now have a strong desire to give Throwing Copper a relisten), but "Lightning Crashes" wins most ridiculous for me. My friend and I had so much fun singing "eyeyeyeyeyes" back in middle school

You could post a good chunk of “Latino’s Juice” into a Clickhole-style “Ed Kowalczyk said WHAT???” article and most people would assume it was a Clickhole original

I gotta know if “Latino’s Juice” was on purpose or the best autocorrect I’ve seen in a minute.

DJP meant "Bikini's Juice"

live should really put out their own kombucha called “lakini’s juice”

It was a beverage I shared with my son

these couldn't have been farther from ridiculous to me when they came out (they were rad and sad, respectively), but I guess I accept it now. right?

It was a beverage I shared with my son

― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, June 3, 2022 6:06 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao goddammit

xpost I always thought Lakini's Juice was badass when it came out, although used to giggle over the lyrics, but the first time I heard "Lightning Crashes" (before it was a single), I asked my friend if he was sitting on a washing machine while he sang

“Latino’s Juice”

Fue una noche que compartí con el sol
para saber a dónde pertenecemos
desde los primeros días
que bailábamos en las sombras

Más vino
Porque tengo que tenerlo
Más piel
Porque tengo que comerla

de adentro hacia afuera
El río
solía ser tan tranquilo
Solía ser tan cuerdo

Corrí a la habitación de la dama
Tome el agua del inodoro
para lavar sus pies y bendecir su nombre
más paz
es un hábito sucio

déjame pasear
déjame pasear
quema mis ojos
déjame pasear

lol this thread is gold.

anyway voted for latinos juice

Lakini's Juice runs away with this. Total commitment to the bit, zero irony.

wait is there irony in lightning crashes

people certainly liked it ironically

(not ILX, who loves it full-throatedly)

No, but Lakini’s Juice is heavier and even dumber, more ripe for a band to wink at you.

Freaks is even dumber and has a straight-faced Clockwork Orange video, shameful that’s it not part of this poll.

If the mother goes to sleep with you
Will you run and tell Geraldo

Ed Kowalczyk totally was the guy that said something insane when the music cut out at a party and had to spend an hour cross-legged on the floor with his friends furiously explaining what he actually meant before the big lunkhead in the corner knocks his lights out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEUsJRVV-PE

you know what’s worth than both of these? “Turn my head”

that one's a legit good tune.

"Heropsychodreamer" is pretty funny

I thought "Overcome" was the worst, esp when they retroactively shoehorned it to be about 9/11.

These guys were the alt-rock kings of corn, but I'll admit that "Shit Towne" resonated with me when I was 17 and stuck in a terrible small town.

you know what’s worth than both of these? “Turn my head”

― brimstead, Friday, June 3, 2022 3:04 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

DRUNK ON YOUR JUICES

tempted to start an "ILX recreates Live's Secret Samadhi" thread and see what we come up with covers wise

without the usual costs of labor
*golem voice* labor labor labor

Look where all this farting got us baby

i wanna know, are those replacement hips?
is that a swatch watch?
do you know what time it iiiiisss?

Live Camouflage outfits

"It's easier not to be seen...."

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