Live – Lightning Crashes

Song

"Lightning Crashes" is a song by American rock band Live. It was released in September 1994 as the third single from their album, Throwing Copper.

Although the track was not released as a single in the US, it received enough radio airplay to peak at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1995.

Song meaning

Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said, "I wrote 'Lightning Crashes' on an acoustic guitar in my brother's bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents' house and gotten my first place of my own." Kowalczyk says that the video for "Lightning Crashes" has caused misinterpretations of the song's intent.

While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life.

New York magazine described the band as "deeply mystical" and claimed that the song was, "The story of a...connection between an old lady dying and a new mother at the moment of giving birth."

Album

Throwing Copper is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Live, released on April 19, 1994 on former MCA Records subsidiary Radioactive Records. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and was recorded at Pachyderm Recording Studio.

Throwing Copper has sold over 8 million copies and was certified 8x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and was well received by music critics.

Throwing Copper è il secondo album in studio del gruppo musicale alternative rock statunitense Live, pubblicato nel 1994.

L'album ha venduto 6 milioni di copie negli Stati Uniti.

Artist

Live (/laɪv/, often typeset as LĪVE or +LĪVE+) is an American rock band from York, Pennsylvania, consisting of Ed Kowalczyk (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Chad Taylor (lead guitar, backing vocals), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass), and Chad Gracey (drums).

Live achieved worldwide success with their 1994 album Throwing Copper, which sold eight million copies in the U.S. The band had a string of hit singles in the mid-1990s including "Lightning Crashes", which stayed at the top of the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 10 consecutive weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks (now Alternative Songs) chart for nine weeks from February 25 to April 22, 1995.

When touring, Live has used additional musicians, including Ed Kowalczyk's younger brother Adam, British keyboardist Michael "Railo" Railton and rhythm guitarist Christopher Thorn of Blind Melon.

On November 30, 2009, Taylor revealed that what had initially been termed a two-year hiatus was more likely the end of the band. An acrimonious split soon occurred, with Kowalczyk leaving the band. However, Live continued with singer Chris Shinn and released the album The Turn in October 2014. Kowalczyk rejoined the band in December 2016.

Artist

I Live (/laɪv/, spesso scritto anche LĪVE oppure +LĪVE+) sono un gruppo alternative rock statunitense formatosi a fine anni ottanta a York nella Pennsylvania, da Ed Kowalczyk (voce, chitarra), Chad Taylor (chitarra, cori), Patrick Dahlheimer (basso) e Chad Gracey (batteria).

Con i loro testi molto idealistici e spirituali, che in più occasioni li hanno portati al paragone con gli U2, possono vantare quattro dischi di platino (Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi e The Distance to Here), più vari singoli nei primi posti delle classifiche. In totale, ad oggi, hanno venduto quasi 18 milioni di dischi.

I Live hanno raggiunto il successo mondiale con l'album del 1994 Throwing Copper, che ha venduto otto milioni di copie negli Stati Uniti. La band ha avuto una serie di hit singles a metà degli anni '90 tra cui "Lightning Crashes".

Nel 2009 la band annuncia una pausa di due anni, che diventerà presto una rottura netta con Kowalczyk, che lascia la band (<<Durante il periodo di pausa / pausa, la chiarezza che ha contribuito a consolidare il futuro di tutti è stata il fatto che Ed [Kowalczyk] ha detto chiaramente che voleva fare musica da solista, e noi abbiamo chiarito che volevamo fare musica d'insieme>>). Successivamente, i Live hanno continuato con il cantante Chris Shinn e pubblicato l'album The Turn nell'ottobre 2014.

Kowalczyk si è riunito alla band nel dicembre 2016.