Hi. Im Chad Gracey the original drummer of LIVE (like FIVE) and that is a young me in the video. Im glad you enjoyed the song!! Very proud to be a part of it! Singers name is Ed Kowalczyk.
I am 62 this year and have had a copy of Throwing Copper as long as I can remember and it's one of my favourite albums, such a brilliant record, thank you for sharing your art, I truly appreciate it.
The song is not only the whole "circle of life" thing with a baby being born in one room while an old woman dies in another. It's also about a friend of theirs who was killed by a drunk driver and donated several of her organs, including her heart, which gave new life to others. But it's a very powerful song, especially the way it progressively builds. Great reaction - I love it when music makes people cry (in a good way).
Great comment. I’ve heard that the friend who died also donated their eyes. This is referred to in the second verse, where the deceased is now an angel, who opens up the recipients eyes, “this moment they’ve been waiting for.”
That right I had almost forgotten about that part of the story of the song but I do remember hearing the band mention it I was in high school when this song came out such a great song.
I always loved the song growing up, but when i found that out as I got older it made me appreciate it even more - such a beautiful sad song about the most precious of gifts
@@m0nm0n oh same here!! Music became therapy as I got older 😆 and ironically I appreciated the “old stuff” my dad played constantly growing up (Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Crosby Stills &Nash, Supertramp, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis, Etta James etc etc) I remember him rocking me to sleep and hearing music bc he would sit in the living room some nights just jamming out to music just “chillin out” 🥰🥰
Here's a story no one will read or care about, but I'll put it out there anyway. I was serving in the Army in 1994 when this song came out. I was 20 years old and lived in a barracks, which was basically like a really basic apartment situation. Because we all didn't have a lot of space and worked and lived so closely together, we shared a lot, including music. My roommate and close friend was really into Live, and I remember how much he loved this album. In early 1995 I got sent to a school across the country for a couple months. When I came back, he and some others had been sent on a deployment. It was meant to be an easy humanitarian mission, bringing food and supplies to people, but things happened and he never came back. His valuables and personal effects were sent to his family, but his music collection had been left in the barracks common area for the rest of us. My buddies thought I should keep it. I know the subject matter of the song doesn't match my story, but I still think of him every time I hear a Live tune. All of 1995 just came back to me in ten minutes...
The young mother giving birth to the baby doesn’t die (she cries)… the “old mother dies” is referring to a older lady (also a mother) down the hall in the same hospital who has lived a full life and is now dying. It is a song about the circle of life - the part “The angel closes her eyes, The confusion that was hers Belongs now to the baby down the hall” speaks to that moment
Wrong. This song was about a girl he went to high school with that died in child birth. He was horrified that in this day and age someone could still die in childbirth
@@doolie165 Inspired by, but not about. The lyrics are pretty clear. Was there some old lady who died down the hall, in the same hospital his friend died in, or is this an obvious song about the circle of life? Use Occam's razor.
Throwing Copper entire album was incredible. This song is all about the circle of life and everything that takes place in a hospital emergency room. When he says the confusion that was hers now belongs to the baby down the hall. It's just powerful and amazing lyrics about life and death and reincarnation Ed was a genius when he wrote this one
I’d agree that the entire album is killer …. Not a single song that you would skip if you’re listening to it !! The new anniversary version is STUNNING & a MUST. for any fan !!! I’ve listened to the album almost daily since I got it !! WOW !! 🤘🤘🤘🤘😭😭💔💔🐾🐾🥃🥃🙏🏼🙏🏼😂💔🙏🏼🙏🏼. NMHRK NMHRK NMHRK
@@KhalidQuesada Mental Jewelry is considered their debut, the Public Affection record isn't really counted. (Otherwise V would be the 6th album, not the 5th)
From WIki- "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." This is from the singer who also wrote the song.
That's weird so many people think the 2 mothers are the same person...I guess because in the song he refers to them as 'a new mother' and 'an old mother' I never really envisioned them as the same person---which appears to be the case.
@@joshuathompson2404 I saw it as the old mother died giving birth to the new mother. The new mother (the daughter) became pregnant and had the underlying fear of dying like her mom.
Live is an incredible band. Their previous album "Mental Jewelry" will always bring the 90s back to mind for me. Highly under-appreciated. Also, this is the best song with the word "placenta" in it lol.
Thank you! I hadn't (yet) seen anyone make mention of Mental Jewelry until now. But that was the one I heard first, at least 2 years before this one came out. Throwing Copper is magnificent, through and through, and very well-produced. But I've always thought Mental Jewelry was their finest work!
@@FreeMTriderOh my friend! I’m 66. The 60’s& 70’s were the breakout years for rock! Great music made then. 80’s took a nap I think. 90’s came back with a roar! In all genres of music!! Peace to you my friend!🙏🏻
I'm a 51 yo man and when this song came out I cried!!! Thank you guys for doing this particular song...the words are extremely powerful!!! Music has been my entire life...all of it.
"Selling the Drama" and "I alone" are two more huge hits for reaction purposes, but "Dolphins Cry" is another gem. The entire "Throwing Copper" album is another album like Michael Jackson's Thriller, or Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon.. Every song is a masterpiece from beginning to end.
Its not like they only react to only a single album. They just do random songs by request. So, that hardly matters. I'm still waiting for them to do "love" by En Vogue. Amber loved them, but never revisited them. It's not likely any of the suggestions on RUclips will ever be reacted to unless a patreon that donated money requests it.
Thank you guys for reacting to this group. There's so much talent there. "Selling the Drama", "I Alone", "All Over You", " The River", "Heaven", "Overcome" and sooo many others. You've only scratched the surface. Please give us more!!!
The entire album Throwing Copper is total dynamite from start to finish! The band is called live.🤟🤟👍👍. Next as suggested below try I Alone or Selling The Drama.
One thing that always amazes me with this band is how they formed as very young teenagers and grew up together. Singer Ed Kowalczyk joined the band at age 13! What they accomplished together is amazing, becoming truly great songwriters, performers, and musicians.
This was off of their 2nd album as the band name Live and their 3rd overall. Their first album was under the band name Public Affection. As Live, they next released Mental Jewelry and then Throwing Copper with this song.
@@jonhaes2527 That is true I forgot about Mental Jewelry. Saw them in concert and Ed's voice was pitch perfect. They had some of the most cryptic lyrics of any 90 s band. Really deep stuff
Finally got around to Live. They really grow on you the more you listen to them. More 90’s you might like that you haven’t done yet - 311 (they have song called Amber, one of their slower ones but I think you’d like it - they mix rap & rock so well), Third Eye Blind, Bare Naked Ladies.
Throwing Copper is one of those quintessential 90's albums. Like Miseducation of... , Tragic Kingdom, Tigerlily, Jagged Little Pill, Ten or Blood Sugar Sex Magik. It is one of those must have albums to complete a 90's music collection.
I always saw this video & song as a transference of life. The new mother laboring giving birth of her new baby. The old mother, down the hall, dies; and her family around her in grief. The angels are there overseeing this cycle of life. Just my interpretation, but the young mother is seen at the end of the video smiling as she cradles her newborn child. Stunning song and beautiful meditation on life.
I think a lot of the confusion is the coins on her eyes. I thought the mother had died for a long time, and wasn't sure if her being alive at the end was real or a vision.
This song came out when I was 14. I knew nothing about death because all of the family members who were living when I was born were still alive--so it didn't have the same impact. As life moves on and you mature, though, you inevitably reach a point where those people you've known and loved all your life start dropping off one-by-one. You begin to understand your own mortality and the temporary nature of your existence more and more. I haven't heard this song in years, and hearing it just now was overwhelming, because I'm now familiar with both sides of the equation. It hurts, but in a way that's comforting; it's reminder that things keep going when our time here is over. I'm not religious, but I like to think there's a purpose to our time here, and I keep the hope that there's a bright place somewhere where we all meet again.
Live is one of my favorite bands from the 90's and this song has a powerful punch, along with the awesome "I Alone". You won't regret going down this rabbit hole! ❣
Glad you got to this band. Formed in 1984 in York ,Pa. Lead singer is Ed Kowalczyk. 9 albums released between '89 and 2014. For more, try I Alone or Lakini's Juice.
The song is about the circle of life. At the same moment life is being born in one room, death is happening in the room down the hall. And the confusion of life is transferred from one to another. The mother that gives birth does not die, it's the old mother down the hall that dies at the exact moment the baby is born. Got it! Now go down the Live rabbit hole, the whole album of Throwing Copper is one masterpiece after another!
About time somebody reacted to this so song..One of my all time faves..The lyrics..vocals.. the emotion the importance...Awesome song and awesome reaction....It's not 90's but late 80's, but another great band and great emotional vocalist NOBODY has reacted too is THE CALL..and I Don't Wanna...or...I Stiil Believe...or ..Let the Day Begin....Be the first guys!
If you weren't around then, you have NO idea how big these guys were in the 90s. Turn on rock radio, you would hear these guys. He has a great voice, which in my opinion, sounds even better on the harder songs. Definitely next should be "I Alone", then "Selling the Drama" and "All Over You". Enjoy!
My Dad passed in 1996, and I remember listening to this a lot. Another from that time that hit hard for me was "Jars of Clay - Flood". My Dad kept calling out to be lifted up. There are so many great bands from the 90's.
A song that I really clung to back in the day when my uncle died was Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns by Mother Love Bone. Just awesome. and Flood was great.
@@Lost1Four7 I haven't heard that song before but just gave it a listen. Music is a major part of my life, I can listen to a song and transport away. So many tied to memories and people. Thank you for sharing :)
One of my all time favorites. My cousin turned me on this group when he bought the cassette. Throwing copper is amazing. The lyrics about the blue eyes was a dedication to their friend who died in a car accident. When my grandmother passed away I listened to this song nonstop.
I am so thrilled you're delving into the world of 90's Alternative Rock! There's so many bands and singers to introduce you to. In my humble opinion, the music videos of the mid 90's were some of the most iconic ever made. In no particular order, some to definitely consider are: Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Fiona Apple - Criminal No Doubt - Spiderwebs Green Day - Basket Case Hole - Celebrity Skin Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane Bjork - Oh So Quiet Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
A number of good songs here but I'd like to toss in another vote especially for Fiona Apple's "Criminal." Not only is it a great song from a great songwriter but I think Jay will LOVE the piano groove and the cadence of the lyrics. And I would add to the list (if I may) Fiona's "Fast As You Can."
A song that evokes so much emotion, it's hard not to tear up! It was beautiful to see Amber break as she was reliving the births of your children. Live is one of the best 90s bands hands down. I was fortunate to see them in concert about 20 years ago. Their first album, Mental Jewelry, is right up there with Throwing Copper. Beautiful reaction video xoxo
Also dig 10,000 Years (Peace is Now)! This might be an unpopular opinion, but I believe Mental Jewelry is superior to Throwing Copper. TC is brilliant, don't get me wrong. And it's pretty clear, they learned a lot, gained a lot of experience, before they made TC. But MJ is their finest work.
Lightning Crashes released in the Fall of ‘94 and stayed on the radio for what seemed forever. The following Spring I was still hearing it at least once per day. Big song for the year! (Edit for punctuation)
Their first 2 albums, Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper are 2 of the greatest alterative rock albums of the 90's. "I Alone", "Pain Lies On The Riverside", "Iris", and "Selling The Drama" are all amazing. Both of those albums don't have a bad or filler song on either one.
Love this song. I have always loved his voice. This has been one of my favorite songs since I heard it for the first time in high school. I bought the cd immediately.
It's my favorite band of all time. Pronounced Līve. I've seen them over 50 times in concert, met them and met many wonderful friends because of them. Unfortunately, the band has 1 original member now... the lead singer, Ed Kowalczyk. He tours as Līve with 3 new band members. I'll be seeing them again on June 1st. 🎶 Thank you for this video!
I had the same reaction Amber had. This song came out in 94 and my son was born in 95. I remember hearing this song in my car and it took me right back to the day he was born. It was like I was reliving that beautiful day all over again. I haven't heard it in a while but when I watched this reaction video it all came flooding back. Brought a joyful tear to my eye. Thanks guys, God Bless!
For me, what's always touched me about this song is how it speaks to the grieving process and how no matter how dark and painful and hopeless, as part of the cycle of life and human experience, there will come a point in time when the grieving of the loss will ebb (it never entirely goes away -- "closure" is a pop-psychology myth), and you can make room for joy, happiness and hope in your life again -- the dark cloud in this song comes with a silver lining, in other words
Ed, the lead singer, now owns 55% of Live. He essentially fired the other 3 members and is now touring as "Live" with a whole new backing band. One of my favorite albums of all time. Glad I got to see the whole original band in 2019 for the Throwing Copper 25th Anniversary tour.
One of the reasons I can't support them anymore. He's a fantastic singer, and IS the VOICE of Live. But the other members are also Live. They need to try to patch things up (again).
@screwyootube1 There was a lengthy and detailed article in Rolling Stone magazine in February about the demise of Live. Comes down to guitarist Chad Taylor getting himself and Gracey and Dahlheimer into some shady business dealings where they lost a lot of money and got into tremendous debt. Those 3 aren't talking to each other and sold majority share of the band to Ed.
I know the touring guitarist Zak… Followed bands he has been in since around 1997/98 ish and even helped him haiul gear from the van into a few venues and had beers at his house when he was in a band with his brother in Austin. Great guitarist.
The mother didn't die. A elderly woman down the hall died. Birth and death - the circle of life. He was at the hospital for a dying friend and this song comes from that experience and contemplating life.
If you'll notice, the structure of the song mimics childbirth. It starts off soft, gradually builds and strengthens, becomes very hard and fast, plateaus, and then just stops. This song and "This Woman's Work" are both fabulous songs that are (at least partially) about childbirth. "I can feel it coming back again, like a roll of thunder chasing the wind. Forces pulling from the center of the earth again. I can feel it." You should DEFINITELY listen to their "I Alone" next! Total banger!
This became the biggest selling album in America when I came out. Great choice and every song on that album is awesome and different styles throughout the album. But always amazing harmonies in the band. Their MTV unplugged aession was amazing also.
Turning 45 next week and this is the stuff I grew up too. I feel privileged that I was able to listen to all this great 90’s rock and grunge music when it was new but I felt the emotion you two had listening to this.
I always connect this song with the OKC bombing. It was released a few months before and an OKC DJ remixed it with news soundbites. It certainly helped the community get through the terrible tragedy.
"I Alone" is one of their greatest songs. My husband of 25 years ( yeah we are old) played that for me. Ed was a great lead singer. Saw them live in concert in the 90's
Amber, this song always brought me to tears when it came out and when I saw ya'll were doing it I knew it would break you. I could see your emotion about 30 seconds in. As the final scene revealed it was not the baby's mother that died but the "old mother down the hall" that passed and the new baby that took her spirit. Fantastic reaction! I know Jay felt it too.
One of my fave 90s bands-listened to this album hundreds of times and it is a banger. Definitely hit “I Alone”-savage lyrics and a killer vocal from Ed.
The entire Throwing Copper album is one of my all-time favs. Next from this band you could try the songs "Selling The Drama," "I Alone," and "All Over You." Also their song "Operation Spirit" from a previous album is great too.
One final comment: While subsequent albums which followed Throwing Copper never achieved quite the same level of sales and radio airplay as that album did, Līve is still an actively recording and touring band who's in the middle of a tour right now. They're due to play in D.C. (the 9:30 Club being my guess re. the likely venue) some time in mid-Oct., and I plan to get tix, which will be the first live show for me for a nationally-/internationally-touring artist/band in this post-COVID era (how fitting that it'll be for a band called Līve). I have been to other live concerts over the past year and a half-ish after I got all of my vaccine and booster shots, but those were mostly for local musician friends' bands (or solo musicians) as well regionally-touring acts
Thank you for reminding me about Live. I watched Counting Crows with Live as the opening band back in 1995. Live absolutely crushed it and were way better than the headline band. Live was so cool on stage and sounded as good as their studio album. The entire album is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Used to hear this song a lot while I was driving but never heard the name of the artists. I'm 67 and never cared much for 90's style music But THIS SONG will always be one of my favorites. The singers voice somehow reaches deeply into my soul. Thanks for the reaction
This song was on their 1994 album Throwing Copper. I had that CD album. So many great songs on there. They were huge in the mid 1990s. Loved this song a lot. Slow burning and then it starts hitting hard.
Two of their songs you have to add to your list the first one is called all over you and the second one is called I alone there's excellent live footage available for both songs
Yep- This one pulls and hits hard…. Crawl into this band- amazing - amazing music. This one hurts a bit- but their entire collection goes bang…. I love everything they have done. Start with I Alone…. This won’t be the last Live track you do … 👊👊👊👊 enjoy guys and take care out there 🙏🙏
Hey Jay and Amber! I've seen many of your movie reactions and like/loved them but my algorithm has only now finally introduced me to your music reactions. I can't explain how excited I am for these! "Lightning Crashes" is one of my favorite 90's songs as I was a 90's kid, and Amber tearing up made me tear up. I can't wait to dive into more of your reactions because you're clearly great people. Thanks for your content!!
Haven’t heard this song in years, yet I still was able to sing along lyric by lyric. Just a classic song. Please do more Live. The other comments have great suggestions
This song was big when it came out. The whole album "Throwing Copper" was great. I must have played my CD a hundred times. Nice reaction. It is wild that you can still find amazing groups/songs that you have never heard of! 😀
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Hi. Im Chad Gracey the original drummer of LIVE (like FIVE) and that is a young me in the video. Im glad you enjoyed the song!! Very proud to be a part of it! Singers name is Ed Kowalczyk.
You really are, too, aren't you? That's awesome.
@@JJFraggs1 Yep. 😁
I am 62 this year and have had a copy of Throwing Copper as long as I can remember and it's one of my favourite albums, such a brilliant record, thank you for sharing your art, I truly appreciate it.
My all time favorite 90s band. You guys blew me away back when I was a teen and early 20 year old in the mid 90s... Love you guys!
@@mdolanwalker Thank you so much! Always appreciate hearing about folks loving the band.
"I Alone" is absolutely fantastic and worth checking out by this band. Total opposite of this one. Hard rocking.
Selling the Drama,too
@@brianmcmaster5112 oh yessss 🔥
Yes! Another great song off of that album!
I alone is their anthem, to me
Of course anything off Throwing Copper
The song is not only the whole "circle of life" thing with a baby being born in one room while an old woman dies in another. It's also about a friend of theirs who was killed by a drunk driver and donated several of her organs, including her heart, which gave new life to others. But it's a very powerful song, especially the way it progressively builds. Great reaction - I love it when music makes people cry (in a good way).
Oh wow I did know that!!! 🥺
Great comment. I’ve heard that the friend who died also donated their eyes. This is referred to in the second verse, where the deceased is now an angel, who opens up the recipients eyes, “this moment they’ve been waiting for.”
That right I had almost forgotten about that part of the story of the song but I do remember hearing the band mention it I was in high school when this song came out such a great song.
I always loved the song growing up, but when i found that out as I got older it made me appreciate it even more - such a beautiful sad song about the most precious of gifts
@@m0nm0n oh same here!! Music became therapy as I got older 😆 and ironically I appreciated the “old stuff” my dad played constantly growing up (Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Crosby Stills &Nash, Supertramp, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis, Etta James etc etc) I remember him rocking me to sleep and hearing music bc he would sit in the living room some nights just jamming out to music just “chillin out” 🥰🥰
This entire album is amazing. Every song is as good as this one. I had it on repeat for years.
Same
Mental Jewelry is a favorite of mine too.
Fun fact.
The snow town serial killers in Adelaide South Australia listened to this album while the torchered people to death.
Even the 'hidden' joke song at the end was good.
@@yahawahreuben1159 That wasn't a fun fact.
As a father who has lost a daughter(15yrs old) in a car crash, this song touches me deeply. Thank you for your reaction.
Sorry for your loss
May your daughter dance with the angels
I’m so sorry to hear this. So sorry for your loss.
The LORD be with you...
I’m so sorry for your loss. ❤
I’m so, so sorry. Sending you love and healing. 🤍
Here's a story no one will read or care about, but I'll put it out there anyway. I was serving in the Army in 1994 when this song came out. I was 20 years old and lived in a barracks, which was basically like a really basic apartment situation. Because we all didn't have a lot of space and worked and lived so closely together, we shared a lot, including music. My roommate and close friend was really into Live, and I remember how much he loved this album. In early 1995 I got sent to a school across the country for a couple months. When I came back, he and some others had been sent on a deployment. It was meant to be an easy humanitarian mission, bringing food and supplies to people, but things happened and he never came back. His valuables and personal effects were sent to his family, but his music collection had been left in the barracks common area for the rest of us. My buddies thought I should keep it. I know the subject matter of the song doesn't match my story, but I still think of him every time I hear a Live tune. All of 1995 just came back to me in ten minutes...
I appreciated your story. Thank you for your service. May your friend RIP.
@@screwyootube1 thank you so much for reading
RIP to your friend and thank you for your service!
RIP to your friend and thank you for sharing such a heart breaking yet beautiful story.
Thank you for your service. Thanks to you and your shared love of this band he will not be forgotten.
The young mother giving birth to the baby doesn’t die (she cries)… the “old mother dies” is referring to a older lady (also a mother) down the hall in the same hospital who has lived a full life and is now dying. It is a song about the circle of life - the part “The angel closes her eyes, The confusion that was hers Belongs now to the baby down the hall” speaks to that moment
The line about the old mother "her intentions fall to the floor" gets me choked up everytime
The video is confusing I think, because it puts coins or disks on the mother's eyes like some cultures do in death.
Wrong. This song was about a girl he went to high school with that died in child birth. He was horrified that in this day and age someone could still die in childbirth
@@doolie165 Charlie is correct.
@@doolie165 Inspired by, but not about. The lyrics are pretty clear. Was there some old lady who died down the hall, in the same hospital his friend died in, or is this an obvious song about the circle of life? Use Occam's razor.
Their whole Throwing Copper album is amazing. Very underrated band.
Throwing Copper is one of my favorite albums. Every song on it is great. My recommendation for your next reaction is "Selling The Drama".
They were everywhere back then. I remember it well.
Great in concert too
Live was never under rated! They were everywhere in the 90’s
@@stephenulmer3781 right bro! I said the same thing, never seeing your post! Live was all over the place on the radio 500 times a day; MTV VH1
One of the deepest songs that was EVER played on the radio as a rock/alternative hit.
This is one of my top 5 CDs of all time!! Absolute banger of a CD. Every song slaps!
Throwing Copper entire album was incredible. This song is all about the circle of life and everything that takes place in a hospital emergency room. When he says the confusion that was hers now belongs to the baby down the hall. It's just powerful and amazing lyrics about life and death and reincarnation Ed was a genius when he wrote this one
BEST ALBUM! One of the best from the 90s, hands down!
I’d agree that the entire album is killer …. Not a single song that you would skip if you’re listening to it !! The new anniversary version is STUNNING & a MUST. for any fan !!! I’ve listened to the album almost daily since I got it !! WOW !! 🤘🤘🤘🤘😭😭💔💔🐾🐾🥃🥃🙏🏼🙏🏼😂💔🙏🏼🙏🏼. NMHRK NMHRK NMHRK
Agree
He was also around 19-20yo when he wrote it as well, quite profound song writing for such a young age.
Throwing Copper was one of the most complete albums, ever. There’s no weak track present on there.
"Live" is badass, their debut album was a smash hit! "I Alone" and "Selling the Drama" are Huge hits of theirs, check em out....
Throwing Copper was actually their third album, but certainly the mainstream breakthrough.
@@KhalidQuesada Yes "Operation Spirit" was the first song I heard from them. Played on MTV often
@@KhalidQuesada Mental Jewelry is considered their debut, the Public Affection record isn't really counted. (Otherwise V would be the 6th album, not the 5th)
@Antitypical Honestly, I was just going of what Wikipedia said. I knew they had at least one album before Throwing Copper because I owned them both.
also check out "Pain Lies on the Riverside", the lead-off song from their second album. Faster paced song that hits the ground running.
From WIki- "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." This is from the singer who also wrote the song.
I had always thought the mom died in childbirth in the song, but I had heard that wasn’t the meaning.
That's weird so many people think the 2 mothers are the same person...I guess because in the song he refers to them as 'a new mother' and 'an old mother' I never really envisioned them as the same person---which appears to be the case.
@@joshuathompson2404 I saw it as the old mother died giving birth to the new mother. The new mother (the daughter) became pregnant and had the underlying fear of dying like her mom.
Whole album is amazing. One of the most underrated of the 90s for sure.
Live is an incredible band. Their previous album "Mental Jewelry" will always bring the 90s back to mind for me. Highly under-appreciated. Also, this is the best song with the word "placenta" in it lol.
You are forgetting "Magenta Placenta" by Donovan! ;)
Thank you! I hadn't (yet) seen anyone make mention of Mental Jewelry until now. But that was the one I heard first, at least 2 years before this one came out. Throwing Copper is magnificent, through and through, and very well-produced. But I've always thought Mental Jewelry was their finest work!
Very talented band. I saw them in concert back then. This band could jam with the best of them. Damn...I love the '90s
@@FreeMTriderOh my friend! I’m 66. The 60’s& 70’s were the breakout years for rock! Great music made then. 80’s took a nap I think. 90’s came back with a roar! In all genres of music!! Peace to you my friend!🙏🏻
Now this band is a rabbit hole. One of the best bands out of the 90’s! Try Turn My Head. Beautiful song! Appreciate Y’all!
All of that and live and collective soul are the most underrated bands from the 90s
Check out another 90's band that is awesome, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies. 🐆
When I was a little kid I recall my teen sister's best friend wearing an "Ed" necklace in tribute to this band. lol
Turn My Head is one of my all time favorites!!
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I'm a 51 yo man and when this song came out I cried!!! Thank you guys for doing this particular song...the words are extremely powerful!!! Music has been my entire life...all of it.
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "I Alone" !!
edit- Live with a long i. Live as opposed to not living.
Yeah they need to listen to this soon so they can see the heavier, harder rockin side of Live.
The way he sings emulates an actual storm. The quiet melody evolving the powerful chorus. His voice is like a storm rolling in.
Crazy that after all these years of loving this song, I don't think I ever put that together till watching this video 😂 I love thunderstorms
"Selling the Drama" and "I alone" are two more huge hits for reaction purposes, but "Dolphins Cry" is another gem. The entire "Throwing Copper" album is another album like Michael Jackson's Thriller, or Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon.. Every song is a masterpiece from beginning to end.
Dolphin’s Cry is my favorite song from Live!
"Dolphins Cry" isn't on the Throwing Copper album; song came out five years later in 1999.
Its not like they only react to only a single album. They just do random songs by request. So, that hardly matters. I'm still waiting for them to do "love" by En Vogue. Amber loved them, but never revisited them. It's not likely any of the suggestions on RUclips will ever be reacted to unless a patreon that donated money requests it.
Thank you guys for reacting to this group. There's so much talent there. "Selling the Drama", "I Alone", "All Over You", " The River", "Heaven", "Overcome" and sooo many others. You've only scratched the surface. Please give us more!!!
You forgot to mention Dolphins Cry 🐬 😢
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lakinis juice would be my favorite of their songs
@@pfear8340 That;s the one I was thinking of too.
@@BabylonWanderer what a great song
The entire album Throwing Copper is total dynamite from start to finish! The band is called live.🤟🤟👍👍. Next as suggested below try I Alone or Selling The Drama.
I alone 😍
The whole throwing copper album is great. Also, Dolphin's cry was a banger back in the day.
Probably my favorite of their songs
Throwing Copper one of the albums of the Decade for sure!! 👌
I bought their first three CDs. All of them are excellent.
The slow burn on this song is amazing. How can he go from 0 to 100 in a few short minutes! Control control control
One thing that always amazes me with this band is how they formed as very young teenagers and grew up together. Singer Ed Kowalczyk joined the band at age 13! What they accomplished together is amazing, becoming truly great songwriters, performers, and musicians.
Live is one of the most under-rated bands of the 90's. This debut album is going to be one you will enjoy exploring
I’ve been saying this for years. Give me Live over Pearl Jam or STP.
This was off of their 2nd album as the band name Live and their 3rd overall. Their first album was under the band name Public Affection. As Live, they next released Mental Jewelry and then Throwing Copper with this song.
@@jonhaes2527 That is true I forgot about Mental Jewelry. Saw them in concert and Ed's voice was pitch perfect. They had some of the most cryptic lyrics of any 90
s band. Really deep stuff
"Throwing Copper" is in my top 10. The whole album is perfect.
@@yaimavol Ed is a great live performer. He purposely variates the vocals a bit
Finally got around to Live. They really grow on you the more you listen to them. More 90’s you might like that you haven’t done yet - 311 (they have song called Amber, one of their slower ones but I think you’d like it - they mix rap & rock so well), Third Eye Blind, Bare Naked Ladies.
Bare Naked Ladies are awesome!
Been requesting their Christmas songs since the channel started. Elf’s Lament with Michael Buble is such a great song.
Blues Traveler, too!
You don't feel like you've been given a chance to LIVE (GIVE) until you've seen a LIVE (FIVE) concert yourself. Great album. Beautiful song.
Throwing Copper was one of the most important albums of my teenage years. So happy you're getting into Live.
Throwing Copper is one of those quintessential 90's albums. Like Miseducation of... , Tragic Kingdom, Tigerlily, Jagged Little Pill, Ten or Blood Sugar Sex Magik. It is one of those must have albums to complete a 90's music collection.
Don't forget OK Computer
@@Islam4Europeans dude, there are so many great albums from the 90's that I could make a list of a few hundred.
I always saw this video & song as a transference of life. The new mother laboring giving birth of her new baby. The old mother, down the hall, dies; and her family around her in grief. The angels are there overseeing this cycle of life. Just my interpretation, but the young mother is seen at the end of the video smiling as she cradles her newborn child. Stunning song and beautiful meditation on life.
I think a lot of the confusion is the coins on her eyes. I thought the mother had died for a long time, and wasn't sure if her being alive at the end was real or a vision.
Ed Kowalczyk's voice, omg!!! Like burning gravel. 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
These guys blew me away when this song came out!!
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This song came out when I was 14. I knew nothing about death because all of the family members who were living when I was born were still alive--so it didn't have the same impact. As life moves on and you mature, though, you inevitably reach a point where those people you've known and loved all your life start dropping off one-by-one. You begin to understand your own mortality and the temporary nature of your existence more and more. I haven't heard this song in years, and hearing it just now was overwhelming, because I'm now familiar with both sides of the equation. It hurts, but in a way that's comforting; it's reminder that things keep going when our time here is over. I'm not religious, but I like to think there's a purpose to our time here, and I keep the hope that there's a bright place somewhere where we all meet again.
I'm not religious either but I'll say Amen to this.
Live is one of my favorite bands from the 90's and this song has a powerful punch, along with the awesome "I Alone". You won't regret going down this rabbit hole! ❣
Glad you got to this band. Formed in 1984 in York ,Pa. Lead singer is Ed Kowalczyk. 9 albums released between '89 and 2014.
For more, try I Alone or Lakini's Juice.
LOOOVVVVEEEEE Lakini’s juice!!!!!
Lakini's Juice is so good!
Another from the same album (Secret Samadhi) as Lakini's Juice, one that's absolutely beautiful, is Turn My Head.
The song is about the circle of life. At the same moment life is being born in one room, death is happening in the room down the hall. And the confusion of life is transferred from one to another. The mother that gives birth does not die, it's the old mother down the hall that dies at the exact moment the baby is born. Got it!
Now go down the Live rabbit hole, the whole album of Throwing Copper is one masterpiece after another!
I love the 90s music. I'm 42 years old, so I grew up listening to it.
About time somebody reacted to this so song..One of my all time faves..The lyrics..vocals.. the emotion the importance...Awesome song and awesome reaction....It's not 90's but late 80's, but another great band and great emotional vocalist NOBODY has reacted too is THE CALL..and I Don't Wanna...or...I Stiil Believe...or ..Let the Day Begin....Be the first guys!
I appreciate your channel! One of the ONLY reaction channels that truly care about reacting to the song and the journey it takes us on.
If you weren't around then, you have NO idea how big these guys were in the 90s. Turn on rock radio, you would hear these guys. He has a great voice, which in my opinion, sounds even better on the harder songs. Definitely next should be "I Alone", then "Selling the Drama" and "All Over You". Enjoy!
This whole album is fire. It came out my senior year of high school and I have to say almost every track is great.
My Dad passed in 1996, and I remember listening to this a lot. Another from that time that hit hard for me was "Jars of Clay - Flood". My Dad kept calling out to be lifted up. There are so many great bands from the 90's.
A song that I really clung to back in the day when my uncle died was Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns by Mother Love Bone. Just awesome. and Flood was great.
@@Lost1Four7 I haven't heard that song before but just gave it a listen. Music is a major part of my life, I can listen to a song and transport away. So many tied to memories and people. Thank you for sharing :)
One of my all time favorites. My cousin turned me on this group when he bought the cassette. Throwing copper is amazing. The lyrics about the blue eyes was a dedication to their friend who died in a car accident. When my grandmother passed away I listened to this song nonstop.
Fantastic 90's band. Live has a unique sound and Ed Kowalczyk's voice is simply incredible. Powerful! Keep going down this rabbit hole.
This entire album is fantastic😎
Their second album THROWING COPPER is Pure Fire! I ALONE, HORSE, ALL OVER YOU, WAITRESS, PILLAR OF DAVIDSON are all Amazing songs!
I am so thrilled you're delving into the world of 90's Alternative Rock! There's so many bands and singers to introduce you to. In my humble opinion, the music videos of the mid 90's were some of the most iconic ever made. In no particular order, some to definitely consider are:
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Fiona Apple - Criminal
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
Green Day - Basket Case
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane
Bjork - Oh So Quiet
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
A number of good songs here but I'd like to toss in another vote especially for Fiona Apple's "Criminal." Not only is it a great song from a great songwriter but I think Jay will LOVE the piano groove and the cadence of the lyrics. And I would add to the list (if I may) Fiona's "Fast As You Can."
Great list! Add one of my fav bands "Our Lady Peace" (late 90s) Superman's Dead or Innocent
Fiona, yes! ❤ all her albums are great.
"Selling the Drama" or "Lakini's Juice" next
great 90s band
A song that evokes so much emotion, it's hard not to tear up! It was beautiful to see Amber break as she was reliving the births of your children. Live is one of the best 90s bands hands down. I was fortunate to see them in concert about 20 years ago. Their first album, Mental Jewelry, is right up there with Throwing Copper. Beautiful reaction video xoxo
"Pain Lies on the Riverside" and "Brothers Unaware" are 2 great songs by Live
I would add The Beauty of Gray as well to these two but I love all of Mental Jewelry :)
All hidden gems. “Mirror Song” and “Mother Earth is a Vicious Crowd” are two other standouts for me!
Think they'd really love the bass on "Pain" for sure
Also dig 10,000 Years (Peace is Now)! This might be an unpopular opinion, but I believe Mental Jewelry is superior to Throwing Copper. TC is brilliant, don't get me wrong. And it's pretty clear, they learned a lot, gained a lot of experience, before they made TC. But MJ is their finest work.
This is such an incredible song
Lightning Crashes released in the Fall of ‘94 and stayed on the radio for what seemed forever. The following Spring I was still hearing it at least once per day. Big song for the year! (Edit for punctuation)
Their first 2 albums, Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper are 2 of the greatest alterative rock albums of the 90's. "I Alone", "Pain Lies On The Riverside", "Iris", and "Selling The Drama" are all amazing. Both of those albums don't have a bad or filler song on either one.
Love this song. I have always loved his voice. This has been one of my favorite songs since I heard it for the first time in high school. I bought the cd immediately.
Yes! You did them! I love this band. They are just as phenomenal, eh hem, live lol This man’s voice is sick.
Every song on this album is fantastic!
One of my faves! My dad introduced me to this song when I was young and I’ve loved it ever since 😊
It's my favorite band of all time. Pronounced Līve. I've seen them over 50 times in concert, met them and met many wonderful friends because of them. Unfortunately, the band has 1 original member now... the lead singer, Ed Kowalczyk. He tours as Līve with 3 new band members. I'll be seeing them again on June 1st. 🎶
Thank you for this video!
Few songs give me chills like this one. The voice of Ed Kowalczyk is absolutely amazing!
I had the same reaction Amber had. This song came out in 94 and my son was born in 95. I remember hearing this song in my car and it took me right back to the day he was born. It was like I was reliving that beautiful day all over again. I haven't heard it in a while but when I watched this reaction video it all came flooding back. Brought a joyful tear to my eye. Thanks guys, God Bless!
An absolutely beautiful song. LIVE has some stunning lyrics and imagery.
Throwing Copper is one of those albums you can play from start to finish without skipping anything!
Absolutely
For me, what's always touched me about this song is how it speaks to the grieving process and how no matter how dark and painful and hopeless, as part of the cycle of life and human experience, there will come a point in time when the grieving of the loss will ebb (it never entirely goes away -- "closure" is a pop-psychology myth), and you can make room for joy, happiness and hope in your life again -- the dark cloud in this song comes with a silver lining, in other words
One of those rare albums where every single song is incredible. I wore it out back in the day.
“I Alone” and “All Over You” were also great songs off this album-Throwing Copper but “Lightning Crashes “ still gives me chills!
Man, I loved this band. I should dig out my cds.
No matter how many times I've heard this song, it hits hard every time.
Ed, the lead singer, now owns 55% of Live. He essentially fired the other 3 members and is now touring as "Live" with a whole new backing band. One of my favorite albums of all time. Glad I got to see the whole original band in 2019 for the Throwing Copper 25th Anniversary tour.
One of the reasons I can't support them anymore. He's a fantastic singer, and IS the VOICE of Live. But the other members are also Live. They need to try to patch things up (again).
@screwyootube1 There was a lengthy and detailed article in Rolling Stone magazine in February about the demise of Live. Comes down to guitarist Chad Taylor getting himself and Gracey and Dahlheimer into some shady business dealings where they lost a lot of money and got into tremendous debt. Those 3 aren't talking to each other and sold majority share of the band to Ed.
I know the touring guitarist Zak… Followed bands he has been in since around 1997/98 ish and even helped him haiul gear from the van into a few venues and had beers at his house when he was in a band with his brother in Austin. Great guitarist.
The mother didn't die. A elderly woman down the hall died. Birth and death - the circle of life. He was at the hospital for a dying friend and this song comes from that experience and contemplating life.
If you'll notice, the structure of the song mimics childbirth. It starts off soft, gradually builds and strengthens, becomes very hard and fast, plateaus, and then just stops. This song and "This Woman's Work" are both fabulous songs that are (at least partially) about childbirth. "I can feel it coming back again, like a roll of thunder chasing the wind. Forces pulling from the center of the earth again. I can feel it."
You should DEFINITELY listen to their "I Alone" next! Total banger!
This became the biggest selling album in America when I came out. Great choice and every song on that album is awesome and different styles throughout the album. But always amazing harmonies in the band. Their MTV unplugged aession was amazing also.
Ed Kowalczyk has one of those voices that makes you feel the emotions in song. He’s done a few solo albums in his absence from Live.
In last year or two heard a song not Live. Getting radio airplay.
had the sound and vocal sound of Live. But not them.
Wondering who that was?.
It the build ups that this song brings. Telling a story, but also everything builds up from his voice to the drums gradually joining.
Turning 45 next week and this is the stuff I grew up too. I feel privileged that I was able to listen to all this great 90’s rock and grunge music when it was new but I felt the emotion you two had listening to this.
I like ‘I Alone’ by them too. These songs take me back to high school.
This is one of the best albums of the 1990s ..love the whole thing ... Love "I Alone" Selling The Drama.. Bunch more are great
I always connect this song with the OKC bombing. It was released a few months before and an OKC DJ remixed it with news soundbites. It certainly helped the community get through the terrible tragedy.
Interesting, I always connect it with an episode of a short-lived TV show. I'm looking it up now to comment about it.
@@bankbarcomo806 the program was Strange Luck starring D B Sweeney as Chance Harper
They played it a lot in heavy rotation! I live 4mi from downtown 😮
Same, Dan.
yep. forever tied together. My dad found that remix recently. This song makes me tear up anyway, that just makes me bawl.
Criminally underrated band.
"I Alone" is one of their greatest songs. My husband of 25 years ( yeah we are old) played that for me. Ed was a great lead singer. Saw them live in concert in the 90's
Example of a band, album, song that is often forgotten. Seriously one of the most well written pieces of music, and a kick-ass album.
Amber, this song always brought me to tears when it came out and when I saw ya'll were doing it I knew it would break you. I could see your emotion about 30 seconds in. As the final scene revealed it was not the baby's mother that died but the "old mother down the hall" that passed and the new baby that took her spirit. Fantastic reaction! I know Jay felt it too.
One of my fave 90s bands-listened to this album hundreds of times and it is a banger. Definitely hit “I Alone”-savage lyrics and a killer vocal from Ed.
The entire Throwing Copper album is one of my all-time favs. Next from this band you could try the songs "Selling The Drama," "I Alone," and "All Over You." Also their song "Operation Spirit" from a previous album is great too.
One final comment: While subsequent albums which followed Throwing Copper never achieved quite the same level of sales and radio airplay as that album did, Līve is still an actively recording and touring band who's in the middle of a tour right now. They're due to play in D.C. (the 9:30 Club being my guess re. the likely venue) some time in mid-Oct., and I plan to get tix, which will be the first live show for me for a nationally-/internationally-touring artist/band in this post-COVID era (how fitting that it'll be for a band called Līve). I have been to other live concerts over the past year and a half-ish after I got all of my vaccine and booster shots, but those were mostly for local musician friends' bands (or solo musicians) as well regionally-touring acts
Ed has one of my absolute favorite voices in all of rock. Emotive and powerful ❤️🎶🎤
Amazing reaction. Amber’s emotional reaction is the reason why we’re all here. We love seeing music fans truly feeling the music. We love you both!
Thank you for reminding me about Live. I watched Counting Crows with Live as the opening band back in 1995. Live absolutely crushed it and were way better than the headline band. Live was so cool on stage and sounded as good as their studio album. The entire album is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Oooh, that must’ve been a great show.
Me too! Columbus, Ohio! Was a great show.
I saw a great triple bill with them not long after they had 1st hits, with PIL and BAD. Such a great show!
Whole album is great. “I Alone” is really good as well.
Used to hear this song a lot while I was driving but never heard the name of the artists. I'm 67 and never cared much for 90's style music But THIS SONG will always be one of my favorites. The singers voice somehow reaches deeply into my soul. Thanks for the reaction
This song was on their 1994 album Throwing Copper. I had that CD album. So many great songs on there. They were huge in the mid 1990s.
Loved this song a lot. Slow burning and then it starts hitting hard.
Two of their songs you have to add to your list the first one is called all over you and the second one is called I alone there's excellent live footage available for both songs
Saw this band live for the first time and it was awesome
Yep- This one pulls and hits hard…. Crawl into this band- amazing - amazing music. This one hurts a bit- but their entire collection goes bang…. I love everything they have done. Start with I Alone…. This won’t be the last Live track you do … 👊👊👊👊 enjoy guys and take care out there 🙏🙏
Hey Jay and Amber! I've seen many of your movie reactions and like/loved them but my algorithm has only now finally introduced me to your music reactions. I can't explain how excited I am for these! "Lightning Crashes" is one of my favorite 90's songs as I was a 90's kid, and Amber tearing up made me tear up. I can't wait to dive into more of your reactions because you're clearly great people. Thanks for your content!!
Powerful song! Deeply moving.
I’ve always loved the power in those lyrics.
Haven’t heard this song in years, yet I still was able to sing along lyric by lyric. Just a classic song. Please do more Live. The other comments have great suggestions
Right? Those first few recognizable notes pulled me back into the 10th grade when it was newly released. Wow. I know what I’m listening to tonight.
Lakani's Juice, Selling the Drama, Dolphin's Cry, I Alone, and Run to The Water are all incredible songs by Live
Their first (minor) hit was Pain Lies by the Riverside, off their first album. You will love it! The instruments, vocals and lyrics are amazing.
This song was big when it came out. The whole album "Throwing Copper" was great. I must have played my CD a hundred times. Nice reaction. It is wild that you can still find amazing groups/songs that you have never heard of! 😀