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Live Wired

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When I bought this album I was expecting it to be something along the lines of KMFDM's or Nine Inch Nail's Live albums, where much of the industrial/robotic side disappears and your left with more raw and human side of their music. I was almost hoping for this, because hearing FLA's music its hard to imagine that actual human beings composed it... well lets just say this album doesn't particularily help.

The vocals are just as haunting as always, the drums sounding like thuds from hell, the guitars like the chainsaw of a psychopath bursting through a wall(i actually jumped when they come in on song 2 or 3, forget which).. sorry for the analogies but thats basically what I thought. While the songs seem slower and less layered, I could imagine FLA being an amazingly powerful band to see live.

And you get 110 minutes of it!!!

i didn't know you could wear out a cd until i bought this. but it's true. there are layers of sound that are no longer audible on the copy that i bought almost three years ago. some of the most brilliant work i've ever heard. they don't miss a beat on this one. buy it. take it home. sit in your room all alone. turn out the lights and just listen. it will take you to another place.

This is a great live CD from a great industrial band. Most of the songs are from Hard Wired and Millenium and a few early classics are thrown in. A must buy for every FLA fans!

F.L.A. could come out with an amazing live cd if they would have showcased many of the bands signature songs here instead of a hybrid mix of some of the more obscure songs and rational off of the newest releases (Melinium and Hard Wired) Sadly shutting out some of the best work from the band. One of my biggest gripes was the huge electro club hit THE BLADE was sadly left behind and did not appear on the cd or in the bands live showcase though its almost always a staple of the live performances. This cd does have some wonderful moments though showing through great walls of sounds and textures that does show the bands ability to be able to play live but it often comes out in bieng more ambient and almost on the lines of a Meat Beat Manifesto release then F.L.A. The highlights are by far hearing an almost 12 minute version of a very intense Millennium and actually hearing them shred on Mindphaser makes the cd alone worth buying but I would only recomend this after you get to hear some of the studio work, In particular the Implode,Hard Wired or Mellinium releases.I wouldnt say its a bad cd but it doesnt showcase the bands songs as much as the sound...