Songs from Black Mountain

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Songs from Black Mountain
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Studio album by
Live
ReleasedApril 10, 2006 (2006-04-10)
RecordedMay 2005
Genre Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock
Length42:23
Label Epic
Producer Jim Wirt
Live chronology
Awake: The Best of Live
(2004)		Songs from Black Mountain
(2006)		 Radiant Sea: A Collection of Bootleg Rarities and Two New Songs
(2007)
Singles from Songs from Black Mountain
  1. "The River"
    Released: March 21, 2006
  2. "Mystery"
    Released: 2006
  3. "Wings"
    Released: 2006
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 50/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Addiction Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Billboard unfavorable [1]
Entertainment Weekly B− [4]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Paste 1/10 [1]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Songs from Black Mountain is the eighth studio album by Live. It was released in most countries on April 10, 2006, but was released on May 9 in Canada, May 29 in the UK and June 6 in the US. It was their only release through Epic Records. [8] The first single, "The River", was released on March 21, 2006. It is the last album to feature lead vocalist Ed Kowalczyk before his departure from the band in 2009. It is also the final studio album to feature the original lineup (Kowalczyk, Chad Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer, Chad Gracey). Kowalcyzk rejoined in 2016, but Taylor, Dahlheimer, and Gracey were all fired from the band by the end of 2022. [9]

Contents

Although the album had some international success, including reaching number 1 in the Netherlands, it had the lowest US sales of any of Live's studio albums since their first album, Mental Jewelry , peaking at number 52 on the Billboard 200.

Background

Live signed with Epic Records in 2005, having left Radioactive after the release of their 2003 album, Birds of Pray . [8] Singer Ed Kowalczyk explained that Songs from Black Mountain is in the same vein as Birds of Pray: "The album itself kind of took its lead from where we were with Birds of Pray, which was just a really basic, stripped [approach]...It's just amazing. It's just a great album and the excitement level of [Epic] and the band, everybody is just really pretty blown away by it." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ed Kowalczyk

Songs from Black Mountain
No.TitleLength
1."The River"2:58
2."Mystery"3:45
3."Get Ready"3:32
4."Show"3:24
5."Wings"3:51
6."Sofia"3:54
7."Love Shines (A Song for My Daughters About God)"3:21
8."Where Do We Go from Here?"3:46
9."Home"3:23
10."All I Need"3:13
11."You Are Not Alone"3:43
12."Night of Nights"3:33
Total length:42:23

Personnel

Live [11]

Charts

Singles

SongPeak chart positions
AUS BEL (FL) NED
"The River" [24] 334915
"Mystery"———
"Wings"———
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [25] Gold35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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