I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we'd wild out to, get arrested to.
As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.
Nowadays, who actually listens to the tracks on an album, anyway?
It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.
An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.
Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.
We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.