Live at the Paradiso Amsterdam

Live are nothing if not persistent. Born during the grunge boom of the early '90s, the band first achieved success with their 1994 album Throwing Copper, mostly on the strength of the mega-hit "Lightning Crashes". (If you're younger than fifteen, you will probably only recognize the song from Buzz Ballads commercials.) In 1997, Live released their follow-up album Secret Samadhi, which sold millions of copies before people got embarrassed about owning an album with a song called "Lakini's Juice" on it. Live might (should?) have died there, but in 1999 they released The Distance To Here, which sold even more copies than its predecessors had. If all that wasn't enough, they also scored a minor hit with "Heaven" in 2003—long after most people had forgotten they ever existed.

Now, Live gives us a new live album called, yes, Live At The Paradiso—an album, they say, that has been fifteen years in the making.