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Alive
It's certainly possible that the title of Ed Kowalczyk's first solo album is a pun on his status as an former member of Live -- he's "A Live" on his own now -- but given his fondness for sincerity, it's unlikely. Kowalczyk doesn't like to obscure his point, he likes to emphasize it, a sensibility that extends to his arrangements, which never rely on one guitar when five could do.which is all the better when he's writing about big themes, which he does throughout Alive. This isn't a new wrinkle since Live always was one of U2's most earnest disciples, making big music out of big issues, to the extent of treating the personal as a cataclysmic event. They lost a bit of that rock & roll messiah ...
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