Throwing Copper

The cover art is a painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson titled Sisters of Mercy. On September 23, 2005, it was sold for $186,000 by Christie's in New York. The painting is oil on canvas and measures {{convert|243 x 182|cm|ft}}.[http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/peter-howson-sisters-of-mercy-4560961-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4560961&sid=1f18aa4b-313d-4b20-8ada-3e943f7aa7dc "Peter Howson (b. 1958) – Sisters of Mercy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190538/http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/peter-howson-sisters-of-mercy-4560961-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4560961&sid=1f18aa4b-313d-4b20-8ada-3e943f7aa7dc |date=July 14, 2014 }} Christie's

In May 2019, the band announced a 25th-anniversary reissue of Throwing Copper, which was released on July 19.{{Cite web|url=https://shop.freaks4live.com/products/super-deluxe-25th-anniversary-edition-2lp-2cd|title=Throwing Copper Super Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition Box Set (2LP+2CD)|website=Friends of Live|access-date=September 13, 2020|archive-date=October 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005234709/https://shop.freaks4live.com/products/super-deluxe-25th-anniversary-edition-2lp-2cd|url-status=live}} The reissue contains three bonus tracks: "Hold Me Up", which was recorded during the original Throwing Copper sessions and later heard in the 2008 comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno but was not officially released;{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/live-new-song-throwing-copper-hold-me-up-842102/ |title=Hear Live Rip Through Previously Unreleased Track 'Hold Me Up' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 30, 2019 |access-date=December 31, 2019 |last=Blistein |first=Jon}} "We Deal in Dreams", which had been released as a single off the band's 2004 compilation album Awake: The Best of Live; and "Susquehanna", another previously unreleased track originally recorded in 1993, though it had been written during recording sessions for the band's first studio album, Mental Jewelry.

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/throwing-copper-mw0000113266 |title=Throwing Copper – Live |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=August 30, 2015 |last=Boldman |first=Gina |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905143326/http://www.allmusic.com/album/throwing-copper-mw0000113266 |url-status=live }}

| rev2 = Classic Rock

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |last=Dome |first=Malcolm |author-link=Malcolm Dome |date=2019-07-19 |title=Live's Throwing Copper: 25 years on, suddenly contemporary |url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/lives-throwing-copper-25-years-on-suddenly-contemporary |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Classic Rock (loudersound) |language=en}}

| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Live |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}

| rev4 = The Great Rock Discography

| rev4score = 7/10{{Cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |publisher=Canongate |others= |year=2004 |isbn=9781841956152 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr0000stro_r9o1/page/896 897] |chapter=Live |author-link=Martin C. Strong}}

| rev5 = MusicHound Rock

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |last=Durchholz |first=Daniel |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/680 679–681] |isbn=1-57859-061-2 |chapter=Live}}

| rev6 = Q

| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Live: Throwing Copper |magazine=Q |issue=98 |date=November 1994 |page=115}}

| rev7 = Rolling Stone

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/live/albums/album/112150/review/5945140/throwing_copper |title=Live: Throwing Copper |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=August 11, 1994 |access-date=January 14, 2013 |last=Evans |first=Paul |page=70 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113150431/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/live/albums/album/112150/review/5945140/throwing_copper |archive-date=November 13, 2008 |url-status=dead}}

| rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Live |last=Moon |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Moon |title=(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/490 490–91]}}

| rev9 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev9score = 7/10{{cite book |chapter=Live |last=Gardner |first=Elysa |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor1-link=Eric Weisbard |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |publisher=Vintage Books |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8 |page=226}}

| rev10 = The Village Voice

| rev10score = C+{{Cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |date=November 28, 1995 |title=Consumer Guide: Turkey Shoot |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ts95-95.php |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=The Village Voice |via=robertchristgau.com}}

}}

Throwing Copper has typically been regarded as Live's strongest album. A Rolling Stone review stated that the band "strive for an epic sound" and successfully execute on that goal; retrospective reviews have been similarly positive, with the Jakarta Post describing the album as "a solid beast from front to back" and uDiscoverMusic characterizing it as "challenging, yet commendably powerful".{{cite web |last=Thee |first=Marcel |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/08/01/after-25-years-lives-throwing-copper-remains-alternative-rock-gem.html |title=After 25 years, Live's 'Throwing Copper' remains alternative rock gem |publisher=Jakarta Post |date=2019-08-01 |access-date=2022-09-02 |archive-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023062213/https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/08/01/after-25-years-lives-throwing-copper-remains-alternative-rock-gem.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Peacock |first=Tim |url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/live-throwing-copper-album/ |title='Throwing Copper': How Live Fashioned a Platinum-Grade Alt.Rock Classic |publisher=uDiscoverMusic |date=2022-04-26 |access-date=2022-09-02 |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902215011/https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/live-throwing-copper-album/ |url-status=live }} The instrumentation on the album has been generally praised: Rolling Stone considered the musicians to be "expert players [who] drop musical smart bombs with unerring precision", and the Jakarta Post referred to the music as "absolutely dynamic and catchy". Singer Ed Kowalczyk was applauded for his vocal performance as well, with a retrospective Stereogum review noting his ability to "raise his voice from a plaintive hush to a clenched roar".{{cite web |last=DeVille |first=Chris |title=Throwing Copper Turns 20 |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1676412/throwing-copper-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ |publisher=Stereogum |date=2014-04-18 |access-date=2022-09-02 |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902212004/https://www.stereogum.com/1676412/throwing-copper-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ |url-status=live }}

The lyrics of the album received more mixed reviews. The Jakarta Post felt that Throwing Copper "managed to push earnestness and wild esotericism as far as it could go without feeling resoundingly cheesy", but Gina Boldman of AllMusic was more negative, stating that the album's "melodrama [is] a bit much". Stereogum described Kowalczyk's lyrics as "mystic gibberish" that nevertheless featured "memorably inscrutable turns of phrase".

A 2024 review by Paolo Ragusa of Consequence of Sound credits this album with starting post-grunge and shifting rock music to a new direction after the death of Kurt Cobain by combining some harder rock influences with clearer vocals, softer guitar melodies, and the production of Jerry Harrison to make a distinct sound.{{Cite web |language=en-US |url=https://consequence.net/2024/05/live-throwing-copper-review-post-grunge/ |title=Following Kurt Cobain’s Death, Live’s Throwing Copper Birthed the Post-Grunge Movement |department=Features > Anniversaries > Dust 'Em Off |first=Paolo |last=Ragusa |date=2024-05-22 |accessdate=2024-07-01}}

{{Track listing

| all_lyrics = Ed Kowalczyk

| all_music = Live

| headline = Original compact disc issue

| title1 = The Dam at Otter Creek

| length1 = 4:43

| title2 = Selling the Drama

| length2 = 3:26

| title3 = I Alone

| length3 = 3:50

| title4 = Iris

| length4 = 3:59

| title5 = Lightning Crashes

| length5 = 5:25

| title6 = Top

| length6 = 2:42

| title7 = All Over You

| length7 = 3:59

| title8 = Shit Towne

| length8 = 3:48

| title9 = T.B.D.

| length9 = 4:28

| title10 = Stage

| length10 = 3:08

| title11 = Waitress

| length11 = 2:49

| title12 = Pillar of Davidson

| note12 = {{refn|group=note|"Pillar of Davidson" was not included on the original 1994 vinyl version.}}

| length12 = 6:46

| title13 = White, Discussion

| length13 = 6:08

| title14 = Horse

| note14 = unlisted track{{refn|group=note|"Horse" was an unlisted track on the 1994 releases.{{Cite web|url=https://mikeladano.com/2014/10/07/review-live-throwing-copper-1994/|title=REVIEW: Live – Throwing Copper (1994)|date=October 8, 2014}} It was not included on the original 1994 vinyl version, but the 2012 reissue added "Horse" as a listed track on the D-side.}}

| length14 = 4:16

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Europe and Australia Two CD set Four Songs

| title1 = Operation Spirit

| length1 = 3:19

| title2 = Good Pain

| length2 = 5:39

| title3 = Heaven Wore a Shirt

| length3 = 3:38

| title4 = Negation

| length4 = 3:37

}}

{{track listing

| headline = 25th anniversary reissue bonus tracks

| title15 = Hold Me Up

| note15 = from the film Zack and Miri Make a Porno, previously unreleased

| title16 = We Deal in Dreams

| note16 = previously released on Awake: The Best of Live

| title17 = Susquehanna

| note17 = previously unreleased

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = 25th anniversary reissue bonus disc: Live at Woodstock '94

| title1 = Iris

| title2 = Top

| title3 = The Beauty of Gray

| title4 = Selling the Drama

| title5 = Shit Towne

| title6 = Lightning Crashes

| title7 = I Alone

| title8 = Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)

| title9 = White, Discussion

}}

;Notes

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Adapted credits from the liner notes of Throwing Copper.{{cite AV media notes|title=Throwing Copper|others=Live|year=1994|publisher=Radioactive Records|type=liner notes|id=RARD-10997}}

;Live

• Ed Kowalczyk – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Chad Taylor – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Patrick Dahlheimer – bass
• Chad Gracey – drums, backing vocals

;Technical personnel

• Jerry Harrison – production
• Lou Giordano – engineering, recording
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Gary Kurfirst – executive production
• Tom Lord-Alge – mixing

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