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Toadies - Best of Toadies: Live From Paradise Audio CD

A fair review of the Toadies "Best of Toadies: Live From Paradise" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Toadies reviews here, or go back to the Toadies tabs.

Toadies Band: Toadies
Title: Best of Toadies: Live From Paradise
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Release Date: 2002-11-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Plane Crash 2: I Come From The Water 3: Heel 4: Quitter 5: Hell Below/Stars Above 6: Little Sin 7: Away 8: Motivational 9: Mr. Love 10: Backslider 11: Paper Dress 12: Push The Hand 13: ATF 14: Possum Kingdom 15: Dollskin 16: Tyler 17: I Burn 18: Where Is My Mind

Good live album
A nice mixture of songs from both studio albums. Aside from Vaden's dying voice, this live album is really good. I never got a chance to see Toadies live, so I can't say how the live show is. Well not yet, they are reuniting on March 11th for a show in Dallas. I have seen Burden Brothers multiple times, and I know that Vaden's voice is much more powerful then what comes across on this album. All and all still a very good live album and a must have for Toadies fans. .


Not the best intro to the Toadies
Although the music comes together okay, the vocals seem very "off" and forced, unlike the magic of a well-rehearsed Todies disc. The Toadies' studio albums are far superior to this live album. Their most famous song is "Possum Kingdom," and the radio version is far superior to the rendition on this album.

This does truly represent a "best of" the (unfortunately) very limited career of the Toadies. This is a must-have for fans, but if you are just getting into this band, try out one of their studio albums first.


Vaden Lewis (aka "Todd") has a cold
I'm from Dallas, so they're local; I was one of the people crying in the front row at their final concert. The Toadies are one of my favorite bands. They put on absolutely amazing live shows--and this album really doesn't do them justice at all. Vaden Lewis, the lead singer/songwriter (he went by "Todd" in the Toadies), lost his voice and sounds pretty bad in this album. Of course, the guitar work, etc. , is wonderful--these are great musicians. If you can put up with a grating voice and a few microphone and recording problems, it's an awesome album. But their studio albums, Rubberneck and Hell Below, Stars Above, are better--and so is the first album by Vaden's new group, the Burden Brothers.


Toadies blew up
Worth, Texas and man could this band put on a live show. Im from the Toadies hometown of Ft. I saw them 10+ times in the mid-nineties and as with many DFW bands the live show was way better than CD's or (ekkkk) tapes! I was suprised to see Seattle has a decent amount of Toadies and Burden Bros. fans. So Im sure if you like intellegent hard-rock you'd love this CD, it made me feel 15 again.


New Toadies Lover
"Possum Kingdom" is my all-time favorite song. This CD is great. The radio station I would hear it on never gave the song name or who sang it. . . until recently. I went right to my computer and bought "Live From Paradise". It is non-stop and energetic. Amazingly I only knew the one song but after hearing all 18 of them on this CD I also bought all of the Toadies other CD's. IF you like "Possum Kingdom" you will like this whole CD.


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