Birds of Pray by Live

Birds of Pray, the sixth studio album from York, Pennsylvania's Live, came out in 2003, and it's the classic lineup still pulling together: Ed Kowalczyk singing with his usual wide-eyed fervor and playing guitar, Chad Taylor on guitar, Patrick Dahlheimer on bass and Chad Gracey on drums. The sound is big, earnest hard rock, the guitars ringing out toward the rafters.

"Heaven" was the first single, a hymn-like rocker that climbed to No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and gave the band its biggest single in years, the kind of song that let Kowalczyk reach for the sky one more time. It was also the band's last release on Radioactive/MCA before they moved to Epic in 2005.

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