Tracklist:1. When Hearts Grow Cold (live)
2. See See the Sun (acoustic live)
Nothing to see here – 6/10
When a live album is not that great, it’s worth to be spat at, but when a live single lacks what the album lacks, it’s less of a deal. After all, here we have only two songs, so we’re not expecting anything, especially not because there are no new songs on the b-side.
We have two tracks taken from Chance For A LIVEtime, both with Heerink on vocals, who tries hard but can’t top the original vocalists on these classics. The performance of the band is quite fluently, there are no mistakes as far as I can hear. “When Hearts Grow Cold” is amazing in studio, but I fear this live version does not capture the same magic. The second voice added to the chorus quite decreased the beauty, even though they did try. The acoustic version of “See See the Sun” is quite nice, as it’s good to hear the multiple voices work quite well in live. So in fact these two tracks CAN make you have a good time for as long they last.
The big question is, why release this single? What is so great about the main song that it needs a single release? If you would release the studio version with Max Werner as a single, now that would make sense. It could even become a small hit. But this version just doesn’t add anything, doesn’t do anything stunning and in the end is just reduced to being essential for extreme completists, to which I would recommend this. If you’re not like such, then ignore the existence of this very item.
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