White, Discussion

{{use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox song | name = White, Discussion | cover = Live - White Discussion.jpg | alt = | caption = Dutch commercial single | type = single | artist = Live | album = Throwing Copper | released = 1995 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = | length = 6:08 (album version) 4:41 (radio edit) | label = Radioactive Records | writer = Live | producer = {{hlist|Jerry Harrison|Live}} | prev_title = All Over You | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Lakini's Juice | next_year = 1997 }}

"'''White, Discussion'''" is a song by the rock group Live, which was released as the fifth and final single from their 1994 album, ''Throwing Copper''.

==Background== ''The 100 Best Selling Albums of the 90s'' described "White, Discussion" as a "bilious, rage-fueled vision of an apocalyptic dying Earth."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodd |first1=Peter |last2=Cawthorne |first2=Justin |last3=Barett |first3=Chris |last4=Auty |first4=Dan |date=2018 |title=100 Best-Selling Albums of the 90s |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmJEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT220 |location=San Diego |publisher=Thunder Bay |page=220 |isbn=978-1-6841-2501-2 |access-date=2025-05-30}}</ref> ''The Arizona Republic'' regarded the lyric as a "compelling torrent of rage against politically correct, do-nothing activism."<ref>{{cite news |last=Simon |first=Jeremy |date=1995-08-10 |title=Live shows why it's hot as Arizona in August |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/123413365/ |work=The Arizona Republic |page=E2 |access-date=2025-05-30 |archive-date=May 30, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250530053632/https://www.newspapers.com/image/123413365/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a 1995 interview with the Live e-mail fanzine ''Straight Outta York'', Ed Kowalczyk said that the preacher's voice sampled in the song ("I warned you, I prepared you") was recorded from a shortwave radio station in Colorado.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kowalczyk |first=Ed |date=1995 |title=Straight Outta York Interview with Edward Kowalczyk (Geocities Archive) |url=https://viciouscrowd.com/articles/straight-outta-york-interview-with-edward-kowalczyk-geocities-archive.10/ |website=Vicious Crowd |access-date=2025-05-30 |archive-date=May 30, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250530053633/https://viciouscrowd.com/articles/straight-outta-york-interview-with-edward-kowalczyk-geocities-archive.10/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Release and reception== The song was released as a single in the United States and reached No. 71 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 Airplay chart, No. 15 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 12 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/throwing-copper-r199090/charts-awards/billboard-single "Throwing Copper > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711020832/https://www.allmusic.com/album/throwing-copper-mw0000113266 |date=July 11, 2023 }} ''Allmusic''</ref> In Canada, "White, Discussion" reached #12 on the ''RPM'' Alternative chart.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2754&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=socno63vfj6kaq6c2ditbo4lt3 |title=RPM - Rock/Alternative |volume=62 |number=6 |date=1995-09-11 |magazine=RPM |access-date=July 8, 2011 |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023163349/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2754&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=socno63vfj6kaq6c2ditbo4lt3 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''Billboard'' called "White, Discussion" an "apocalyptic tale with a killer kiss-off line."<ref>{{cite magazine |editor-last1=Verna |editor-first1=Paul |editor-last2=Gillen |editor-first2=Marilyn A. |editor-last3=Cronin |editor-first3=Peter |date=1994-05-15 |title=Album Reviews |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_SggEAAAAMBAJ/mode/2up/ |magazine=Billboard |page=70 |access-date=2025-05-30}}</ref>

==Track listings== All songs written by Live:

;Italian single #"White, Discussion" (Album Version) – 6:08 #"Lightning Crashes" (Live) – 6:03 #"I Alone" (Live) – 4:17 #"Pain Lies on the Riverside" – 5:11 #"Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)" (Live) – 3:47 #"The Beauty of Gray" (Live) – 4:30

;Australian single #"White, Discussion" – 4:41 #"I Alone" (Acoustic) – 3:48

;Netherlands single #"White, Discussion" (Sam Sever Remix) – 4:23 #"White, Discussion" (Live at Glastonbury) – 5:34 #"White, Discussion" (Album Version) – 6:08

==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Chart (1995) !Peak position |- {{single chart|Canadarock|12|chartid=2754|accessdate=September 22, 2020}} |- {{single chart|Billboardradiosongs|71|artist=Live|accessdate=September 22, 2020}} |- {{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|15|artist=Live|accessdate=September 22, 2020}} |- {{single chart|Billboardmainstreamrock|12|artist=Live|accessdate=September 22, 2020}} |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Live (band) songs Category:1994 singles Category:Songs written by Ed Kowalczyk Category:Song recordings produced by Jerry Harrison Category:1994 songs Category:Radioactive Records singles Category:Apocalyptic music