Secret Samadhi

Infobox Album
Name = Secret Samadhi
Type = studio
Artist = Live


Released = February 18, 1997
Recorded = At the Hit Factory, NYC, NY
Genre = Alternative rock
Post-grunge
Hard rock
Length = 53:18
Label = Radioactive
Producer = Jay Healy, Live
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rwf6zfh8ehak link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/live/albums/album/128335/review/5944086/secret_samadhi link]
Last album = "Throwing Copper"
(1994)
This album = "Secret Samadhi"
(1997)
Next album = "The Distance to Here"
(1999)
Misc = Singles
Name = Secret Samadhi
Type = studio
single 1 = Lakini's Juice
single 1 date =
single 2 = Freaks
single 2 date =
single 3 = Turn My Head
single 3 date =
single 4 = Rattlesnake
single 4 date =
single 5 =
single 5 date =

"Secret Samadhi" is Live's follow-up to their multi-platinum "Throwing Copper" release. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 when it was released on February 18, 1997, and housed the hits "Lakini's Juice," "Rattlesnake," "Turn My Head" and "Freaks."

There is some speculation as to whether "Secret Samadhi", and the single "Rattlesnake" in particular is directly influenced by Stephen King's 1996 horror novel, "Desperation".Fact|date=April 2008

Track listing

# "Rattlesnake" – 4:51
# "Lakini's Juice" – 4:59
# "Graze" – 5:39
# "Century" – 3:22
# "Ghost" – 6:19
# "Unsheathed" – 3:36
# "Insomnia and the Hole in the Universe" – 4:01
# "Turn My Head" – 3:57
# "Heropsychodreamer" – 2:48
# "Freaks" – 4:50
# "Merica" – 3:21
# "Gas Hed Goes West" – 5:35

Outtakes and B-sides

* "Cheetah"
* "Photograph" (aka "Evidence")
* "Mall Rat" (aka "Crayons")
* "Pop Vortex"

Release and reception

Chart positions

Album

ingles