Talk:Throwing Copper

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Is it necessary to say that "many critics and fans consider" this to be Live's breakthrough album, especially when we go on to cite as evidence the album's commercial success and the success of its singles? Isn't the commercial success and related exposure of an album something that makes an album a "breakthrough" album, without needing it to be a subjective decision? Quantitatively it's clear that this was the band's breakthrough album.

i don't think there is any sort of quantitative definition of a breakthrough album -- it's a subjective judgment of when a band has become successful enough to have broken through to the mainstream. --dan 21:09, 27 August 2006 (UTC)