We Were Alive!

is a live album by folk rock band Angels of Light.

[1] The earnings from the record sales were used for the production of Angels of Light's next studio release, Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home.

[1][2] The same funding strategy was subsequently used by Angels of Light frontman Michael Gira's other band Swans in 2012, when the band released their live album, We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head to fund their upcoming album The Seer.

[3] Ned Raggett of Allmusic wrote: "The sound quality sometimes results in a distanced overall mix (it combined desk recordings with a live room mic), which often can bury Mullins' quieter drum work to the point of sensing it rather than hearing it.

"[4] Peter Marks of Release Magazine stated: "Delicate interludes in the midst of absolute chaotic cruelty which would make Glenn Branca blush.