1. The Rolling Stones didn't play "Satisfaction" (or any of their pre-1968 hits) for the bulk of the 1970s.
2. Wouldn't it be awesome to have witnessed The Who performing "I Can See For Miles" in the late '60s or early '70s... their biggest ever hit in America and the quintessence of the band's live sound? Well according to thewholive.net the song was performed a couple of times in 1967 and not again until 1979, by which time Keith Moon was gone.
3. The Beatles could have played some of their songs from Revolver on their final tour of August 1966. But they didn't. Not a one.
What else? Let's leave aside songs that are too complicated to play live or those that are obviously studio-based creations.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
There are moments of prickly brilliance: Cobain's sandpaper howl cutting through the Aragon's canyonlike echo in the tense, explosive chorus of "Heart–Shaped Box"; a short, stunning "Sliver" with torrid power strumming by guest touring guitarist Pat Smear (ex-Germs). But there is no "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and when the house lights go up, so does a loud chorus of boos.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw Ben Folds Five in, oh, must've been 1998 - at the height of popularity for their biggest/only "hit" at the time, "Brick" - and they not only didn't play it, but when the encore ended and the house lights came up, an electronic/dance version of the song came on over the speakers. Folds was at center stage, big smile on his face, waving goodnight.
I always liked those dudes.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
when i saw urge overkill last year at the troubadour, they didn't play "sister havana."
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Zep only did "When The Levee Breaks" live a few times before shelving it because the arrangement was too complex or something.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
Sisters of Mercy did let out a few times 'temple of love' when it was big. The singer actually made fun of the audience by playing a few chords and stop.not really weird, just comprehensible.
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
Bands that do this when their "hit" isn't some overplayed radio staple or are of an indie level popularity- what's the deal? Is it some kind of rebellion to them that they think they put their less involved fans "in their place" and that their hardcore fans will be so impressed?
― Evan, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
Bands that do this when their "hit" isn't some overplayed radio staple or are of an indie level popularity- what's the deal?
complex yet bullshit psychological process imo. I get it - if you have a minor "hit" (where "hit" = "song that people who wouldn't otherwise have given a shit about your work liked well enough to come to your show") there's a feeling like, ok, I can feel that it's different in the room now, lots of people just waiting for the one tune and not really even trying to see if the other stuff is good (you know this because when you play the hit there's a sudden rush to the front). And you think, fuckin' A, that is totally not our best song, not even close, c'mon, you came out to the music show so listen to the music maybe and see what it's about instead of talking at the bar 'til you hear the one you already know? but as I say I think this is bullshit, the person who paid to get in to hear the hit/s isn't any less of a music lover than the deep-catalogue person and if you care about your craft you can satisfy both of these people, you just have to bring your A-game and quit being a dick.
Having said that there are dudes who will perch themselves at the lip of a 700-capacity club stage and say the name of the song they want to hear after literally every song you play, and at lulls in your banter, same two words over and over, not yelling, just punctuating any space with the name or chorus of the song they already know you're not gonna play until the end of the show, and that can really make you start to hate the song, because you can see the pained looks on the faces of the nearby audience members whose nights are being ruined by this dude & there's nothing you can do about it.
lol wow guess who has to go to work this week, lol
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
Saw Doom on Sunday and the singer called out some dude who was shouting out for Police Bastard constantly and told him he'd come down and punch him in the face if he asked for it again. They played the song anyway, of course.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, Easy already got to it, but I saw Nirvana on the In Utero tour in 1993 and they did not play "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It was, in fact, the only Nevermind single that they didn't play.
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
s/Easy/Eazy
, because you can see the pained looks on the faces of the nearby audience members whose nights are being ruined by this dude & there's nothing you can do about it.
Not only do they ruin the night for other audience members, but I have heard aerosmith bootlegs rendered nearly unlistenable by such dudes, ruining the night for all future generations.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
indie rock really is a cesspool of human trash, no fooling
― Mary Ty$ Band (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol aero forgot his capo when i saw them and couldn't play that song
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
a cunning ploy perhaps?
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
"sorry guys, can't play Cryin' tonight, i left Bobo at the hotel"
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw Richard Thompson a couple of weeks ago, and the dude occasionally humored requests, which is remarkable, because not only does his catalog go deep, plus covers and fan in-jokes, he's got a lot of words to remember, weird tunings, etc. . He did his George Formby cover off the top of his head!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
RT sometimes does all-request shows.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
Another point: almost every arena act uses a teleprompter, but no club acts. What's up with that? Lot easier to take requests when you have a teleprompter. Of course, when you're Prince's band or E Street Band or whatever, and Boss calls out one of 300 possibilities, you still have to hustle your brain.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
When Pink Floyd regrouped in the mid/late 80's, they played Echoes for the first dozen shows of the Momentary Lapse tour, then ditched it in favour of Shine On. I'm curious if they had problems with the arrangement particularly the whooshy, seagull guitar breakdown section. I read a great quote from Gilmour once -referring to members of his touring band- stating that young musicians these days 'just don't know how to disintegrate'
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
”These session guys and their robotic proficiency...”
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
Another point: almost every arena act uses a teleprompter, but no club acts. What's up with that?
if I told you what I make for a half day's work the answer would be pretty obvious!
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
also I wonder if anyone's doing the 'take a request from the audience for a cover we haven't played in years, then have the prompter guy look up the lyrics and get them onscreen in a few minutes' thing that Springsteen's doing. that seems like more of a backup than anything else to me -- if you know the song's melody well enough to play it confidently in front of thousands, you probably know most of the words, the prompter's just there in case you blank out on the second verse.
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
if anyone ELSE is doing it, i mean.
I saw an episode of That Metal Show with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart where they admitted they've done shows without playing "Magic Man" because it was a song Ann got burned out on early on.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
i don't think feist plays 1,2,3,4 anymore
― monotony, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was going to say that Magnetic Fields never play "100,000 Fireflies," but per setlist.fm they actually did play it a lot on their 2010 tour, so I guess they've gotten over themselves in this respect
http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/the-magnetic-fields-53d69be1.html
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
it's kinda surprising that this thread has gotten this far without any mention of Radiohead's "Creep," so i'll just get that out of the way.
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw Radiohead last night. They didn't play anything off their 1st 2 records and only 2 songs off OK Computer. It was kind of a boring show tbh, but then I'm not really a fan (the ticket was free and I'd never been to a stadium gig before and I did like Radiohead when I was a teenager, so I thought yeah what the hell).
I guess I could make this post more succinct by just posting "Radiohead sucks"
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw Radiohead once, at Coachella in the early 2000s, & I'm pretty sure they played "Creep" then.
― Euler, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
maybe 2003 or 2004? maybe that was a one off though, I dunno
p sure they played it at Victoria Park 4/5 years ago.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
When did they "stop" playing it? Last time I saw them was in 1995 and they played it then.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
i think their refusal to play "Creep" at all was a pretty short-lived thing in the '90s? they played it when i saw them in '98 and i was actually surprised because i'd heard they didn't like playing it. i guess they made their peace with it but now that they've established that they don't have to play it every night, they leave it out when they feel like it.
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
When Pink Floyd regrouped in the mid/late 80's, they played Echoes for the first dozen shows of the Momentary Lapse tour, then ditched it in favour of Shine On. I'm curious if they had problems with the arrangement particularly the whooshy, seagull guitar breakdown section. I read a great quote from Gilmour once -referring to members of his touring band- stating that young musicians these days 'just don't know how to disintegrate'― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:01 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:01 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol. I just read that quote somewhere this morning.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
Re:Springsteen I remember reading a newspaper review of his show here on the first E-Street reunion tour, and the critic happily pointed out how all of the set was--bar some new songs, covers and "Darlington County"--material from the '70s. Some people who'd attended the show subsequently wrote letters that got published expressing their disappointment that they didn't get to hear their favorite songs. The critic responded in print that perhaps they just went to the wrong tour date, pointing out that at the next stop (which was like in New Orleans or Dallas) Springsteen did an all '80s plus "Born To Run", "Rosalita", covers & the new songs set.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
Didn't R.E.M. phase "Stand" out pretty early? I know both "Shiny Happy People" and "Radio Song" were rarely if ever done live.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
No one's mentioned Grateful Dead and "Saint Stephen" yet.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
Garcia really didn't like the material on Aoxomoxoa very much. "China Cat Sunflower" was the longest lasting item in their sets, and even then it was part of a medley w/"I Know You Rider".
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
Springsteen played here like a dozen years ago, and how everyone bitched and moaned the next day that he didn't play "Dancing In the Dark", "Born in the USA" or "Hungry Heart".
Motehrfucker played "Mary, Queen of Arkansas" for the first time live since 1972 and the fans were mad because they didn't get to have their Courtney Cox moment. I tell you, i smdh quite vigorously.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was kinda shocked that Metallica had never played "Escape" until they played Ride the Lightning in its entirety a few months ago. This site says they've still never played "Frayed Ends of Sanity" live.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
Also weird: Shriekback circa 1986, they opened with "Nemesis," prompting everyone audience to look at each other with an expression that said "gah, they're not even warmed up yet". But then they closed with it too.
― bendy, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw Cheap Trick in 2000 (? thereabouts) when they did a three night stand in Mpls and played the first three albums in a row. I went the second night and they played all of "In Color" but during the encore did not play "Surrender", evn though they did it the night before. I mean I was fine with it and I think so was the crowd cuz Aerosmith came out & both bands did "Train Kept A-Rollin" which was pretty sweet.
But still, probably one of the very Cheap Trick shows where they did not play "Surrender"
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
The last time I saw AC/DC they opened with "You Shook Me All Night Long." It was the ultimate "suck it" moment from a band with more than enough songs to go around.
The Flaming Lips make such a point of playing "She Don't Use Jelly" at every show that even its inclusion and reasons for inclusion - "this is a big hit, and some people habe never seen us before! - have become more annoying than the song itself.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
I would've thought that most current Radiohead fans don't even like 'Creep', right?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think they play Creep when they visit more far-flung locations, I think it was popping up in a few of the South American shows.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
AC/DC Concertgoer: "You Shook Me All Night Long"? I'd like to suck on some of that!
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
when I saw Radiohead in 2003 they did both 'Creep' and 'The Bends', tho Thom seemed to make a joke of both of them. Why bother eh why bother. I do kinda wonder who would be paying to see a Radiohead headline show in the last ten years and be disappointed that they don't get 'Creep'.
(Equally I wonder how much of a usual Flaming Lips crowd nowadays would really think of 'She Don't Use Jelly' as their hit.)
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 02:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
i'm always impressed when long-running bands don't have one song that's an every-single-show given. Sonic Youth obviously aren't a 'singles' band like the Stones or something where crowd-pleasing is a super overt agenda, but even among the dozen or so '80s songs they've played the most over years, some of them have just been abandoned entirely during for one or two tour-heavy years at a time.
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 02:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Another point: almost every arena act uses a teleprompter, but no club acts. What's up with that?"
It's one more thing you got to carry around. I'm sure the bassist or guitarist in Tortoise got to shake their heads some nights at having to haul around 2 drum kits and 2 Marimbas/vibes sets.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 02:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
Didn't Neil Young refuse to play anything out of On The Beach untill it was reissued?Saw him play Ambulance Blues in 98 or 99, so that isn't right. But that isn't exactly a weird omission since the legacy of that album was really created since it was reissued, it seems.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah rem played 'ambulance blues' w/ him at a bridge benefit late 90s; peter buck had requested it and said neil's reponse was 'why would you want to play THAT?'
― balls, Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
Replace "your biggest hit" with "that cover from the Youtube you did for somebody's birthday" or "that out-of-character novelty song" and you'll be in the same damned boat as 75% other indie rock acts on their way to indie rock hell
Yeah, Ted Leo did a wacky mash-up cover thing of "Maps" and "Since U Been Gone" about 8 years ago and people still shout for it at his shows.
I'm pretty sure I saw a Sonic Youth show in Hollywood in the late 90s where they ONLY played "The Diamond Sea"!
I've seen The Walkmen five or six times and they have never played "The Rat."
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 11 October 2012 08:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
i like the 'not playing the hit version of the hit' workaround -- like Springsteen doing the acoustic demo arrangement of "Born In The U.S.A." then they can't complain that you didn't play it, and might actually appreciate getting a different take on it. or you can do one of those medleys where you breeze past the big hit in 30 seconds.
― some dude, Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
saw mark farner at a local park this summer and he omitted "we're an american band." puzzling until i realized he didn't write or sing that one. still, though.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 11 October 2012 11:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
In the late '90s, Counting Crows used to play this deconstructed, almost unrecognizable version of "Mr. Jones". They at least had "A Long December" to fall back on at the time, though. Pretty sure they eventually got over themselves and started playing the original version again.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
xp Mark Farner is also a born-again Christian now and probably doesn't want to sing about doing teh groupies and such.
Did he do it when he toured w/Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band?
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
Another 'not playing the hit version of the hit' workaround: NIN playing "Closer to God" instead of "Closer".
― cwkiii, Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
saw mark farner at a local park this summer and he omitted "we're an american band." puzzling until i realized he didn't write or sing that one. still, though.You should have just started yelling for him to play it, like the drunk dude next to me at a Wilco show who kept shouting out for them to play "Chickamaugua".
― pplains, Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
I wonder if Joe Jackson has ever *included* "Watching The Detectives" in a set...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
I did hear Elvis Costello once did "It's Different for Girls" and "I got your number written on the back of my hand" as warm-ups...
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's weird how Ryan Adams won't play "Summer of '69" anymore.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
When I saw Wesley Willis, he refused to play "Rock 'n' Roll McDonalds". Responded to repeated shouted requests with something like "I played that song 817 times and that's ENOUGH! McDonald's will kill your ass!"
― cwkiii, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw McDonald, Scaggs and Fagen this summer (lords of rythym or some name like that) and each of them played some of their biggest hits. Scaggs did not play "Lido Shuffle"
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
OMG! I didn't think I'd ever heard Boz Scaggs before, so I listened to "Lido Shuffle," and after all these years I just assumed it was Van Morrison.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
No, no, Van Morrison was the guy who sang "Dancin' In the Moonlight".
― pplains, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Bands that refuse to play a song of theirs cos it's popular is a shitty thing to do.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
If i was in that situation and i was really sick of the song, I'd just play it right off the bat at the start of the set and say "Ok, all you people who came for that one song can leave now"
It's funny this thread goes so long and no one brings up Bob Dylan.
I saw him about ten years ago and he didn't play "Like A Rolling Stone" or "Rainy Day Women" or "Lay Lady Lay" or…
… but of course, no one expected him to play any of those songs. I dare say that not one dumb ass walked out of there, grumbling about getting ripped off because he didn't get to hear "All Along the Watchtower".
How does a musician – like Springsteen even – ever get to that point where their fans don't expect the Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 every time they play?
― pplains, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
The Boss is pretty well organized. He knows exactly where/when he's played everything, so can modulate accordingly.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
By writing a real huge load of other songs...
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
That are actually good and performed well, etc. Unlike Dylan, who can barely croak through his hits. Springsteen is an ace salesman.
I saw Metallica a couple of times in the nineties and on both occasions they elected to not play the single they had out at the time. Even then I don't think anyone were too hurt by not getting to hear "Hero of the Day" but I remember thinking it was weird.
I like the big hit workaround solution as long as it's been a reasonable amount of time, I'm not interested in hearing a bhangra mashup version of a one year old song but I really like how Madonna will still do "Like A Virgin" live but hasn't performed it straight in decades. Everyone knows it well enough to sing along no matter what she does to it and goes home happy anyway.
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
― cwkiii, Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the kings of that are The Police, forever futzing around with new arrangements for songs everyone would prefer to hear the way they know
― some dude, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
The last few times I've seen them, Fountains of Wayne played a slow, loungy version of "Stacy's Mom." It's pretty bad, actually. But the last time I saw them do it, Schlesinger finished the song and said "and that's what we'll be doing in the Ramada for the next thirty years" and somehow this act of contempt directed equally at the audience and themselves won me over.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
xpost bowie had hits in the 90s? (except man who sold the world?)
― spazzmatazz, Sunday, 14 October 2012 06:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Fame remix if you wanna count it, Jump They Say, Black Tie White Noise, Buddha Of Suburbia adap theme song, Hearts Filthy Lesson, Hello Spaceboy, Little Wonder, I'm Afraid Of Americans, prob more that an actual Bowie fan could identify
― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Sunday, 14 October 2012 09:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
tbf, the vocal arrangement on "Miles" was such that not only was reproducing it live impossible in 1967, but even doing an approximation would likely have been disastrous, given the lack of stage monitoring at the time.
The Who did entire tours in the 90s without playing a note from Tommy. Granted, these were the Quadrophenia tours, but none of the encore songs in the second portion of the show were from Tommy (but did include things like "A Legal Matter" and a Johnny Cash medley).
They also played about 30 shows on their 1982 tour without playing "My Generation."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 14 October 2012 16:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
wow never imagined they would've iced "My Generation" for a while.
i wonder if Madonna has ever snubbed any of her iconic hits besides the despised "Material Girl."
― flaming goon pie included (some dude), Sunday, 14 October 2012 16:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
When Lindsey Buckingham toured "Out of the Cradle" with his "guitarmy" in ... 93, maybe? ... I don't think he played "Countdown," the album's single and one of the catchiest songs on the disc. I've seen him a half-dozen times since and he still doesn't play it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah avoiding a current/recent single has gotta be especially rare and strange
― flaming goon pie included (some dude), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
The Who opened with "My Generation" when I saw them in 1982. I didn't realize at the time that it was a bit unexpected.
― WmC, Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
It was added back for the 2nd leg of that tour.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
nother 'not playing the hit version of the hit' workaround: NIN playing "Closer to God" instead of "Closer".
Portishead, touring for the s/t LP in 1997, closed their set w/ the 'Airbus Reconstruction' rock version of 'Sour Times.' Not what a lot of ppl were expecting (or hoping for, prob), but it was AWESOME
― suggest butt (Pillbox), Sunday, 14 October 2012 19:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
I would have walked out of that show happy.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, that would have been awesome. Portishead are by far the best -sounding- live band I've ever heard. There should be a thread for that, right?
― kraudive, Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
Hitting rock bottom for a band presumably occurs when people start shouting for "that song people mistakenly think is one of yours due to prevalence of incorrectly-tagged mp3s on Limewire".
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 14 October 2012 22:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Portishead always had some good alternate versions.
― pplains, Monday, 15 October 2012 01:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Weezer shows are basically alt-rock karaoke: Green Day, Nirvana, Radiohead, Oasis, etc.
― flaming goon pie included (some dude), Monday, 15 October 2012 01:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
When Pink Floyd regrouped in the mid/late 80's, they played Echoes for the first dozen shows of the Momentary Lapse tour, then ditched it in favour of Shine On. I'm curious if they had problems with the arrangement particularly the whooshy, seagull guitar breakdown section. I read a great quote from Gilmour once -referring to members of his touring band- stating that young musicians these days 'just don't know how to disintegrate'― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:01 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:01 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is the most encyclopedic breakdown on the seagull sound anywhere.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2012 02:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
Fuckin A, thanks Chris..!
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Monday, 15 October 2012 09:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
Foster the People, who had a huge hit last year with "Pumped Up Kicks" but skipped it altogether on Saturday, also managed to make the most of their brief time onstage, revamping their synthetic pop tunes with remarkable practicality.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 October 2012 03:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
That can't be right. 99% of their audience would only be there for that song, surely?!
― Walter Galt, Monday, 22 October 2012 08:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
remarkable practicality! lol
― tylerw, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
But 99% of their audience probably had the song on their phone already. If I was the Foster The People dude, I'd get them to shut up and all play it simultaneously off the phones parking lot experiment/Zaireeka-style.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 October 2012 23:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:57 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:57 AM
OTM and OTM. Just eat that one piece of broccoli first, then you can enjoy the rest of your meal.
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
the smashing pumpkins used to do that all the time in 93/94, they'd play Today and Disarm back to back real early on in the set.
― spazzmatazz, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Van Morrison rarely played any of his hits or well-known songs for decades, although from what I understand he's relented somewhat over the last decade. When I saw him, "Moondance" was the only hit he played, and he did virtually nothing from his classic early albums.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 22:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
There was one tour by The Church where the intro music was an trip-hop/EDM cover of "Under The Milky Way." That was the only time you heard that song during the evening.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 October 2012 23:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
I imagine the Allman Bros. probably don't do "Ramblin' Man" anymore since Betts was fired.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:55 (7 months ago) Permalink