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Faceplams: Haven't watched the video yet, but I was surprised that the song is pretty good! I didn't like a lot of their later material, so it's something I didn't expect.
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Haven't watched the video yet, but I was surprised that the song is pretty good! I didn't like a lot of their later material, so it's something I didn't expect.
FATUM NOS IUNGET
In celebration of me scoring the vinyl Mellon Colllie vinyl set for like half price, let me randomly say that the track 'Here Is No Why' is fucking amazing. That is all.
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I rally want mcis on vinyl. Sigh. One day
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At least the new vinyl reissue is the CD tracklisting. The original vinyl was a completely different order. The CD track order is a million times better. The old vinyl tracklisting's flow was all off. It seems Billy agrees as well and I'm glad he went with the CD order for the vinyl reissueOriginally Posted by dvdglss
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Mind sharing where you got it?
she/her/hers
i feel very conflicted on whether or not to hang on to my set. i finally listened to it a few months ago and it has all the audio issues that seemed to be widespread in the US pressing, which makes me less likely to listen to it. i also have the big CD box set version. but i'm such a weirdo and a stickler for collecting things that i'm having trouble justifying letting it go :/
if i ever do decide to sell it, you'll be the first to know, and i'll give you a good price (it's in NM condition all around and, obviously, only played once)
FATUM NOS IUNGET
MusicVaultz.com had a summer sale to clear out some stock I guess. Had it for $49.99 USD (here in Canadiananada it retails for like $109.99).
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There's a few on eBay brand new for around $70 and free shipping
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I've been listening to Mellon Collie a lot the last week or so and I was just thinking maybe a day or two ago that "Here Is No Why" is probably my favorite song on that album. It's seriously awesome.
At this point I would say I only like about half the album, maybe a little more than half, but the songs I like on it I REALLY like.
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edit: I already posted something similar earlier ...
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I only want it for the artwork. I love the art so much...
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Here Is No Why is a pristine masterpiece. I love the arrangements, the vocals, the guitar tones, everything...
It would rank very high on my list of best SP songs (along with Soma, Eye, Ruby, For Martha, Geek, Drown, Porcelina, and Stand Inside).
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Then you're giving UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
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That solo is seriously nasty. So perfect.
she/her/hers
oh, then you should absolutely get the CD boxed set, that comes with a bunch of extra art AND a decoupage kit!
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First show of the tour's happening now. Bill sounds really, really good and there's been stuff like Siva and Rhinoceros, Eye.
Going to bed because headache but I can't wait to see the while thing tomorrow morning.
Hollywood Butt Double
I was at tonight’s show. Holy fuck! Awesome!!They played for over three hours, and sounded great. Great production, too.
I’ll post more in the morning.
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Holy crap. What a setlist lol
FATUM NOS IUNGET
Videos and setlist.
The setlist is indeed, bonkers.
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Do you remember what time they hit the stage? There's no opener, right?
Hollywood Butt Double
Last night’s setlist:
Disarm
Rocket
Siva
Rhinoceros
Space Oddity (David Bowie cover)
Drown
Zero
The Everlasting Gaze
Stand Inside Your Love
Thirty-Three
Eye
Soma
Blew Away
For Martha
To Sheila
Mayonaise
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Tonight, Tonight
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin cover)
Cherub Rock
1979
Ava Adore
Try, Try, Try
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
Hummer
Today
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Muzzle
Encore:
Solara
Baby Mine (Disney cover)
The band was really into it. Lots of smiles. Not much chatter (James joked around a bit), but they seemed happy to be there.
I’ll be honest: my expectations were pretty low, but my jaw hit the floor several times. Everyone sounded great.
I want to keep the production side of it spoiler free, but I’m sure there are plenty of videos on YouTube by now, if you’re curious. I’ll just say that the stage changes throughout the show, and that the visuals are very cool. Billy’s affinity for pomp and circumstance is on full display.
If I had to nitpick, there were a couple of lulls where I thought the pacing lagged a bit (though “To Sheila” was a definite highlight), and I thought the encore choices were a bit odd (would rather have seen them end with a barnburner). I also could have done without the vignettes that played between a couple of the more elaborate set changes (let’s just say it involves video of another musician - one I don’t associate with good music - serving as a “carnival barker” type. It was deliberately cheesy, but I thought it was a bit much).
As far as merch goes: lots of shirt selections, from tour date ones to band tees, vinyl (Gish, Siamese Dream, and Melancholy), and some other odds and ends, like a bag, water bottle, koozie, etc. I grabbed a tour poster (with all the dates. They didn’t have a show-specific one).
All in all: wow! If you were on the fence about whether or not to catch this tour, I’d say jump on it.
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Hollywood Butt Double
Metric opened. They started right at 7PM. They sounded good, but the whole theater-style “chairs on the arena floor” thing really worked against them. Everyone sat.
That’s actually one of the things about this show that I absolutely did not like, that I forgot to mention in my last post. I definitely could have done without seats on the floor. I was very close to the stage, but would have loved the freedom to move around.
Metric played from 7-7:45.
SP hit the stage pretty much right at 8, and played until about 11:15.
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I'm just going to get this out of the way now.
During Stairway they apparently take a saint statue around for a little tour and the thing has Corgan's face on it (it's been identified as "Zero" by BC on instagram):
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Merch booth:
Aside from my preferring TEITBITE a great deal more than TBITEITB, and what I think are too many covers (No I Am One is weird) I'm actually looking forward to going to see this. That's a hell of a long setlist.
FATUM NOS IUNGET
Fuck. I'm actually.....upset they're not coming here now?
Fuck.
Stubby Member
That setlist is amazing
I hope I am the one, Frail and bedazzled , An ode to no one , Starla, Obscured, appears in the tour (Wow, they played 30 songs and I want more, Sorry Billy, But you have to admit you had great years, they were amazing years)
The stairway to heaven cover is really good but the "saint figure" is like wtf
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BC mentioned on one of his instagram posts that there were a few numbers like Starla they were saving for the two-night shows for the second night. Otherwise the setlist is supposed to be static for the whole tour.
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Come on September 8th!
Might be grabbing a few of those shirts. The red heart is a must.
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How did Billy sound?
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These latest posts are a good example of “wait and see” before jumping to conclusions. Wish they would’ve had a Milwaukee date, would’ve loved to get some cheap seats off StubHub.
Never saw them live either so would’ve been totally content with a “greatest hits setlist”.
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