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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on May 06, 2008, 11:10:00 am
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Everything else on 5/9 has a rollcall already, why not us too?
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You're right, Ill be there
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This should be great.
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Looking forward to it. Listening to Bloodflowers now. I love that record.
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I'll be there
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i'll be there
my birthday concert, 8 months late
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So totally there...I've been listening to a ton of Cure lately. Funny, they were one of my favorite bands when I was like 12 and then I didn't listen to them for a long time. But in the past 5 or so years I've been going back sporadically and rediscovering "Pornography", "Seventeen Seconds", and "Wish" and am pleasantly surprised at how great they have held up. I hope they'll do 3-hour shows like they did on the last European tour. Bombay, where is your seat?
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I WOULD be going to this but FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS comes first... (FLOOR ticket to the Cure still available!)
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Originally posted by bearman:
Bombay, where is your seat?
In the back of Section 1.
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yep, count me in as well. section 103.
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+2 section 115
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Only one more day...here's hoping that they play "The Figurehead", "At Night", "Shake Dog Shake", "Prayers For Rain", and "A Forest". After the week I've had, I need some mopey gothic death rock. Sure, I'll enjoy all the cute little ditties like "Boys Don't Cry" and "Just Like Heaven" too, but I'm seriously into all the shit from "Pornography" again lately. Woo-hoo!
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Originally posted by bearman:
Only one more day...here's hoping that they play "The Figurehead", "At Night", "Shake Dog Shake", "Prayers For Rain", and "A Forest". After the week I've had, I need some mopey gothic death rock. Sure, I'll enjoy all the cute little ditties like "Boys Don't Cry" and "Just Like Heaven" too, but I'm seriously into all the shit from "Pornography" again lately. Woo-hoo!
Well, judging by the European tour sets, you've got a good chance for Prayers and almost certainly will hear A Forest and Shake Dog Shake. I don't think they've played The Figurehead recently.
I'll be there - three rows from the wall, but I'll be there.
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I'll be there! Got a floor seat hopefully not going to get trampled by goths.
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Originally posted by wml7:
I'll be there! Got a floor seat hopefully not going to get trampled by goths.
It's assigned seats, so you won't get trampled. You'll be fine, it'll be great. Much love!
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Yay!!!
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Originally posted by wml7:
Yay!!!
Yeah, you're my bro, bro. WML is the man! Like 22 hours to show time then another 22 hours to Red wings/Stars game 2! Then another bit to Radiohead.
THIS WEEKEND WILL BE FUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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any ideas on set times? doors are at 7, with an opener, so i'm thinking 9-11pm for the cure?
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I might get there in the morning at the patriot center just incase if the tour bus arrives early.
I better watch for security. don't go near the tour bus door for band members to show up.
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Im getting really excited about tonight's show!, set times anyone?
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Originally posted by lagas:
Im getting really excited about tonight's show!, set times anyone?
According to Eddie over in the FAQ forum:
Doors - 7:00
65DaysOfStatic - 8:00
The Cure 9:00
No word on ending time for the Cure, though. Hopefully midnite!
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Originally posted by lagas:
Im getting really excited about tonight's show!, set times anyone?
According to Eddie over in the FAQ forum:
Doors - 7:00
65DaysOfStatic - 8:00
The Cure 9:00
No word on ending time for the Cure, though. Hopefully midnite! [/b]
niiiice
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I'd imagine midnight. If not for *FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS* I'd be there!!
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show was awesome. they played every freaking song. 3 encores. I did get rid of my spare for 40 bucks better then nothing I guess. chili cook off next
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For the nerds:
0. Long chimes intro
1. Plainsong
2. Prayers for Rain
3. A Strange Day
4. alt.End
5. The Walk
6. The End of the World
7. Lovesong
8. To Wish Impossible Things
9. Pictures of You
10. Lullaby
11. NEW SONG - "we've never played this before" - The Perfect Boy
12. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
13. Hot Hot Hot!!!
14. The Only One
15. Push
16. Friday I'm In Love
17. In Between Days
18. Just Like Heaven
19. Primary
20. Shake Dog Shake
21. Never Enough
22. Wrong Number
23. One Hundred Years
24. Disintegration
25. At Night
26. M
27. Play for Today
28. A Forest
29. The Lovecats
30. Let's Go to Bed
31. Freak Show
32. Close to Me
33. Why Can't I Be You?
34. Boys Don't Cry
35. Jumping Someone Else's Train, without pause into:
36. Grinding Halt
37. 10:15 Saturday Night
38. Killing an Arab
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I was extremely pleased with my 5/9 concert choice. Play For Today and Jumping Someone Else's Train were incredible songs I never thought I'd hear live in 2008.
Only songs I wanted (and they'd been playing) that we missed were A Night Like This and Charlotte Sometimes, but they played 38 songs so who can complain? We had awesome seats to this too.
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This show was beyond awesome, what a great night. I was waiting for Fascination Street, but with that set list no one can complain...
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a.m.a.z.i.n.g.
3 hours! nearly 40 songs! last time i was at a show that long was ryan adams in 2001 and trust me, this was far better!
wow. all they did was want to play and all we wanted to do was dance and listen. always a good formula.
we were in 103 but moved to 116 after a half hour, the echo and reverb really distorted the sound since 103 is right near a concrete wall down on the floor. sound once we moved was clear and strong.
me thinks i will need to see them again on this tour.
for those of you down front, how does robert look after all these years?
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I didnt think I was going to sell my ticket at first. I had some people that asked about it. I had this one guy who asked and then was like would you take 10 bucks for it I'll give you 10 bucks. I thought to myself is this guy insane hell no I would rather just give it away that was ridiculous. so come to find out that guy was a scalper and had tons to sell. scumbags all scalper should die. other then that awesome show and floor seats were great and didnt get trampled by goths.
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I will comment in more detail when I have more time, but if you missed this show and you're a Cure fan then you majorly fucked up. I could opt to focus on how "Why Can't I Be You?" was missing the keyboard parts or that "Let's Go To Bed" may work better as a synth-driven song, but they're minor complaints when you see the definitive version of "A Forest" played. "Jumping Someone Else's Train" killed, as did all of the songs from "Pornography". Phenomenal lighting on the "One Hundred years". Good gawd. Lily, I'm with you. They end the tour in NYC, might be a good idea to see if we can go to that one.
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So we got to the venue and immediately felt better about the fact that our almost backs-to-the wall tickets were as expensive as front row seats - the sightlines at the Patriot Center are pretty good, and it's fairly small, as arenas go.
65daysofstatic came on a little before eight. These guys are one of my favorite new bands, and definitely worth checking out if you're into instrumental/post-rock/electronica type stuff. They put on a really good show, but I can't help feeling that I would've enjoyed them a lot more at a venue like Black Cat instead of in a (then) half-full giant metal shed of people who didn't give a shit and kept talking through their entire set. If you just don't care about the opening band, make like the other half in the crowd and come after them, please? 65 played for half an hour, and it felt like it was over before it even started.
The lights went down again at nine, as the giant screens onstage filled up with stars. The chimes started, which settled the "will they open with Plainsong or Open?" question. I'm glad it was Plainsong - very chill, beautiful and a perfect way to start the night.
The Cure are touring without a keyboard player, but it became clear pretty quickly that this wasn't a big deal. Everything was reworked pretty well for guitars, though a couple of songs in the second encore had keys on a backing tracks. The only songs I felt were crying out to get their keyboards back were Wrong Number and Lovesong. Even Lullaby sounded fine without them.
For me, the highlights of the main set were Pictures of You, Disintegration, and most especially FROM THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA. It's my favorite Cure song by a wide margin, and I would've paid my seventy bucks over again just for those eight minutes. The fact that Porl Thompson was having guitar problems and had to switch guitars in the quiet part, that the asshole three seats down left loudly to get more beer and the middle of the song, and that the ending got a little messed up somehow didn't really change that. It was absolutely breathtaking.
It felt like the band was about done after Just Like Heaven, but man, they just kept going. Primary, the only song they played from Faith, was a nice little treat. The main set closed with a "holy shit" one-two punch of One Hundred Years and Disintegration. One Hundred Years, after all this time, hasn't lost any of it's impact; and the sped up take on Disintegration was a triumphant note to end on.
After three minutes or so, the band returned to the stage with At Night and played a super tight mini-set of songs from Seventeen Seconds. This first encore ended with a breathtaking (and very creepy) take on A Forest. A bunch of people started to leave during At Night, probably assuming it was the last song and they were going to beat the traffic by getting out a couple minutes early. Whoops - you missed A LOT, but thanks for giving us the opportunity to move down five rows!
A second, "pop songs" encore followed. I could take or leave most of it, minus Close to Me and Why Can't I Be You, but whatever. They really did do something for everybody.
The Cure came back to the stage one last time to play some early singles and tracks from their first album, Three Imaginary Boys. Boys Don't Cry, a track I don't really care for the recorded version of, was good fun live. Jumping Someone Else's Train was fantastic, and went literally without any pause into Grinding Halt, a song I never thought would sound so cool live. 10:15 Saturday Night, my favorite song from any of the earlier Cure records, was stellar. The real last song of the night - number thirty eight - was the band's first single, Killing An Arab. It was fast, furious, and just the right note with which to end the night.
This was the first show of The Cure's North American tour last year. They played three new songs: The Only One, Freak Show, and one that had never been played live before at all, The Perfect Boy. They all went over pretty well, except maybe Freak Show. You can hear the Only One on the Cure's website and there are a couple of good versions of Freak Show on youtube.
The Cure finished at around ten past midnight. Holy shit.
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after seeing the setlist, i have to say that i'm very glad i didn't waste my money or time going to this show considering it was more than twice as expensive as the last times i saw them and the setlist was almost exclusively singles/ridiculously overplayed songs (if your favorite song is FTEOTDGS, you're in luck because it's been played almost every single fucking show since 1992).
re: bearman's mention of the pornography songs, i think those selections are weak. where's siamese twins or the title track? the figurehead? any of those three are better choices than those two overplayed songs they did choose.
i have to say that i'm incredibly glad i've never seen the cure play songs like 'hot hot hot' or 'why can't i be you?'. i like to pretend that sort of cure stuff never existed.
re: the new song.
it's good they have a song called 'the perfect boy' to go along with already existing titles 'the perfect girl' and 'the exploding boy'. maybe there's another new song coming out involving cats.
someone please wake me up / inform me when robert smith decides that america deserves more than just a 'greatest hits' show, because europe always gets better setlist choices (just look back starting around 1984 and you'll see -- especially the '87 tour) and stuff like the trilogy shows.
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Originally posted by distance:
i have to say that i'm very glad i didn't waste my money or time going to this show
I'm glad you didn't go, too.
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This show was fantastic, and I've seen the Cure before, so I'm not talking out of my ass. Anyone trashing a show -- without seeing it -- where a band played 38 songs, including a TON of classics, needs to shut up.
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Originally posted by distance:
(if your favorite song is FTEOTDGS, you're in luck because it's been played almost every single fucking show since 1992).
I'm aware. It's still my favorite Cure song.
i have to say that i'm incredibly glad i've never seen the cure play songs like 'hot hot hot' or 'why can't i be you?'. i like to pretend that sort of cure stuff never existed.
Must get a little hard to ignore half of a band's career.
the trilogy shows.
While seeing the whole of Disintegration live would be pretty cool, Pornography is a good but overrated record that gets a little tedious at times, and Bloodflowers can seriously FOAD for all I care.
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Originally posted by NilThree:
Must get a little hard to ignore half of a band's career.
not particularly. i listen to what i enjoy at this point.
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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
This show was fantastic, and I've seen the Cure before, so I'm not talking out of my ass. Anyone trashing a show -- without seeing it -- where a band played 38 songs, including a TON of classics, needs to shut up.
i don't care that they played 38 songs. if i didn't want to see half the songs, it doesn't matter how many they played.
the only thing they played that i would have really wanted to see that i haven't already seen was 'at night'.
i wasn't trashing 'the show'. i was trashing what i see as a poor, tired, overplayed selection of songs, mostly singles.
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Originally posted by distance:
Originally posted by NilThree:
Must get a little hard to ignore half of a band's career.
not particularly. i listen to what i enjoy at this point. [/b]
Fair enough.
I thought it was a good setlist, even though there were no real surprises and it was about the same as most of the European shows this year. A little something for everyone, and both Hot Hot Hot and Why Can't I Be You were tons of fun live. They're not my favorite tracks either, even out of the poppy Cure songs, but they got the crowd going. The only "pop" Cure tracks that really didn't work live were Let's Go To Bed and The Lovecats.
I was holding out for Faith or Signal to Noise personally, but with the length of the show they played, I can't make an honest effort at complaining.
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Originally posted by NilThree:
the trilogy shows.
While seeing the whole of Disintegration live would be pretty cool, Pornography is a good but overrated record that gets a little tedious at times, and Bloodflowers can seriously FOAD for all I care. [/b]
my main point was that it was something 'different' for them. mainly i would have wanted to see pornography. disintegration would have been ok to see as well. i could really care less if i ever heard anything from bloodflowers again, much less the whole album.
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It was only the third time I had seen the Cure, and I've been listening to them for 20 years...but for me, it wasn't just a walk down memory lane. I thought it was actually a pretty fantastic representation of all their types of songs: happy 3-minute pop songs, longer, more introspective songs/ballads, and the gothic death rock epic like "One Hundred Years", which still sounds so fucking good it's insane. Distance, I appreciate you liking one type of style that the Cure has, the reality is that they're not going to play the entire "Faith" and "The Top" LPs for a near-capacity arena audience that helped make them huge rock stars. They'd be nuts not to play some of their hits, that's why people keep going back to their shows. France caught on earlier, so they'll get stuff like that never was commercially successful. But you can't fault the Cure for catering to a certain type of audience and doing the best that they can to please a whole slew of fans. The reality is you're in the minority here. Everyone else seems to have loved the show. Be glad for the internet and that you had an idea what was going to get played in advance. At least you were spared 3 hours and 60 bucks. I, on the other hand, would go again in a nanosecond.
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It was awesome, screw the haters!!!
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Great stuff. How many bands with the members all pushing 50 can churn out 3 hours like that?
The only song I really missed hearing was "A Night Like This".
Pictures Of You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsdwbErVqrA)
Let's Go To Bed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHLImwWjHQ)
Killing An Arab (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZhOB6mnZLI)
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Nice videos. I forgot to bring my camera. Had great seats on the floor too were you on the floor???
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eff'ing hell - that setlist looks amazing. going to have to catch a show at the end of the tour in NYC. wonder which one to scope out - friday night at MSG or saturday at radio city? the latter is obviously the nicer venue, but i'm not sure we'd get the 3+ hour extravaganza there...
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
eff'ing hell - that setlist looks amazing. going to have to catch a show at the end of the tour in NYC. wonder which one to scope out - friday night at MSG or saturday at radio city? the latter is obviously the nicer venue, but i'm not sure we'd get the 3+ hour extravaganza there...
radio city has been sold out for quite awhile although im sure some tix will come up on craigslist. not such great seats left at MSG, but ill see what i can get using an amex card. hopefully i can get a better seat, but at this point im just excited to be seeing them. only saw them once for the disintegration tour, so this will be quite awesome im sure.
and im not sure why you wouldnt get the 3+ hour show at radio city. but im pretty sure its part of the garden as far as ownership so dont think that would change the length of the show.
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Looking at the setlists from Philly and Boston, I have to say boy did we luck out...I'm SO glad that we got the songs that we did!
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Rollingstone.com has pics of the show at the Patriot Center.
Check it - http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/20777214/the_cure_open_their_tour_in_fairfa (http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/20777214/the_cure_open_their_tour_in_fairfa)
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that's a great setlist, better than the last one they I saw at Merriweather
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Originally posted by smakawhat:
that's a great setlist, better than the last one they I saw at Merriweather
I iz no spell grammar right.
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hopefully they'll come back again when the new album comes out!
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we lucked into some good seats halfway back on the floor. was at first in a panic that there were no keyboards, but they somehow pulled it off. what an amazing and lengthly opening night of a tour, although keyboards on a third of the numbers would have really put it over the top.
Lots and lots of vids now on youtube for this show.