Review seems a bit unfair to me. All right, yes, they did a few more hits this time than last, and the vibe in the room was a lot less tense, but they still only did four tracks from the first album--no "Fake Tales of San Francisco," no "Mardy Bum," no "From the Ritz to the Rubble," no "A Certain Romance." And they did six songs from an upcoming album, opening with one never before played live. So right there the whole imagined 'some seedy talent manager constructing the setlist for them in a shadowy back-room' scenario is undermined.
Opinions are nice and all, but I feel a slightly more populist show is grumpily being portrayed as 90 minutes of mainstream-pandering, soulless crap. Very false, in my opinion.