It reminded me a bit of the Thousand Leaves tour, except the new songs actually sound good. Not my favorite time seeing them, but they still bring it pretty hard. The only new song that really lost me was the long ending track...I mean, an acoustic guitar?!?! It was like Storytellers up there or some shit.
Still, got a few choice old cuts: Catholic Block, The Sprawl, 'Cross the Breeze, Making the Nature Scene, Silver Rocket, and The World Looks Red, which was killer.
I was telling BookerT that I'm not sure if there's any one SY song that's the "holy grail" in terms of me never hearing it live. I had never heard The World Looks Red before, so that was cool, but since I've been lucky enough to hear Death Valley, Expressway, Diamond Sea, etc., I'm just not sure there's much they'd play tonight that I'd kick myself for missing.
Another two small complaints I have (about the band in general) is that
1) they seem so willing to skip some CLASSIC cuts from their Washing Machine and on discography. I don't' want to hear much from Thousand Leaves, but give us a Wildflower Soul now and again.
2) While everyone can agree that Daydream Nation is the best album like ever, and while I'm sure glad I caught that show, I think they're now focusing too much on those songs. They have 15 albums...and we get three from it?
Still, those were super minor complaints, as they band killed all of the older material. It's Sonic Youth...go because they rule.
did they do all The Eternal songs in a row? Was it a bad idea?
