when i was a senior in high school i did my UT campus visit and ended up going to a party that night with a friend's older sister who was already enrolled. i was very excited about my first college party, and subsequently extremely disappointed when we showed up and they were listening to REM at the party. i thought they must be giant losers because who the fuck listens to REM? still have a vivid memory of someone doing a kegstand to "man on the moon" and thinking i must be in the twilight zone. i have since come to understand why some people enjoy it, but have never gained an appreciation for their music.
picked up the 1995 playback box set for $10 recently and was reading through the liner notes last night. apparently mike campbell had this on the back burner for a decade and they couldn't figure out what to do with it. the producer called in lenny kravitz, he listened to 30 seconds of the tape and immediately knew what to do...laid down the drum and bass tracks right there.
mostly agree, but hot thoughts is pretty weak. the shift from guitar to electronic did not suit them well. i do appreciate the effort though as I think it really helped them realize that guitars are a big part of their sound.
they don't make very good beer. also, i don't see anything about them going out of business...appears they posted on instagram a few hours ago that they're struggling and could use some more sales but nothing indicating they're done.
full concert from the wildflowers tour. sound is great and the band is on fire, the outro to mary jane's last dance is some good shit. video quality is terrible but whatever.
0:23 "Love Is A Long Road" 4:43 "You Don't Know How It Feels" 10:26 "Listen To Her Heart" 14:03 "I Won't Back Down" 18:16 "Free Fallin'" 23:13 "You Wreck Me" 27:30 "Diamond Head" 32:49 "Mary Jane's Last Dance" 41:30 "Into The Great Wide Open" 46:42 "Learning To Fly" 51:25 "Don't Fade On Me" 56:14 "Girl On LSD" 1:00:25 "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" 1:06:10 "Wildflowers" 1:10:03 "Yer So Bad" 1:13:31 "It's Good Too Be King" 1:22:58 "Breakdown" 1:27:05 "Driving Down To Georgia" 1:33:57 "Refugee" 1:38:49 "Runnin' Down A Dream" 1:48:15 "Honey Bee" 1:53:56 "American Girl" 2:00:30 "Alright For Now"
man, i must've seen them cover that 3 or 4 times as the encore and i never enjoyed it. not that it's necessarily a bad cover, but he's got 50 other songs i want to hear live and i have to hear Gloria again?
thought all them witches was just ok on saturday. a lot of it had to do with the terrible crowd...could not get away from loud talkers, it was like back of stubbs bad. starting to really not enjoy sold out shows at the mohawk. the last few times i've seen ATW it's been in small dark clubs and i think their music lends itself better to that setting than to a bigger place like mohawk. energy just wasn't the same.
the war on drugs last night. the songs from lost in the dream are still the best live, and they played most of them that i wanted to hear. could have done without the slow numbers off the new album...rings around my father's eyes and occasional rain were a little lacking in energy. i don't want to wait was the best song off the new album by far. overall really damned good. under the pressure is a fucking beast live.