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Post subject: Re: We All Raise Our Voices to the Air! - A Decemberists Thr
Posted: Sat July 21, 2018 7:33 pm
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How is the new album holding up for you, Joey? Despite some initial enthiusiasm for a handful of tracks, I find it just isn't hitting the spot for me on repeat listens.
How is the new album holding up for you, Joey? Despite some initial enthiusiasm for a handful of tracks, I find it just isn't hitting the spot for me on repeat listens.
Probably a bit of the opposite for me, actually. I still think it's one of their lesser efforts overall. But I think I settle more into it and find it more interesting with subsequent listens. It's not a terribly complex record but I find I appreciate that about it more and more. And I like how different it sounds from so much of their other stuff. I really can't imagine it climbs much higher than bottom three for me, though.
And I know we disagree on this point, but I think the second half of the record is really strong. "Sucker's Prayer" through "I'll Be Your Girl" is right where I'm at.
Thanks! I'm super excited. At this point I've seen them so many times that I don't have any real requests/expectations. Just want to hear some good music and have fun. Hopefully they'll play a good amount of the new record. Rusalka, Sucker's Prayer, and We All Die Young are the three I want to hear the most. And if I'm lucky enough to FINALLY get Shiny or My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist, well then, so much the better!
I've tried not to look at too many setlists, but I saw they were playing Ben Franklin a lot at the beginning of the tour. That would be a highlight, too. I'd love to hear that.
The Crane Wife 3 The Island Down by the Water Lake Song The Wrong Year The Gymnast, High Above Ground Los Angeles, I'm Yours Wonder Bandit Queen (including intro verse) The Queen of Hearts (Martin Carthy cover) (with Olivia Chaney) We All Die Young The Abduction of Margaret The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing Make You Better This Is Why We Fight
The Singer Addresses His Audience Cavalry Captain Down by the Water Calamity Song ("Hank, Eat Your Oatmeal" intro) Grace Cathedral Hill Anti-Summersong Make You Better The Wrong Year The Island Los Angeles, I'm Yours Carolina Low (Colin Meloy on solo guitar) The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) A Bower Scene (Colin Meloy on electric guitar) Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) The Rake's Song (Jenny Conlee on drums) 16 Military Wives Dracula's Daughter / O Valencia! A Beginning Song
Encore: 12/17/12 (Colin Meloy on harmonica) The Mariner's Revenge Song
July, July! Down by the Water Calamity Song Rise to Me The Bagman's Gambit We Both Go Down Together Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) The Crane Wife 3 Don't Carry It All All Arise! Rox in the Box The Rake's Song Dracula's Daughter O Valencia! The Perfect Crime #2 This Is Why We Fight
Encore: Raincoat Song When U Love Somebody (Fruit Bats cover) The Chimbley Sweep (with extended crowd-surfing ho-down)
California One / Youth and Beauty Brigade Down by the Water Rox in the Box Calamity Song Red Right Ankle January Hymn Don't Carry It All All Arise! Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) The Crane Wife 1 & 2 The Crane Wife 3 The Infanta 16 Military Wives This Is Why We Fight
Encore: The Chimbley Sweep The Mariner's Revenge Song
Encore 2: June Hymn
09/21/09: The Wellmont Theater, NJ (Hazards of Love in full):
Prelude The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) A Bower Scene Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All) The Queen's Approach Isn't It a Lovely Night? The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid An Interlude The Rake's Song The Abduction of Margaret The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing Annan Water Margaret in Captivity The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!) The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise) The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
Encore: Billy Liar The Sporting Life Odalisque The Engine Driver On the Bus Mall The Apology Song O Valencia! Crazy on You (Heart cover)
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) July, July! Raincoat Song Bridges and Balloons (Joanna Newsom cover) From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) The Bachelor and the Bride The Rake's Song Culling of the Fold I Was Meant for the Stage The Crane Wife 3 The Island Annan Water
Encore: Miracle on the Hudson (Colin Meloy Improv Song) The Tain The Perfect Crime #2
Encore 2: Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra cover)
Shanty for the Arethusa July, July! Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect Valerie Plame O New England The Bachelor and the Bride The Engine Driver We Both Go Down Together Record Year for Rainfall Oceanside The Perfect Crime #2 Days of Elaine O Valencia! Culling of the Fold The Chimbley Sweep 16 Military Wives The Mariner's Revenge Song
Encore: Raincoat Song Eli, the Barrow Boy Sons & Daughters
July, July! Billy Liar Summersong The Perfect Crime #2 Odalisque The Sporting Life From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) The Engine Driver The Crane Wife 3 The Island O Valencia! Sons & Daughters
Encore: Oceanside The Chimbley Sweep The Mariner's Revenge Song
California One / Youth and Beauty Brigade Billy Liar 16 Military Wives The Engine Driver On the Bus Mall We Both Go Down Together Eli, the Barrow Boy The Sporting Life Song for Myla Goldberg Odalisque Tam Lin (Fairport Convention cover) The Legionnaire's Lament A Cautionary Song
Encore: The Mariner's Revenge Song
I also saw them in April of 05 at the Granada and in Oct of 04 at the Jackpot Saloon in Lawrence, KS. I can't find online copies of those sets but I do remember that the Jackpot show was before Picaresque dropped and they played The Sporting Life, which was obviously new. And they closed with California One. And it was hotter than hell.
At that Granada show in April they played Leslie Anne Levine into We Both Go Down Together and I know they played The Tain. That was the firs time I'd heard it live and I managed to sneak into the venue for soundcheck and I heard them play it there, too. So I heard it all the way through twice that night, which was awesome.
Also, I have a memory of hearing Cocoon live but it's not on any of the setlists I could find to copy/paste. It must have also been played at that first show I went to in 04. That would make sense.
Official Album songs I haven't heard live: As I Rise Of Angels and Angles When the War Came Shankhill Butchers Philomena Till the Water's All Long Gone Better Not Wake the Baby Easy Come, Easy Go Mistral
And obviously all of the new record.
EP/Singles I have not heard live: Shiny My Mother Was a Chineese Trapeze Artist Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right Sunshine Constantinople Hurdles Even Here The Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back After the Bombs Perfect Crime #1 Sleepless E. Watson Foregone Burying Davy I4U Why Would I Now Riverswim Fits & Starts The Harrowed and the Haunted Stateside Ben Franklin's Song
Post subject: Re: We All Raise Our Voices to the Air! - A Decemberists Thr
Posted: Tue August 14, 2018 8:09 pm
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8561
I really love that '08 set. Those "Always the Bridesmaid" songs are so good.
You've seen a lot more than I have, but from your list I've seen "Shiny," "My Mother Was...," "Of Angels and Angles," "Shankill Butchers" (I absolutely fucking hate this song and I've seen it like three times), "Sleepless" (one of my favorites), and "Ben Franklin." And the new songs, which they played almost all of when I saw them in April.
08/14/18: Prospect Park, Brooklyn (The Crane Wife in full) : Severed Sucker's Prayer Make You Better The Rake's Song Down by the Water
The Crane Wife 3 The Island Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) O Valencia! (with ‘Dracula’s Daughter’ tag) The Perfect Crime #2 When the War Came Shankill Butchers Summersong The Crane Wife 1 & 2 Sons & Daughters
Encore: Once in My Life Ben Franklin's Song Mariner's Revenge
Great show. Great energy. Band sounded fantastic. Best versions of The Island and of Mariner's I've heard yet!
Finally got When the War Came!!!
This show had been rescheduled from earlier in the summer. Colin said Lin-Manuel was originally going to join them for BFS, but he couldn't make the new date. That would have made me absolutely explode.
The new stuff is really fun live. Seeing them twice in about the span of a week this spring (Nashville and Cleveland) made me appreciate the new album more.
The new stuff is really fun live. Seeing them twice in about the span of a week this spring (Nashville and Cleveland) made me appreciate the new album more.
I was really hoping for more of the new stuff. But I can't complain. There's always next time. But I really loved the three that I got to hear. The live versions have so much energy to them. I heard We All Die Young last year before the new album dropped. They played it at a show in Brooklyn that was electric. Seeing that one live made me really look forward to all the other new album tracks.
Also, this "new" Mariner's is fantastic. The version they played the other night was like the version they would have written/recorded during the I'll Be Your Girl sessions. It was so funky and weird and haunting. Yet still totally fun.
Post subject: Re: We All Raise Our Voices to the Air! - A Decemberists Thr
Posted: Thu August 16, 2018 2:52 pm
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8561
"Starwatcher" was great live -- at first I thought it was a fairly middle-of-the-road track, but it became my favorite thing on the album after hearing it live.
"Your Ghost" was way better live too, but it didn't transform the album version for me in the same way.
"Starwatcher" was great live -- at first I thought it was a fairly middle-of-the-road track, but it became my favorite thing on the album after hearing it live.
"Your Ghost" was way better live too, but it didn't transform the album version for me in the same way.
These two and Rusalka are the ones I'm most disappointed to have missed. But I'm sure those songs will stick around in their sets for a while. Rusalka might be the one that's rarest after this tour.
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