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Birds in Hell wrote:
NYC night 1 (18 June):
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Plainsong Pictures of You Closedown A Night Like This Push In Between Days Doing the Unstuck Friday I'm in Love Like Cockatoos The Caterpillar The Walk Lovesong Just Like Heaven Jupiter Crash Want The Hungry Ghost Prayers For Rain Disintegration
It Can Never Be the Same Pornography
Step Into the Light Us or Them Burn
Last Dance Lullaby Never Enough Fascination Street
The Perfect Girl Hot Hot Hot!!! Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
My first Cure show, and I had a blast. A couple of quick things from last night through a first timer's eyes.
-"Never Enough" is a monster live. I like the song normally, but it's better live, bigger and heavier. More crunch. "The Walk" also stood out as a significant upgrade from its recorded version. And I've always loved "Want" -"Step into the Light" is really disappointing. As mentioned earlier, it's lyrically weak, and there's not enough there musically to save it. -Crowd lagged a bit during the first two encores. People were definitely looking for something they recognized, and the first two encores weren't providing that. The last two encores completely changed that feeling. Crowd got right back into it, and it was a really strong run to the end of the show. -The Disintegration tracks work well to open a show. It carries the flow of the album, they're recognizable tracks, and it feels like the band is free to go wherever they want following that run. It helps to open up the show in the sense that you have no idea where they might decide to go after those songs. -"Just Like Heaven" made the crowd collectively lose their shit. Everyone up and dancing at the point.
I could nitpick on songs I wish I had heard, but honestly, I had too good of a time to really care. The setlist was more than entertaining enough as it was. Glad I finally got to see this band.
Open High Pictures of You This Twilight Garden A Night Like This The End of the World Lovesong Primary If Only Tonight We Could Sleep All I Want Push In Between Days Just Like Heaven From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea The Hanging Garden One Hundred Years End
It Can Never Be the Same Pornography
Dressing Up The Snakepit Burn
Lullaby Never Enough Fascination Street Wrong Number
The Lovecats Let's Go to Bed Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
The Hanging Garden has only made a small handful of appearances this tour and hadn't been played since Portland/Ridgefield.
Out of This World Pictures of You Closedown High A Night Like This Push In Between Days The Last Day of Summer Kyoto Song A Strange Day The Caterpillar Sleep When I'm Dead Lovesong Just Like Heaven Trust 39 Bloodflowers
It Can Never Be the Same At Night
Shake Dog Shake Bananafishbones Burn
Lullaby The Walk Play For Today A Forest
Hot Hot Hot!!! Let's Go to Bed Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
The Hanging Garden has only made a small handful of appearances this tour and hadn't been played since Portland/Ridgefield.
I'm still on a high from that show. I just hope a recording shows up. I thought about taping but I was on the lawn and I figured it wouldn't be worth getting caught that far from my car (we took a shuttle bus) and denied admission.
Honestly, that show has also been my favorite setlist of the tour, but I'm definitely more of a Disintegration/Wish guy than the mid-80s stuff.
Honestly, that show has also been my favorite setlist of the tour, but I'm definitely more of a Disintegration/Wish guy than the mid-80s stuff.
Definitely one of my favourite setlists so far too.
Columbia, MD (22 June):
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Open High Pictures of You Closedown Kyoto Song A Night Like This The Walk The End of the World Lovesong If Only Tonight We Could Sleep All I Want Push In Between Days Just Like Heaven Bananafishbones Never Enough From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea End
Sinking It Can Never Be the Same
Shake Dog Shake Burn A Forest
Dressing Up Fascination Street Wrong Number
Hot Hot Hot!!! Let's Go to Bed Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
I'm disappointed the Cure never got on the 'official bootlegs' bandwagon.
In fact, for a band whose live reputation has always been excellent (and who work very hard on rehearsing etc.), they really have relatively few live releases.
Very upbeat, single-heavy set last night in Charlotte. Sounds fun.
Yeah, certainly a pretty unique set:
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Pictures of You High The End of the World Lovesong Mint Car Just Like Heaven Catch The Caterpillar The Walk Let's Go to Bed Sleep When I'm Dead In Between Days Doing the Unstuck Friday I'm in Love Freakshow Lullaby Fascination Street The Hanging Garden A Forest
It Can Never Be the Same Burn
A Letter to Elise Charlotte Sometimes Primary
Step Into the Light Never Enough alt.end Wrong Number
The Lovecats Hot Hot Hot!!! Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
Seems like a really fun show.
Tour debut for Mint Car.
Only two more shows on the US leg of the tour, perhaps they'll continue shaking up the sets?
Plainsong Pictures of You Closedown High A Night Like This Push In Between Days Last Dance The End of the World Lovesong Just Like Heaven Jupiter Crash From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Want The Hungry Ghost Prayers For Rain Disintegration
Shake Dog Shake Burn A Forest
Lullaby Fascination Street Wrong Number
The Walk Doing the Unstuck Friday I'm in Love
The Perfect Girl Hot Hot Hot!!! Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
really enjoyed the MPP/Columbia show. I'm not a big fan, I have disintegration, kiss me and the singles, but I thought they sounded great. probably better than the tame impala/m83 show the week before!
_________________ Remember when you were young, You shone like the sun. Now there's a look in your eyes, Like black holes in the sky.
Open Kyoto Song A Night Like This Push In Between Days Pictures of You Closedown High The Walk Sleep When I'm Dead If Only Tonight We Could Sleep This Twilight Garden Lovesong Just Like Heaven Trust From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea alt.end End
Cold A Strange Day The Hanging Garden One Hundred Years
Piggy in the Mirror Never Enough Fascination Street Burn
Lullaby The Perfect Girl Hot Hot Hot!!! Wrong Number
Let's Go to Bed Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
Dig that Pornography-themed encore.
Last edited by Birds in Hell on Mon June 27, 2016 1:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Out of This World Pictures of You Closedown The Hungry Ghost A Night Like This All I Want Push In Between Days Jupiter Crash Want Fascination Street The End of the World Lovesong Just Like Heaven The Last Day of Summer 39 Bloodflowers
At Night M Play for Today A Forest
Dressing Up Shake Dog Shake Bananafishbones Give Me It
Lullaby The Caterpillar The Walk Primary
The Lovecats Hot Hot Hot!!! Close to Me Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
Those Seventeen Seconds and The Top-themed encores are just
In the break between the US tour and the forthcoming Pacific jaunt (Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia), let me bore you with some tour stats so far:
- 33 shows. - 81 unique songs. - Lovesong and Just Like Heaven were the only songs played at every show. - Mint Car, The Drowning Man, The Same Deep Water as You and The Top were played only once. - Boys Don't Cry closed every show except one, the tour opener in New Orleans which closed with It Can Never Be the Same. - Open (er) opened 12 shows, Plainsong opened nine, Out of This World opened eight, Shake Dog Shake three and Pictures of You opened once.
I think the only other Aussie attending the upcoming shows is Mr W. Bloke, so I suppose this may be for his benefit only, but there's a Telstra competition for 20 people to watch the band's soundcheck in each city: https://www.telstra.com.au/thanks/music/the-cure-comp
(Oh, and you have to be a Telstra customer, so there's that to consider too.)
I read the T&Cs and you can enter as many times as you want. My laptop auto-completes the fields in the entry form, so I've entered quite a few times now...
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