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Why does crowd not jumping mean a song is bad, or doesn't work live? Try a sigur ros gig, no one moves, doesn't mean they aren't great, or the songs don't work live. People need too get over the obsession that if a crowd isn't jumping around that they aren't enjoying themselves or appreciating the music. Especially as the MSP crowd ages.
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I just think we have a dilemma here. The Manics now have a catalogue of songs spanning 20 years, and those 20 years covered a lot of ground musically. To try and condense that into a 2-hour gig, something's gotta go, and not everyone can be totally happy. I actually was. It's actually hilarious to me that two of my favourite bands have had people bitching about their live setlists over the last couple of years for opposite reasons. The Manics get criticised on here for sticking to the hits, the Smashing Pumpkins get bashed for not playing them enough. ( think the latter is as much to do with the public perception of a band that splits and reforms and the connotations of a nostalgia act, and the Pumpkins of 2007 onwards are anything but. I was more than happy with the Manics set on Saturday, and I fail to see the problem. This is one of the reasons I end up hating the internet. It gives certain people a voice, who use it to bitch about something because it's not what THEY want, and they delude themselves that they want is what everyone else wants. I'm see it on wrestling sites I frequent, I see it on youtube, I'm seeing it on this website as well. I guarantee you that if the manics went out there and played relatively obscure stuff like "Patrick Bateman" for most of the set every night, they would not get the reception they do from the masses, and that's what they are shooting for. Getting back to the Lifeblood thing, it bombed, plain and simple. Why would they play songs from an album no one bought, and that they themselves see as a failure?
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The Pumpkins are a different point because Billy made it clear that although he's trading under the same name, it's a very different band and he wanted to make new music rather than just resting on old glories. A brave man in my opinion. Ok so you won't hear Zero every night but you've got a good chance of hearing a b-side or even a first airing of a new song.
My bitch with the Manics isn't that they don't play Patrick Bateman or a 10 minute psych freak version of Drug Drug Druggy, but that it's such a safe set that there isn't even one "wow I didn't think they'd play that moment." And to be fair to them it's not like they haven't done it before on big tours that are aiming at a mainstream audience (so excluding something like PPF or HMV instore for lipstick traces.) On the first SATT tour they played Born to End, Die in the Summertime, Sleepflower, Freedom of Speech won't feed my children, Yes (acoustic), stay beautiful (full band) and 6-7 songs (that alternated throughout the tour) from the new album. The tour was of a similar length and of similar size venues. So it's not exactly that they haven't precedent for throwing in the odd curio or rarely played gem. There's a happy medium between pleasing the casuals with the hits and putting in a rarerity or two. |
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I love jumping around a bit. At Newport i was standing on a step with a gap right next to me, which could have resulted in an injury to myself or someone else, if i started jumping around.
I generally don't jump around, unless others are also. In indoor venues anyway. Unless i have the space to pogo on the spot. It can be dangerous for other people. There was section of fans in Newport that were jumping around for a good bit of the set. I wish i had been in amongst them as it looked like fun. As for going mental near the end of the set, songs like Mash and Tsunami are not going to instigate a mass pogo |
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You'd be surprised by MASH and Tsunami, they're always pogo-fests . . . the outro of MASH and the choruses of Tsunami! |
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Just been thinking about that. Yeah, you're right. I could see myself trying a auld pogo or two, for the outro of Mash anyway
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Haha and the Youtube video says it "fucking rocked". Brilliant.
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that youtube clip isnt as bad as i was expecting..they were alright. Singer needs to wear a skirt with that top tho
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But nice comedy relief I suppose.
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