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Old 12-11-2011, 11:59
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i am sorry to break your heart, but they didn't decide for one night to be the dream band you always hoped for - the gig actually opened with - for a change - Motorcycle Emptiness, they just didn't broadcast it and thus whoever has decided to cheekily release this on DVD hasn't included it.
Obviously whoever made it wanted to get Autumnsong out of the way first. Fair play to them Not including ME is weird though.
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Old 12-11-2011, 12:37
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Looking at the tracklisting for this makes me wonder why the band don't end european tour dates with "a design for life", and end with "tolerate" instead.
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Old 12-11-2011, 13:12
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Looking at the tracklisting for this makes me wonder why the band don't end european tour dates with "a design for life", and end with "tolerate" instead.
Because ADFL is a huge classic song in the UK but much, much less so in the rest of Europe - I can't remember ever hearing it before I bought EMG. Tolerate on the other hand is the big hit song that made them massive names all over Europe in the late 90s, responsible for countless Manics fans (yours truly included) and generally being the iconic signature song people know them for. Thus, it's a far more appropriate epic set closer in the other European regions than ADFL would be.
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Old 12-11-2011, 13:38
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Because ADFL is a huge classic song in the UK but much, much less so in the rest of Europe - I can't remember ever hearing it before I bought EMG. Tolerate on the other hand is the big hit song that made them massive names all over Europe in the late 90s, responsible for countless Manics fans (yours truly included) and generally being the iconic signature song people know them for. Thus, it's a far more appropriate epic set closer in the other European regions than ADFL would be.
This; not European but I just can't get into ADFL. 'Anthem of working class' requires some cultural familiarity before you get its emotional resonance, I guess.
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Old 12-11-2011, 15:53
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Obviously whoever made it wanted to get Autumnsong out of the way first. Fair play to them Not including ME is weird though.
going on the fan artwork, it wasn't recorded / broadcast. if i recall the start of the Portugese one correctly, you only really get about 66% of ME, the first third being dominated by two 70s rejects with a fondness for pies that puts James' interest in them into perspective.
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Old 12-11-2011, 18:37
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Autumnsong for an opener! Woohoo!
I'm with Gutless Wonder on this one. In my Manics top 10!
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Old 12-11-2011, 19:21
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Oh great! I was at that gig and it will be nice to re-live it again, even if the setlist is not spectacular. I hope the smoke doesn't show too much though, it kinda ruined the gig for me (sometimes we couldn't see the band for entire songs).
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Old 13-11-2011, 21:58
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Ooooh, will have to check this out. I was at the Bilbao gig :-)
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