My first Cure show, and I had a blast. A couple of quick things from last night through a first timer's eyes.Birds in Hell wrote:NYC night 1 (18 June):
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
-"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.
