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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

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.

Awesome!

NYC night 2 (19 June):

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.

NYC night 3 (June 20):

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

Tour debut for Bananafishbones.

Birds in Hell wrote: 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.

matt reeder wrote: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):

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.

theplatypus wrote:Very upbeat, single-heavy set last night in Charlotte. Sounds fun.

Yeah, certainly a pretty unique set:

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?

Atlanta, GA (24 June):

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!

Miami, FL night 1 (26 June):

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.

theplatypus wrote:https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/disintegration-i-almost-believed-it-was-real/

This is a long way of saying that I prefer the commercially mediated miscellany of Wish to the monochromatic Disintegration.

I liked that a lot. I have a lot of time for Cure fans who aren't convinced Disintegration is the greatest album of all time.

I appreciate his take even if I adore Disintegration and can't imagine preferring "Never Enough" over anything on it

I would definitely take Never Enough over a good chunk of Disintegration, especially the 12" version.

Miami, FL night 2 (27 June):

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.)

Cheers! Entered.

Looking forward to this show, I must say.

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...