Red Mosquito

The performance on Seth Meyers was a bit of a let down. Not sure if it was the mix or what but I was hoping for a bit more oomph when they played.

I thought the performance was pretty great, particularly when Carrie's vocal parts kicked in.

seeing em tomorrow in the tdot. pretty excited.

matt reeder wrote:

COrinscutie wrote:No east show. I've lived in Portland for the last 4 years so
I'm doing Portland and the last two Seattle shows.

I couldn't even get tickets for Portland at any of the sale dates. Ugh. I'm not going to pay $150 on Stubhub to see a band I used to regularly pay $12 to see.

Maybe I'll luck into tickets...but I'm not counting on it.

Sadly I'm in the same boat. I first saw them in '99 at a place called Glass Factory. I think it was $8.

I've really been considering dropping the $150 because I feel like I have to be at the show, but at the same time that's ridiculous..

It's probably different because it's Portland, but ticket prices dropped by half on stubhump for the NYC shows two days before the gig. They were as high at $90, but on the night of, I saw them selling for around $40.

someone really needs to do something about this whole stubhub crap, its getting beyond frustrating (For fans and musicians)

especially when you factor in travel / gas / parking / and any merch purchased...

that being said, SK really has not lost anything, and who knows how long this will last before another hiatus.
GO! youll be kicking yourself if you dont

swan wrote:

matt reeder wrote:

COrinscutie wrote:No east show. I've lived in Portland for the last 4 years so
I'm doing Portland and the last two Seattle shows.

I couldn't even get tickets for Portland at any of the sale dates. Ugh. I'm not going to pay $150 on Stubhub to see a band I used to regularly pay $12 to see.

Maybe I'll luck into tickets...but I'm not counting on it.

Sadly I'm in the same boat. I first saw them in '99 at a place called Glass Factory. I think it was $8.

I've really been considering dropping the $150 because I feel like I have to be at the show, but at the same time that's ridiculous..

100% of the time, Crystal does a re-release of tickets for sold out shows. I just got tickets to Tweedy and Mac Demarco this way. Just set up Facebook and twitter alerts and they will post when they release them. Fool proof.

Good show tonight in Toronto to close the NA leg

Below is the setlist from the show I saw last week. I don't really follow their setlist, any rarities there?

Price Tag
Get Up
The End of You
Turn It On
No Anthems
Surface Envy
Little Babies
No Cities to Love
Hey Darling
Light Rail Coyote
Bury Our Friends
One Beat
A New Wave
Youth Decay
Words and Guitar
Good Things
Jumpers
Dig Me Out
Encore:
Gimme Love
Start Together
Let's Call It Love
Modern Girl
One More Hour

fuck, im thinking they will not play Fade.

I know I'm probably alone in thinking this, but honestly I kind of wish they hadn't reunited. It has tarnished their legacy in my mind. It's not that NCTL is BAD, but it is sooooo much worse than their prior output that it has knocked them down a peg in my mind.

Really, the worst part isn't so much that the album is WORSE than prior albums, but that the album feels so boring and uninteresting. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of 808s & Heartbreak, but at least that album is interesting. Kanye is trying something new. It's a necessary step in his musical evolution. I don't find anything new or compelling about anything S-K is doing on NCTL. It just feels like a watered-down version of who they once were, only now they're compromised by ten years of outside influences that aren't nearly as interesting as what the old S-K was.

They seemed infallible prior to this. Even their performances I've seen (on late night shows) seem neutered and boring. This is not the S-K I know and love.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I know I'm probably alone in thinking this, but honestly I kind of wish they hadn't reunited. It has tarnished their legacy in my mind. It's not that NCTL is BAD, but it is sooooo much worse than their prior output that it has knocked them down a peg in my mind.

Really, the worst part isn't so much that the album is WORSE than prior albums, but that the album feels so boring and uninteresting. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of 808s & Heartbreak, but at least that album is interesting. Kanye is trying something new. It's a necessary step in his musical evolution. I don't find anything new or compelling about anything S-K is doing on NCTL. It just feels like a watered-down version of who they once were, only now they're compromised by ten years of outside influences that aren't nearly as interesting as what the old S-K was.

They seemed infallible prior to this. Even their performances I've seen (on late night shows) seem neutered and boring. This is not the S-K I know and love.

Not feeling this at all. But we also disagree on Batman & Robin, so....

VinylGuy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I know I'm probably alone in thinking this, but honestly I kind of wish they hadn't reunited. It has tarnished their legacy in my mind. It's not that NCTL is BAD, but it is sooooo much worse than their prior output that it has knocked them down a peg in my mind.

Really, the worst part isn't so much that the album is WORSE than prior albums, but that the album feels so boring and uninteresting. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of 808s & Heartbreak, but at least that album is interesting. Kanye is trying something new. It's a necessary step in his musical evolution. I don't find anything new or compelling about anything S-K is doing on NCTL. It just feels like a watered-down version of who they once were, only now they're compromised by ten years of outside influences that aren't nearly as interesting as what the old S-K was.

They seemed infallible prior to this. Even their performances I've seen (on late night shows) seem neutered and boring. This is not the S-K I know and love.

Not feeling this at all. But we also disagree on Batman & Robin, so....

Batman & Robin > No Cities to Love

Yeah, thats..just...

I have listened to exactly 2 Sleater-Kinney albums. NCTL is the best of those two.

durdencommatyler wrote:I have listened to exactly 2 Sleater-Kinney albums. NCTL is the best of those two.

It doesn't matter which album the other one was; this is wrong.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I have listened to exactly 2 Sleater-Kinney albums. NCTL is the best of those two.

It doesn't matter which album the other one was; this is wrong.

LOVE IS NEVER WRONG

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I have listened to exactly 2 Sleater-Kinney albums. NCTL is the best of those two.

It doesn't matter which album the other one was; this is wrong.

LOVE IS NEVER WRONG

it is if you're a pedophile

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I have listened to exactly 2 Sleater-Kinney albums. NCTL is the best of those two.

It doesn't matter which album the other one was; this is wrong.

LOVE IS NEVER WRONG

it is if you're a pedophile

Yeah, no, but seriously, that isn't love.