cobl04
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thank u, next
Having two kids means less disposable income, so the days of buying 50+ CDs a year has finally come to an end for me. I jumped into the decade and got Spotify premium.
Really, really digging the Surf Rock Sunshine playlist right now.
Saw LC! tonight, luckily I have a friend who works at the venue so I didn't have to pay. I have to say, for all the shit we've given Gareth over the years, he looked healthier this time around, less bloated. His voice was strained at times but he still leaves it all out there and is authentic in his banter. I shamefully missed the last tour which was loaded with No Blues and Sick Scenes material, but I did get to hear a decent amount of that recent stuff: For Flotsam, What Death Leaves Behind, Avocado Baby and then I Broke Up In Amarante, A Slow Slow Death, Here's To The Fourth Time, The Fall of Home. Not all my top choices but a good sampling.
Of course we got some stuff from Hold On Now Youngster, and from WABWAD we got the title track, Ways to Make it Through the Wall, Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time, You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing, and my favorite, Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1.
Surprisingly, 3 tracks from Hello Sadness, but it was basically the best ones: the title track, By Your Hand, and Baby I've Got The Death Rattle.
Romance Is Boring got a lot of attention, the title track, Straight In At 101, I Just Sighed, A Heat Rash In The Shape..., and the very welcome The Sea Is A Great Place... And then as a nice bonus, we got Coda (the final track), which Gareth said they'd never played in North America before.
It's something that perhaps is a little tired, but it's hard to beat the one-two finale of You! Me! Dancing! and Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks. The former is a legit anthem and the latter is one of my faves, just a great crowd sing-a-long that the band also gets really into.
I wonder if I'm more likely to see them or U2 ever again. It can't be easy for them to come to the states with their modest following, however devoted. But it sure was a great 10 years; they've given me more pleasure during that span than any other musical act.
Saw LC! tonight, luckily I have a friend who works at the venue so I didn't have to pay. I have to say, for all the shit we've given Gareth over the years, he looked healthier this time around, less bloated. His voice was strained at times but he still leaves it all out there and is authentic in his banter. I shamefully missed the last tour which was loaded with No Blues and Sick Scenes material, but I did get to hear a decent amount of that recent stuff: For Flotsam, What Death Leaves Behind, Avocado Baby and then I Broke Up In Amarante, A Slow Slow Death, Here's To The Fourth Time, The Fall of Home. Not all my top choices but a good sampling.
Of course we got some stuff from Hold On Now Youngster, and from WABWAD we got the title track, Ways to Make it Through the Wall, Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time, You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing, and my favorite, Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1.
Surprisingly, 3 tracks from Hello Sadness, but it was basically the best ones: the title track, By Your Hand, and Baby I've Got The Death Rattle.
Romance Is Boring got a lot of attention, the title track, Straight In At 101, I Just Sighed, A Heat Rash In The Shape..., and the very welcome The Sea Is A Great Place... And then as a nice bonus, we got Coda (the final track), which Gareth said they'd never played in North America before.
It's something that perhaps is a little tired, but it's hard to beat the one-two finale of You! Me! Dancing! and Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks. The former is a legit anthem and the latter is one of my faves, just a great crowd sing-a-long that the band also gets really into.
I wonder if I'm more likely to see them or U2 ever again. It can't be easy for them to come to the states with their modest following, however devoted. But it sure was a great 10 years; they've given me more pleasure during that span than any other musical act.
I’m seeing them next week and Laz, your write-up made me really excited. That sounds like a fucking fantastic setlist.
VERY glad I've seen them twice. If the show I saw last year was the only one I'd seen and I never saw In Medias Res, I'd be pretty crushed as well.I'd be a bit devo to not here In Medias Res, that song means so much to me and is comfortably my favourite.
I've only seen them once in 2012: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/los-campesinos/2012/brooklyn-bowl-brooklyn-ny-6bdf12e6.html
Missed their show last year due to a last minute trip unfortunately.
Edit: I just remember now that I also missed their 2014 show, for which I had tickets, due to another trip!
Yeah. To me, it has the quintessential LC! lyric:
If you were given the option of dying painlessly in peace at 45
But with a lover at your side, after a full and happy life
Is this something that would interest you?
Would this interest you at all?
What do you mean lucky you didn't have to pay. How much was a ticket? Can't imagine it would have cost much at all.
Dude, I nearly fucking cried just reading this. And I didn't even have to scroll down to know which lyric you were talking about.
I feel like the first time I heard that it unlocked, like, a philosophical part of my brain that I didn't even know was there. Like it's not only a great lyric that is done so well - at the end of a massive crescendo of horns and drums and bass and guitars, with the vocals slow and clear and sung so beautifully - but it's genuinely an astonishing piece of writing. Maybe more than any other lyric I've ever come across, it's led me to think and reflect and wonder. It is the beauty of art.
A fun evening. I was there just as much for support act Crying:
A fun evening. I was there just as much for support act Crying: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/crying/2017/metro-chicago-il-4bf9872e.html
That line really resonates, even more so as I get closer to 45 than 25. For all their wordplay and cool football references, this kind of unapologetic sentimentalism can really hit home in their music.
Win Butler is in a horrible cowboy outfit sitting courtside at the Bulls vs Pelicans game right now.
Without doing too much objectifying, I would say Brandon is not looking very past his prime in that photo.It is the night of past-their-prime 2000s rock frontmen enjoying NBA basketball.