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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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 Posted - 06/10/2007 : 14:22:29
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Originally posted by trobrianders
The thing of it is, I remember in Pixies days, a year or two in Charles got bored with the idea of setlists so he started doing stuff like playing them straight one night and reversing them the next and then playing them in alphabetical order, then reverse alphabetical... you get the idea. Well the press absolutely loved that beacase they'd been banging on that this was the best band in the world and that it really didn't matter which songs closed a live set beacuse they were all that good. So my point is this. Could any song off any album be a great closer?
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Ed is the hoo hoo
that's a good question. first Catholics record is in alphabetical order (as i'm sure everyone knows, but if you didn't...) so that's one case where the song order was arbitrary but work perfectly
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/10/2007 : 15:15:18
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Yeah, I can't imagine All My Ghosts as anything but an opener. Actually I sold a new mobile phone because I couldn't hear the lead guitar through the speaker on it. Damn that live to 2 track thingy! I've started using my old phone again but it's worth it to hear Lyle.
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Grotesque
= Cult of Ray =
France
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Posted - 06/10/2007 : 18:27:29
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Originally posted by floop
i agree with that. i don't think he's in Jonathan Richman character at that point..
Edited by - PixieSteve on 06/10/2007 13:55:03
It also might be "finally I'd better not copy the famous neverending version of ice cream man"
Personally I hear "oh, beaten-up !", but I'm french. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 06/10/2007 : 21:07:15
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 06/11/2007 : 01:58:10
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Fields of Marigold, hands down!
Denis
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mikaelp75
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Posted - 06/11/2007 : 11:51:59
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Originally posted by houstonguthrie
as a side note at the risk of highjacking the thread - have you ever heard Bob Dylan's "Restless Farewell"? It's a lot like "My Way" and Dylan sang it for Frank (Sinatra that is) on his birthday - I'll see if I can conjure up the lyrics to copy here - found it (Now get back to talking about Frank Black endings people!!)
(Restless Farewell is based on one of my favourite traditional ballads The Parting Glass, though nowhere near as good, imho. One of my favourite versions of that one is Elvis Costello singing it solo as an Imposters show encore on the night of the Chieftains' Derek Bell's death.)
Oh, and Man Of Steel.
(They're all great, of course. Frank is the best 'closer' I know. I still think Black Rider is better as an opener, though, and I usually hit STOP before the second version.) |
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