Seize them!
Seize them!
I went to the Mates of State/Spoon/Death Cab for Cutie concert this past weekend, and 2/3 of the show rocked me. Unfortunately, the band I was most excited to see performed the poorest. Mates of State were adorably grand. A little heavy on the echo, but otherwise great. Death Cab, predictably, played like the veteran rockers (in the indie scene) that they are. Spoon, by contrast, sounded bored and because of this, I was bored myself.
I love Spoon's albums, but after the concert... It was like the scene in Vanilla Sky when Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are having sex, but Cruz turns into Cameron Diaz in the midst of the act. I anticipated one entity and was shocked to discover another.
To reconcile the two, I made a distinction between the Spoon on the albums and the Spoon that droned on in front of me. I simply denied the reality before me and decided to treat the recorded music on the albums as its own autonomous reality and--in fact--the real Spoon. In this model, the live Spoon were, in effect, imposters.
I thought up that while the members of Spoon showed me their backs for 45 minutes, except for the keyboardist. He just looked miserable.
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posted by Drew @ 10:02 PM
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It took me two years to listen to a Pixies album after their craptastic reunion tour. Ugh. As Cpl Alex says, theres just something pathetic about a bunch of 40 somethings going back and reliving their glory days.
-Nick
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I'll see your Mission of Burma and raise you a Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
well if we are going by comeback renunions then you win with MoB. Petty & the Heartbreakers have never broke up. I concede
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