11-02-2004, 01:44 PM
RE: SETLIST; October 29, 2004 - Club Bijou, Toledo, OH
Well, what can I say about the setlist for the Club Bijou show in Toledo? The answer is ‘nothing good’. Of the 21 songs comprising the setlist, 13 were played at the Cleveland show in September. That leaves 8 ‘different’ songs....out of a pool of 80-odd songs which could be played as an alterntive. Four of these 8 were songs I've seen performed over fifteen times. So basically, I shelled out $40 plus the time and expense of a 400-mile round-trip only to see Makeshift, Josephine, Everywhere, and the suddenly ‘rare’ Greasy Jungle. Weak.
:x
Below is the Bijou setlist; highlighted in red are IBE tunes that were also played in Cleveland, and highlighted in blue are the pre-IBE songs also played in Cleveland this September:
You're Everywhere
Fully, Completely
Poets
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
Ahead By A Century
Gift Shop
Summer's Killing Us
Courage
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
Bobcaygeon
Heaven Is A Better Place Today
At The Hundredth Meridian
Greasy Jungle
Goodnight Josephine
My Music @ Work
New Orleans Is Sinking
Vaccination Scar
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Fireworks
As Makeshift As We Are
Springtime In Vienna
Look at all the cookie-cutter selections played with broken-record redundancy: Poets, ABAC, Giftshop, Courage, Bobcaygeon, Meridian, M@W, NOIS, Fireworks, Springtime. The show would've been 100% better if they exchanged just five of these ten songs with something off the beaten path, like something from...I dunno...maybe..ROAD APPLES??? For the record, that's 2 Ohio shows, 0 RA cuts. Why this band ignores its best work is beyond me.....
So thanks for mixing it up, boys! I guess TTH feel absolutely no obligation to reward devout patronage with just a little variety. Given that reality, I think I'll discontinue said patronage, so I can save up for that kick-ass Greatest Hits CD coming out soon! *Yay*!!!
:roll:
Well, what can I say about the setlist for the Club Bijou show in Toledo? The answer is ‘nothing good’. Of the 21 songs comprising the setlist, 13 were played at the Cleveland show in September. That leaves 8 ‘different’ songs....out of a pool of 80-odd songs which could be played as an alterntive. Four of these 8 were songs I've seen performed over fifteen times. So basically, I shelled out $40 plus the time and expense of a 400-mile round-trip only to see Makeshift, Josephine, Everywhere, and the suddenly ‘rare’ Greasy Jungle. Weak.
:x
Below is the Bijou setlist; highlighted in red are IBE tunes that were also played in Cleveland, and highlighted in blue are the pre-IBE songs also played in Cleveland this September:
You're Everywhere
Fully, Completely
Poets
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
Ahead By A Century
Gift Shop
Summer's Killing Us
Courage
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
Bobcaygeon
Heaven Is A Better Place Today
At The Hundredth Meridian
Greasy Jungle
Goodnight Josephine
My Music @ Work
New Orleans Is Sinking
Vaccination Scar
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Fireworks
As Makeshift As We Are
Springtime In Vienna
Look at all the cookie-cutter selections played with broken-record redundancy: Poets, ABAC, Giftshop, Courage, Bobcaygeon, Meridian, M@W, NOIS, Fireworks, Springtime. The show would've been 100% better if they exchanged just five of these ten songs with something off the beaten path, like something from...I dunno...maybe..ROAD APPLES??? For the record, that's 2 Ohio shows, 0 RA cuts. Why this band ignores its best work is beyond me.....
So thanks for mixing it up, boys! I guess TTH feel absolutely no obligation to reward devout patronage with just a little variety. Given that reality, I think I'll discontinue said patronage, so I can save up for that kick-ass Greatest Hits CD coming out soon! *Yay*!!!
:roll: