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What's the rarest song you've seen SY play live?
When I saw them in '04, they didn't play anything unusual, just some golden oldies, & stuff off "Sonic Nurse". & I was wondering if any of you have seen SY play anything rare that they usually don't play live?
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the Mildred Pierce they did in Boston was a few and far between performance.
Date: Monday, April 23rd, 2001 City: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Venue: The Roxy SET LIST She Is Not Alone Bull in the Heather Free City Rhymes Nevermind Side2Side Drunken Butterfly Hoarfrost Schizophrenia Small Flowers Crack Concrete Kool Thing NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Mildred Pierce Teenage Riot the theatre has these gold lions bookending the stage. |
"inhuman", irving plaza, 11/30/02...they don't bust that one out too much these days.
if you want REAL rare, though...11/24/02, at the recher theatre in baltimore, they ran through a brief rendition of the already-brief half japanese classic "calling all girls" ("maryland's finest", thurston proclaimed). |
Well, rare for me in the 9 times I've seen them was Death Valley 69.
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Damn Kegmama, I would have killed to see that 95 set.
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I thought that was the one.
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kegmama you and I have been to the same shows pretty much. Did you see them when they play at the wilshire theatre?
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2001: the carpenter's piece for piano from george maciunas. They nailed that piano June 10th in Gent Belgium.
I don't know how many piano's they wrecked on their goodbye tour but I wreckon not a lot. |
shaking hell, last time in paris @ le nouveau casino...
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Man, I'm jealous! Especially of kegmama.
Seeing Bikini Kill & SY @ the same show must have been life changing. & I agree, SY is the best live band ever. |
they did a real amazing version of "burning spear" as a set opener the last time they were in boston.
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huh? aren't these like two of the songs they play most often? if not THE two they play most often???! |
October 16th, 1988
The Astoria, London, England Teenage Riot Hey Joni The Wonder Hyperstation 'Cross the Breeze Candle Kissability Eric's Trip I Love Her All The Time The Sprawl Brother James Eliminator Jr. -- Silver Rocket Tunafish is a Favorite Dish Confusion is Next Counting Song (The two oddball encore tunes are the band jamming while Thurston makes up lyrics) March 22nd, 1989 Kilburn National Ballroom, London, England Set list unknown... September 10th, 1990 Brixton Academy, London, England Tom Violence Eric's Trip Cinderella's Big Score Stereo Sanctity Flower Kill Yr Idols Tunic Dirty Boots Mary Christ Kool Thing White Cross Mote My Friend Goo The Bedroom Silver Rocket Confusion is Next April 19th, 1996 Forum, London, England Skink Bull in the Heather Starfield Road Washing Machine Junkie's Promise Eric's Trip Becuz Panty Lies 100% PCH Skip Tracer Diamond Sea -- Unwind Sugar Kane June 29th, 1998 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England Anagrama Sunday Female Mechanic Karen Koltrane The Ineffable Me Hits of Sunshine French Tickler Hoarfrost Wildflower Soul Heather Angel -- Stil Shadow of a Doubt Death Valley 69 July 1st, 1998 Royal Festival Hall, London, England Anagrama Sunday Female Mechanic Karen Koltrane Wildflower Soul French Tickler Hits of Sunshine Ineffable Me Hoarfrost Heather Angel July 1st, 2000 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England Schizophrenia Burning Spear Free City Rhymes Renegade Princess Kool Thing Hoarfrost Nevermind Side2Side White Kross Bull in the Heather NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Lightnin' 100% June 16th, 2001 Royal Festival Hall, London, England Having Never Written a Note for Percussion Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 1 - Against the Wind) Six Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 2 - Against the Wall) Treatise Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 3 - Against the Sky) Burdocks Clapping Music Four6 She Is Not Alone NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Piano Piece #13 Side2Side June 24th, 2002 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England Kotton Krown Bull in the Heather The Empty Page Eric's Trip Rain on Tin Plastic Sun Kissability Karenology Candle Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style Drunken Butterfly Sympathy for the Strawberry -- Disconnection Notice Kool Thing -- Making The Nature Scene 2 September, 2004 Brixton Academy, London, England I Love You Golden Blue Stones Pattern Recognition Unmade Bed Eric's Trip Teenage Riot New Hampshire Mariah Carey Paper Cup Exit Dude Ranch Nurse Brother James -- PCH Expressway October 2005 Cite de la Musique, Paris, France Set list: I can't remember, but it included the only-played-twice cover of John Lennon's "Isolation" I guess that Tunafish is a Favorite Dish and Counting Song from my very first concert and Isolation from Paris laast year are my number one rarities. |
Halloween, March 20th, 1985 London, ICA.
The Good And The Bad, March 23rd, 1985 Thames Poly. (She's In A) Bad Mood' jam, November 8th, 1985 (Afternoon Show) Brighton beach Marilyn Moore, May 5th, 1986 Brighton Beach. Death to our Friends, May 23rd, 1986 London ULU. I Wanna Be Your Dog w/ Iggy Pop, June 4th, 1987 London, Town and Country Club. Tunafish is a Favorite Dish, Counting Song, October 16th, 1988 London, The Astoria. The Bedroom, September 10th, 1990 London, Brixton Academy. Genetic, December 14th, 1992 London, Brixton Academy. Bone, April 18th, 1996 London, The Forum. Anagrama + Stil, June 29th, 1998 London, Shepherds Bush Empire. Having Never Written a Note for Percussion Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 1 - Against the Wind) Six Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 2 - Against the Wall) Treatise Voice Piece for Soprano (pt 3 - Against the Sky) Burdocks Clapping Music Four6 Piano Piece #13, June 16th, 2001 London, Royal Festival Hall. |
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All 3 "Voice Piece For Soprano"'s had to be an absolute masterpiece. Bow down to Toxic Johnny! |
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Stoopid fucken thing won't let me rep you. Says I've gotta rep some other people first. |
making the nature scene
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Wow fuck, those are cool. Idve liked to've seen them in 88' but i wasnt even born then. |
Date: Wednesday, August 14th, 2002
City: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Venue: Le Medley Candle Bull in the Heather The Empty Page Skip Tracer Plastic Sun Rain on Tin Kissability Karenology Shadow of a Doubt Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style Sympathy for the Strawberry 100% -- Disconnection Notice Silver Rocket -- Kool Thing Kissability and Skip Tracer on the same night... that was sweet (not to mention Rain on Tin live...) Didn't post the show I saw on the Nurse tour, pretty dull setlist imo. There was this girl that flashed a sing saying "wish fulfilment please!" to Lee before the set, but no such luck. |
Here's the sets that I've seen
9/30/92 First Avenue Minneapolis Shoot Kool Thing 100% Purr Swimsuit Issue Theresa's Soundworld Youth Against Fascism Genetic Sugar Kane Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit Drunken Butterfly -- JC Expressway 5/29/95 First Avenue Minneapolis Skink Tom Violence Self-Obsessed and Sexxee Bull in the Heather Starfield Road Washing Machine No Queen Blues Becuz Saucer-Like Unwind Candle Diamond Sea -- Junkie's Promise Panty Lies Waist Schizophrenia 5/30/95 Target Center Minneapolis Tom Violence Bull in the Heather Starfield Road Washing Machine No Queen Blues Skip Tracer Diamond Sea 10/30/95 First Avenue Minneapolis Skink Teenage Riot Candle Becuz Saucer-Like Junkie's Promise Tom Violence Bull in the Heather Starfield Road Washing Machine No Queen Blues Diamond Sea -- Eric's Trip Expressway 5/17/98 O'Shaugnessy Auditorium St. Paul Karen Koltrane Female Mechanic Sunday Anagrama Hits Of Sunshine The Ineffable Me Hoarfrost French Tickler Wildflower Soul Heather Angel -- Stil Death Valley '69 6/09/00 Walker, Minneapolis Teenage Riot Free City Rhymes Renegade Princess Kool Thing Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) Side 2 Side Mote Tom Violence White Kross NYC Ghosts & Flowers -- Lightnin' Schizophrenia 8/19/02 First Avenue Minneapolis Candle Kissability The Empty Page Rain on Tin Mote Plastic Sun Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style Shadow of a Doubt Karenology Drunken Butterfly Sympathy for the Strawberry Schizophrenia -- Disconnection Notice Tom Violence -- Making the Nature Scene 7/28/04 The Quest Minneapolis I Love You Golden Blue Empty Page Pattern Recognition Unmade Bed Eric's Trip Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream Stones New Hampshire Paper Cup Exit Tom Violence Dude Ranch Nurse Drunken Butterfly -- Peace Attack PCH -- Shadow of a Doubt 7/3/04 The Rave Milwaukee Rain on Tin Schizophrenia I Love You Golden Blue Pattern Recognition Unmade Bed Karenology Mariah Carey... Stones New Hampshire Paper Cup Exit Dude Ranch Nurse Brother James -- Shadow of a Doubt Sugar Kane -- Teenage Riot Evaluating these, most of what are rare weren't at the time - new songs off new albums that don't get played much anymore. Or old songs that got played frequently on particular tours. It's all relative I guess. |
Pittsburgh 2003
Bull in the Heather The Empty Page Catholic Block Rain on Tin Plastic Sun Karenology Shadow of a Doubt Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream Mote Drunken Butterfly Sympathy for the Strawberry -- Disconnection Notice Sugar Kane -- Teenage Riot Nothing rare, but a good set never the less. Although they only played mote 4 times that tour. I can't remember the setlist from 2004 Cleveland, but I remember they played rain on tin, everything from nurse, and some other stuff too. |
yeah ........ they dont play a very wide range of their own songs .. usually only about 25 in rotation .....
so prolly the only rare thing i saw was on the nurse tour when ... sy, wolf eyes, and hair police all rioted on "inhuman"... although it seamed like more of a big joke than it was about the music .... unfortunately ... it would be cool if sy were to play sets of there new songs and then different old ones evry night .. instead of the new ones and then the same 6 or 7 oldies over and over again in a pretty steady rotation ......... |
Lawl. I have seen SY play the entire Either/Or album in order with an encore of "Hives Hives". Good show.
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Yes sir.
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Nah, I can't draw with a mouse.
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and HOMOSEXUALS.
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8/7/04 Buffalo, NY: The Sphere
I Love You Golden Blue Stones Pattern Recognition Unmade Bed Eric's Trip Mariah Carey Empty Page Paper Cup Exit Silver Rocket New Hampshire Dude Ranch Nurse Sugar Kane -- Rain on Tin -- Expressway Nothing really 'rare' I guess, though the older songs they did play I was real happy with. Especially 'Eric's Trip' and 'Expressway'. |
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It seems like every show except The Orange Peel got a good, solid set-list. (check the mustang site: August 20, 2004, The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC) |
Yeah, I am jealous of that set-list.
Well, the reason I didn't think it was a "full" set is that I would have liked to heard more recent stuff (@ the time). Like, some songs off "Murray Street" would have been a highlight for me. Or, "A Thousand Leaves". I really did enjoy the early stuff they played, like PCH, & "Teenage Riot", I just thought they could have done a better set. |
they did play stones and sunday at a show earlier this year, at least...i'd
like to see both survive. |
they need to be able to paly ALL there songs ... not just a couple oldies.....
like a jam band .. ........ i mean jam bands sux but they put on the best shows, never any of the same songs two nights in a row and allways like three hour shows.... sonic youth should ditch the opening acts and play solo shows .. were they keep it real and play like a bunch of songs every night and have at least 2 full sets ...... AT VERY LEAST |
I agree they should have a variety of songs on their sets, have a broad spectrum guys.
I'm thinkin that ATP will just be another gig for SY ie/another gig to promote the new album. |
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I don't think there's enough people would go and see that show. I might, but I would think quite a lot about it, and I'm a fairly heavy SY fan. Ok, so I'm not obsessive enough to go to every show, and I'm lucky enough to live somewhere where they play a couple of shows each album, if not a full tour. And the support bands are nearly always top quality... especially Glenn Branca at the London RFH show... incidentally, I saw the soundcheck for that (sneaked in an hid somewhere)... they were doing soundy things and then a mostly instrumental she is not alone... that's not something many people saw (unless there were other people hiding as well). |
Didnt they play a show at The Sheperd Bush Empire in London where they had VVM as a support act?I thought that was a cool choice for them.
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Yeah... I didn't see that show, but I saw VVM a couple of years before that... they used to have a really confrontational and unpleasant live show, but the last time I saw them it was a bit tame and laptoppy... unfortunately, with that kind of music, if you don't have a good live show, the music can be super-boring. Would've been good to see the SY-supporting masses cower in fear though. |
I've read a review of it somewhere and it seems like his stage set comprised of dead meat he'd buy from the local butcher wherever he was playing at the time and he would place it near his laptop onstage.These days he seems to be really into belgian beat stuff from the eighties wich he manages to make sound like a drive by shooting outside a Daltson primary school.His 'Sick Love'
album is still a gem after all these years. |
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