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I love the band, but I've pretty much stopped making a big effort to see them because of their setlists.
Although I do like The Eternal and am a bit bummed that I missed their recent show here, this band has 16 albums and 30 years under their belt....so to hear they just played The Eternal in it's entirety and a few random old songs from Daydream, etc....is kind of disappointing. They left out everything from the Geffen era.
I know everyone has the utmost respect for the band, and the fact they have continued to evolve their sound from album to album, but at a certain point recognize the strength and diversity of your catalog and legacy of music and well basically.....give the majority of fans what they want. The band makes the vast majority of it's income these days through their live show and ultimately if material from all those amazing 90's albums were represented a bit more, I'm sure plenty of people would be ecstatic. I mean it says a lot when the Daydream Nation tour popped up, because Thurston openly admitted they were offered a lot more money to specifically play Daydream Nation. It's what people want, to hear the absolutely amazing and classic albums the majority of us were too damn young to hear live the first time. I had only heard A Thousand Leaves once before I saw them perform live in 1998 (and play lots of ATL), of course I didn't appreciate it then, but now I would completely love to see a show featuring that album in it's entirety.
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