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trainyard bliss · 06.24.2006, 06:00 PM

i meant to post this earlier, but i've been kinda busy the past few days. i saw sonic youth with awesome color this past wednesday and it was fucking amazing. it was pretty much the first real show i've been to (i refuse to count aerosmith and cheap trick in some huge stadium a few years ago as "real" anything, except maybe really underwhelming, but what was i expecting?). i thought they were fucking awesome, and awesome color was damn good as well. i was so close i could've groped kim (i half-expected this annoying drunk guy to attempt to do so). i suppose it was somewhat surreal, but i was mostly too overwhelmed to feel much beyond a sort of numb ecstasy. i know enough about the band to know what to expect mostly, though in some way i was surprised by thurston. he was much more charismatic in his own idiosyncratic way than i expected--very entertaining. he was energetic & carefree, and it was contagious. kim was also very engaging, but in way relatively complementary to thurston's. i actually made eye contact with both of them. lee was fairly stoic, but he played well when i could hear him (my only complaint was not being able to hear lee as well as i would've liked). he got way out of tune one time after a noise breakdown, but he recovered well. steve just looked damn happy on his drums, and it sounded like it too.

i would say the highlights were schizophrenia, eric's trip, 100%, pacific coast highway, pink steam, and the encore as a whole . . . but above all, brother james. holy fucking shit, that song was incredible live. it started with lee standing perfectly still as he hit the opening chords (except the necessary arm movements of course) with his eyes wide open and a creepy grin. it was like he was possessed. kim gave an amazing vocal delivery. it ended with some super-noisy chords delivered in synchronized guitar flailing between lee and thurston--my favorite live sy move.

anyway here's the setlist, but only in relative order until the encore(s).

incinerate
schizophrenia
reena
eric's trip
pattern recognition
do you believe in rapture?
what a waste
turquoise boy
100%
pacific coast highway
rats
pink steam
or

jams run free
brother james

shaking hell

and some of the better pictures i took in the following post . . .

06.24.2006, 06:00 PM	#1
trainyard bliss little trouble girl Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: berkeley, california Posts: 76	i meant to post this earlier, but i've been kinda busy the past few days. i saw sonic youth with awesome color this past wednesday and it was fucking amazing. it was pretty much the first real show i've been to (i refuse to count aerosmith and cheap trick in some huge stadium a few years ago as "real" anything, except maybe really underwhelming, but what was i expecting?). i thought they were fucking awesome, and awesome color was damn good as well. i was so close i could've groped kim (i half-expected this annoying drunk guy to attempt to do so). i suppose it was somewhat surreal, but i was mostly too overwhelmed to feel much beyond a sort of numb ecstasy. i know enough about the band to know what to expect mostly, though in some way i was surprised by thurston. he was much more charismatic in his own idiosyncratic way than i expected--very entertaining. he was energetic & carefree, and it was contagious. kim was also very engaging, but in way relatively complementary to thurston's. i actually made eye contact with both of them. lee was fairly stoic, but he played well when i could hear him (my only complaint was not being able to hear lee as well as i would've liked). he got way out of tune one time after a noise breakdown, but he recovered well. steve just looked damn happy on his drums, and it sounded like it too. i would say the highlights were schizophrenia, eric's trip, 100%, pacific coast highway, pink steam, and the encore as a whole . . . but above all, brother james. holy fucking shit, that song was incredible live. it started with lee standing perfectly still as he hit the opening chords (except the necessary arm movements of course) with his eyes wide open and a creepy grin. it was like he was possessed. kim gave an amazing vocal delivery. it ended with some super-noisy chords delivered in synchronized guitar flailing between lee and thurston--my favorite live sy move. anyway here's the setlist, but only in relative order until the encore(s). incinerate schizophrenia reena eric's trip pattern recognition do you believe in rapture? what a waste turquoise boy 100% pacific coast highway rats pink steam or jams run free brother james shaking hell and some of the better pictures i took in the following post . . .
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