[neptuneg]

This has been discussed in fragments around the bored and is not really contained in one single thread; I was wondering how SY chooses which songs they're going to play live. I mean, would they ever bust out something completely random, like Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit again? Or even anything else off Washing Machine? gah, I have too much time to think!

[Chris Lawrence]

i think before each tour everybody makes a list of which songs they'd like to do (or maybe the singers pick the list based on tunes they wanna sing, i received a potential list arranged that way before the murray st tour). from there, other members may veto certain songs (i know a few that have been talked about for years now, that certain members just don't want to or can't relearn). it certainly seems like they've settled into a pretty standard set of oldies since 2000 or so, but they definitely pull out some surprises for each tour. keep in mind they now have to teach a new member old songs as well.

what i find fun is the songs they choose for kim to 'dance' to (ie: not play an instrument, just sing + shake a tambourine, or whatever). kool thing, then drunken butterfly, then kissability, then PCH (and now most of rather ripped!). if you'd asked me in 2000 what i thought the likelihood of ever hearing 'kissability' or 'PCH' (or shaking hell or skip tracer or whatever) again, i would have been pretty skeptical...but shit happens!

who knows, 'orange rolls' may be the next kim dancer.

[neptuneg]

thanks, Chris! I don't want to be too nosy, but have the sprawl/cross the breeze/the wonder/other washing machine songs been thrown around in their lists?

[neptuneg]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

Neptuneg, Check it: http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/cc/sytour.html

thanks-i think i was unclear. I meant has the idea of resurrecting them been thrown around.

[pantophobia]

in the last couple years some songs have popped up either in sets or sound checks

Total Trash, Death Valley '69 (soundcheck)

unfortunately there is a bunch that aren't ever gonna return, Cinderella's Big Score most glaringly as two band member don't like their parts on the songs, same with the Jet Set

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

skip Tracer
1995-22
1996-23
2002-21
2003-10
2004-14
2005-15

the Diamond Sea
1995-82
1996-33

Both of these would have been awesome live. If anyone has an mp3 of ST live, i'd love to hear it.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

I was so happy about the Shaking Hell comeback, and was ecstatic to get to see it live, fucking amazing. Kim is a rock goddess and dances like no other.

Yeah, they ended on it where I was I think.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

You think?! This is something you should know!

They finished on Brother James or Shaking Hell, both two excellent closers.

[satirejohn]

i really can't understand why they never play The Sprawl and Cross The Breeze.. two of my favourite songs, and they surely must rock shit live.

[racehorse]

they played skip tracer in paris last year!

[neptuneg]

this is insane: last night I had a dream that I spoke to Thurston after a show and told him that he needs to relearn the sprawl and 'cross the breeze. I never thought this forum would be so significant while sleeping!

for the record, he said he'd try... i think.

[bucklebone]

One of the highlights of the Pretty Fuc*in' Dirty tour was "Theresa's Sound World". Talk about blowing your skull apart. That one with the lighting effects was one of my best live SY moments.

[Chris Lawrence]

theresa has been discussed for years, i think, but somebody won't do it, much to my sadness. same w/ 'stereo sanctity'. last year they were trying to figure out which 'lee' song they could start doing, i got the impression somebody didnt wanna do 'joni', which is a big fuckin' shame. thurston mentioned 'saucer-like' as being one they should relearn in an interview around nurse, i think, but so far that hasn't happened. he also mentioned being unable to remember his part on 'the sprawl' in an interview, and i know that was talked about being played. they talked about doing 'diamond sea' on the ummm murray street or nurse tour, but so far have not... (i think this would be cool now, like the 'expressway' closers w/ a solid 15 minutes of noise...for a while i thought diamond sea would die forever in 1996 but i think it could return).

ummm...i heard murmurs about 'the wonder'...and some others...but this was a while back, and i hate to keep getting my own hopes up, let alone yours!

but hey...everyone loves 100%, right!

.. right?

[atari 2600]

Lee song...

leesong

keep doin' Skip Tracer and Mote

keep Rats around

And resuscitate Karen Koltrane

Rain King will always be the dream though...

[neptuneg]

I just found this thread again, haha. Looks like we've gotten sprawl/breeze/rain king/joni. Cool!

[Chris Lawrence]

weird!

i'll throw a few more out that i remember being talked about.. 'tunic' 'purr' 'i dont wanna walk around with you' in '02, 'ghost bitch' 'tuff gnarl' 'confusion is sex' 'the good and the bad' in '06...

[Kegmama]

I miss some of these old threads...
And I prefer live SY to anything else.

[neptuneg]

Originally Posted by Chris Lawrence

weird!

i'll throw a few more out that i remember being talked about.. 'tunic' 'purr' 'i dont wanna walk around with you' in '02, 'ghost bitch' 'tuff gnarl' 'confusion is sex' 'the good and the bad' in '06...

That's awesome! I wonder if we will actually get any of those.

[blunderbuss]

A half-hearted attempt was made to influence the setlist for the Bolzano show earlier this year by kidnapping a member of the band and making a ransom demand of "we choose what the band plays". However, the attempt was foiled by the band member concerned (an elderly grey-haired gentleman) who claimed that that the band could not remember how to play the songs that were demanded, upon which point he was released by his captors.


For pictorial evidence of this audacious crime, see grete's signature:

 

It might look friendly, but that's a vice-like grip she has on his shoulder.

[Chris Lawrence]

Originally Posted by neptuneg

That's awesome! I wonder if we will actually get any of those.

i'm only breaking silence now cuz i'm pretty sure none of those will ever get played though they have surprised me before..

i think 'ghost bitch' was just an idea cuz lee was using the acoustic again for 'or', and same w/ 'good and the bad' cuz thurston was back on bass for 'rats'.

i do know they soundchecked 'confusion is next' and 'world looks red' but as we know, only 'world' made it to the public ear...