Confessions of a Fanboy

Don’t you love it when some dope slaughters a language in an attempt at humor?  I hear you, Mexico City!  Wow.  This is a stout list!  Let’s skip right to the encore trifecta of “I Believe,” “Country Feedback,” and “Life and How to Live It.”  “Life” has only been played three other times on this [...]

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I’m probably the only person in America who thinks it’s funny when they play “Drive” and “Driver 8” back-to-back.  I wonder if Peruvians share my sense of humor.  Probably not.
I don’t have some fancy database configured to prove it, but I’d be shocked if this exact set list hasn’t been used on some other date [...]

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The best thing I can say about this one is they took “She Just Wants To Be” out of the encore and put “Pretty Persuasion” there.  Yes, they still played “SJWTB,” but if you’re going to have to hear it it’s best to get it over in the main set.  Every time I mock “SJWTB,” [...]

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The secret seems to be to see the band on the second night of a two-night stand. “Maps And Legends” is the big shocker in this list. “7 Chinese Brothers” and “Pretty Persuasion” haven’t been played as often and neither has “Begin the Begin.” Yeah, this would have been one to see.

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Nothing remarkable here.  They must be saving it up for night two.

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You just can’t make some people happy, can you?  R.E.M. got their choice for president and they’re still flinging “Ignoreland” and “Exhuming McCarthy.”  So much for the honeymoon.

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“Cuyahoga” is still in the encore and that’s largely what sets this set list apart from others on this tour.  I’m running out of things to say about these set lists.  Fortunately we’re about to run out of set lists as I haven’t seen what the band will be doing when their S. American run [...]

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Night 2 was the night to catch the band in Chile!  Look at that!  “Radio Free Europe.”  ”Cuyahoga.”  We haven’t seen those often.  “Sweetness Follows” and “Nightswimming” give us a couple extra from Automatic For the People.  We also get “I Took Your Name.”  That’s great.  That’s just spectacular.  I’d slap somebody if I saw [...]

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Well, 11 would approve part of this.  ”Country Feedback” is a personal favorite of his.  I’m not opposed to it, but it’s not one that’s high up my list.  ”(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville,” on the other hand, is.  Or rather, was.  I got to hear it.  I’d love hearing it again.  That’s a great [...]

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Apparently, I wasn’t sufficiently critical of the last set so I’m going to pay closer attention to this one. Okay, I like “I Took Your Name,” which hasn’t been played a ton on this tour. “Drive” into “Driver 8” is a fun one-two from a title perspective, a bit odd from a musical [...]

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