[Above is the setlist I snagged after the show. Yes, it's largely illegible, so scroll down if it be setlist ye seek.]
First, watch this.
Done? Good! Happy 2011, [insert ethnic slur here]s!
Just got back from tonight's Tapes 'n Tapes show. Pretty stoned, very drunk, and just poured myself a(nother) quart of vodka / soda / splash 'o cran, so I'm not sure how coherent this post is going to wind up. In other words, it's doubtful that I'm going to want to write much here, because I got places to go, people to see, and things to do [all lies]. Just a few notes:
- I wasn't sure I was going to even make it into this show since the MHOW website said it was SOLD OUT before I left Long Island to come back to Williamsburg. When I rolled up to the box office, however, it just so happened that they had *ONE* ticket left, which I bought the fuck out of.
- Third time I've seen this band live, and third time that they've had ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLY BAD concert sound. First time I saw them live I bitched about the live sound; second time I saw them live I bitched about the sound, and this time around things were no better. Drums and keyboard were WAY too loud; bass was overbearingly muddy and shitty sounding; guitar was practically inaudible. What a fucking crock of shit.
- These guys have been royally cornholed by Pitchfork since the initial honeymoon, and unfairly so. Not on the same level as Black Kids, but face it, Black Kids were (are? Do they still put out (awful) records?) a total joke, and compared to most of the absolute fucking garbage that the kids seem to be just gobbling up these days, Tapes 'n Tapes are fucking Led Zeppelin multiplied by the goddamn Beatles. Despite them having fallen out of favor with the tastemakers, these guys still write some damn fine songs. Like everyone else, I loved The Loon, but I've always thought Walk it Off had a bunch of good shit on there (though, admittedly, it was horrendously produced). I'm kinda meh on the newest record (which came out last month), Outside; came into this show thinking there were only 3 good ones on the new one, but I liked a bunch more of the newer shit in the live setting than I expected I would have.
- Another band that simply doesn't know what their own best songs are. How these guys get off scot free without performing "The Iliad," "People You Know," "Time of Songs," "Headshock" and "Le Ruse" EVERY FUCKING NIGHT is beyond me.
- "Jakov's Suite" is just a great show-ender. Hopefully these guys will get big enough where they can actually afford to destroy all of their instruments at the end of every set while while "Jak"king off.
- Wow, that pun was horrible. Time for some nitrous, perhaps. G'night, shit-eaters.
SETLIST [fwiw if I'm remembering correctly the set was a little over 80 minutes with the encore]:
Beach Girls [from the first independently released Tapes 'n Tapes EP, which I still haven't heard, hint hint]
Conquest
Just Drums
Demon Apple
10 Gallon Ascots
Hang Them All
Hidee Ho
Cowbell
Outro
One in the World
On and On
Lines
Omaha
Badaboom
The Dirty Dirty
Saddest of All Keys
Insistor
Manitoba
Freak Out
Encore:
Jakov's Suite
I'm surprised that the setlist wasn't written larger/more legibly considering the difficulty that Grier had reading the list at the Paradise show in Boston. There were a couple of false starts as he was playing a different tune than the rest of the band.
Posted by: Dan Wilson | February 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM
get away from this blog diggity and leave the commenting to the "fans"
Posted by: beafbeafbeafbeafbeaf | February 10, 2011 at 09:01 PM
I find hard visiting sites that could actually give me information regarding this. Glad that I've found it here. I love watching Tapes 'n Tapes show since then. I was so impressed with their performances actually. I love the casts and the makers.
Posted by: casio ctk 2100 | February 22, 2011 at 07:18 AM