You want to offer a correction? Cool.
October 29th, 2007 by jjbtags: analysis, criticism, zeitgeist
Sarah Rodman has a snarkitorial in today’s Boston Globe that offers snappy suggestions to the reformed Van Halen on the eve of its show in that sportstastic town. Rodman weighs in on “a rash of reunions big and not so big” in 2007, being generally complimentary of our heroes but tossing in an attempt at fact-based reportage toward the end:
You have a new record, Crowded House? You want to play a handful of its best songs? Cool. You want to play almost all of it, Smashing Pumpkins? Not cool.
Facts being checkable these days, I looked up the setlist from the Crowded House show in Boston on August 5; from their 14-track 2007 album Time on Earth, the Oceanic popsters played eight songs that night. Meanwhile, during their recent three-night stand in Boston, the Pumpkins never played more than six songs off the 12-track Zeitgeist in one show.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Well, some of those new songs are long so perhaps it just feels like they are playing the whole album? ;)
New Rule: Nobody in Boston can complain about anything for the next decade (unless the Kevin Garnett/Ray Allen/Paul Pierce combo implodes).
October 29th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Jjb, you’re missing the point. The reviewer said “a handful” of its best songs from the album regarding Crowded House. Obviously the issue is that Sarah has some pretty big man-hands that 8 songs constitutes a handful, but that they are good songs nonetheless, while, conversely, none of the 6 songs from Zeitgeist could be described as good.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
*rolls eyes*
Remind me why we let you blog again?
Oh, that’s right. Because you’re our token indie posterboy (who has the highest historical post count on AMSP). And we have to be your friend.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Pins, I thought it was hilarious, and I don’t allow you to blog; you just do.
October 29th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Blog blog blog blog fight fight fight fight!
jilly, you wouldn’t even be a part of this blog if jjb and I didn’t come up with the idea over our constant debates. That and we needed someone with mad design skillz.
I don’t really have the highest post count, do I? That’s umpossible.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Between Andy’s “Big Three” discourse and Jeremy’s extremely veiled reference to my fantasy hoops team, it seems randomly appropriate to mention that second-year Celtics playmaker Rajon Rondo is on my roster. Let the season begin!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
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