One reviewer fails to deliver the accuracy readers expect
April 8th, 2008 by jjbtags: tour, australia, analysis, criticism
Alicia Bridges writes in the (Perth) Sunday Times:
[V Festival] Headlining act the Smashing Pumpkins failed to live up to the high expectations of some punters, playing mostly songs from their recent catalogue and failing to deliver the powerful performance their fans had expected.
The setlist (from spfc.org) shows that the band played eight pre-revival songs, four post-revival songs, the “Cash Car Star” medley and a Pink Floyd cover.
I suppose that — especially to someone who’s standing there not knowing the material — “United States” is going to take up the time-equivalent of four songs, though “Porcelina of the Vast Oceans” would count for two by that standard. If those were counted as such, and “Cash Car Star” as one old song and one mashup cover, that’s about as generous as possible — but there would still be a total of 10 old-song equivalents, seven new-song equivalents and two cover-song equivalents.
In America, the gentleman pictured at right (former Indianapolis Colt Rohn Stark) is a “punter”…but “mostly” means “over half” in Australia, too, doesn’t it?
April 8th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
by “recent catalogue” they obviously meant post-gish.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
You’ve obviously made the mistake of listening to anything Australia newspapers have to say :) Australian newspapers rank pretty low when it comes to quality. We can all thank Rupert Murdoch for that.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
[…] to two songs from Zeitgeist (out of 21 total, with another four being post-Zeitgeist songs) and still some writers are very comfortable stating that more than half of the show is recent material. […]