June 4 2006: Radiohead, Willy Mason – Bank of America Pavilion, Boston MA
Some things just don’t change: the kids love to queue up for Radiohead. They’re gonna PROVE that they love Radiohead quite possibly more than anyone else in the known universe. And how? By showing up hours before the doors are scheduled to open and then sitting the fuck DOWN, reserved seating be damned.
I hadn’t seen Radiohead since Coachella two years ago, and I wasn’t super excited about it and didn’t even have a ticket, just kind of figuring I’d show up and see if there were any to be had at a reasonable price and if there weren’t, well, no big deal, I’d just go home. But then the day before the show I put in “Amnesiac” and remembered how fucking awesome Radiohead are.
They opened with “There There” which I am willing to go down on record as saying is one of the top songs to open a show with, ever. And just the aesthetic pleasantness of the singer/guitarist in between two guys who are much taller than he and who are both being the hell out of a drum…..and it’s a pretty good song too. “The National Anthem” was the other highlight for me.
Overall the show had a pretty good mix of songs, 15 old ones (16 if you count “Nude”), 9 new ones (8 if you don’t count “Nude”). But the old ones were all songs I’d heard before, which was a bit of a disappointment. And speaking of “Nude,” it’s pretty weird, not at all like it used to be played. Good song selection overall though, with not a loser in the bunch (such as “We Suck Young Blood” or “A Punchup at a Wedding.” Christ I hated it when they would play those two back to back on the “Hail to the Theif” tour IN THE FUCKING ENCORE, A SPOT THAT SHOULD BE STRICKLY RESERVED FOR SONGS THAT KICK FUCKING ASS, NOT BLATANTLY AWFUL ONES). And a few of the new songs were great, “Videotape” and “4 Minute Warning” especially. Good show all around.
I hadn’t seen Radiohead since Coachella two years ago, and I wasn’t super excited about it and didn’t even have a ticket, just kind of figuring I’d show up and see if there were any to be had at a reasonable price and if there weren’t, well, no big deal, I’d just go home. But then the day before the show I put in “Amnesiac” and remembered how fucking awesome Radiohead are.
They opened with “There There” which I am willing to go down on record as saying is one of the top songs to open a show with, ever. And just the aesthetic pleasantness of the singer/guitarist in between two guys who are much taller than he and who are both being the hell out of a drum…..and it’s a pretty good song too. “The National Anthem” was the other highlight for me.
Overall the show had a pretty good mix of songs, 15 old ones (16 if you count “Nude”), 9 new ones (8 if you don’t count “Nude”). But the old ones were all songs I’d heard before, which was a bit of a disappointment. And speaking of “Nude,” it’s pretty weird, not at all like it used to be played. Good song selection overall though, with not a loser in the bunch (such as “We Suck Young Blood” or “A Punchup at a Wedding.” Christ I hated it when they would play those two back to back on the “Hail to the Theif” tour IN THE FUCKING ENCORE, A SPOT THAT SHOULD BE STRICKLY RESERVED FOR SONGS THAT KICK FUCKING ASS, NOT BLATANTLY AWFUL ONES). And a few of the new songs were great, “Videotape” and “4 Minute Warning” especially. Good show all around.
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