IV and V are my least favorite acts. Though I kinda fell off with the band after Migrant so that might have something to do with it. I don't know if its just my UK Spotify but TCS songs all have skips like a bad record for me. I LOVE 'Home' though
I'm reading reviews of Act IV and holy shit people don't like "King of Swords." I LOVVVEEEEE it. Would love to dance around to that one live sometime.
Really? Man, that song is awesome. When they played it in SF with the orchestra, they realized like right before they played the song that there was a working disco ball in the venue. It was amazing lol
Don't know if it's the same thing but when the record first came out I had an amazon download where all the tracks had weird popping all over them, had to complain and got sent new copies.
fun little easter eggs in that music video, the teachers name is "Mr. E" which is a funny play on Miss Terry plus the assignment is to "read Chapter VI"
So I find the later stuff (Migrant, IV and V) way easier to get into than the first few records, which seems to be the opposite of everyone else. Huh. "Red Hands" is still my favorite of their songs, though.
Main set: The Squeaky Wheel The Lake and the River Waves Misplaced Devotion Blame Paradise The March The Most Cursed of Hands Light Cascade Red Hands (a song (not) about eggs) A Night on the Town Black Sandy Beaches Home King of Swords (Reversed) The Flame (Is Gone) New song (with the title of the EP in it) (that’s not the right wrong) We left before the encore because they’d already played for a almost two hours and I work in six hours.
The Dear Hunter Setlist at Doug Fir Lounge, Portland Super-jealous about The Squeaky Wheel. How was it?
That set is fucking incredible. Seeing them for the 5th time in the last 18ish months in 2 weeks and this is easily the most excited I've been
No way, that encore is nuuuts. Super jelly of that. Surprising to see so much act 2 yet no migrant in that set. Would've expected whisper at the very least.
its interesting hearing these songs out of the context of the Acts. Migrant/EP not withstanding, its really a testament to the bands songwriting that these songs can function perfectly fine as just songs on an album as well as chapters in a sweeping progrock odyssey.