From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1184 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, August 15 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1184 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Really enjoyed Tori's 2 NY gigs [Karen Hester Subject: Re: Really enjoyed Tori's 2 NY gigs Oh yah, would looove to hear Fire on the Side. I've a soft spot for On the Boundary plus the ballads too. She's played most of the songs from YKTR on this tour. American Doll Posse was probably the worst tour for you then, with the costumes and artifice and a sucky-ish band. There was plenty of variation in setlists and also within songs, so musically it might not have been as prefab/rehearsed as most acts. I mean, most artists perform identical setlists, musical arrangements, movement and even stage banter. kkkkkk On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Tim Jones-Yelvington < knockonformica@gmail.com> wrote: > Fayth might not need resuscitating, but I would give anything to hear FIRE > ON THE SIDE live. > > The only time I've seen Tori live was during the American Doll Posse > tour... and I thought the sound design was too overbearing for the slow > songs (I have this problem constantly tho with songwriters performing in > rock venues), she had no chemistry with her band, and everything felt very > staged, prefab and rehearsed and performed night after night, no dynamism. > > ~tim > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Karen Hester > wrote: > >> (Not really any spoilers, since at most your setlists will have two or >> three repeat songs.) >> >> Only two songs from the new album Unrepentant Geraldines each night, and >> usually very little from Beekeeper onwards, so you can safely go if you're >> a mid/early-Tori fan :) Her voice sounds lovely though there is help from >> reverb. The new songs she switches between are Weatherman, 16 Shades of >> Blue, Wedding Day, Oysters, Wild Way, Selkie, Trouble's Lament, Invisible >> Boy and Forest of Glass. I heard the first four and they were nicely >> played, they're just uninspired. My final opinion of Unrepentant >> Geraldines >> is that the songs are mainly worse than those on Abnormally Attracted to >> Sin and American Doll Posse, but they fooled me at first because of the >> cleaner production and arrangements. >> >> So... night one, lots of slow emotional songs. Tori said the setlist was >> made out of requests, and that might be why it felt like a bunch of songs >> rather than a cohesive concert to me. Little Earthquakes was particularly >> rich and dark and later in the set Mother had people crying. >> China-Bells-Pandora-Oysters in a row was lovely but Siren was a very >> welcome pick-me-up. Mid-concert there's a Lizard Lounge section of >> covers/mash-ups, and we had the misfortune to hear George Michael's Faith >> with hairspray Tori's Fayth. Man, she plays some great stuff in this >> section but Faith had the tackiest keyboard beat and Fayth doesn't need >> resuscitating. It's fun to hear one-offs, but I'd rather hear something >> good. The second 'Lounge' song was Chris Isaak's Wicked Game with a bit of >> Lana Del Rey's Blue Jeans. These were prettier and Tori used her raw voice >> well in Blue Jeans. >> >> The dreaded backing track was back for Bliss, Wedding Day and Cornflake >> Girl. The energy brought by percussion was good, but I found the >> pre-recordings jarring, especially the choir of Tori backing vocals and >> the >> way she takes a rest from real singing during Cornflake. Blood Roses and >> Mountain managed to bring movement through the piano playing, not a tinny >> beat. >> >> This tour's Raspberry Swirl is a bit of a mess. Everyone was so excited to >> hear it and started clapping, but it was a murky muddle so audience >> participation died away quickly. In my memory, Iieee also was a bit of a >> muddle, especially the keyboard, but it was amazing the second night. >> >> I lurved the second night. Funky Space Dog and sexy Suede. Delicate Icicle >> and beautiful Black Dove. Lovely Spark and moving Marianne. Charming A >> Sorta Fairytale and soaring Iieee. Funtime Take to the Sky and pretty >> concert closer Pretty Good Year. I've always wanted to hear Scarlet's Walk >> so even though the organ section didn't work, I was thrilled ( that song >> was the weakest performance of the night.) >> >> Lizard Lounge was much better because she played two songs she knew well >> and was able to inhabit them - Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy (complete with >> Meredith scream) and Radiohead's Creep. I love the former song and am sick >> of the latter, but she did an excellent job of both. So glad to be able to >> enjoy Creep again! Sections of the audience reverted to children - ooh she >> said a swear word, let's all clap with excitement. Later in the set Tori >> covered Depeche Mode's In Your Room, another example of how much better a >> cover sounds when she knows and loves the song. >> >> And that's that. So well worth going even if you dropped away from Tori a >> decade or so ago. >> K ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1184 ****************************