#122

Metallica playing Master of Puppets in full at Download 2006 was special. Also really enjoyed Mogwai playing Zidane and more recently, Courtney Barnett running through Tell Me How You Really Feel.

As mentioned above, Soundgarden playing Superunknown (or at least most of it) at Hyde Park was awesome, and probably better for being unexpected.

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#123

The yeah Yeah Yeahs were about 30 mins late coming in stage ot the 10 years ATP, the crowd were booing. Probably why you thought it wasn’t that great!

#124

Saw Radiohead doing In Rainbows back-to-front at 93 Feet East three months after it came out, that was pretty great.

Otherwise Daydream Nation, Doolittle and Born in the USA, which were good but would have preferred regular sets…

#125

I kinda get this, particularly the nostalgia/cash in bit. But then depending on how cynical one is, could you not say the same about most if not all reunions?
Have found there’s something quite exciting and satisfying about hearing a piece of art as it was originally devised.

Think our music culture has become a lot more nostalgia focused though. Every week there is a ‘25th anniversary of this’ or ‘10 years since X came out’ on 6music. Whilst I enjoy revisiting that stuff, I have wondered whether, on some level, it projects an image of a declining scene or hampers the exposure that emerging artists could be getting.

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#126

Lemonheads - Shame About Ray - boring
65DoS - Fall of Math - incredible
Six by Seven - The Closer You Get - amazing

#127

ah! that rings a bell actually, yeah.

#128

There are reunions which are just an attempt to wring some money out of former glories - not interested.

There are reunions where the band still seems to have the ability to contribute interesting new music alongside the classics (I’d count slowdive and Sleater kinney in this bracket) - bring it on.

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#129

The Stooges playing Funhouse at Hammersmith in 2005 - one of my favourite ever gigs.

Primal Scream playing Screamadelica at Olympia then again at Brixton, both very joyous occasions.

Can’t think of any others

#130

You’re after reminding me that I saw them do this in Porto in 2014. Thought it was one of the most disappointing things I’ve ever seen.

#131

Manics - Holy Bible
SFA - Fuzzy Logic / Radiator

Works if it is a record I love, know intimately, and they may rarely play certain songs on the records live. The Holy Bible show was basically a culmination of me being a Manics fan who got into them around the time of Everything Must Go and devoured their back catalogue, but only started seeing them live just before Know Your Enemy came out. Desperate to hear Holy Bible tracks they would just play dirges like Ready for Drowning or Baby Elian instead. But it was a weird performance in Cardiff Castle, such a dark album bit it was a beautiful day, beautiful surroundings and the ambience was that of a 6 Nations match crossed with a family picnic. Had to be done though.

Fuzzy Logic was great live, one of the first albums I bought so know it inside out. I slacked off getting into the most recent SFA records so enjoyed it much more than their standard set I am sure.

This is about it really, I can’t think of many bands or albums I’d want to see in full live in the same way. Those two were “homecomings” to an extent too which added to it.

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#132

Seen a few, all good in general I prefer to be surprised by setlists. Did get to see the Melvins play Lysol, Eggnog and Houdini back to back once which was a treat. Some bloke had a proper tantrum when he realised they were going to play all of Spread Eagle Beagle (basically 10 minutes of nothing) at the end of the set, not sure what he was expecting.

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#133

Doesn’t really count as a full album, but when I saw Deftones in a tiny little venue in Northampton a few years ago they played a mixed set (post-Adrenaline). The encore was just tracks 1-7 of Adrenaline, and it was fucking brilliant.

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#134

Yeah I saw them so that at the Scala once too, it was awesome

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#135

I forgot this in my list - I thought this was great. Karen O walked on to the boos, snarled something like “here we are, fuckers” and they just tore into it.

#136

Ah yeah that Brian Wilson Pet Sounds set was fantastic. The weather was perfect for it and it was on at the perfect time of day

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#137

It was great but the crowd were in a foul mood (myself included) because they were like 50minutes late to stage and people were stood there waiting for them to come on. To be fair the onus was on ATP on that one, they should’ve told the crowd they were running late

She said ‘Hey fuckers we just got here’ then they just played the album and won the crowd over. But that 50minutes was painful.

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#138

They played everything apart from half didn’t they? and she likes surprises which isn’t on the US release.

#139

I don’t care about a cash in reunion if the band are still into it - I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive. Malkmus of Pavement said some thing along the lines of (when they reformed) that it was totally for the money, but that doesn’t stop it beiong really fun to play those songs to people who love them.

(can’t now find the quote)

Totally happy with that.

#140

They did it primarily for the bassist iirc who was a bit finanically struck up

#141

(Bob actually, and yes, that is literally doing it for the cash)