--- “Age of Anxiety 1”: still mediocre.
--- “Black Mirror”: I’m shocked and thrilled to hear it. I went through endless setlists to prep for the show, and I’m not sure they’ve played it in years! Danny’s into it too!!!
--- “No Cars Go”!!!! Epic. Apparently it’s one of the first songs they ever wrote. When I get home, I need to check out Foo Fighters’ cover. [Update: apparently Foo Fighters covered "Keep The Car Running," another great song. Linked here are the Arcade version and the Foo version.]
--- “Neon Bible”?! Are they designing this entire setlist for me personally?! It’s actually much better on the album, but love the boldness.
--- Omg, “My Body is Cage,” all old stuff!!! I actually hate it on the album, and this is my favorite version ever. Has identical vocal strength, but it’s so dark and different than the rest, so it works.
--- “Afterlife” is not a great song, but ~disco is another cool shift. LOL at Danny doing a Travolta Saturday Night Fever impression.
--- “Reflektor”: estilo que chulo!! Nice keyboard solo towards the end.
--- “Age of Anxiety 2 [Rabbit Hole]” works much better than the album because, once again, it’s a change -- this time to ballad and electronica.
--- “The Lightning 1” features maybe the coolest visual intro I’ve ever seen!!!! 2 then amps up the energy before “Rebellion (Lies), “Haiti,” and “Keep the Car Running” take the roof off!!!! Love the dreadlocks guy running around with the Haiti flag and Win describing how they’ll spend the rest of their lives indebted to Haiti.
---- “Ready To Start”!!!!! Nothing deep or thematic — I just love it. The notes throttle through me.
--- “We are extremely lucky to do this and don’t take it for granted for an f’ing minute.”
--- “The Suburbs”: heh, a chance to catch our breaths. Low energy, catchy.
--- “Unconditional (Lookout Kid)”!!! Upbeat, wise, a new color yet again. Hahahahahaha at the inflatable rainbow gumbies. Recalls Brody: “what is that?!”
--- “Mountains 2 (The Sprawl)”: by far my favorite version!!!! So smooth and fun. A band member is now dancing feet from us. Wooo. Hahahaha at “cut the light.”
--- Wow, “Everything Now” is not a song to leave on. Oh well. Woo for the encore.
--- The maquina toca en su propio?!
--- “End of the Empire” works much better here. Vulnerable. Shades of the end of the Paul McCartney finale. Love the transition to dark opera by the end.
--- “Ocean of Noise” / “Wake Up”!!!!! Awww at the woman behind me – she’s in a blue disco wonderland. The contrast in the style, tone, and fame of the two songs is brilliant. Aww at them communing with the crowd as they walk to Sugar Boy And His Cane Cutters’s “Iko Iko.” Pitch-perfect coda.
Grade: A+
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