--- “Satellite”: the slithery vocals in the middle were new and cool. HA at the use of a bullhorn to talk to the audience. I haven’t seen them use big black smoke before. Wow it at it being used this early.
--- “Tragedy + Time” is off The Black Market, an album I somehow haven’t heard.
--- I need to move closer, as I feel strangely disconnected, even from “Give It All”?!?!
--- Heh, “We come at you with no agenda. We have no album to promote. We’re just here to have a good f’ing time…This right here is going way back, off Revolutions Per Minute. It’s a circle pit song.” Now I’m alive!!! Moving up and having an animated fan next to me helps.
--- “Help Is On The Way” sounds great. My conflict this time remains their insistence on being apolitical . . . from a band who claims to care about things . . . at the time of maximum political importance. Huh?
--- This year’s 20 years of a record called Siren Song of the Counterculture. I don’t like the song (“Blood to Bleed”), but it’s my tether to authenticity. Its age and screech give it that.
--- “The Good Left Undone”!! The pacing and atmosphere capture me here.
--- “Strength to Go On”: same — plus it’s off Appeal To Reason!!
--- Hahaha: “What does your shirt say, Headless Horseman? I think it says, “Don’t Play ‘Paper Wings.’ If you play ‘Paper Wings,’ you’re a coward.” After playing it, “It’s ‘cause you’re a fellow bald man. You got it.” This exchange gave the song such urgency!!!
--- “Hero of War”: wow, they make it a drum-laden electric number.
--- “We were trying to think of the last time we’d played 9:30 Club. (In the 90s) with Bad Religion, right? One of most storied and legendary places in North America.” Aww.
--- “Swing Life Away”: not sure how I feel about two quiet songs back to back, but the crowd sounds great, and I’m anticipating the sheer insanity that is sure to follow lol.
--- “The Violence” is not the answer.
--- “Prayer of the Refugee” is!!!! Even in this diminished state, it’s fire. Nothing can compare to “Prayer.”
--- “If you all are game to stay up late on a Sunday night, we are too.”
--- “Audience of One”: Appeal to Reason will always appeal to me!!!
--- “We’re going to reach back and play an old song here, ‘Black Masks and Gasoline.’” Don’t know it. Good for them.
--- ~“Lord knows you get enough people telling you how to vote. As someone who writes and sings about revolution, though, if someone’s revolution has racism, sexism, and homophobia, it’s not a revolution. I care about unions, about the Supreme Court, about working people, about my vote. Think of that and vote. Be our savior, DC — be our ‘Savior.’” FINALLY!!!!! The catharsis I waited 79 minutes for, the meaning the show needed. I’d been hesitant about moving through people to get to the pit the whole night. After that, I involuntarily weave through everyone, get flung, settle in the front, and rejoice. YES. Two shows in a row: BEST FOR LAST.
Grade: A-
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