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Here's some background:
The local SF alternative station, Live 105, hosts the largest alternative rock festival in northern California at the Shoreline Amphitheater called BFD. The city of Mountain View (the Shoreline location) has a noise ordinance that puts a hard stop on concerts at midnight.
The lineup on the main stage this year was, in order:
Scissors for Lefty - A local SF band that were pretty good, super nice guys.
Kaiser Chiefs - They were fun. Better live than on their CDs.
Interpol - I don't understand their appeal but whatever.
Queens of the Stone Age - These guys are awesome. Every concert I've seen by them has been insanely great, highly reccomended.
Social D - First of all, their music is boring wannabe greaser music. They take good songs and make shitty covers out of them and drone their way through the rest of their sub par library. I don't know where they got their cred from but it certainly wan't from the gallon of mascara the lead singer was wearing.
Then, to top it off they played 30 minutes longer than they were supposed to, which in a festival situation in a venue with a noise ordinance ruins the timing (see also Madonna at Coachella). With one band left and my girlfriend asleep on my shoulder I kept wondering when the hell they were going to put me out of my misery and what Bloc Party, the band I wanted to see all along, was going to do. Would they say to hell with the ordinance and keep going. Whatever they did it was all Social D's fault and now I have a personal reason to hate them.
Bloc Party - They did the best they could given that the lights were going on at midnight no matter what. The songs were great, the energy was great, but it was short. They even made a quasi reference to why they were playing short: "We have two songs left, tragedy I know, blame socia dis, um, ah, social d."
All in all I would have had a great BFD experience were it not for aging metro-greasers.
Playlist from this week:
1. Lola's Theme - Shapeshifters 2. Don't Call Me Baby - Madison Avenue 3. Sorry (PSB Mix) - Madonna 4. Maneater - Nelly Furtado 5. Watch Your Sexy Back (JT vs FC) - DJ Tripp 6. Can't Lick You Out of My Bed - Ludacris vs Kylie Minogue
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Tonight's live mixed playlist:
1. Galvanize the Empire (Chem Bros vs The Death Star) - Party Ben 2. Like Jesus or Not (Madge vs DM) - Appollo Zero 3. One Step Closer to Whatever - Shakira vs Linkin Park 4. Don't You Want the Time (Human League vs Benny Benassi) - DJ Tripp 5. Watch Your Sexyback (Justin Timberlake vs Ferry Corsten) - DJ Tripp 6. Somebody to Love - The Boogie Pimps 7. One More Time - Daft Punk
End of Show:
Cola Bottle Baby - Edwin Birdsong
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word up--I had to bail before Social Distortion came on, too. I knew I'd be dreaming with a terrible soundtrack if I had stuck around.
Ouch...I've abandoned Social Distortion for a bit and haven't heard too much of their "new" stuff, but if they were playing anything from their old punk days then that would be a wonderful reason to extend into, ah, Bloc Party's set. They only have one album of cover-tunes (which, yes, is terrible....I hate covers). I've heard they sound much different now, but their older hardcore stuff is classic.