mewithoutYou Band • Page 88

About 80% of my Youtube usage is just watching Kevin Devine live videos. The other 20% is probably Vic Berger videos.

 

I've probably watched more mewithoutYou live videos than any other band.

 

I'll check it out, but I don't really care for AB at all. Even live.

 

Silencer is pretty cool! Everything else does little to nothing for me.

 

yeah, happy that they're having fun with a-b but i have so little interest in that material

 

Everything Is Beautiful & Nothing Hurts and The Cure For Pain are my two favourite songs from that album. I also like Silencer a fair amount.

I just like watching mewithoutYou live though to be honest.

 

I'm just poking fun. I think I love it because that's the album they were touring for when I first heard/saw them. I still love it, but I could see if someone came in 5-10 years after it came out not being a big fan of it after hearing their better albums.

 

same re: Kev. it typically circles back there

 

That's definitely true. I jumped onto the mewithoutYou bandwagon about six months before Catch For Us The Foxes came out so my first experience was Silencer and Gentleman.

 

did you ever check out the malkmus album?

 

it's good

 

Ha, what can I say? The man has the best videos. I've watched certain videos of "Redbird," "Brother's Blood," and "Carnival" countless times by this point. I'll get sucked in every few months.

Same goes for Bazan, who also has some amazing performances on there.

 

saaame. love the video of them playing Redbird at SXSW as a three piece, that one's excellent. there's this one acoustic show he played where he plays Cotton Crush into Ballgame that is pretty perfect and I watch super often, I'll probably post it in the thread later if I remember.

I'm on a mission to find the definitive live video of Bazan playing Second Best, lol. hard to find an old one in good quality but not a huge pool of more recent videos of that one (yet).

 

It's about 100 degrees on the heat index here, but I swear that there are guitar chords or drum beats or one line of a lyric that instantly gives me goosebumps and the chills all over my body and move me to tears. I've listened to these songs hundreds, if not thousands, of times and they hit me like a wave over and over again.

I can't explain how important this band is. I'm so happy I've been listening to them for about half of my life and they're still as committed as ever to tour and make arguably their best music nearly 20 years in.

I don't know what this means, but we're blessed to have them.

 

Wearing black canvas slippers
And our frog-on-a-lily-pad pose
We sewed buttons and zippers
To Chinese pink silk and olive night clothes
If you can someday stop by
Somehow we'll show you the pictures
And fix you some tea
See, my dad's getting a bit older now
And just unimaginably lonely

 

Epic

 

It's out! And a great price. It's a live show/documentary available for download via vimeo but also there's an audio-only version of the live show, including the encore! Yay, mewithoutYou live album.

Album Set:

1. Bullet to Binary
2. The Ghost
3. Nice & Blue
4. Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
5. (A)
6. Gentlemen
7. Be Still Child
8. We Know Who Are Enemies Are
9. I Never Said I Was Brave
10. (B)
11. Silencer
12. The Cure For Pain

Bonus Encore Set:

1. Magic Lantern Days (Acoustic)
2. The Fox, The Crow, and the Cookie (Acoustic)
3. Red Cow
4. Wolf Am I (and Shadow!)
5. In a Sweater Poorly Knit
6. Torches Together
7. January 1979
8. Son of a Widow
9. Nice and Blue (pt. Two)

I am very thankful for this!

 

That’s a long encore, I would’ve been interested in even just picking that up.

 

Great diversity from all the other albums - fantastic that they've included and thought about that as well.

Edit: just realised there's nothing from Ten Stories.

 

I'll check this out this weekend. Hopefully the excitement will spur an announcement for the new album!

 

Well, I immediately caved and downloaded this today. Great performance. Sometimes I forget how much I love this album. I don't relate to it as much lyrically anymore, but it's so musically interesting and unique.

 

Great diversity in the encore. Can't wait to hear this.

 

I REALLY hope they do this for Foxes as well.