Beach House any good live?

atomicfront

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 17, 2010 at 06:42 PM UTC #

runwhiteyrun06 wrote:
So this thread seemed the most relevant: I bought "Devotion" and like it a lot. However, I get the impression from the songs that the other Beach House albums may sound really similar and just more of the same. Are any of the other Beach House albums worth getting?

Get "Teen Dream" it doesn't sound that similar to "Devotion" it is actually a masterpiece.

I have seen them before and after "Teen Dream" was released and hyped by all the magazines and blogs. I prefered the smaller crowds of before the hype hit them. THen everyone was really into the music and knew the words. Now you have a bunch of people at the shows looking at their watches and looking bored.

DotTheEyes

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 06:44 AM UTC #

I wonder how they will fare at Merriweather before Vampire Weekend.

runwhiteyrun06

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 01:14 PM UTC #

DotTheEyes wrote:
I wonder how they will fare at Merriweather before Vampire Weekend.

They're opening for VW? But…Vampire Weekend sucks.

fatskippy

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 01:48 PM UTC #

atomicfront wrote:
Now you have a bunch of people at the shows looking at their watches and looking bored.

Sounds like every DC show. The elevated sections at DAR were seated for the National. I would never want to play this city as a musician.

brokensocscene

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 01:51 PM UTC #

^^ do the National really wanna make you get up from your seat and bounce?

fatskippy

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 01:58 PM UTC #

This is not a phenomenon exclusive to the National. You can turn around and look at the crowd at almost any DC concert and they look no different when the band is playing as they did before the show started. I think I remember one of the guys in Dinosaur Jr calling out the 9:30 Club crowd for how dull they were. As a musician, why would you want to come back to DC to play to a bunch of zombies?

godsshoeshine

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 02:15 PM UTC #

because people pay money to see bands here

azaghal1981

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 02:17 PM UTC #

David Yow's callouts were my favorite.

Thank you, good people of Bethesda.

nkotb

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 03:20 PM UTC #

Exactly…their music doesn't really inspire me to get up and groove…mostly, though, it's because I'm fast asleep.

Vas wrote:
^^ do the National really wanna make you get up from your seat and bounce?

Got Haggis?

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 04:15 PM UTC #

azaghal1981 wrote:
David Yow's callouts were my favorite.

Thank you, good people of Bethesda.

he called out DC at the Baltimore show too….

atomicfront

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Re: Beach House any good live? June 18, 2010 at 06:41 PM UTC #

fatskippy wrote:
atomicfront wrote:
Now you have a bunch of people at the shows looking at their watches and looking bored.

Sounds like every DC show.  The elevated sections at DAR were seated for the National.  I would never want to play this city as a musician.

Well to be fair to DC I have only seen Beach House in their home town.