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gospel:
Most bands tend to impress me live, especially those I would think would be studio-only bands (i.e. NIN). I even had the pleasure of ease dropping on Lollapalooza--which had quite the indie list. At any rate, sometimes the opposite happens. I was getting into The Walkmen lately, and by all intents and purposes their albums were good. Despite all that, I couldn't listen to them live.

At first I thought it was the small venue or the equipment, but Okkervil rocked the house. It just seemed like the new album wasn't arranged well into the rest of the set, and he didn't quite have a grasp of his own vocal range live. I wasn't the only person who walked out for a smoke break either. He really wasn't working the crowd. It was just "We are the walkmen [song] We are the walkmen, this ..[song]."

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doombilly:
Mogwai

rynne:
Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Sigur Rós.

I’ll admit that the first time I saw GYBE!, I was thoroughly impressed.  This was between the Slow Riot … EP and Lift Yr. Skinny Fists… releases.  But the second time, it dawned on me that they were intensely boring to watch.  I love their music, but standing around while a bunch of musicians huddle over their instruments, barely acknowledging the audience, playing one extended crescendo after another for 90 minutes was tedious to the extreme.

Likewise with Sigur Rós, during the ( ) tour.  Boring, boring, boring.  Their stage presence was non-existent, you couldn't really dance or move to the music, so the show became like a torturous stand.  The friend I went with and I both agree, even years later, that it was a thoroughly awful show, memorable most for our intense back pain afterwards.

tigrar:
Maybe they got better since you saw them because some friends of mine saw them on the Takk tour and said it was an amazing show.  Then, I saw them at Bonnaroo this year; and it was possibly the best night of my life.  I have heard of people being disappointed at their shows though.

TheFuriousWombat:
I've seen them three times (once was an acoustic set so I don't think that really counts) and thought they put on a great show. I don't recall finding myself bored for a moment. To be fair, their music since () is much more conducive, with the exception of a few songs, to a live setting. () is not the kind of album I'd necessarily want to see played through live.

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