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Worst opening band (Decemberists @ Pearl St.)

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caveat puellae:
I saw the Decemberists last Friday at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. They played The Tain, Legionnare's Lament, Mariner's Revenge Song, etc. It was pretty damn awesome. They didn't seem tired at the show, but that might've been because it was before yours.

JLM:
I don't remember everyone that these bands opened for, but my list of awful opening bands (and some pretty bad performances):

Dr. Dog (who for some reason played AFTER Head of Femur...who the hell has ever heard of Dr. Dog??) opening for Architecture in Helsinki
The Zutons - Opened for Muse?  Can't remember
Quasi - Opening for Stereolab
Elefant - Don't remember.  Lead singer's rock star attitude was way out of line for the 8:00 p.m. slot.
The Bennies - Opener #1 for the Pixies...Terrible.
TV on the Radio - Their opening performance for the Pixies: by that time they'd been touring non stop for months and their voices were just shot.
Dream Warriors - Really bad Canadian Hip-Hop
Monster Magnet
Dungen - Opening for The Go! Team...Maybe it was the redeye flight but I was NOT in the mood for psychedelica as my opening act that night.
The Golden Republic - Opening for Sondre Lerche
Sleater-Kinney - Opening for Belle & Sebastian - not a great performance.
Aphex Twin - Opening for Bjork - Again...a lackluster performance...Like the annoying guy at the party who keeps playing Toby Keith to piss everyone off.

That's pretty much it.

sjbrot:
Whoa. JLM, some of those sound like pretty cool combos.

est:
i remember going to see a band play about five years ago.  i can't remember who i was there to see, and i can't remember the name of the band that opened, but the opener was absolutely awful.

they were an Aussie rap group who completely typified everything bad about Australian rap.  ie: they rapped with fake American accents, pretended to be gangstas, thought way too much of themselves and on top of that, couldn't rap for shit.

i remember one song where some guy beatboxed the sound of a steam train starting up and running faster while another guy "rapped" along to it, both getting faster and faster until you couldn't even understand what the rapping guy was saying because he was slurring the words together so much with his fake American accent.  at the end they stopped and some other guy yells out "YEEEH, THOSE WERE WORDS, MAN.  CHECK THE ALBUM SLEEVE MAN, THOSE WERE WORDS!"

it's like.  dude, when you have to tell people that they were words then they aren't words.  they are things that you have written words for but do not have the talent to enounciate clearly.  kthxbai.

KharBevNor:
Minus opening for Sikth and Pitchshifter. Unmemorable music that did not fit the bill, a Bon Jovi cover, and their lead singer was trying to pretend to be Axl Rose. THREE CARDINAL SINS.

At the opposite end of the equation would be Ephel Duath opening for Poison the Well and The Dillinger Escape Plan, utterly blowing both those acts out of the water.

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