yes.....strange lineup at Summer Sonic Festival this year in Japan

managed to miss a pretty big earthquake while watching Beyonce and I must say she put on a great show and surprised me

she did not to any prince songs

but she did do an MJ tribute and You Oughta Know by Alanis Morrisette

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands and they were great but they played mostly new stuff that I did not know so I was pretty dissapointed but I guess they have a new album to promote or something

hate to say this but Beyonce pleased me more than Sonic Youth

No Utada?

utada?

forgot to mention that one of the coolest things about the Beyonce show was a video montage she put together consisting of youtube clips people made of them singing one of her songs

she put all the clips together to make one complete song

the catch was that the participants could be men or women but they had to wear leotards - so the best part was the men who wore leotards

and it made me think that prince should just embrace youtube already because he is not proving a single thing right now by fighting it

japanrocks said:

I saw SY last month and they are trying as hard as they can to only play The Eternal. Brave call, for sure. The encores had a little more variety, thankfully.

yeah, well....even the japanese audience stopped moving after a while (and they usually never stop)

new stuff sounded good, but when they played a song from Daydream Nation i got chills but then they went right back to the new stuff - pretty amazing considering they have been together almost 30 years though

oh well.....guess they are out to make new fans but in my opinion, you gotta play the hits (at least half)

saw Weezer recently and they only did like 4 new songs and about 20 old ones

crowd loved it
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I don't think Sonic Youth get terribly sentimental for their past achievements. Having said that, I think they spent some serious time playing Daydream Nation in it's entirety at more than a few shows, so maybe there's a new found desire to live in the present with their music, even if it is on the mellow side more than a bit. I do enjoy the songs from The Eternal in concert, far more than I do on the album.

OMG was Utada there? I love Utada! A true star and talent.

Utada?

2freaky4church1 said:

Utada is the chick that's slaughterin' ya faves.

oh yeah Utada.....

she sucks

OMG that sounds amazing!
I wanna do the single ladies dance to teenage riot!