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CaledonianGonzo

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  1. Just now, nikkic said:

    Because it adds something to make it a special set compared to a regular tour night. 

     

     

    Plus, although there are obvious exceptions, lots of acts don't actually do it - Arctic Monkeys, Guns'n'Roses, Billie Eilish, Kendrick, The Cure - and going back further Kanye, the Stones, Bowie, Radiohead, Adele, Foo Fighters etc all performed without them.

  2. 3 hours ago, FloopFiller said:

    Also keep smirking at the general response to the initial album being ‘this is too long’ and then a whole second part dropping, although seems like she’s done exactly as she undoubtedly hoped and broke a whole bunch of streaming records on the first day. 

     

    Looking more and more like a tactical faux pas- folk didn't have enough time to digest the album proper before the second tranche arrived - and whether deserved or not the latter 15 tracks will always have an air of also rans about them.  She should have put a bit more breathing space between them.

  3. There was a bit of interesting discussion on the night in Soho Theatre itself on cookdandbombd when it happened.

     

    As someone who's stirred Currie's wrath in the past for not being sufficiently laudatory in my response to their act - more than once as it happens - there probably is some complexity here. But in the main I think they've been hard done by.

  4. 1 minute ago, Avalon_Fields said:

    I’d opt out on most artists bonus tracks. 95% should be billed as ‘not good enough to be on the album’.

     

    It's a decent rule of thumb for sure, but this woman has left some absolute stormers off her main album. 

     

    In the old world maybe most of them would probably have wound up as b-sides, but that's obviously a moribund concept. 

     

    Not saying that there's not an argument for keeping a stockpile handy and not releasing everything you record, but - she also doesn't do that - hence all these Vault tracks.  Probably at some future point more tracks will surface from this period.

     

    Just massively prolific. She's like Robert Pollard.

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