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what these people are basically saying is if radiohead dont play creep, fake plastic trees, street spirit, karma police and paranoid android at every single one of their festival gigs then they are somehow failing the crowd and being self indulgent.

the people that think like this are of course morons

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not really, radiohead are far from my favourite band. I am "jens wildman" about the flaming lips but if they were playing I certainly wouldnt expect them to play loads of songs from telepathic surgery or in a priest driven ambulance. Bands move on.
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They're one of mine, and I reckon changing a couple of tracks in their Leeds setlist would have made for a much better atmosphere. Fair enough, I'm not arsed if a lot of the Leeds crowd were caught up in the atmosphere, in fact I wouldn't be arsed if a lot of them caught genital herpes, but it was still surprising. Their bestest mates REM manage to throw in a couple of Losing My Religion, Man On The Moon, Everybody Hurts (I go to the bar at this point), The One I Love to keep the 'casuals' happy without having to flay themselves after for betraying their artistic integrity. When I go to see Flaming Lips (and I've seen festivals and their own gigs) I'm not going to be rushing the stage screaming 'sell outs' if they play 'Do You Realize' at a festival set.

Jeez, you'd think I'd been trying to sell Drozd smack or something....

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what these people are basically saying is if radiohead dont play creep, fake plastic trees, street spirit, karma police and paranoid android at every single one of their festival gigs then they are somehow failing the crowd and being self indulgent.

the people that think like this are of course morons

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having said all this, the 1997 set was by far the greatest radiohead gig I have ever been to, and that solely consisted of the first three albums :P

I suggest all the people in tears over the leeds/reading set download this gig immediately. It was immense but to expect a repeat of this set list in 2009 is laughably naive.

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No matter what any artist plays, really, there will always be a few people that complain about "Glaring omissions" in the set, it's just down to them to judge what the majority of the crowd will like. With festivals, of course they should play a set slightly more aimed at the casuals, then maybe at their own gigs throw in more obscure stuff (and by saying a set is aimed at the casuals, that doesn't necessarily mean Greatest Hits - just any more accessible tunes in their BC).

That said, Springsteen could've easily gotten rid of that spiel in the middle of Working On A Dream and played Hungry Heart or something.

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They are both blinding setlists...I've left Radiohead gigs disappointed twice (and I've seen them at least 10 times, I actually can't remember how many times I've seen them, 3 times last summer for a start!)...Both times I was disappointed it was due to the band themselves just not feeling it and were on the greatest hits tour in '06...it just didn't compare with every other tour I've seen them do. This current tour is up there with the hail to the thief tour as the best they've ever done...And I get the criticism of Radiohead playing album tracks at a festival like glasto where people buy their ticket not knowing who is playing, but most of the people at Reading/Leeds go for the lineup. Simple as. It's billed as the cutting edge in new music, but the fact that people were walking off due to not knowing the most recent output from the headliners seems to me to suggest that they are fashionistas who like a scene rather than actually liking the music...
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but radiohead DID play some crowd friendly songs at leeds? So is your argument they didnt play enough? or the wrong ones? or what? :P

I think you are confusing yourself here mate.

Nice touch making fun of someones heroin addiction though. Classy.

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Nail on the head! This year saw my first Leeds experience, and I couldn't agree more. I was shocked at how as a whole it's not in the same league as Glastonbury. Although I hear the scenesters are more in force at Reading though....?!?!

I can't believe some of the negativity surrounding the Leeds set! Yes I probably would have preferred a bit of Karma Police in there, but come on, as a spectacle and a performance it was the business, absolutely outstanding!

Please Mr Eavis, get Radiohead on that 2010 bill!

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This is the best Radiohead set I ever managed to catch:

1. Reckoner

2. Optimistic

3. There There

4. 15 Step

5. All I Need

6. Pyramid Song

7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

8. The Gloaming

9. Videotape

10. Talk Show Host

11. Faust Arp

12. Tell Me Why (Neil Young Cover)

13. No Surprises

14. Jigsaw Falling Into Place

15. The Bends

16. The National Anthem

17. Nude

18. Bodysnatchers

19. House of Cards

20. Planet Telex

21. Go Slowly

22. Fake Plastic Trees

23. True Love Waits -> Everything In Its Right Place

24. Cymbal Rush

25. Karma Police

26. Idioteque

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My fave off the amnesiac tour

01 national anthem

02 airbag

03 morning bell

04 lucky

05 packt like sardines in a crushd tin box

05 my iron lung

06 exit music (for a film)

07 knives out

08 no surprises

09 dollars and cents

10 street spirit

11 i might be wrong

12 pyramid song

13 paranoid android

14 idioteque

15 everything in it's right place

16 fake plastic trees

17 karma police

18 you and whose army

19 how to disappear

20 talk show host

21 the bends

22 creep

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Hollywood bowl! What's it like seeing them state-side?

No doubt as rammed as it was at manchester last summer: 1 hour wait for the loos!

I wish old trafford had been a bowl: far too flat. Difficult to see anything unless your 6 foot 8 or from the stands with binoculaars! :P

Should have guessed a cricket pitch would've been like that! :P

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what these people are basically saying is if radiohead dont play creep, fake plastic trees, street spirit, karma police and paranoid android at every single one of their festival gigs then they are somehow failing the crowd and being self indulgent.

the people that think like this are of course morons

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Never seen them over there, so I can't really compare. But this was the best show I have ever seen. Luckily I had third row center seats, so I wasn't around any idiots that talk through the whole set. Perfect setlist with surprise after surprise. No other show got "Tell Me Why" and I don't think anyone else in America got "True Love Waits" last year, and it was my tenth show but only the first time hearing Talk Show Host, one of my favorites. Thom was clearly in a good mood and the crowd was really into it.

The lights during Planet Telex were ridiculously sick:

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