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Originally Posted by Routine Builder
The album is being played in full, they just revised the track list, prior to the tickets going on sale... On the scale of shitty things the band has done or said, this doesn't even break the top 50... It's not as if the band don't always make explicit promise about songs being played on tour and they never materialise (Prologue to History being a repeat offender).
Has anyone been bothered to ask Sean on Twitter? NLY's exclusion has been known since October?
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It's not being played in full and I'm surprised you don't find it misleading to say that it is. Like I said earlier, I don't recall any other bands doing that for an album gig/tour. Saw Radiohead at LCCC back in 2008 after In Rainbows came out. They played 9/10 songs off that album that day, may as well have advertised that as "playing the album in full and much more".
I can't recall them making an explicit promise about songs being played on tour and not, which ones are you talking about? Wire's teased in tweets many a time about rehearsing songs for a tour that haven't been performed in the end, but y'know, there wasn't an advertising campaign saying they would be.
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Originally Posted by Routine Builder
The band also cut Tsunami from their setlists for a period following the 2004 Tsunami. The band have been wary about how songs could be perceived rather than a lyrics original meaning. Couple Nobody Loved You's exclusion with recent book challenging the band's relationship with Richey, you can see why they might drop it and also, not explain why so as not to give certain parties a sense of satisfaction.
I'm only guessing but basing on why they've made song changes in the past. Musically speaking, they've never ragged on it as much as Been Natural, so I'm pretty sure this is about the lyrical content.
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But they never advertised that they were gonna play Tsunami.. I laughed when Lennon got shot - yeah, bloody early on in their career, they were wanting to be confrontational and brash, say whatever it takes whether you mean it or not to get the attention. Doesn't take anything away from the song not to sing it although I did wonder about whether Paul McCartney was aware of it when they supported him...
By all means cut out Nobody Loved You, just don't advertise that you're playing "the album in full and much more" when you're not.