Setlist (broken down by album, rather than by order; other places have the ordered setlist):
THE BENDS
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
OK COMPUTER
Paranoid Android
Exit Music (For a Film)
Climbing Up the Walls
Lucky
KID A
Everything in its Right Place
The National Anthem
How to Disappear Completely
Idioteque
Morning Bell
AMNESIAC
Pyramid Song
Dollars and Cents
HAIL TO THE THIEF
The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold)
There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll)
IN RAINBOWS
15 Step
Bodysnatchers
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
All I Need
Faust Arp
Reckoner
House of Cards
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Videotape
(That's right, all 10 songs.)
I don't think there's any way I'm able to review this without (a) saying everything anyone else has said, and/or (b) sounding like a complete lunatic. Throwing caution to the wind, I'll just say this was the best live event of any sort — concert, opera, musical, sporting event — that I have ever attended. Not even the potheads or ex-frat-boy spoiled muttonheads (who got the tickets from their slimy Burbank producer dads just so they could talk through the whole thing or yell "F*** BUSH" during "Exit Music (For a Film)") could have ruined a perfect evening at the Bowl. The temperature was perfect, the light show was spectacular, and Radiohead were immaculate.
After seeing Monday's setlist, I was a little jealous — a Neil Young cover? Music from The Eraser? "Talk Show Host"?! Then I realized that Monday's setlist didn't include a few essential and amazing songs that we got on Sunday — "Climbing Up the Walls", "Paranoid Android", "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and "Exit Music (For a Film)" being the most notable. So I'm pretty sure we got the better end of the deal on Sunday night. :-)
I'm left to deal with the obsession/depression that comes in the wake of a monumental event. I'm broken, scraping craigslist and ebay in hopes of someone trying to get rid of tickets for the final two shows of the tour... down to the final show tonight in Santa Barbara. Heck, I'm even checking on plane tickets to Tokyo for their shows out there in October. I'm signing up to every Radiohead W.A.S.T.E. mailing list I can find in hopes of getting better/more tickets next time... IF THERE IS A NEXT TIME. (That's the depression talking.)
Hopefully there will be a next time. If there is, I will be sure to catch every showing in the area (with "area" defined pretty liberally). It is so worth it.
Posted by pcg at August 25, 2008 8:20 AM