RunOfTheMill: RunOfTheMill’s 2025 most listened

RunOfTheMill 01.24.26	tell me how my taste sucks (or doesn’t) and recs always welcome Pretty happy with the variety, as I still listen to a lot of metal most of the time
Jmal00 01.24.26	You in the twilight world tonight?
zakalwe 01.24.26	What was the bad experience at Geordie Greeps live show?
keaton_86 01.24.26	What was the bad experience at Geordie Greeps live show? x2
RunOfTheMill 01.24.26	At the risk of being skewered by y'all, here goes... It was a little while ago so bear with me. They played a generous set, almost 2 and a half hours. Every song he played off the new sound was extended by a few minutes with improv reprising the chords of the song. I can't fault him for this, it was good stuff. But my gripes started there, there was almost zero interaction with the crowd. Hardly acknowledged our presence. They were just kinda doing their thing on the stage. It took a nosedive for me after Holy, Holy, where they played a half hour jam, and it was just pretentious. I just checked on setlist.fm, and evidently he played a suite of covers that I didn't recognize, so maybe that's on me? But what I do remember is, again, zero crowd interaction. Each musician, albeit talented, was completely in their own zone. The drummer was playing whatever. The keyboardist was playing whatever. The bassist was playing whatever. And then I recall they started playing Blues and I thought it was going to pick up again, but they followed it up with a 15 minute rendition of Bongo Season. Again, everyone on stage doing their own thing. I left halfway through The Magician, because I'd had enough and my bus was coming. Part of it was because I had a massive cold and couldn't stand it anymore. I look forward to his next album, but I'll skip the show. It was not for me.
RVAHC13 01.24.26	I don’t enjoy concerts with too much jamming and no crowd interaction. It was like that the first time I saw Built to Spill. Doug looked up from his guitar maybe 3 times and said maybe two thank you’s to the crowd. I was a little bummed. Granted that was towards the end of their tour. The second time I saw them they seemed a lot happier to be there
RunOfTheMill 01.24.26	Yeah it's unfortunate because I was really looking forward to it, but like you said, I couldn't shake the feeling they didn't want to be there. Maybe they were toward the end of their tour as well, maybe it was about being in Montreal in fucking February ahaha, I don't know... Which I guess makes me sound ungrateful, because they played a VERY long set, but I digress.. I remember, as I was leaving the venue, there was a group of kids having a smoke, and I overheard one of them say "... you have to have musical restraint, ya know?" and I felt very vindicated lmao
RVAHC13 01.24.26	Well at least in my mind if you’re going to be paid to play on a big stage there needs to be a show. I can go to my friend’s garage if I want to see someone noodle for an hour. Rockers in the 70’s/80’s understood the spectacle aspect of it, then the 90’s took all that apart.
RunOfTheMill 01.24.26	I agree overall, but I don't think it has anything to do with era outside of big mainstream acts.
Demon of the Fall 01.24.26	Nice list. It’s disappointing to hear about Geordie Greep as I enjoyed his album and the raw material could have made for a more engaging live performance no idea what the 90s comment was about, ‘it depends’ would be the best generic answer, regardless of the era. A lot of jam band-like indulgences began in those eras you’re putting on a pedestal RVAHC
Emim 01.25.26	7 is so good but big agree on the skits
Dewinged 01.25.26	Glad you jumped on 17 and 18, different eras and both great albums
RunOfTheMill 01.25.26	Don’t let it discourage you @Demon, some folks were talking about their own Greepings and were super enthusiastic about it, I just wish I felt the same way Thanks for the comments Emim and Dewi 🙏