New LIVE songs in Ed's current set? Options

[smellthecoffee]

The christiaaaaaaaans live up the street from me
The musleeeeeeeeeems they live down the streeeeeet from meeeeeeheheeeeeeee

Gotta drink gotta drink

the shite coffee

Hey you. I have to say, don't cut down the coffee....in fact keep funneling your ever weakening currency into more beans man!! Yeahhhhhhha

[Pokey]

I wouldn't be surprised if Ed changed the lyrics of "Shit Town" to "Good Town" ... Nice Town, Happy Town. The line "God Bless America" would feature a lot more prominantly in the song, in fact probably about 80% of it.

The Jesus lives down the street from me
The Church, it is up the street, from me
The Devil makes it hard to see, beyond my property

and could you just imagine the chorus...

Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live
In Shit Towne
Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live
In our towne

This post has been edited by Pokey: Apr 27 2011, 12:20 pm

[Hoodstock]

and could you just imagine the chorus...

Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live
In Shit Towne

Did you mean Good Towne That's what you changed the song to right?

[Pokey]

Did you mean Good Towne That's what you changed the song to right?

No I was giving a more realistic impression of what we could expect. The same lyrics sung with a massive smiley face.

[Wambangalang]

oh i thought you meant the fact that jesus and churches are up and down the street from us....that makes it a shit towne

[thefunkyredcaboose]

oh i thought you meant the fact that jesus and churches are up and down the street from us....that makes it a shit towne

[Pokey]

[dancing queen]

I like Ed's new stuff. I also like TGF. just fyi.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Live's old stuff. That recording of Shit Towne was in fact, ridiculously distorted, but in the first 20 seconds it's obvious that Ed isn't angry anymore (which is fine, he doesn't have to be angry, in fact, I'm glad for him that he's happy) and he cannot sing that song the way it was written to be sang.
I am looking forward to seeing Ed at Musikfest this year. I sincerely hope he does not sing Shit Towne or any other song he isn't feeling in his heart anymore. It's painful to watch him smile when he sings the opening lines of that song. I'm too lazy to scroll back, but yeah, it's like he's happy to live down the street from crackheads.

[Pokey]

I want to see an artist share their emotion and there "here and now" with us on stage. Playing a song like shit town with a big ol' smile is obviously "just for the fans", that's what nostalgia acts do. As terrible as Ed's new material is I'd rather him stick to that because that's what he's about now. That's what he can sing with heart and make me believe its where he's at. Although maybe singing shit town is an exact indication of where he's at - being disengenuine.
I recently heard an interview with Aussie band The Living End where they stated they're probably going to stop playing the song that made them famous back in the day because it's sung from the point of view of someone in about year 10 at school. They said it's beginning to feel weird on stage. Yes it's popular with the fans, but I think people have to respect them respecting themselves. I'm sure they will play it again (and probably won't pull it from the set just yet) but that's most likely when they do take the turn into a nostalgia act.
So is Ed already committing himself to being that over the hill and traveling on a "best of" tour? No he's still bringing out new music. So it just pains me seeing him bastardise these old songs, just let then be if you can't present then the way they're meant to be. I understand that artists can change songs too and that they can evolve. Look at Operation Spirit and the dark edge it took in the SS tour or the electro keyboard it had post 2000. But it wasn't until Ed changed the lyrics of it that it changed the essence if what the song was about. Shit town being sung with a massive grin is changing the essence of what that song is about, it's not just visual, you can hear that smile.