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Dav · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: Perfect set list

I wonder what would be your perfect setlist for a Jeff Lewis show ?

here is mine (at this moment)

Texas
The man with the golden arms
Graveyard
don't be upset
williamsburg will oldham horror
new old friends
gold
the last time i did acid i went insane
we don't want no lsd tonight
another girl
if you should the head you kill the ghoul
you don't have to be a scientist...
the chealsea hotel oral song
don't let the record label take you out to lunch
seattle
flippity floppity
gravity sue
beach party
(Plus some low budgets videos of course)

encore :

Time machine
posters
and ending with the complete history of jeff sexual conquests (including volume 2 just written for the show)

héhé
that could be an awesome show (for me)
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ema · Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 1074 Location: france

...what????...;just written for the show?!!!!hahah....but your setlist is good, i'll come back later to put mine!it will be very close to your..
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Pink Moon · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 50 Location: London baby!

Texas at the top of the list... AWESOME!
I asked Jeffrey to play Texas when he played The Colloseum in Coventry supporting The Cribs last year, and he did and all.
What a guy...
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vidkidjey · Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 68 Location: paris

Me I like my texas with those spoken words before it :'this is madness this madness all my dreams have been turned into psychedelic nigthmares, with Rosemary's baby's pissing at my face and Tiny Tim sticking his moldy penis inside my bleeding mind............... and I'm back from Texas'

terricloth · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 189 Location: westchester, NY

shoot the head kill the ghoul
posters
another girl
spring(time?)
seatlle
record label
champion jim
hippie girl
chelsea hotel
heavy heart
last time i did acid i went insane

but as long as it has seattle in it any set list is perfect for me=)
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terricloth · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 189 Location: westchester, NY

oops i left out east river, i havent even heard it live yet, im dying to
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Dav · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject:

Jeff played east river last time i saw it (and only time to be honest), a version with new lyrics, i remember the line "life is like a cemetary" instead "Feeling bad on Lexington"
It was a cool version, i wish i could remember more tho :/
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Will Oldham · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

Id love to hear the complete history of communism played as one really long song ( including the as yet unwritten chapters)

terricloth · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 189 Location: westchester, NY

i wouldnt like him to change that lyric though, its one of my favorites considering i live on lexington ave! (not the same one, but A lexington nontheless=)
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Dav · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

Héhé He explains that he had to chnge the lyrics cos he moved away from New York (see the song Moving for more info :p ) but i got your point Terricloth, i wish the line could be "felling bad on avenue des français libres" witch is the street i live in Smile

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Will Oldham · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject:

Yours doesn't have quite the same ring to it though Dav!! Laughing

bibasse · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 353 Location: Cholet, France

There's a lot of tenth avenues... I moved to a new city last year and often felt alone during the first months. On my walks, I never took the same street at the start, high spirited, wishing to meet someone, and always ended up depressed on the same street leading to my appartement. Then a few months later, I heard the song, and started to think that :
1. I survived.
2. Jeffrey did too, and put out something good about it. Or, if he didn't live this situation, at least, he can read minds.
3. The song is definitely not about New York.
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hamlet · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 456

The song requires a build-up of a wal k from the West Side of Manhattan from 10th Avenue eastward to the East River. The blocks go: 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, Madison, Park, Lexington, 3rd, 2nd, lst, York, then the FDR Drive ( a highway named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a US president), then the East River. You can imagine the narrator making this trip as his suicidal depression deepens and he winds up in the river. There is an esplanade off the river where people jog and ride bicycles but the river is notoriously dirty. Great song.

kylewilliam · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:06 am Post subject:

where did sir jeffrey move to?

gilles · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 18 Location: rennes, france

Brooklyn I think. just a bridge away