Cut a Hole (which I love), Skirting on the Surface, Open the Floodgates, I Froze Up, Wake Me (Before They Come), & Come to your Senses are the ones I know of & of course Follow Me Around (which is about to be released). I'd love to hear these.
So Thom has been playing some new songs live. Am I missing anything?
1) Impossible Knots
2) I Am A Very Rude Person
3) Two Feet Off the Ground
4) Not the News
5) Traffic
6) Twist + Saturdays (with new lyrics)
7) The Axe
I go back & forth with them playing songs live before they are on an album. I have been disappointed by how some songs have ended up on the albums versus how they were live. Case in point, Mouse Dog Bird (which became Separator). I felt the live version was far better than the bland studio version. I thought the arrangement & guitar layering was incredible & the studio version was just ok. Now I will concede that True Love Waits is stellar on AMSP & I have never been a big fan of the song. The Numbers & Identikit are other ones I enjoyed better live. They had much better arrangements. I may have enjoyed them more if I had heard the studio versions first. I would love to have the willpower to resist listening to the songs they play live but some of them are still not on record. I would have missed Cut A Hole. I adore that song but am a little worried about how it will actually sound when they get around to recording it.