One thing I believe that is true: The Neighborhoods are one of the five best live bands I've ever seen, and one of the five best bands that you never saw live.
The Neighborhoods / "Arrogance" / 1979
© 2012 Ricki C.
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Five Best Bands That You Never Saw Live, part three: The Neighborhoods, back again (Bonus Video Friday)
"Welcome stranger, to the humble Neighborhoods." Thus sang Joe Strummer on the song "Bhindi Bhagee" from The Mescaleros' Global A Go-Go CD, in tribute to Boston, Massachusetts’ favorite sons, The Neighborhoods. And while I know full well that this isn’t true – Strummer was singing about his London Notting Hill neighborhood in the tune – I still choose to believe it. I believe a number of things that I know aren't true: that Rush Limbaugh is not a member of the human race, but a representative of a devolved, degraded, doomed alien species; that the Catholic Church - of which I am a member in good standing - might someday enter the 18th, 19th, 20th, or even possibly the 21st century; that sometime in my future I will get to appear on either The Colbert Report or David Letterman's T.V. show.
One thing I believe that is true: The Neighborhoods are one of the five best live bands I've ever seen, and one of the five best bands that you never saw live.
One thing I believe that is true: The Neighborhoods are one of the five best live bands I've ever seen, and one of the five best bands that you never saw live.
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ReplyDeleteComplete NEIGHBORHOODS set from their show last weekend at 90.9FM/WCDB's 34th Anniversary at Valentine's in Albany, NY.
Set list:
Monday Morning
Real Stories
The Man...
WUSA
Gold
Half Life
Parasite
Nancy
Peeping Tom
Pure And Easy
Hoodwinked
Daydream Believer
She Promised Me