Shows/1996-01-18
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Setlist: (three songs missing and out of order)
- Spider
- Why Does The Sun Shine?
- Dig My Grave
- The End Of The Tour
- The Guitar
- Cowtown
- Particle Man
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Santa's Beard
- James K. Polk
- Don't Let's Start
- Ana Ng
- She Was A Hotel Detective
- Twisting
- Birdhouse In Your Soul
- The Guitar
- Subliminal
- Snail Shell
- Sleeping In The Flowers
- AKA Driver
- Spy (with members of the Candy Butchers)
- No One Knows My Plan
- Dirt Bike
- Meet James Ensor
- Stomp Box
- Spiraling Shape
- Sensurround
- We're The Replacements
They Might Be Giants
— with The Candy Butchers opening —
Toad's Place in New Haven, CT
January 18, 1996 at 8:30 PM
Fan Recaps and Comments:
Thirty-one songs were reportedly performed.
- after a very long wait the Candy Butchers came out.. it was a two man acoustic set, just a guitar and a singular drum played with some unusual drumsticks. they were cocky, arrogant and went through the typical rock and roll show motions... swearing at crowd, licking guitar, spraying water into crowd, channeling the spirit of satan,..etc but after the martini's at tramps i wasnt expecting much.. but they were awesome..
- i've never liked a band so much after only hearing them once.. they really got the crowd into it, stopping between songs to talk and crack jokes with the crowd and they had the whole front section at least dancing and singing along... i dont really know how to describe there music... maybe indie pop? but they were good.. the kind of good that they'd never play on Mtv.
- after they left we waited..and waited...and waited...and after a god awful wait they giants came out..no horn section, no tony, but i guess thats ok.. Flans looked his usual happy self, and Linnel looked freaking ecstatic compared to how he looked new years..the started out with spider.. which is probably the coolest song they could start out with ... then they faded into a great rendition of why does the sun shine.. in which i think linnel sang.."...helium, hydrogen, oxygen, and some other stuff" [...]
- but as usual there was a lot of happy people hopping around.. but the fact that it wall to wall people made it too many happy people hopping around.. crowd surfers were literally up there for three to four songs at a time.. at everyone got crushed as usual. But linnel actually talked to the crowd!!! he must actually like toads or something..they did two encores.. and it was just a crazy concert.. they supersized the concert.. and every time a song from licoln came up they announced it from the superalbum, superlincoln. it was just a great concert.. and on the second encore Flans was sucking down a samuel adams on stage!!!!