[DID NOT ATTEND: July 24, 2021] Barenaked Ladies
Ten years ago we saw Barenaked Ladies at New Jersey Festival of Ballooning and it was pretty cool. Hearing them sing Light Up My Room as the balloons lifted off was a cool moment to be sure.
I didn’t intend to see them on this summer’s tour because I don’t really like either of the bands they are playing with (and I’ve seen them a lot already). But when I heard they were going to play the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning again, I was totally in.
Until I realized we’d already booked a vacation and would be away. It would have been an appropriate return to concerts since I have seen them so much. It also would have been fun since it was their first show in a couple of years. But it was not to be.
So here’s the setlist from the show. A few years ago I said I didn’t need to see BNL again because they tend to play the same songs every show. That’s not exactly true, but they have said that they feel like they need to play a lot of their biggest hits for the fans. So you get five or six of the same songs every show. And yet, it’s been two albums since I saw them last, so they had five songs I’d never heard before.
I’ve also made a list of songs that I’d love to hear them play. And they played “Passcode.” It’s not super high on my list, but it was still cool to see that they played it.
Maybe next year’s summer tour will have better supporting acts. It will have been five years by then.
SETLIST
Bringing It Home [newish]
Odds Are
It’s All Been Done
[rap]
Gonna Walk
Flip [new]
The Old Apartment
Passcode [Kevin song I’d like to hear]
Good Life [new]
Maybe Katie [I feel like they need a new old song here]
Brian Wilson
Lookin’ Up [newish]
Pinch Me
Big Bang Theory Theme
One Week
If I Had $1000000
You Got What I Need / Living On A Prayer / Whole Lotta Love
Encore:
Light Up My Room
New Disaster [new]
Here’s a video of “highlights” of the show [I can’t believe not even a moment of the new single “Flip” which is catchy as anything].
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