I'm still having a little trouble with this, so right. LKap. Sincere question for you, and it's only a very teeny bit loaded. Barely an ulterior motive at all.
What about A Rite of Passage makes it so poignantly unlikeable that it was worth making a thread for?
Genuine question. I myself really dig it. It's the best song on BCSL to play loudly and just let rip. But aside from personal views, what makes it so distinctly unlikeable that the band themselves would resent it?
I mean, we've seen what happens when they dislike a song. They refuse to play it. You Not Me got about three token outings and then they ditched it, and that was explicitly designed to expand the fanbase. Meanwhile, the MP tourography isn't allowing searches right now so I can't grab the figures, and setra's list doesn't tabulate them separately, but Hell's Kitchen has barely been touched except in the context of Burning My Soul. Dunno how versed you are on the history of it, but HK was written as the instrumental section to Burning My Soul, until the label made 'em separate it on the album. (Sorry if you already know all this, no idea how long you've been a fan or how deep you've gone.) The end result, a song that they barely played, until a few years later when it was put back into its original context.
And, aside from that, A Rite of Passage isn't that different from the rest of their modern day output. Why would they specifically loathe that song, when it would've fitted onto Systematic Chaos with nary a problem, an album which they were really hyped about and very much enjoyed playing - with Constant Motion, AROP's closest neighbour in terms of tone and structure still being played regularly on the BCSL tour. They're not playing it to win over fans, if someone's come to the show it's not just gonna be because they've just heard A Rite of Passage (somewhere?) and felt like pissing £25 away. It's gonna because they like more than one song. So they'd easily be able to get away with not playing it. Easily. In fact, if it went so far against the grain of their current material, they'd probably avoid it, You Not Me style. So again, nothing inherently out of place or dislikeable.
Not to mention, it's their job, and as with anyone doing a job, they're gonna want to make it as enjoyable as possible while still getting it done. Imagine you had a job summarising movies, and then someone went "Right, we have got every movie in the world, you have to summarise ten of 'em." Where are you gonna go first? And, more crucially, where are you gonna go most often? Twilight or Ghostbusters? Gonna head straight into the Uwe Boll back catalogue or dig into The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? ...Chances are, the ones you play are gonna be the ones you like the most. And DT aren't honour bound to play any song in particular.
So I'm very sorry, but I have no idea why they would dislike A Rite of Passage, and I can't really respond any more thoroughly until I know why you think they would. I honestly think it's more likely that your tastes have just detached from the band's somewhat. They've been throwing shit at your wall, slightly less of it's sticking than it used to. Which is a shame and I'm sorry you don't like it as much as other people do (myself included! Love a bit of AROP), but I don't really get how you've made this logical leap from "It's a song I don't like" to "How can they possibly like this dross?!"
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