I forgot to post about seeing them. It was one of the best shows that I have ever been to. They put on one hell of a show and they sound so good. I got the Wish set, as opposed to the Bloodflowers or Disintegration set. What that means, is what songs open and close the main set. So at my show, Open and End were the bookends to the main set.
Open
alt.end
A Night Like This
The Walk
Push
In Between Days
Just Like Heaven
The Snakepit
Pictures of You
The Perfect Girl
High
The End of the World
Lovesong
Dressing Up
Lullaby
Fascination Street
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
One Hundred Years
End
Encore:
It Can Never Be the Same
Want
Shake Dog Shake
Encore 2:If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Charlotte Sometimes
A Forest
Encore 3:Never Enough
Burn
Wrong Number
Encore 4:Hot Hot Hot!!!
The Caterpillar
Let's Go to Bed
Close to Me
Why Can't I Be You?
Boys Don't Cry
It was just so much fun to see them and surreal, since they haven't been to Minnesota in 20 years and I've been a fan for 7 of those years. So to all of a sudden be in the same room as them and to hear these songs, it was just so much fun. And Simon's bass sounds so great live, Fascination Street, the seats were just vibrating. And I also became reacquainted with songs that I had kinda forgotten about, like Push and In Between Days. The former, when they started playing, the guy next to me just went crazy. One of the other things that I found kinda funny is that when they main set ends and they start the encores, there is still about an hour and a half of the show left. At the end of the show, Robert said "See you again!" Hopefully that doesn't mean 20 years again...
I wasn't crazy about the Twilight Sad like other people have been. I just didn't like it as much, the guitar feedback just started getting old after awhile.