2-15-08 Luna Lounge - Brooklyn, NYC

Face in My Crowd
Feed My Girl Ska
? - Addiction *
Keep Him Away
I'll Stay Away
Shankbon
The Question
Easy
Alone Again
Cupid (Sam Cooke)
? - Don't You Want Your Man Anymore **
We Can Work It Out (Beatles)
Please Decide
marriage proposal ***
? - Happy Song ^
? ^^
You Must Be Good
So This is the Night
Wasted Days
Have the Time

Encore:
band intros
Married Girl
Propaganda
Keep it Simple
Pedophilia

* This was a new song, that I believe they said is called Addiction. Not the same song as the Skinnerbox song Addiction.
** Announced as a song from their upcoming record. The song is awesome!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAarmeySSYQ
*** A couple jumped up on stage and the dude proposed, I think she said yes.
^ There was much discussion about what to play after the proposal. Vic said they needed to play a happy song. I'm pretty sure its actually called "Happy Song." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbKxSXaSHyM
^^ I thought I had heard this song before, but I couldn't remember where. A glance at my youtube favorites and I figured it out - its this (no idea what the song is called though): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbKxSXaSHyM

Drove up from Philly for the show. We were told the drive could take 4 hours due to traffic, but it only took an even 2. We got to the venue at 6:30, the doors weren't open yet and the sign outside the place said the Slackers were going on at 10:30. We were definitely the first people there, unfortunately none of the relevant websites said anything about an opening band so we thought they were going on earlier. So we took the opportunity to walk around scenic Williamsburg.

The Luna Lounge is pretty large, and the place was pretty packed by the time the Slackers went on at around 11, so that was awesome. Overall it was definitely a great place for a Slackers show. Looking back at the setlist, it looks better on paper than I remember it at the time, the show and song choices kind of felt uneven to me. For example, the 2 songs from Close my Eyes that they played, Shankbon and I'll Stay Away. There are so many other songs on that album that I would love to hear live over those two, like Axes, Bin Waitin, Close My Eyes, Don't Wanna Go. Also the encore - I daydream about more variety in Slackers' encores. But maybe thats just me. The energy was there though, and there were several highlights - a great version of The Question with glen on the shooby-dooby-doos, the awesome new song You Don't Want Your Man Anymore, playing Wasted Days by request, Jay's solo on You Must Be Good (i think it was that song) when vic said I'm not taking another organ solo, someone else play, and jay stepped to the front of the stage. I did think the holiday show at the Bowery was more consistently awesome (despite the guests coming on and off the stage). Overall I'd give this show a solid B.