I enjoy their music but innterms of MUSIC and musical ideas, sonic youth takes the cake like a motherfucker. in terms of live shows, I prefer just people with instruments and no extraneous shit. The Lips, like Phish, put on fantastic live shows, for the acid eaters in the crowd, and while that is appreciated, it is nothing more than the shit madonna does in concerts with 20 dancers and set pieces and stage craft.
pompous rock stage shows nearly killed rock before punk came around.
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