i want to marry regina spektor

she looks adorable

was the "i'd just hit it" remark deleted or something?

anyway, it was a tremendous show. makes me a bit sad that the pool will no longer be after this summer, now that i live a few blocks from it.

barf. she's even worse than tori amos, whom she borrows heavily from.

albert hammond jr was awesome

She play any new stuff? She's about due, non?

zzz

Regina Spektor should receive some sort of prize for making everyone want to sleep with her so much.

Albert Hammond Jr. and his nameless band were amazing. Regina was great, if you're a fan. Otherwise it was probably a little boring...

@12:55: Just because a girl plays the piano doesn't mean the inspiration is Tori Amos. I don't have a real issue with Ms. Amos (though in my post-adolescence years I'm no longer a fan ), but their vision and music are totally different. In Regina Spektor, the inspiration goes straight back to the source: Bach, Chopin, Mozart, combined with the great (sometimes quirky) literary traditions of America. And not to mention, Moscow. Without Moscow, there is no Regina Spektor. And does Tori Amos have Moscow? I think not. A more careful listening of the two will reveal that the worlds they create are quite different (same goes for Final Apple, who royally screwed her last album up).

http://hoovesontheturf.com/200808/regina-spektor-and-rain-at-mccarren-pool/

Also, Regina Spektor has never been cool & mysterious, or dark. I went to a Tori Amos show way back when, and though there was a guy in tears the whole time, I stopped being a fan right then, because it was kind of boring, and the sexually provocative gestures were whatevs. But while I was a teenager, Tori Amos was great. Everybody preferred to brood and be unhappy in the nineties.

ps. re: "I'd hit that" comments. They ought to be deleted purely on the ground of being uninteresting and unfunny.

and yes that was Reggie Watts.

I'd hit it... two times!

Fuck that, we had tickets but we ended up going to the Turkey's Nest instead. A good time was had by all.

does anyone have the full setlist?

yeah whatevs hoovesontheturf. enjoy your vadge music. to each his own. however you wanna put it, regina still owes a lot to grandma amos.

albert was amazing!!!! regina was great, but the crowd was super boring.

you do know that the "hit it" means "sex"?

yeah, regina owes a lot to tori amos in that tori amos helped create a market for female-singer-songwriter-with-piano, but um... musically, they're pretty light years apart

sometimes people are so stupid and superficial with the musical comparisons, seriously

why did I just put any time into writing a comment response to someone who used the term "vadge music"?

because: vadge music. i'd hit that.

i'd hit the bartender at the turkeys nest. her ass is amazing

eww. gross. vadge.

vag > vadge

Uh, who cares about counterpoint? I watch those videos on mute, if you get what I mean...BORE-N!

I've always detect a Robert Smith influence in Regina's singing style.

albert was amazing!!!! regina was great, but the crowd was super boring.

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what's new about the new york crowds. they all suck almost all the time.

what's the deaaaaaaaal with these new york crowwwwds?

Of course you would hit it. Unfortunately, it wouldn't hit you.

the deaaaaaaaaaaal with new york crowd is that their not into super boring vadge music.

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Look in the mirror some time. You are precisely what's wrong with the new york crowds.

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what's wrong with new york crowwwwwds is they don't like your stinky kooter music.

deal with it.

that's right I forgot people like you don't like anything. my mistake.

everybody that has said vadge so far is a tool

actually the concert was great. the rain made it more beautiful.

how this indie wallflower became an indie heartthrob I will never understand

Regina Spektor is just like Tori Amos and Kate Bush. A few nice upbeat tracks and a whole bunch of boring, pretentious ballads. Sorry but its true.

whatever, my question is why all you guys think she's so pretty.

What does a crowd have to do in order to be "not boring?" Personally, I'm more concerned with the artist not being boring. But I actually thought the crowd Friday night was rather enthusiastic & totally into the show, tornado warnings, lightning & rain aside. (Though throwing the hundreds of glow sticks in the crowd was a noble, but ultimately terrible idea. It totally distracted from what was happening on stage. And I think it overstimulated the 17-year-old kids next to me who couldn't stop snatching them off the ground!)

setlist, anyone?

ps id hit it...as in her vadge...as in have sex with it

dude i fucking love fucking kate bush wuthering heights is my fucking JAM

"everybody that has said vadge so far is a tool"

7:13, you just said vadge too. so i guess that makes you a tool as well. does that make me a tool too? perhaps so...

long live tools and smelly vadges.

hooray.

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great comeback ugh...

ha ha.