Twenty years since the last live one anybody defends, and the pitch here is obvious: retire 2005, put this in its place. Job done. The fan-voted tracklist should have been a disaster and instead somebody's picked the take where the guitar goes properly UGLY over the pretty part, which is not what a poll normally hands you. Vocal sits low and lets the noise do the reaching, and I'm not about to grade a Mars Volta singer. Two pieces welded into one and neither outstays. You've been gone twenty years and you get to keep them, now go and do the rest of the tour like this.
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Neither outstays is doing a lot of work in that last paragraph; the second piece spends its opening stretch looking for a reason to have started. The playing was never the argument; the running time is.
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That ugly guitar against the pretty section is the reason it survives, anyway. The low vocal leaves the noise somewhere to go.
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