Lush was one of the bands I was really excited to see on that tour.  When they broke into Sweetness and Light my sister and I almost started crying with joy.  I'm still not sick of that song, 20 years later.

I just caught Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver)'s new band "Adam Franklin and the Bolts of Melody" in Pittsburgh not long ago (actually, a band I'm in opened up for them, cool story bro).  Not having seen SW live, and so lacking any basis for comparison, all I can say is Holy F*ck was it awesome.  My band-mates, none of…