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Do you have any TMBG songs where you like another variant over the album version?
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I've never listened to a live version of Istanbul, and I am now questioning my life choices.
After hearing it some many times and it being the song most associate with the band, I'd always skipped over it. I always felt it just needed a smidge more compositional complexity, and the live versions deliver it.
I think because it is such a simple song that they've played so much, they can easily play around with it. They usually have Dan Miller play a semi-improvised acoustic guitar intro (Miller Time), and they add an extended outro.