What would you guys cut, say if you had to lose 2 songs for the broadcast? Had to. Like if the men came and made you.
Bridges and Balloons
Have One On Me
Easy
In California
Inflammatory Writ
Go Long
Soft As Chalk
Monkey & Bear
Good Intentions Paving Company
Peach, Plum, Pear
Good Intentions Paving Company (take 2)
Baby Birch
Well, I haven't seen the show, so I can only go on past hearings, especially of live performances. Obviosuly we wouldn't need two GIPCs, but I assume that you knew that and meant two others. So if the men came and made me, I think I'd select Monkey & Bear and Peach, Plum, Pear. On another day, I might have gone for Easy, or Inflammatory Writ, but I do enjoy the new arrangement of Writ, so it stays in! There are none of her songs that I dislike, and of those I'd consider the weakest, none appear in this set list, so it's a hard choice. But in my humble opinion, M&B is the least good song on Ys. If it were cut, however, it would leave the set Ys-less, and any of the other four would be excellent additions: then perhaps Easy would have to step down.
As I said, I haven't heard these ACL versions, and perhaps Baby Birch was not performed at her best, from what others have written here. But I think it's a magnificent song, up there with HOOM, In California, Sawdust, Cosmia, Emily, and En Gallop, so no, I wouldn't cut that one.