Berlin Wall "Our lives have lost their spirit...we can do nothing to stop them." On 6 June 1987, David Bowie, who earlier for several years lived and recorded in West Berlin, played a concert close to the Wall. This was attended by thousands of Eastern concertgoers across the Wall, followed by violent rioting in East Berlin. According to Tobias Ruther, these protests in East Berlin were the first in the sequence of riots that led to those of November 1989. Although other factors were probably more influential in the fall of the Wall, on his death, the German Foreign Office tweeted "Good-bye,
Blood on the Wall "Awesomer", the band's second record was released on September 9, 2005 by The Social Registry. With their second record, Blood on the Wall managed to garner praise in the press. Writer Brandon Stosuy in his "Village Voice" review suggested the record sounded as if "Mudhoney was covering [Sonic Youth's] Day Dream Nation". Favorable coverage followed in media outlets such as Pitchfork Media, "Rolling Stone", "Spin", "Time Out New York", and "Tokion". The band spent the rest of the fall on tour with Black Dice and later, with label mates Psychic Ills, ending the year by playing Pitchfork's New Years Party