"Best set list ever" ??

ckamadeo

Every time I look at a setlist thread, I'm always like "man, what a great setlist" - but, invariably after I buy the boots, I find that there are just a handful that I keep coming back to listen to over and over again. Now, there's a lot that goes into a concert beyond just the set list - the crowd, the atmosphere, the quality of the playing, the tags, etc - but, I wanted to push myself to be more objective about why I like some set lists more than others. So, what I did was create a handy python script against the api that setlist.fm provides to pull down every set list that Pearl Jam has played and calculate a rank based on my song preferences. I ranked songs on a scale of 1-10 - giving my personal favorites (like Oceans, Garden, RVM, Of the Girl, etc.) a 10 and the songs that I don't care as much to hear (like DTE, Sirens, etc.) a 1 and everything in between. My script then scores each set list based on my preferences and voila, a ranking by tour of the concerts that I'm most likely to be drawn to. For the Lightning Bolt Tour, here's the ranking I came up with.

Of course, everyone's taste in songs is different and the ranking is crude, but it was helpful to me in terms of focusing me on boots I may want to look at that I had passed over too quickly (like the LA ones) and confirmed why some don't speak to me as much. And, it's particularly useful for older concert series.

Anyway, thought I'd share. If you're interested in the script, let me know.

Oslo
Stockholm
Charlottesville
Milan
LA I
Philadelphia I
Vienna
Trieste
Portland
LA II
Vancouver
Berlin
Leeds
Brooklyn II
Buffalo
Arizona
San Diego
Milton Keynes
Seattle
Dallas
Baltimore
Oakland
Gold Coast
Philadelphia II
Calgary
Spokane
Sydney
Amsterdam I
Werchter
Worcester II
Charlotte
Oklahoma
Adelaide
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn I
Amsterdam II
Hartford
Worcester I
Perth
New Orleans
Auckland
Gdynia
Melbourne

scott nowland

Sydney all the way down there? I know it was basically a greatest hits show as most of the festival ones typically are but still had in hiding, state of love and trust, footsteps, crown of thorns and black which should be enough to out it in the top half.