Indifference as a "closer"

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  • Caught-A-Bolt-Of-Lightning
    Caught-A-Bolt-Of-Lightning Posts: 1,336
    Not quite my Holy Grail to see live but top 3 for sure. I think it's a simply amazing song. I do agree that it is a song that should be played with the lights down....
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,285
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    I Wish they d close a show with release.

    Surely you jest :smile:
    Huh?
    Release as a closer?
    It would be the perfect closer. Release did close their first and arguably best album.
    Live in the now.
    Release closed their first album. Not meant for closing concerts today though.
    Indifference closed their second album. I fail to see the drastic difference. Switching up the setlist is good.
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  • DukeSpirit
    DukeSpirit Posts: 278
    love indifference as a closer. lights down or not it's great.

    Ritfw from Toronto 2011 is my all time fav though
  • yellowwho
    yellowwho Posts: 1,661
    JUST A GIRL said:

    It should be an opener with zero lights on stage.

    Now, that would be a shock
  • yellowwho
    yellowwho Posts: 1,661
    I actually think about this a lot. Really not sure how I feel about it as a closer...but I love the song
  • Mignelli14
    Mignelli14 Posts: 626
    Honestly I don't see why Present Tense isn't used to close. It's at the very least a perfect song to close a playlist you'd make for someone. Solid emotional opening half, excellent jam for the 3rd quarter and a bright cool down the final quarter of it
  • Mignelli14
    Mignelli14 Posts: 626
    And also the core of the song which is to savour the present viz. that you just saw/heard a Pearl Jam Concert
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    edited December 2015
    Present Tense closed a No Code/Yield-era compilation I made recently. It is indeed a good closer - and a pretty cool opener, mind you.
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  • javis el errante
    javis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,147
    I got indifference as a closer last Buenos Aires show, it was awesome, it was grew for a change, didn't care about the lights, which were on since Baba, looking back, lights out would be a better choice, but it doesn't matter really...
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:



    Release as a closer?

    There's a 92 boot which ends with release, awesome they closed with that...
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,305
    mcgruff10 said:

    Great closer imo. I ve seen it close a few times and it s great. I Wish they d close a show with release.

    Nice idea..
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,021
    edited December 2015
    I agree, I don't like this song as a closer. I like the song a lot, but I find it a sad and somewhat depressing one, and that is not the emotion I want to end a PJ show with. And i agree that it doesn't work at all with the house lights up. The closer should be a song that feels celebratory IMO, and indifference definitely doesn't feel like that to me.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,021
    edited December 2015
    mcgruff10 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    I Wish they d close a show with release.

    Surely you jest :smile:
    Huh?
    Release as a closer?
    It would be the perfect closer. Release did close their first and arguably best album.
    I think that would be a terrible closer. Possibly the worst closer imaginable, lol. WAY too sad and too close emotionally for too many people for the end of a show IMO. And Release is my favorite PJ song. A PJ show needs to end with joy, not the kind of tears that Release inspires, as beautiful as those tears are.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    ANYTHING...

    Is better than Ledbetter to close a show.
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  • halloweenhead95
    halloweenhead95 Croatia Posts: 255
    I can't see 'Indifference' in any other place on the setlist except at the end!
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  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    I guess I am just indifferent ;)
  • Force Of Nature
    Force Of Nature York, England Posts: 1,141
    If its not Yellow Ledbetter or Indifference as a closer, I kind of feel like I'm expecting another song
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    edited December 2015
    Daughter could be a good song to float into the ether with :) I drank too much Lions lost spinning vinyl
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,285
    PJ_Soul said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    I Wish they d close a show with release.

    Surely you jest :smile:
    Huh?
    Release as a closer?
    It would be the perfect closer. Release did close their first and arguably best album.
    I think that would be a terrible closer. Possibly the worst closer imaginable, lol. WAY too sad and too close emotionally for too many people for the end of a show IMO. And Release is my favorite PJ song. A PJ show needs to end with joy, not the kind of tears that Release inspires, as beautiful as those tears are.
    actually anything from riot act would be the worst closer imaginable. ;)
    indifference is pretty sad, no?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    edited December 2015
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  • RP112579
    RP112579 Tinley Park, IL Posts: 3,389
    I hope they start using The Fixer as a closer for everyone that wants a more upbeat song to end a show :lol:
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