Dream Pearl Jam Set List

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  • I think MR wins this comp
    wooooohhooooooo
    AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
  • I think MR wins this comp
    wooooohhooooooo

    Though we didn't all work the rules (1 pre show + 10 song main set + a 5 song encore? What is that, a 45-minute long show?), I nominated Beer Baron's setlist. He not only implanted the holy S-O-S trinity for me ("State of Love and Trust", "Oceans", and "Sometimes" in the same show), he also added "Immortality", my fourth favorite PJ track of all time. Only one show in the history of PJ's career has (or likely ever will) contained all four of those songs.

    Then he goes even further and adds "Breath", the original 'man' trilogy (including the two tags for "Betterman" that made it even more incredible than it already was, as if the band improved upon in years after its release), and a slew of songs that are a PJ fan's wet dream:
    "Red Mosquito"
    "Black, Red, Yellow"
    "Crown of Thorns"
    "Fatal"...

    I don't care much for "Deep" or "Breakerfall" but I think they work great when coupled with other songs: "Deep"/"Breath" is an amazing combo, as is "Breakerfall"/"Corduroy"... I hate to admit it, but as great as "Instellar Overdrive" is for a lead in, "Breakerfall" works almost as well, if not better... I love PF but some Pearl Jam songs just gel well together.




    Beer Baron also listed my #5: "All Those Yesterdays". That song is the PJ's counterpart equivalent of "Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)" from Talking Head's 'Speaking in Tongues' LP. It's beautiful and it's quirky and for a band with such a great sense of humor and delivery I can't fathom why they don't play it... at all anymore.

    So many die-hard fans go from show to show and wait with bated breath just to possibly hear it played, I hear reports of it getting worked out in soundchecks and many, many fans are disappointed when it is never played in the sets or encores. The song COULD have been a college radio sweetheart in its day... Why can't they just open with it one time and see what kind of crowd reaction they get?

    "Sometimes" is my favorite song (it's short it enough and structured more as incidental music than an actual song itself), but I've still got my fingers crossed they play it at Adelaide 2 or Perth this week. I'd humbly settle for "ATY"... possibly.




    Sorry if I sound like a complainer... I realize the band has some kind of obligation to play hits like "Even Flow", "Given to Fly", "Alive" and "Do the Evolution" need be played at every show, but even the weaker singles like "Insignificance" and "Save You" and good but not great album cuts like "Corduroy" are also staples; they're played at almost every show.

    I realize the band has to play a certain number of these songs they've worked out on stage hundreds of times, and for some reason Ed won't give up "Corduroy" or "Insignificance", but it's setlists like the eclectic recent Newcastle show that give us hanging on hope for more diverse shows.

    It would be cool if the band has limited appearances in 2007 or 2008 to work out contests where a lottery is employed to let fans compile setlists for half a dozen shows. It would be pro-active, get the fans more involved in the band as they tour. First off, there would need to be guidelines (a certain sample of each album would need to be represented, a cap on rarities or 'lost dogs', and the band would have veto power or would be able to switch out songs so long as they retained say, 80% of the original finalist's setlist).

    What does everyone think of this idea? I realize my 'Twenty-Ten' show would be a little too taxing (we'll talk it over again in 2010), but I could pare down my setlist to 32 songs (sans 3 Encore Breaks), or compile a new one.

    I just think it would be a really cool to have a setlist lottery for a few shows, especially if they're fan-club oriented shows in liberal cities that have already proven themselves with good audience feedback. Newcastle could be the beginning of a new, beautiful soldality with the band and its loyal fans.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Pre - Strangest Tribe

    Long Road
    Corduroy
    Given to fly
    Faithfull
    Sad
    Jeremy
    In My Tree
    Daughter/It's o.k
    I got I.D
    Army Reserve

    Severed hand
    Come Back
    Greivance
    Black
    Alive
  • Pre:

    Heart to Hang Onto (With Pete Townshend)

    Main Set:

    Long Road
    Corduroy
    In Hiding
    Marker in the Sand
    Daughter (WMA + iT'S OK TAG)
    Black
    Inside Job
    Present Tense
    Betterman
    Jeremy


    Encore:

    Off He Goes
    Man of the Hour
    Smile
    Baba O' Riley ( With Pete and Roger)
    Yellow Ledbetter
  • Got to laugh guys - the whole limit was to try establish a bit of intigue as to wha tyo uREALLY wanted to hear. I love the bloke who went to the trouble and time of designing a 4hr set with order of songs and encore breaks...but its easy to list al ltheir songs!
    My original idea spawned fro ma wish to have an intimate show - limited set, lots of red wine and a bit more one on one the nthe shows they do now.

    I am enjoying reading the different set lists, seeing what opens, reading what some people feel are 'commercial' tracks, seeing the popular and the left field. Keep it up.

    Oh and I have managed to meet Ed too, so maybe I should have told him this idea at the time!
  • Pre Set - Spin The Black Circle

    Main
    Release
    Breakerfall
    Animal
    Faithful
    Lukin / Not For You
    Immortality
    All those Yesterdays
    In Hiding
    1/2 Full
    RVM

    Encore
    Mankind
    Sad
    WMA
    Sonic Reducer
    All or None
  • edemueller wrote:
    Got to laugh guys - the whole limit was to try establish a bit of intigue as to wha tyo uREALLY wanted to hear.

    This is like "Desert Island". Pick the 16 Pearl Jam songs you'd live with for all eternity, et cetera. But that's bogus. I know my 15/16 favorite PJ songs, enjoy hearing them but I know just stacking my own subjective sixteen favorite songs together does not a good show make. You have to work it out and build a crafty setlist, one where the songs play off each other, and it doesn't sound like the band came out just to play someone's favorites. Blah.

    You're asking us to pick only so few... that's like Sophie's fuckin' Choice, man!!! There ARE too many songs I want to see in a setlist, and there are already a select few I wish they'd play less frequently... 16 songs is just not so easy for me, living in an age when Pearl Jam has moved far away from what would fill a single compact disc for live media. 2-disc and 3-disc sets are the norm now, and the shortest concert this year (excluding BSB) was Bern, only 108 Minutes long. Even their festival shows were longer than poor Bern...
    edemueller wrote:
    I love the bloke who went to the trouble and time of designing a 4hr set with order of songs and encore breaks...but its easy to list al ltheir songs!
    My original idea spawned fro ma wish to have an intimate show - limited set, lots of red wine and a bit more one on one the nthe shows they do now.

    I'm that bloke, yes, erm. Hmm. And I can see a 4-hour setlist happening before Pearl Jam comes to hang out, drink and noodle around on the guitar for a preset, ten songs and five song encore with anyone, unless you're a celebrity or can bankroll a private gig. If I had that kind of money, I'd sooner get myself a Russian Mail-Order-Bride, a mountain of cocaine and a scattergun. And for entertainment, maybe I could secure Spinal Tap.

    edemueller wrote:
    I am enjoying reading the different set lists, seeing what opens, reading what some people feel are 'commercial' tracks, seeing the popular and the left field. Keep it up.

    Oh and I have managed to meet Ed too, so maybe I should have told him this idea at the time!

    'Commerical' tracks are anything that got radio airplay anywhere. "Corduroy" isn't a single, but you can still hear it on the radio. "Oceans" was never released as a single in the States, but "Black" garners far more infamy than that song and has perhaps surpassed a couple other the 'Ten' singles. Most notorious Pearl Jam songs? Is it a sin to love them?

    Moderation is the key. But the main set should be obscure album cuts and 'Lost Dogs', and the encore should be singles. I'm sure there's some asshole out there that'd prefer to hear the band play "Yellow Ledbetter" 16 times in a row. And they call me crazy.
  • 1 you are
    2 black
    3 alone
    4 breath
    5 dead man
    6 animal
    7 sonic reducer
    8 jeremy
    9 man of the hour
    10 footsteps
    11 crown of thorns
    12 unemployable
    13 rats
    14 oceans
    15 present tense
    16 tremor christ
    17 satans bed
    18 masters of war
    19 lukin
    20 ive got a feeling
    21 yellow ledbetter
    22 daughter
    23 w.m.a
    24 indifference
    25 hold on
  • this based on songs i want/need to hear live:

    the track after bee girl on 'dogs'-about layne? 20/04/02?

    long road
    once
    smile
    untitled/mfc
    love boat captain
    light years
    wishlist
    other side
    faithful
    present tense

    footsteps
    crown of thorns
    black
    jeremy
    yellow ledbetter
    'we were coming close to being on lunchboxes'- e.v 2000
  • edemueller wrote:
    With all the talk of best concert, best song, favourite lines etc, I got to thinking about coming up with a set list you would love to hear at a PJ concert. There are some rules though, and I know everyone will have a different list, but that is what makes it interesting.
    You can have 1 pre-show opener, 10 songs in the main set and 5 songs in the encore.
    Mine might be:
    Pre: Dead Man Walking
    Main: Severed Hand, Corduroy, RVM, Inside Job, Wishlist, Betterman, Daughter (tag: Its Ok), Nothing as it Seems, Go, Even Flow
    Encore: Crazy Mary, Do the Evolution, Animal, Porch, RITFW

    Pre: Dead Man

    1.)Wasted/Life Wasted
    2.)Last Exit
    3.)Brain of J
    4.)Go
    5.)Given to Fly
    6.)Alive
    7.)Inside Job
    8.)Worldwide Suicide
    9.)Grievance
    10.)Comatose

    11.)Corduroy
    12.)Not For You
    13.)Immortaliy
    14.)Black
    15.)Baba O'Riley
  • PRE SET: Throw Your Arms Around Me

    SET: Oceans, Animal, Go, Green Disease, Marker In The Sand, Rats, Satans Bed, Red Mosquito, Sad, Parting Ways

    ENCORE: Rival, Come Back, Hard To Imagine, All Or None, All Those Yesterdays
  • bovy_jbovy_j Posts: 1,008
    I don't think it's even possible to think of a list that small for me. If I were in charge of making a "dream list", here it is:

    Pre-set: Dead Man

    Main: Release, Last Exit, Do The Evolution, Severed Hand, Even Flow, Corduroy, Daughter/(It's OK)/(W.M.A), Grievance, Satan's Bed, Gone, Present Tense, Love Boat Captain, Life Wasted, Sonic Reducer/(I Believe In Miracles), Whipping, Porch, Black/(Modern Girl), Who You Are, Leash

    Encore 1: Come Back, Wasted Reprise/Better Man, Harvest Moon, Drifting, Footsteps, Once

    Encore 2: Alive, Soon Forget, Indifference, Baba O'Riley, Yellow Ledbetter
  • Pre set
    Driftin'

    Main Set
    Of The Girl
    Animal
    Habit
    Do The Evolution
    Satan's Bed
    Daughter
    Crazy Mary
    Who You Are
    No Way
    Alive

    Encore
    Around The Bend
    All Those Yesterdays
    Smile
    Black
    Yellow Ledbetter

    (throw in Dirty Frank if they jam it out like on Lost Dogs.... amazing)
    10c #TBD

    "They said timing was everything, made him want to be everywhere,...there's a lot to be said for nowhere."
    "Let them wash away,... all those yesterdays."

    09/10/98, 08/23/00, 08/24/00, 08/25/00, 04/30/03, 07/09/03, 07/14/03, 06/01/06, 06/03/06, 06/24/08, 06/25/08
  • this is a tough one to do

    pre set: yellow ledbetter (acoustic)

    main set:
    love boat captain
    go
    world wide suicide
    life wasted
    do the evolution
    not for you
    sometimes
    save you
    grievience
    porch

    encore:

    indifference
    all those yesterdays
    garden (new version)
    fuckin up
    leash

    that was well hard
    there was lots of covers and stuff that i had to leav out cause with only a few songs i thought it shoulld be mainly pj stuff
  • Preset:
    Corduroy (BSB '96 style)

    Main set:
    Release
    RVM
    Hail, Hail
    Breakerfall
    Jeremy
    Fatal
    Footsteps
    Present Tense
    Sonic Reducer
    Porch

    Encore:
    All Those Yesterdays
    Inside Job
    Hungerstrike (w Chris Cornell, cause Audioslave supports on this tour)
    Crown Of Thorns
    Indifference
    2000: Roskilde
    2006: Sydney I,II,III
    2007: London, Copenhagen
    2008: MSG I,II
    2009: Manchester, London
    2010: London
    2011: Toronto I,II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2012: Berlin I,II, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen
  • pj10pj10 Posts: 17
    Preset:
    Everyday

    Main Set:
    Release
    Last Exit
    Corduroy
    Who You Are
    In Hiding
    Patriot
    Green Disease
    I Got You
    Marker in the Sand

    Encore:
    ARC/Man of the Hour
    In My Tree (old style)
    Betterman/SIFL
    Smile
    Daughter/It's OK
    "I will feel alive as long as I am free."
  • preset: Throw Your Arms Around Me

    Main: Long Road, Tremor Christ, WMA, Given to Fly, Alone, Who You Are, Nothingman, Rats, Low Light, I Got Shit (cinnamon girl),

    Encore: In My Tree, Gimme Some Truth, Satellite, Baba, Indifference
    1998-06-27 Alpine Valley, WI / 2000-10-08 Alpine Valley, WI / 2003-06-21 Alpine Valley, WI / 2003-04-26 Mellon Arena, PA / 2004-10-03 Grand Rapids VFC, 2006-05-17 United Center, IL / 2006-06-29 Milwaukee, WI / 2006-06-30 Milwaukke, WI / 2011-09-03 Alpine Valley PJ20 / 2011-09-04 Alpine Valley PJ20 / 2013-07-19 Wrigley Field / 2014-10-19 St. Paul / 2014-10-20 Milwaukee, WI
    ...
  • preset - Small Town

    Can't Keep
    WWS
    Hail Hail
    DTE
    Corduroy
    Light Years
    Glorified G
    Satan's Bed
    Why Go
    Blood

    Fatal
    Low Light
    All Night
    SOLAT
    Alive
  • Hiya All, Well some people said PJ would never play a 15 set show to a small crowd...see below

    Pearl Jam plays secret show in Hawaii Fri Dec 1, 3:18 PM ET



    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pearl Jam performed a secret show for about 300 people in Hawaii Thursday, two days before it headlines a gig at Honolulu's Blaisdell Center.

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    The outdoor show at the Waimea Valley Audubon Center was part of the opening festivities for the Quiksilver Big Wave Invitational surfing competition.

    The 15-song set mixed favorites like "Corduroy," "Even Flow," "Better Man" and "Do the Evolution" with covers of the Who's "Baba O'Riley," the Avengers' "The Amerikan in Me" and Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World," which featured a guest turn on guitar by surfer Kelly Slater. Slater, a longtime friend of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, also sung portions of "Indifference."

    Earlier in the day, Vedder participated in the annual Paddle Out ceremony along with Slater, Bruce Irons, Myles Padaca, Braden Dias and Andy Irons, among many others.

    Next week, Pearl Jam will open the last show of U2's Vertigo tour at Aloha Stadium.

    Here is Pearl Jam's set list:

    "Corduroy"

    "Do The Evolution"

    "World Wide Suicide"

    "Severed Hand"

    "Even Flow"

    "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town"

    "The Amerikan in Me"

    "I Believe In Miracles"

    "Can't Keep"

    "Soon Forget"

    "Crazy Mary"

    "Indifference"

    "Better Man"

    "Baba O'Riley"

    "Rockin' in the Free World"

    Reuters/Billboard
    __________________
  • Working with a 30 song show.

    Main set:
    1.Oceans
    2.Last Exit
    3.Brain Of J
    4.Tremor Christ
    5.Severed Hand
    6.World Wide Suicide
    7.Down
    8.Leatherman
    9.Red Mosquito
    10.Grievence
    11.Habit
    12.I Got Id
    13.In My Tree (Old Version)
    14.Black Red Yellow
    15.Alone
    16.Present Tense
    17.Sad
    18.Sleight Of Hand
    19.Rats
    20.Breath

    1st Encore:
    21.Inside Job
    22.Wash
    23.Who You Are
    24.In Hiding
    25.Life Wasted
    26.Smile

    2nd Encore:
    27.Sonic Reducer
    28.Baba O' Riley
    29.Fuckin' Up
    30.Yellow Ledbetter/Little Wing
  • edemueller wrote:
    Hiya All, Well some people said PJ would never play a 15 set show to a small crowd...see below

    Who said that?

    edemueller wrote:
    Pearl Jam plays secret show in Hawaii Fri Dec 1, 3:18 PM ET

    The outdoor show at the Waimea Valley Audubon Center was part of the opening festivities for the Quiksilver Big Wave Invitational surfing competition.

    The 15-song set mixed favorites like "Corduroy," "Even Flow," "Better Man" and "Do the Evolution" with covers of the Who's "Baba O'Riley," the Avengers' "The Amerikan in Me" and Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World," which featured a guest turn on guitar by surfer Kelly Slater. Slater, a longtime friend of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, also sung portions of "Indifference."

    Earlier in the day, Vedder participated in the annual Paddle Out ceremony along with Slater, Bruce Irons, Myles Padaca, Braden Dias and Andy Irons, among many others.

    It sounds like a soundcheck the day before more than an authentic "intimate" show, but you've got to believe print.
    edemueller wrote:
    Here is Pearl Jam's set list:

    "Corduroy" (365)
    "Do The Evolution" (301)
    "World Wide Suicide" (73)
    "Severed Hand" (66)
    "Even Flow" (595)
    "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" (263)
    "The Amerikan in Me" (10)
    "I Believe In Miracles" (55)
    "Can't Keep" (19)
    "Soon Forget" (53)
    "Crazy Mary" (112)
    "Indifference" (98)
    "Better Man" (340)
    "Baba O'Riley" (97)
    "Rockin' in the Free World" (196)
    __________________


    Well, that's hardly my idea of a dream 15-song setlist, outside of "Can't Keep", and covers like "Crazy Mary" and "I Believe in Miracles", this is more or less the dozen Pearl Jam standards played at EVERY goddamned show.

    If this is anyone's dream setlist, it's Ed's, because he most likely compiled the setlist. It isn't extraordinary, unless "Can't Keep" was played on the uke. But seriously, congratulations on your 20th performance of "Can't Keep", guys. Oh, and your 302nd performance of "DTE", and 341st rendition of "Betterman"... and we can see "Rockin'..." and "Baba" are both nearing 100.

    Jesus... I don't mean to sound like gadfly or anything. But I know I do. It's just that... this thread is supposed to be about incredible 15-song sets, and the OP posts that they've played a short set and it's not really anything mind-blowing at all. It's not the worst set in the world (That would be "Yellow Ledbetter" played 15 times consecutively), it was brave to pull out of the norm in the middle of the set, but it isn't going to shake the Earth, and I don't expect this one to be up for sale or anything. This one is just for those 300 folks who were there at the event.



    Seriously, this is like a "greatest hits" concert... total 180 of the vitality of the Newcastle show. Not a single song from 'No Code', and only one each from 'Binaural' and 'Riot Act', and they're both patent 'Ed' songs-- well, I'll overlook facts like "Soon Forget" was really written by Pete back in 1975 as "Blue, Red & Grey" for the time being. I'm sure that people who were there to experience this didn't feel let down, but it doesn't sound like that perfect 15 song set. This is just another detour.
  • ymerejymerej Posts: 70
    My dream setlist. I wonder...will it be ever played?

    Pre set: Footsteps
    Main set: Rearviewmirror, Do The Evolution, MFC, Porch, Sad, Corduroy, World Wide Suidice, Even Flow (feat. solo Mike&Matt), Whipping, Save You
    Encore: Soon Forget Betterman, Man Of The Hour, Black, Parachutes, Yellow Ledbetter
    I just want to scream...
    ...hello!!!
    My god its been six years...
    never dreamed...
    ...you'd return.
  • mnarob3mnarob3 Posts: 235
    ed solo :throw your arms around me
    ed and jeff: bee girl

    main set:

    hidden track (in avocado)

    inside job
    sonic reducer
    comatose
    do the evolution
    sad
    go
    life wasted
    wasted reprise
    release
    last exit
    e flow
    in my tree
    black
    state of love & trust
    once
    you are

    acoustic set: footsteps, crown of thorns, nothingman

    corduroy
    i got shit
    present tense
    come back
    severed hand
    why go
    world wide suicide
    hunger strike
    rearviewmirror
    leash
    hail, hail
    alive
    yellow ledbetter/little wing
    *~~bologna 14.9.2006~~*~~vienna 25.9.2006~~*~~zagreb 26.9.2006~~
    *~~munich 12.6.2007~~*~~chorzow 13.6.2007~~*
  • blarrgblarrg Posts: 47
    I'm Open, Dueling Banjos, O Sole Mio, I Got ID, Hard to Imagine, Everyday, Brother, Strangest Tribe, Bugs, Aye Davanita, Sad, Life Wasted, Leash, Present Tense, Smile, Marker In the Sand, W.M.A. (20 Minute version)

    1st Encore: Blue Red and Grey (with Pete Townshend), Redemption Song, Croon Spoon & Dead Man (EV Solo), Last Soldier, Beast of Burden (with Mick Jagger)

    2nd Encore: Outshined & Hunger Strike (with Chris Cornell), Oceans, Parting Ways, Lukin, Hold On

    3rd Encore: I've Got A Feeling (with Paul McCartney), Maggot Brain, Indifference (with Ben Harper)
  • HorosHoros Posts: 4,518
    It sounds like a soundcheck the day before more than an authentic "intimate" show, but you've got to believe print.

    Well, that's hardly my idea of a dream 15-song setlist, outside of "Can't Keep", and covers like "Crazy Mary" and "I Believe in Miracles", this is more or less the dozen Pearl Jam standards played at EVERY goddamned show.








    1st can you read? Not the day before big gig and not even at the same venue. Soundcheck?????

    I hope there's enough fans out there that this could be someone's dream. Pretty dreamy just to see such a small crowd.

    I think that was the idea of this thread with the parameters(limits). Gotta love your skill at that. Sure I would love for PJ to come and play in my living room. Every song in the catolgue and even some of them twice so I'm sure to hear the different interpretations(versions). Then maybe another 20-30 covers cause they can jam any song as good as the original.
    #FHP
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