*** Toronto, ON Fanviews Here 5/10/16 ***

Undrakan

Magical night. Forever grateful!!!

In addition, Donna Grantis is a real discovery for me, she is amazing!!

nycrats

Wow seeing a lot of complainers here reading back. That's your right but I just don't get it. These are some the best songs by any band.

Also I had seen prince w 3rd eye girl so I knew she had chops. But I kept looking up wondering "are you sure that's not mccready?!" Nope still not mike, she is on fire. Great guest

nicknyr15

my2hands said:

I have absolutely NO IDEA how a Pearl Jam fan doesn't like Binaural... its probably their finest example of songwriting in the catalog... it didn't sell 10 million and go mainstream, so fucking what... its a great album

Personal taste. I wouldnt want to sit through that whole album live. If I was there, I would of enjoyed the hell out of it. But, its on the botton of the list for me along with Riot Act and Backspacer.

PureandEasy

Binaural is my favorite, you lucky bastards. Good for you.

mikesbri

Thank you Pearl Jam. 25th show and couldn't have asked for anything better. Band seemed rested and loose. Eddie looked like he wanted to keep going. Energy from the band was amazing it felt like the crowd gave back.

nicknyr15

I really feel that they should use Parting Ways as a closer. It looked absolutely fantastic last night. Why not throw it in rotation with the usual ones?

DC172119

Can't believe people would complain. I would have loved to see ANY show where they play an album in full, Binaural is not my favorite, but those songs rarely get played live and there are some true gems on there. Happy for the people who were there who wanted to see a show like this. Can't wait for my Wrigley show.

Jason P

100 Pacer said:

Wow. Just...wow. What else can one say?

The last 3 proper shows I attended to date have been Moline (No Code), Greenville (VS.), & Toronto (Binaural). As I was saying to a few others, it didn't occur to me what was happening in Moline & Greenville immediately but as soon as I heard the 1st notes from Breakerfall I just knew.

Let me know the next show you have tickets for!

ten-vs-vitalogy

I don't comment much but I felt compelled to for this thread....My mind boggles that anyone would complain about this show. Do you realise how fortunate we are to be in to a band that wants to cater to their fans? A band that changes setlist EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Most bands don't do this. It's nearly like this fan base has taken for granted that fact. "Ugh, I can't believe they played Given to Fly".....Seriously??? Give your ticket to someone who doesn't care if it's the 20th time they've heard given to fly - they're seeing Pearl Jam live; they've just experimented by playing Binaural start to finish in the midst of some cracking tunes. Maybe learn what it is to just enjoy the moment even if it's hearing Corduroy for the billionth time.

nycrats

So who gets riot act? If the band opens with can't keep but then goes to mym or corduroy just to fuck with us at Toronto 2 I promise I won't be mad and will enjoy the joke!

DC172119

nycrats said:

So who gets riot act? If the band opens with can't keep but then goes to mym or corduroy just to fuck with us at Toronto 2 I promise I won't be mad and will enjoy the joke!

I hope it is us at Wrigley Night 1! My favorite album. Came at the right time in my life and practically wore the cd out. This album rekindled my love of Pearl Jam and feel like it is so underrated.

nycrats

Also as common a song as even flow is I thought it was cool to hear it in an encore spot for a mix up. Sure people are tired of it but I liked the change up from recent setlists (although I never mind hearing it)

Ok locals. One can't miss tourist attraction and one can't miss lunch spot please?

DC172119

ten-vs-vitalogy said:

I don't comment much but I felt compelled to for this thread....My mind boggles that anyone would complain about this show. Do you realise how fortunate we are to be in to a band that wants to cater to their fans? A band that changes setlist EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Most bands don't do this. It's nearly like this fan base has taken for granted that fact. "Ugh, I can't believe they played Given to Fly".....Seriously??? Give your ticket to someone who doesn't care if it's the 20th time they've heard given to fly - they're seeing Pearl Jam live; they've just experimented by playing Binaural start to finish in the midst of some cracking tunes. Maybe learn what it is to just enjoy the moment even if it's hearing Corduroy for the billionth time.

Word.

twenty3footsteps

ten-vs-vitalogy said:

I don't comment much but I felt compelled to for this thread....My mind boggles that anyone would complain about this show. Do you realise how fortunate we are to be in to a band that wants to cater to their fans? A band that changes setlist EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Most bands don't do this. It's nearly like this fan base has taken for granted that fact. "Ugh, I can't believe they played Given to Fly".....Seriously??? Give your ticket to someone who doesn't care if it's the 20th time they've heard given to fly - they're seeing Pearl Jam live; they've just experimented by playing Binaural start to finish in the midst of some cracking tunes. Maybe learn what it is to just enjoy the moment even if it's hearing Corduroy for the billionth time.

Amen!

dimitrispearljam

ten-vs-vitalogy said:

I don't comment much but I felt compelled to for this thread....My mind boggles that anyone would complain about this show. Do you realise how fortunate we are to be in to a band that wants to cater to their fans? A band that changes setlist EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Most bands don't do this. It's nearly like this fan base has taken for granted that fact. "Ugh, I can't believe they played Given to Fly".....Seriously??? Give your ticket to someone who doesn't care if it's the 20th time they've heard given to fly - they're seeing Pearl Jam live; they've just experimented by playing Binaural start to finish in the midst of some cracking tunes. Maybe learn what it is to just enjoy the moment even if it's hearing Corduroy for the billionth time.

bravo...million times bravo

Undrakan

dimitrispearljam said:

ten-vs-vitalogy said:

I don't comment much but I felt compelled to for this thread....My mind boggles that anyone would complain about this show. Do you realise how fortunate we are to be in to a band that wants to cater to their fans? A band that changes setlist EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Most bands don't do this. It's nearly like this fan base has taken for granted that fact. "Ugh, I can't believe they played Given to Fly".....Seriously??? Give your ticket to someone who doesn't care if it's the 20th time they've heard given to fly - they're seeing Pearl Jam live; they've just experimented by playing Binaural start to finish in the midst of some cracking tunes. Maybe learn what it is to just enjoy the moment even if it's hearing Corduroy for the billionth time.

bravo...million times bravo

Totally agree

GB200251

I still cannot believe what I saw last night.

Binaural is my favourite album of theirs and to hear it being played front to back...I don't even know what to say. It hit me in-between Evacuation and Light Years what was going on. I started getting chills. I finally broke down during Nothing as It Seems. I listened to this album so much in high school and it got me through so many hard times, and on top of this I am from Alberta and with everything that is going on there...hearing Nothing As it Seems was just too much. It was like an out of body experience, I can't even explain it.

I was up in the 300s and I don't think a lot of the casual fans around me realized what was happening. There was a lot of sitting in my section during the stretch of songs in Binaural that a lot of people probably aren't familiar with. I didn't care, it was like I was the only person in that room and they were playing through that album just for me.

This is why I love this band. They know that Binaural is one of their least popular albums, and I'm sure they knew full well that there was the possibility of disengaging a lot of people by playing through it. To show the amount of confidence and balls to just say "fuck it, we're playing through Binaural tonight" says a lot about this band and represents pretty much everything I love about them.

I can't believe some people are complaining about the set list after they played through Binaural. Did you not expect them to play through some of the hits after that?!? And who cares?!? Corduroy and Given to Fly were still some of the most powerful songs of the night. And the rest of the set wasn't even made up of only hits...We still got to hear Down, Comfortably Numb, SOLAT, The Real Me, and LET ME SLEEP!!!! How some people are complaining about this set is beyond me. These must be the type of people that are never pleased.

What an unreal night.

Abe Froman

jonsey30 said:

Disappointing show for me. Aside from NAIS, Light Years, and Of the Girl, I don't like Binaural. As soon as I heard Breakerfall, I was worried that this was happening, and the rest of the album took a lot of steam out of the night for me and most around me. Everyone was itching for a something to sing along too, but had to wait a looooong time.

I know the "hard core" fans were making puddles over this, but I believe you are the minority at the shows. Most people want to hear songs they know. I at least know these songs, I just don't like them.

After the first 5 albums, there are 2-3 great songs on the rest of the albums. Say what you want about me, but this was my least favorite show out of 5. They really need to stop reading these boards or else they'll be playing nothing but obscure songs for the "collectors."

I disagree with everything in this post.

Parksy

Fantastic show. My 30th time seeing the band and somehow they keep sounding better.

With well over 100+ songs in their catalogue that they play live people can complain all they want about the setlist. You'll never be 100% pleased. But Binaural in sequence mixed in with Let Me Sleep and then Comfortably Numb and The Real Me were pleasant additions to the common 'hits.' The setlist itself was certainly special.

But again what really got me is how well they sounded. When they started playing Let Me Sleep it sounded crystal clear and on point. Majority of songs with the exception of a couple of the Binaural songs were played to perfection.

And.... Mike. He scorched the night. And then he was joined by Donna.... who also scorched the night.

Great show. Still on that 'high' of course... but it feels right now like a top 5 show in terms of the shows I've been to. Looking forward to Thursday!

Come Back in Black

dimitrispearljam said:

ten-vs-vitalogy said:

I don't comment much but I felt compelled to for this thread....My mind boggles that anyone would complain about this show. Do you realise how fortunate we are to be in to a band that wants to cater to their fans? A band that changes setlist EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Most bands don't do this. It's nearly like this fan base has taken for granted that fact. "Ugh, I can't believe they played Given to Fly".....Seriously??? Give your ticket to someone who doesn't care if it's the 20th time they've heard given to fly - they're seeing Pearl Jam live; they've just experimented by playing Binaural start to finish in the midst of some cracking tunes. Maybe learn what it is to just enjoy the moment even if it's hearing Corduroy for the billionth time.

bravo...million times bravo

Agree 100%. I'm not a Binaural fan but I love that they have the balls to go do their least popular and least accessible album front to back. And on the other side of the argument. After 17 shows, the first time I go to a show and I'm bummed out to hear Given to Fly, Corduroy, or Alive I'll know it's time to take a long break.