What do you think about people who don't like songs like Cropduster and You Are?

Crew

They deserve to be allowed to have only donuts without glass for the rest of their lives.

Absolutely love You Are.

They have also NEVER opened with it (to my knowledge)... I sincerely wish they would.  

Highly disagree that it's a momentum killer, but why not start with something so unique and funky?  It's not much different than opening with Pendulum, which they stuck with in 2013.. 

Abe Froman

KN219077 said:

mcgruff10 said:

Ghost is pretty damn bad too. I feel people like it only because it is such a rare song live.  

I’ve seen it live, not good.especially when there are about 200 better songs the band has

I disagree. Ghost is a great song and I don’t like songs just because they are rare. Also, I absolutely loved In The Moonlight with Josh Homme at PJ 20. Another song I love. Sometimes rare is great. Others are not. Point being that some of the more “rare” PJ songs are some fans favorites like myself. I can safely say I will never purposely put on Jeremy ever again. There’s hundreds of songs I’d rather listen to

PJNB

DW139059 said:

If You Are is played at a show, that show is under immediate consideration for getting the bootleg... 

Seems like they do break it out at some great shows. Krakow and Quebec 2016 are two of my favourite shows and it was played.

Spiritual_Chaos

I love Ghost. But when someones say its not a great live song, I can see the merit of that argument.

PJNB

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I love Ghost. But when someones say its not a great live song, I can see the merit of that argument.

Where you at @dimitrispearljam

Merkin Baller

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJNB said:

@mcgruff10 this ones for you!

I like both songs but both of them are crowd killers imo. Cropduster more so than You are. 

mcgruff10 said:

PJNB said:

@mcgruff10 this ones for you!

I like both songs but both of them are crowd killers imo. Cropduster more so than You are. 

lol.  I agree with you that both songs are total crowd killers.   

Merkin Baller said:

I enjoy the songs when I'm in the right mood, but they are total momentum killers at shows... same for My Education.

““To go up on stage and play unknown songs for a handful of people as opposed to playing the songs that everybody wants to hear is really not in our best interests or the audience’s."
- Paul Stanley

Don't fall into the Paul Stanley narrative.

https://youtu.be/X94TE2V268Q

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I love Ghost. But when someones say its not a great live song, I can see the merit of that argument.

lol

Thief of Silence

Interesting... I had to look up my stats... I’m kind of partial to the Riot Act stuff since that tour was my first show, and I’d say probably my favourite studio album. I thought that I’d heard both songs more than once live... but nope... just once each (including the latest Cropduster). I got spoiled with the entire Binaural (2nd best album), but any Riot Act live is good to me.

mcgruff10

My god I ve seen you are ten times and crop duster 6 times.  Ugh.  I want that hour of my life back.

Jammalambo

They deserve to be flogged with Matt Cameron's sticks, every day for half an hour, while Bon Jovi is blasting from the radio.

mcgruff10 said:

My god I ve seen you are ten times and crop duster 6 times.  Ugh.  I want that hour of my life back.

Oh, come on... I've never seen them live... You just want to make me sad and angry, I think.

I'm calling Donald to tell him there's a certain McGruff in N.J. who'd like to make out.

mcgruff10

Jammalambo said:

mcgruff10 said:

My god I ve seen you are ten times and crop duster 6 times.  Ugh.  I want that hour of my life back.

Oh, come on... I've never seen them live... You just want to make me sad and angry, I think.

I'm calling Donald to tell him there's a certain McGruff in N.J. who'd like to make out.

trust me you aren't missing anything at all.  
 plain and simple both songs are terrible.   they stunk on the record and live they are the equivalent to watching paint dry.  

josevolution

Who you are is where it’s at ! 

Jammalambo

They deserve to be flogged with Matt Cameron's sticks, every day for half an hour, while Bon Jovi is blasting from the radio.

mcgruff10 said:

Jammalambo said:

mcgruff10 said:

My god I ve seen you are ten times and crop duster 6 times.  Ugh.  I want that hour of my life back.

Oh, come on... I've never seen them live... You just want to make me sad and angry, I think.

I'm calling Donald to tell him there's a certain McGruff in N.J. who'd like to make out.

trust me you aren't missing anything at all.  
 plain and simple both songs are terrible.   they stunk on the record and live they are the equivalent to watching paint dry.  

They're beautiful and I love them, and they are usually the highlights when I'm listening to a bootleg that includes them.. and they're so funny to play on guitar, too. So, well, I don't trust you at all... If I feel like watching paint dry I give a spin to Sirens.

Glorified KC

All of the above.

I like the thought of You Are as an opener out of an Encore Break.  Anywhere else, it does seem a bit awkward, unless you're trying to reel back from a streak of hard rockers in the set list.

HesCalledDyer

They deserve to be flogged with Matt Cameron's sticks, every day for half an hour, while Bon Jovi is blasting from the radio.

Matt Cameron's about to go Sgt. Donny Donowitz on some ass!!

mcgruff10

Jammalambo said:

mcgruff10 said:

Jammalambo said:

mcgruff10 said:

My god I ve seen you are ten times and crop duster 6 times.  Ugh.  I want that hour of my life back.

Oh, come on... I've never seen them live... You just want to make me sad and angry, I think.

I'm calling Donald to tell him there's a certain McGruff in N.J. who'd like to make out.

trust me you aren't missing anything at all.  
 plain and simple both songs are terrible.   they stunk on the record and live they are the equivalent to watching paint dry.  

They're beautiful and I love them, and they are usually the highlights when I'm listening to a bootleg that includes them.. and they're so funny to play on guitar, too. So, well, I don't trust you at all... If I feel like watching paint dry I give a spin to Sirens.

To each their own!
Disclaimer: I actually enjoy sirens live.

Spiritual_Chaos

Jammalambo said:

mcgruff10 said:

Jammalambo said:

mcgruff10 said:

My god I ve seen you are ten times and crop duster 6 times.  Ugh.  I want that hour of my life back.

Oh, come on... I've never seen them live... You just want to make me sad and angry, I think.

I'm calling Donald to tell him there's a certain McGruff in N.J. who'd like to make out.

trust me you aren't missing anything at all.  
 plain and simple both songs are terrible.   they stunk on the record and live they are the equivalent to watching paint dry.  

They're beautiful and I love them, and they are usually the highlights when I'm listening to a bootleg that includes them.. and they're so funny to play on guitar, too. So, well, I don't trust you at all... If I feel like watching paint dry I give a spin to Sirens.

No need to throw Sirens under the bus.

You are free to use any of these options instead: Olé, The Fixer, My Sacrifice, Future Days,

DC29940

You Are is one of my favorite PJ songs and Cropduster is probably my all-time least favorite. Lucky to have seen You Are twice and never to have caught Cropduster, haha. It always gets my hopes up before they take the stage and the roadies are testing Stone's pedal board; I can always tell when they test that drum machine/effects pedal for You Are and think "maybe I'll hear it again!". But alas, not since '03.

lastexitlondon

They deserve to be flogged with Matt Cameron's sticks, every day for half an hour, while Bon Jovi is blasting from the radio.

I fuckin love both
I would love to see them every  show.  In place of some of the cheesy  shit mentioned