We wanna hear the hits!!!

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  • tylermoore
    tylermoore St. Joseph, MI Posts: 1,113
    I’m gonna take this post as sarcasm? And just laugh it off 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,843
    No thanks 
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  • on2legs
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  • KV4053
    KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,514
    I'm speechless
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  • GP179117
    GP179117 Posts: 367
    I'd like a tour where nothing pre-Binaural is played,   
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  • dcp3y
    dcp3y Louisville KY Posts: 848
    Deep cuts are the best cuts!!  Going to PJ to hear only hits is nuts!!!  Sending love anyway that you get what you want.  
  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    @Gccastillo  Don’t be greedy for the hits. I also want to hear Brother, Other Side, and Strangest Tribe. Like the other dude said, learn their other songs too. 
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  • PJINFLA
    PJINFLA Posts: 843
    PJ's live setlists have been the key to their longevity & dedicated fan base. That being said I can see how casual fans of the band can come away disappointed from a live show due to the varied setlists and limited stage show. I have always enjoyed the unique setlists because I have been fortunate enough to see them live many times and I would never have done that if it was the same show every night. With the huge catalog that they now have I think PJ should experiment with something Rush did for many years and that is performing a medley or two of several of their songs (not just a "tag").This way fans could hear more of the hits at each show just not the entire song. Best of both worlds lots of hits for the newbies and rarities for die hards.
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  • EddieBetterMan
    EddieBetterMan Posts: 162
    edited May 2022
    So, here's the thing, I see where the OP is coming from, iv always had a similar opinion on that. Pearl Jam shows are always going to have at least half full shows of first time concert goers. Iv always thought,  as long as they play Alive, Evenflow, Black, Jeremy, Betterman, Daughter, Given to fly, then mix Elderly woman/or Corduroy/or DTE/or RVM   and end w YLB,  those first timers will leave the arena thinking it was a bad ass show. That's only 9 songs,  that still  leaves 15 songs of whatever else you guys want to hear to appease the hard core PJ concert travelers, 25 songs if they still played the 33-35 set list shows! 

    I took my daughter to her first show PHX this Monday and she was super happy because they played all her favorites minus Jeremy. Again, she's a newbie, those are the songs non hard-core fans want to hear. I don't really take friends to shows, iv been to 10, because I feel like they will disappointed for that same reason. I was crossing my fingers for my daughter's. I took a good buddy of mine to a show years back and he was like, "bro, how can you attend a PJ show and them not play evenflow or black?!?" 😅 
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  • Go Animal
    Go Animal Posts: 7,361
    I want to be at a show with the OP, and have this be the setlist:
    1. Alright
    2. Breakerfall
    3. Gonna See My Friend
    4. All Night
    5. Dance Of The Clairvoyants
    6. Of The Girl
    7. Of The Earth
    8. Severed Hand
    9. Light Years
    10. Undone
    11. Just Breathe
    12. You Are
    13. Quick Escape
    14. Lightning Bolt
    15. The Fixer
    16. Wasted Reprise
    17. Life Wasted
    18. Seven O'Clock
    19. (encore break)
    20. Worldwide Suicide
    21. Superblood Wolfmoon
    22. Green Disease
    23. Love Reign O'er Me
    24. River Cross
    25. (encore break 2)
    26. Fuckin' Up
    35 years, 35 shows.

    Song Wishlist: Alone, Let Me Sleep, Brother, full W.M.A., Hold On, Bugs/all of Vitalogy, Mankind, Around The Bend (full band), The Long Road, Don't Gimme No Lip, Pilate, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays, Rival, Parting Ways, Ghost, Bu$hleaguer, WWS, Parachutes, Army Reserve, low octave Driftin', Strangest Tribe, Other Side, Undone, Fatal, Hitchhiker, Education, Black Red Yellow, Of the Earth, Love Reign O'er Me, Gonna See My Friend, Santa Cruz, Infallible, Yellow Moon, Alright, Comes Then Goes, and the Mamasan Trilogy.

    Wanted Posters: WPB '98, Tampa/WPB '00, Tampa '03, EV Batmobile '08

    ISO: any picks, or setlists from any of my shows!
  • MM70435
    MM70435 Posts: 308
    mookeywrench said:
    Alive
    Evenflow
    Jeremy
    Go
    Daughter
    Animal
    Betterman
    Spin the black circle
    Who You Are
    Hail hail
    Do the evolution
    Nothing as it seems
    I am mine
    Save You
    Just breathe

    End of Show

    I'd be more than OK with hearing Who You Are.  I know someone else that would as well.  You should scratch it off the list and add Last Kiss after Do the evolution.  Yellow Ledbetter was a hit also I think.  I remember it being played on the radio a lot where I am from.
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  • EddieBetterMan
    EddieBetterMan Posts: 162
    Go Animal said:
    I want to be at a show with the OP, and have this be the setlist:
    1. Alright
    2. Breakerfall
    3. Gonna See My Friend
    4. All Night
    5. Dance Of The Clairvoyants
    6. Of The Girl
    7. Of The Earth
    8. Severed Hand
    9. Light Years
    10. Undone
    11. Just Breathe
    12. You Are
    13. Quick Escape
    14. Lightning Bolt
    15. The Fixer
    16. Wasted Reprise
    17. Life Wasted
    18. Seven O'Clock
    19. (encore break)
    20. Worldwide Suicide
    21. Superblood Wolfmoon
    22. Green Disease
    23. Love Reign O'er Me
    24. River Cross
    25. (encore break 2)
    26. Fuckin' Up
    Sorry but his show would be boring as hell 
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    OP:

    You've had 30 years to familiarize yourself with the band's repertoire beyond the (very) few songs that got played on the radio.  You live in an era where you don't even have to buy the albums to do this (alas), so the barrier to entry is very low from a financial standpoint.  I promise you: the songs you're not familiar with are, for the most part, just as good as the songs you know by heart.  You just don't know it because you never spent the time with them that you spent with the "hits."  That's not to say that every deep cut is Pearl Jam's best work, but neither is every "hit."

    Anyway, the band's approach to shows is well-documented, so to expect it to change at this point-- and in mid-tour-- is unrealistic.  It's also unrealistic because the diversity of the band's set lists is Pearl Jam's stock-in-trade when it comes to live performance.  This is why a small but significant number of people go to see the band over and over again.  I am seeing nine shows on this tour, which will bring me to 72 shows lifetime.  If the band were playing the same songs with minimal variation every night, I can assure you I would not be doing this.
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  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,853
    PJINFLA said:
    PJ's live setlists have been the key to their longevity & dedicated fan base. That being said I can see how casual fans of the band can come away disappointed from a live show due to the varied setlists and limited stage show. I have always enjoyed the unique setlists because I have been fortunate enough to see them live many times and I would never have done that if it was the same show every night. With the huge catalog that they now have I think PJ should experiment with something Rush did for many years and that is performing a medley or two of several of their songs (not just a "tag").This way fans could hear more of the hits at each show just not the entire song. Best of both worlds lots of hits for the newbies and rarities for die hards.
    I hope not. Unless it’s Weird Al or the Olympic swimming finals, I hate medleys. 
  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,853
    Both extremes seems equally ridiculous. All hits every time wouldn’t be fun, neither would only deep cuts. You need a mix.
    I honestly can’t understand why anyone would hear RVM, Corduroy, or Elderly Woman and think to themselves “man I wish they were playing Let The Records Play or Speed of Sound right now.”
    Anyone who claims they’re bored of a song because they heard it live 20, 30, 40, 50 times I assume doesn’t own any bootlegs because that would just get really boring then.
  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    Going Deep is much better!
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  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    Go Animal said:
    I want to be at a show with the OP, and have this be the setlist:
    1. Alright
    2. Breakerfall
    3. Gonna See My Friend
    4. All Night
    5. Dance Of The Clairvoyants
    6. Of The Girl
    7. Of The Earth
    8. Severed Hand
    9. Light Years
    10. Undone
    11. Just Breathe
    12. You Are
    13. Quick Escape
    14. Lightning Bolt
    15. The Fixer
    16. Wasted Reprise
    17. Life Wasted
    18. Seven O'Clock
    19. (encore break)
    20. Worldwide Suicide
    21. Superblood Wolfmoon
    22. Green Disease
    23. Love Reign O'er Me
    24. River Cross
    25. (encore break 2)
    26. Fuckin' Up
    I like it
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  • Imcoffeegirl
    Imcoffeegirl Posts: 381
    Great first post 😬
  • pearljammr78
    pearljammr78 Posts: 1,613
    I want a setlist that I write so then every song is a hit……to me. Then it would be best show ever….to me. 
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  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    A set list composed nothing of “hits” is going to attract a different kind of concert goer and alienate the crowd you want. 

    Pearl Jam crowds are among the best.  I wouldn’t want to mess with that.  Good crowds  to me are what makes going to shows tolerable.  There are plenty of bands I like but won’t go to their shows because of the crowds they attract. 

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