PJ Album Closers Ranked: Giving Love to the Last Songs

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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,797
    The top 5 are in a league of their own:

    1. Immortality
    2. Indifference
    3. Parting Ways
    4. All or None
    5. Release

    6. Inside Job
    7. Setting Sun
    8. All Those Yesterdays
    9. Around the Bend
    10. River Cross
    11. The End 

    12. Future Days
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,367
    Wow some really great songs to choose from. I really like The End (especially live) and it's #11.
    1. Immortality
    2. Release
    3. Inside Job
    4. Indifference
    5. Setting Sun
    6. All Those Yesterdays
    7. Parting Ways
    8. River Cross
    9. All or None
    10. Around the Bend
    11. The End
    12. Future Days
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • BSully
    BSully Indiana Posts: 1,501
    Yeah, some great songs here.
    I also don't count stupidmop... it's not even really a song. But it's funny how many people have the opposite opinion on whether to count it or not.

    1. Immortality
    2. Indifference
    3. Release
    4. Setting Sun
    5. Inside Job
    6. Around the Bend
    7. All Those Yesterdays
    8. Parting Ways
    9. All or None
    10. The End
    11. Future Days
    12. River Cross
    1998: Noblesville, IN 08-17
    2000: Noblesville, IN 08-18
    2003: Noblesville, IN 06-22
    2006: Cincinnati, OH 06-24
    2010: Noblesville, IN 05-07
    2016: Lexington, KY 04-26, Wrigley Field 2 08-22
    2018: Wrigley Field 1 08-18, Wrigley Field 2 08-20
    2022: St. Louis, MO 09-18
    2024: Noblesville, IN 08-26, Wrigley Field 1 08-29, Wrigley Field 2 08-31
    2025: Pitt 1 05-16, Pitt 2 05-18
  • tino_11
    tino_11 Posts: 2,185
    1. Release
    2. Immortality
    3. All or None
    4. Parting Ways
    5. Setting Sun
    6. Indifference
    7. All Those Yesterdays
    8. Inside Job
    9. Around the Bend
    10. The End
    11. River Cross
    12. Future Days

    Agree, great songs in this list. I like nearly all of them. 
    'F*** the pessimists. F*** 'em.' Eddie Vedder
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,367
    Wow people really don't like River Cross.
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,155
    Ugh, this is too hard. 

    1. Release

    These four could go in any order:
    2-5: Indifference, All or None, All Those Yesterdays, Setting Sun

    6. Parting Ways
    7. Inside Job

    These four can go in any order at the bottom:
    8-11:River Cross, The End, Future Days, Stupid Mop
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    Release
    Indifference
    Inside Job
    Setting Sun
    Around The Bend
    All Or None
    The End
    All Those Yesterdays
    Future Days
    Parting Ways
    River Cross
    Stupid Mop

    Man some absolute bangers no matter the order. They do like ending with a relative lullaby though. 
    Stars are suns to other people.

    Wellington 1998
    London 2007
    Brisbane 2009
    Stockholm 2012
    Amsterdam 1 & 2 2014
    EV Dublin 2017
    Milan 2018
    Padova 2018
    Boston 2 2018
    Auckland 1 & 2 2024
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,004
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Wow people really don't like River Cross.
    Meanwhile I'm over here pissed that it was crossed off the setlist at my last two shows
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Wow some really great songs to choose from. I really like The End (especially live) and it's #11.
    1. Immortality
    2. Release
    3. Inside Job
    4. Indifference
    5. Setting Sun
    6. All Those Yesterdays
    7. Parting Ways
    8. River Cross
    9. All or None
    10. Around the Bend
    11. The End
    12. Future Days
    Pretty much this.
     Inside Job and Indifference can trade places, and River Cross down to 11th. 
    I will swallow poison
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,379
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Wow people really don't like River Cross.
    I love it. Great song. 
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,595
    edited May 2024

    Indifference
    Immortality (if we aren't counting Stupid Mop)
    Around The Bend
    Release
    River Cross
    All or None
    Parting Ways
    Inside Job
    All Those Yesterdays
    Setting Sun
    Future Days
    The End
    (Stupid Mop)

    this is where I land.

    Post edited by Tim Simmons on
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,595
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Wow people really don't like River Cross.
    Its a banger of a closer.

  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,595
    Also, because of how common it has been to open shows, Release feels like a better opener to me. 
  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,155
    I’m shocked by how low All Those Yesterdays is coming in. 
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • MikeDigs
    MikeDigs Santa Monica, CA Posts: 1,680
    yosi said:
    I’m shocked by how low All Those Yesterdays is coming in. 
    Some of the list results had me wondering too, but then I realized that everyone usually likes all of these songs, it's just that they love the other ones just a bit more.  These songs are all so great, I can't imagine ranking them over each other.  Maybe putting them in tiers makes more sense.
    I'm spinning, oh-oh-oh I'm spinning
  • JT167846
    JT167846 Posts: 996
    Totally. I love The End. It's an absolute tearjerker so I don't listen to it often but it's such a good closer. The hilarious thing is Yellow Ledbetter is not in the list given it is the traditional closer for PJ gigs. Wonder where it would sit were it on this list.
    Stars are suns to other people.

    Wellington 1998
    London 2007
    Brisbane 2009
    Stockholm 2012
    Amsterdam 1 & 2 2014
    EV Dublin 2017
    Milan 2018
    Padova 2018
    Boston 2 2018
    Auckland 1 & 2 2024
  • Glorified KC
    Glorified KC KCMO Native Posts: 2,814
    1. Indifference
    2. All Those Yesterdays
    3. Immorality
    4. All or None
    5. Release
    6. Setting Sun
    7. Inside Job
    8. Parting Ways
    9. River Cross
    10. Future Days
    11. The End
    I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on.
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    1. Indifference - best running order of all their albums

    2.  Immortality - my favourite PJ song but the whole “is it the closer?” debate puts it at #2

    3. Release - adore it (especially live) but that makes me consider it the best OPENER 

    4. Parting Ways - should close more shows (maybe will take the second last spot during a show on this tour???)

    5. All Those Yesterdays
    6. Setting Sun - where it sits right now
    7. All or None
    8. Inside Job
    9. Around The Bend

    10. The End
    11. River Cross
    12. Future Days
  • Robbert
    Robbert Rotterdam, the Netherlands Posts: 1,053
    1. Release
    2. Inside Job
    3. Immortality
    4. Indifference
    5. All or none
    6. All those yesterdays
    7. Parting Ways
    8. Around the bend
    9. Setting sun
    10. The end
    11. River cross
    12. Future days

  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,118
    Tier 1:
    Release
    Immortality 
    Parting Ways

    Tier 2:
    Setting Sun
    Indifference
    Around The Bend
    All Those Yesterdays


    Mid:

    Inside Job
    All or None



    Yuck:

    The End
    River Cross
    Future Days
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......

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