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  • Demps
    Demps Posts: 102
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    Release
    Long Road
    Corduroy
    Oceans
    Love Boat Captain
    Wasted Reprise (x2)
    Wash
    Of The Girl
    Why Go

    11 Shows, 10 different openers. Of those my top three would be Release, Oceans and LBC. I tend to prefer slower openers as a way to ease into a show, but hearing something like RVM open a show at this point would be really cool and out of left field. Breakerfall always seemed like a great opener to me as well.
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,934
    LoveBoatAdmiral wrote:
    ...Something to just take your face off from the opening note.
    So your avatar is actually a photo of you in the front row during Breakerfall then?... :lol:
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  • titchinello
    titchinello Posts: 3,139
    I prefer slow openers too, my personal fav is release also, so when they opened with that at the O2, i was happy.

    only seen them 6 times the openers have been.
    wash
    release
    oceans
    sometimes
    small town
    release.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    Release+MSG = heaven

    Oceans as an opener would be killer next year at msg
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  • Better Dan
    Better Dan Posts: 5,684
    Shows I've been to have opened with:

    Of the girl x2
    Can't keep
    Alive
    Long Road x3
    Release
    Severed Hand
    Small Town
    Betterman
    Oceans
    Sometimes x 2
    Why Go
    Last Exit


    Long Road is definitely my favorite opener so I've been lucky. Release would probably be my next pick. For fast openers, nothing has been better than Why go and Alive for me.
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  • wolfamongwolves
    wolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    Has to be a slow opener. Eases you in, makes you feel like your being introduced to the show, and makes the kick-off of the next song all the more dramatic.

    whereas with fast openers - they're going to get to those songs anyway, so it just feels like you're coming in in the middle of things, or like they've skipped something.
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  • Ernie Vedder
    Ernie Vedder Redlands, CA Posts: 2,279
    Good Openers:

    The Long Road
    Sometimes
    Release
    Oceans
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  • PJFAN_seattle
    PJFAN_seattle Posts: 2,965
    I thought Sometimes was a really cool opener in seattle, i just love no code.
    A fast opener like Corduroy would be cool too, tho it works great as a second song to get the crowd rockin.
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  • Ivn1322
    Ivn1322 Posts: 68
    I prefer slow ones but any opener is fine with me.

    The ones I've been to opened up with:

    Sometimes
    Long Road
    Oceans
    Can't Keep
    Of The Girl
    Inside Job
    Why Go
  • CServant
    CServant DCO Posts: 1,182
    I'm also a fan of the slower tunes as they build the excitement! Some personal favs of mine:

    Of The Girl (all time fav)
    Long Road
    Sometimes
    Love Boat Captain

    Then on to somethin' Rockin'!!!
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  • Ivn1322
    Ivn1322 Posts: 68
    I'd die a happy man if they opened up with Release the next time I see them :D . That has to be hands down their greatest opener.
  • jerrylovesjam
    jerrylovesjam Posts: 132
    Jeez, about 98% of the posts are for slower openers. Guess you like some foreplay before going for the gold. :lol:
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  • spin_the_black_circle
    spin_the_black_circle Posts: 42
    Im a fan of the slow openers:
    Long Road
    Release
    Of The Girl

    But i have seen some great fast openers:
    Why Go
    Go
    Corduroy
    Betterman

    I would however like to hear something to just blast me away from the start like:
    Spin The Black Circle
    Brain of J
    Lukin
    Do The Evolution
    Porch
  • beast of burden
    beast of burden Posts: 35
    release(45 shows still hve not heard it live)
  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    beast of burden wrote:
    release(45 shows still hve not heard it live)

    Yikes, come with me... I'm a bit of a Release magnet ;) Are you a Wash magnet? I'm going to be following every Wash and Oceans magnet until I hear them :D

    I love both the fast and slow, cause I love all the "typical" openers they use. Friggin love Why Go as an opener and Release is just sublime! The slow ones are amongst my favourite PJ songs of all times... NEED WASH AND OCEANS!!!

    I have seen:
    Release x3
    Why Go x3
    Severed Hand
    Of The Girl
    Hard To Imagine
    Long Road
    Can't Keep
    Last Exit
    Even Flow
    Corduroy
    Animal
    Gonna See My Friend
    Go
    Sometimes
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  • cdlongroad
    cdlongroad Posts: 30
    I can't think of a single song that opens a rock show better than Release. Not one. And I am including every great rock band I can think of. No one has written a song like it before, and no one will.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    GO
    WHY GO

    but the think for me is the second one.....
    and i want

    ANIMAL


    and why?couse after the first one the start of animal put the pussies back and the rockers in front!!!!!!!!!
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  • jerrylovesjam
    jerrylovesjam Posts: 132
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    GO
    WHY GO

    but the think for me is the second one.....
    and i want

    ANIMAL


    and why?couse after the first one the start of animal put the pussies back and the rockers in front!!!!!!!!!

    Hope you get ANIMAL one day! We did on night 2 in Philly and I almost ripped the seat in front of me a part. It sends you into madness!! :twisted:
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    jerrylovesjam wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    GO
    WHY GO

    but the think for me is the second one.....
    and i want

    ANIMAL


    and why?couse after the first one the start of animal put the pussies back and the rockers in front!!!!!!!!!

    Hope you get ANIMAL one day! We did on night 2 in Philly and I almost ripped the seat in front of me a part. It sends you into madness!! :twisted:
    already got it 3 times..Athens 06 - Rotterdam 09 - O2 London 09 ;)
    and all the times...2nd in the row :D
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  • jerrylovesjam
    jerrylovesjam Posts: 132
    AWESOME DIMI....! Unfortanately I was at the back of the floor, but it didn't matter.. :D
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