Set Openers - 1999-2013 Stats

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  • Posts: 145
    Release, Small Town, Long Road×2, Public Image and Evolution

    although I do prefer Release, sets starting with Long Road tend to be very special
  • Posts: 2,272
    Inside Job Dublin 2006
    Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy Reading 2006
    Long Road Wembley 2007
    Sometimes Shepherds Bush 2009
    Long Road Manchester 2009
    Release London 2009
    Long Road Dublin 2010
    Sometimes Belfast 2010
    Long Road Berlin 2010
    Unthought Known Arras 2010

    Really want to see Oceans or Wash open sometime soon!
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  • Posts: 1,677
    1. "Release" 7/11/1995 Soldier Field
    2. "Interstellar Overdrive" / "Corduroy" 6/27/1998 Alpine Valley
    3. "Release" 5/16/2003 United Center
    4. "Severed Hand" 5/17/2003 United Center
    5. "Wasted Reprise" / "Life Wasted" 6/29/2003 Summerfest
    6. "Hard To Imagine" 8/24/2009 United Center
    7. "Wash" 5/9/2010 Q Arena
  • Posts: 4,609
    I love threads like this! Good job regarding 2009/2010 statistics.
    In my case, I can honestly tell you, of the 52 shows I've seen, about 1/3 of that was Long Road. Then I have a nice spread. From the top of my head, I have had: Corduroy, Can't Keep, Wash, Sometimes, Release, Hard To Imagine, Hail Hail, DTE, Of The Girl, I Believe In Miracles, Oceans among others :D
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  • Posts: 1,726
    This is not a black and white topic. There are songs I have heard to open that are not traditional openers, such as "even flow". For those songs, I listed how many times I have heard them open with that song. There are traditinal openers that I have heard later in the set, such as "Wash", and I know people have recently heard "oceans" and "release" midset. Lastly there is the 7/11/03 Boston experiment show, where they played a few traditional openers throughout the set, and they technically had 2 openers since they played 2 sets. Anyway here is my list:

    Release - 7
    Wash - 6
    Severed Hand - 5
    Of the Girl - 4
    Can’t Keep - 4
    Long Road - 4
    LBC - 3
    Go - 2
    Hard to Imagine - 2
    Corduroy - 2
    Even flow - 1
    Sometimes - 1
    Wasted Reprise - 1
    Animal - 1
    Gonna See My Friend - 1
    Why Go - 1
    Oceans - 1
    Unthought Known - 1
  • Posts: 256
    98 - Corduroy
    00 - Sometimes (1)
    03 - Release (1)
    05 - Release(2)
    05 - Oceans
    05 - Long Road (1)
    06 - Small Town
    06 - Severed Hand
    06 - Release (3)
    09 - Long Road (2)
    09 - Sometimes (2)
    09 - Long Road (2)
    10 - Unthought Known

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  • Posts: 910
    Release 6
    Long Road 4
    LBC 2
    Wash 2
    Go
    Oceans
    Wasted Reprise
    Why Go
    Hard to Imagine
    Cant Keep
    Sometimes
    Unthought Known
    DTE


    Who doesn't love release? Wash might be my favorite opener...got it at Ottawa in 05 and this past year in Cleveland. I am a fan of Can't Keep as well...still waiting for Of the Girl!
  • Posts: 4,609
    Rossum20 wrote:
    Release 6
    Long Road 4
    LBC 2
    Wash 2
    Go
    Oceans
    Wasted Reprise
    Why Go
    Hard to Imagine
    Cant Keep
    Sometimes
    Unthought Known
    DTE


    Who doesn't love release? Wash might be my favorite opener...got it at Ottawa in 05 and this past year in Cleveland. I am a fan of Can't Keep as well...still waiting for Of the Girl!

    Did you come to CLE all the way from Istanbul just for the show?
    I have no patience for bad music and stupid people...

    The whole world will be different soon the whole world will be RELIEVED

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  • Posts: 74
    Toledo 2004- Long Road
    Pittsburgh 2005- Go
    Cleveland 2006- Betterman
    Pittsburgh 2006- Release
    Lolla 2007- Why Go
    Bonnaroo 2008- Hard To Imagine
    Columbus 2010- Oceans
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  • Posts: 139,725
    RELEASE - 3
    LONG ROAD - 3
    GIVEN TO FLY - 2
    DO THE EVOLUTION - 2
    GO - 1
    SOMETIMES - 1
    HARD TO IMAGINE - 1
    UNTHOUGHT KNOWN - 1
    PUBLIC IMAGE - 1
    WHY GO - 1
    SMALL TOWN - 1
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  • Posts: 910
    SOLAT319 wrote:
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    Did you come to CLE all the way from Istanbul just for the show?


    In 09' I scheduled my annual trip back home right after I saw them at the 02 in london so I could catch them in Seattle for two nights and this year I first booked Nijmegen and Berlin, but when they scheduled their US dates, my stomach hurt at the thought of missing my "hometown" show in Buffalo basically 7 years after my true addiction began when I saw my first show there (5/2/03). I wasn't planning on going to Cleveland, but one of my best friends from home and I were sitting around on Saturday (the day before the show) and we said "hey, why not make the most of this and go to Cleveland as well ;)

    So ive been quite lucky...these trips have pretty much cleaned me out but its been worth every cent...getting to see them in multiple cities/countries/continents has been something I will never ever forget...and certainly not regret!
  • Posts: 2,414
    wolfamongwolves wrote:
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    My thoughts exactly! Bring it on...

    Mine so far have been:

    Why Go (Slane 1993)
    Sometimes (Cork 1996)
    Release (Dublin 1996)
    Sometimes (Dublin 2000)
    Worldwide Suicide (London Astoria 2006)
    Inside Job (Dublin 2006)
    Long Road (London 2007)
    Long Road (Copenhagen 2007)
    Release (Nijmegen 2007)
    Long Road (Manchester 2009)
    Release (London 2009)

    Never thought I'd say this given how long I was aching to hear it, but I could do without Long Road this year - 3 out of the last 5...

    In fact, 4 shows upcoming, I'd rather not hear any of the openers I've already heard.
    So after those 4 shows, no such luck. Long Road twice. So now 5 of my last 9 shows have opened with it. Good thing I think it's an amazing song...

    Long Road (Dublin 2010)
    Sometimes (Belfast 2010)
    Given to Fly (London 2010) - at least I did get one new one
    Long Road (Berlin 2010)
    93: Slane
    96: Cork, Dublin
    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    09: Manchester, London
    10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
    11: San José
    12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
  • Posts: 586
    I've seen :

    Severed Hand
    Corduroy
    Why Go
    Of The Girl
    Sometimes

    Hoping to hear Release or Long Road or Wash.
    Camden 2 (2008) 
    Philly 1 and 4 (2009)
    Newark (2010)
    MSG 1 (2010)
    Toronto 1 and 2 (2011)
    Brooklyn 1 and 2 (2013)
    Philly 2 (2013)
    Greenville (2016)
    Columbia (2016)
    MSG 2 (2016)
    Fenway 2 (2016)
    EV NJPAC (2022)
    MSG (2022)
    Denver (2022)
  • Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Im hoping for Oceans, Of the Girl, or Brain of J (Do they do this one as an opener??)
    2003: 7/14 NJ ... 2006: 6/1 NJ, 6/3 NJ ... 2007: 8/5 IL ... 2008: 6/24 NY, 6/25 NY, 8/7 EV NJ ... 2009: 10/27 PA, 10/28 PA, 10/30 PA, 10/31 PA
    2010: 5/20 NY, 5/21 NY ... 2011: 6/21 EV NY, 9/3 WI, 9/4 WI ... 2012: 9/2 PA, 9/22 GA ... 2013: 10/18 NY, 10/19 NY, 10/21 PA, 10/22 PA, 10/27 MD
    2015: 9/23 NY, 9/26 NY ... 2016: 4/28 PA, 4/29 PA, 5/1 NY, 5/2 NY, 6/11 TN, 8/7 MA, 11/4 TOTD PA, 11/5 TOTD PA ... 2018: 8/10 WA
    2022: 9/14 NJ ... 2024: 5/28 WA, 9/7 PA, 9/9 PA ---- http://imgur.com/a/nk0s7
  • Virginia Beach Posts: 372
    FrankieG wrote:
    Brain of J (Do they do this one as an opener??)

    They opened at least one show with it. New Mexico 1998

    I'm waiting for more of you to have some crazy ass openers like:
    Cropduster (Lexington 2003)
    MFC (a few times)
    Rearviewmirror (somewhere in CA 2000)
    I Am Mine (Albany 2003)
    Nothing As It Seems (London? 2000)
    00: Va Beach, 03: Bristow, 04: Reading, 05: Atlantic City 2x
    06: Camden, Washington DC, 08: Va Beach, Washington DC
    09: Philly 2+3, 10: Bristow, 11: East Troy PJ20 1+2, 13: Baltimore, Charlottesville
  • Posts: 1
    I've read many posts over the years, but this is the first time I've felt moved to post. :)

    I agree that the opener (and my anticipation of what it will be) is a special experience. It has always been a favorite thing for me at the hundreds of concerts I've been to (10 of them PJ).

    I loved both 2010 openers I saw -- Small Town (a first for me) and So You Wanna Be Rock and Roll Star (probably a one and only). And I saw them in DC a few years back open with Release, which still drifts through my mind often. But in 2003 in Dallas I saw them open with Alive -- which was crazy, unexpected and exhilarating. That opener and a great performance of RVM that night (at only my second PJ show) sold me on seeing them as much as I could the rest of my life.
  • Virginia Beach Posts: 372
    Updated for 2011 shows.
    00: Va Beach, 03: Bristow, 04: Reading, 05: Atlantic City 2x
    06: Camden, Washington DC, 08: Va Beach, Washington DC
    09: Philly 2+3, 10: Bristow, 11: East Troy PJ20 1+2, 13: Baltimore, Charlottesville
  • Posts: 809
    Off the Girl
    MFC
    Sometimes - 2x
    Why Go
    Long Road - 2x
    14/6/00 Prague 22/9/06 Prague 12/6/07 Munich 15/8/09 Berlin 22/06/10 Dublin 23/06/10 Belfast 30/06/10 Berlin 26/06/12 Amsterdam 02/07/12 Prague 04/07/12 Berlin 05/07/12 Berlin 07/07/12 Stockholm 09/07/12 Oslo 10/07/12 Copenhagen 25/6/14 Vienna 26/6/14 Berlin 1/7/18 Prague 3/7/18 Krakow 5/7/18 Berlin
  • Toronto Posts: 25
    Release (3)
    Long Road
    Sometimes
    Of the Girl
    Given to Fly
    Unthought Known
    Love Boat Captain
    Corduroy
    Porch
    Severed Hand
    Go
    Can't Keep
  • Indianapolis Posts: 452
    '03 Noblesville - Long Road
    '06 Camden I - Wasted Reprise
    '06 Camden II - Wash
    '06 Washington, D.C. - Release
    '06 E Rutherford I - Severed Hand
    '06 E Rutherford II - Severed Hand
    '07 Lollapalooza (Chicago) - Why Go
    '08 NYC I - Hard to Imagine
    '08 NYC II - Release
    '09 Chicago I - Long Road
    '09 Chicago II - Hard to Imagine
    '09 Philly III - Gonna See My Friend
    '09 Philly IV - Why Go
    '10 Noblesville - Release
    '11 East Troy I - Release
    '11 East Troy II - Wash

    Release - 4
    Why Go - 2
    Long Road - 2
    Wash - 2
    Severed Hand - 2
    Hard to Imagine - 2
    Gonna See My Friend
    Wasted Reprise

    8 openers in 16 shows. Not the greatest luck, but I'll say the only time I was ever disappointed with an opener was when they repeated Severed Hand (and the 2nd and 3rd songs) on the second night in E Rutherford in '06. And I could never not enjoy Release as an opener. Never.
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