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Top Five Favorite Openers
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There's often been discussion about which song makes the best live opener. Here's my top five, when I pick a random bootleg, that I look for.
1. Release (first song I ever heard live, but easy choice anyways)
2. Wash (same as number 1, only other and second concert opener)
3. Hard To Imagine
4. Long Road
5. Of The Girl
Limiting to five, so to keep it short and may result in more diverse lists.
What are yours?
1. Release (first song I ever heard live, but easy choice anyways)
2. Wash (same as number 1, only other and second concert opener)
3. Hard To Imagine
4. Long Road
5. Of The Girl
Limiting to five, so to keep it short and may result in more diverse lists.
What are yours?
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Of The Girl
Love Boat Captain
Porch (yes it happened lol)
Hard to Imagine
Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl
I love you forever and forever
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2. Release/Oceans
3. Wash
4. Hard to Imagine (love this song even more than the others but I'd rather hear it in an encore)
5. Go (my favorite fast one)
Edit: damn I forgot Oceans even though I kept bumping a thread about it for months :x
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Wash
Last Exit
Interstellar Overdrive->Corduroy
Why Go
2.) Wash
3.) Hard To Imagine (my favorite PJ song but like it better later in the set/encore than as an opener)
4.) Of The Girl
5.) Long Road
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Release
Of the Girl
Hard to Imagine
Oceans (still waiting for this one)
Just in case you weren't paying attention, you didn't have to pick from the ones I listed, Led.
2. Last Exit
3. Go
4. Sometimes
5. Of The Girl
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1) Release
2) Hard to Imagine
3) Long Road
4) Wash
5) Sometimes*
* was an EV solo show
Yeah, I could only wish that I'd been to more than two, so the rest of mine are those openers that say, "Oh yeah!"
Oceans
Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy
Why Go
Corduroy
Long Road
Sometimes
Hard to Imagine (Haven't heard as an opener, but great song)
Last Exit (Good call, Matt)
Chicago - 5/17/06, 8/21/08 (EV), 8/23/09, 7/19/13, 8/20/16
Champaign - 4/23/03
East Troy - 9/3/11, 9/4/11
Kansas City - 5/3/10
Las Vegas - 6/6/03
Memphis - 6/20/09 (EV)
Moline - 10/17/14
Oklahoma City - 11/16/13
1) Release
2) Sometimes
3) Long Road
4) Wash
5) Do the Evolution (2003 Champaign show, awesome)
Shoot, I missed Go. Good call! Go - > Animal.
Wash
Release(even after Amsterdam 2 i prefer it in the set not as opener)
Go,with Animal next
Garden (my dream opener if i made the setlist.)
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
2. Release
3. Sometimes
4. Long Road
5. Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy
I do not have the same feelings for "Wash" as everyone else...
I have seen the band 9 times so the other 5 openers I have seen are
Release
Long Road
Thumbing My Way
Do the Evolution
Last Exit
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy
Wash
Sometimes
Long Road
Garden is my dream opener too and always though Indifference would be pretty cool.
1. Sometimes (my favourite song/Belfast 10)
2. Long Road (obsessed about this song since TB2000/Dublin & Berlin 10)
3. Release (Atlanta 94 made me need to hear it/Manchester 12)
4. Wash (not yet :( )
5. Go (best song for a good fast start/Manchester 12)
Would love Hard To Imagine, Can't Keep or Of The Girl!
Betterman, Sydney 06 and NAIS Cardiff 00 are two of my top opener ever and not to forget Breakerfall, Columbus 00.
Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
I absolutely love the Cardiff show. I am a sucker for unusual openers . Always thought they should give Indifference a try.
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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
Absolutely! This was also the opener for '98 Alpine, Night 1, which was my first show. As great and classic as some of these other openers are, nothing -- NOTHING -- beats opening a concert with the big 'ole barrel of howlin' fury that is DTE.
"Let's check Idaho."
Long Road
Release
Oceans
Wash
Revised list:
1) Release
2) Hard to Imagine
3) Long Road
4) Sometimes*
5) Can't Keep*
* EV solo shows
Oceans
Hard to Imagine
Wash
Long Road
Oceans
Sometimes
Love Boat Captain (I like this one for some reason)
Hard to Imagine
Gonna See My Friend would be interesting
2. Last Exit
3. Interstellar > Corduroy
4. Sometimes
5. Long Road