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For Fenway do you prefer a slow start or a good fast one and what would your first 5 be?

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Lots of negative talk about merch and rail rats lately and some of it rightfully so. I would like bring the discussion back to music for a bit. We only have 2 shows to go this year and it has been a wild ride so far. My question would be do you prefer the band to do a slow start like they did in Fenway 2016 and ease there way into the fast stuff or do you want them to do something similar to Wrigley 2 and come out guns blazing? I for one love the slow starts. Some of my favourite songs are the slower ones and this gives me a chance to hear more of them hopefully. Also with a 7:30 pm start there will be plenty of light still out there and I feel that it would set the mood perfectly like it did in 2016. I put that last option in there because you just know that someone is going to say it. This is just for fun and not a demand! Here are my first 5 with Interstellar into Corduroy to follow 

1. Wash 
2. Hard To Imagine
3. Sometimes
4. Present Tense
5. Release (just as it starts to get dark)

For Fenway do you prefer a slow start or a good fast one and what would your first 5 be? 62 votes

Slow start
46%
CantKeepmedownfall by the waysideintodeepLowlightTheLongRoadCopperTomGibsonLukinFanJimmyVHardtoImagine 801Caught-A-Bolt-Of-LightningmpedoneKearn5yHH140540LCJR285903withflyingcolorsmwplumnicknyr15spaceball 29 votes
Fast start
29%
Ledbetterman10HailHailVitalogybootlegger10hugepjfandannydroptheleash9Screaming TreeDr.Teeth and the Electric Mayhmd281342TC282314jeff2040PSUS2HF Me In The Brainwall232jmf5631Aggwillbarclaymadhat181 18 votes
They can play whatever they want start
24%
ski-bummikesbritschavMakingWavesCarryTheZerojefftdanlee1095PB11041CH81124Abe FromanBLACK35ALauxmikeliskadrakeheuer14Jimmy124 15 votes
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    bbiggsbbiggs Posts: 6,931
    Slow start
    Release > Long Road > HTI...then do whatever they’d like. 
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    PJNBPJNB Posts: 12,745
    Slow start
    bbiggs said:
    Release > Long Road > HTI...then do whatever they’d like. 
    That is a great 1,2,3. I would have gone with Release into Long Road too but they have done that combo the last two times they played in MA. If they do it again though I will not be disappointed in the least. 
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    pashapasamanpashapasaman Posts: 497
    Slow start
    HTI
    release
    long road
    low light
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    wall232wall232 New York Posts: 1,346
    Fast start
    Animal
    Go
    Corduroy

    Fenway will be on fire!

    NYPJ
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    CantKeepmedownCantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 2,896
    Slow start
    Something just like 2016 would be perfect.  Even if it was the same mix of songs (just mix in Present Tense......and keep Nothingman!)

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    F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 30,617
    Fast start
    Last Exit
    Spin The Black Circle
    Not For You
    Tremor Christ
    Nothingman

    ;)
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    bbiggsbbiggs Posts: 6,931
    Slow start
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Last Exit
    Spin The Black Circle
    Not For You
    Tremor Christ
    Nothingman

    ;)
    I like your style! When they played Last Exit early in the set at Wrigley 2, I thought for sure we were getting it! 
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    md281342md281342 Posts: 46
    Fast start
    Last exit
    Hail hail
    Solat
    Save you
    Once

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    F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 30,617
    Fast start
    bbiggs said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Last Exit
    Spin The Black Circle
    Not For You
    Tremor Christ
    Nothingman

    ;)
    I like your style! When they played Last Exit early in the set at Wrigley 2, I thought for sure we were getting it! 
    I am cool with whatever they play but this would be the tits.
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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,726
    Fast start
    Fast start. I hate the slow starts they've been doing more often than not over the past five years. For me personally, I'm amped and ready to rock when the show starts. Nothing against slow opening songs like Release or Long Road. But after a slow opening song, break out something like Animal or Hail Hail or Corduroy or whatever. Pendulum into Low Light into Small Town or whatever is just boring to me. But of course, what's boring to me might not be to someone else and I respect that. But it has brought an element of predictability to the setlists. And nobody wants that. 
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    willbarclaywillbarclay Ottawa, Canada Posts: 3,298
    Fast start


    1. Getaway

    2. Big Wave

    3. Breakerfall

    4. Do the Evolution

    5. Save You

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    MF658872MF658872 Posts: 247
    Slow start
    Of the Girl
    Can't Keep
    Hard to Imagine
    Release
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    TOTD Philly 2 2016 
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2017 
    Boston 1 2018
    Sea Hear Now 2021
    EV New York 1 & 2 2022
    Berlin 2022
    Frankfurt 2022
    New York 2022
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    CantKeepmedownCantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 2,896
    Slow start
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    Fast start. I hate the slow starts they've been doing more often than not over the past five years. For me personally, I'm amped and ready to rock when the show starts. Nothing against slow opening songs like Release or Long Road. But after a slow opening song, break out something like Animal or Hail Hail or Corduroy or whatever. Pendulum into Low Light into Small Town or whatever is just boring to me. But of course, what's boring to me might not be to someone else and I respect that. But it has brought an element of predictability to the setlists. And nobody wants that. 
    I can get behind this too.  Especially in an arena.  But the slow songs do play well when the sun is out/close to setting.  They timed it quite perfectly in last time around as the sun was just going down when Corduroy started, if I remember correctly.  
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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,726
    Fast start
    CantKeepmedown said:
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    Fast start. I hate the slow starts they've been doing more often than not over the past five years. For me personally, I'm amped and ready to rock when the show starts. Nothing against slow opening songs like Release or Long Road. But after a slow opening song, break out something like Animal or Hail Hail or Corduroy or whatever. Pendulum into Low Light into Small Town or whatever is just boring to me. But of course, what's boring to me might not be to someone else and I respect that. But it has brought an element of predictability to the setlists. And nobody wants that. 
    I can get behind this too.  Especially in an arena.  But the slow songs do play well when the sun is out/close to setting.  They timed it quite perfectly in last time around as the sun was just going down when Corduroy started, if I remember correctly.  
    That's fair enough. I've always personally been a much bigger fan of PJ's faster/louder songs so I'm definitely biased. I've joked that I love "Pearl Jam" but I'm not the biggest fan of "Pearl Adult Contemporary." 

    It also depends on the songs. I love Sometimes and Of The Girl early in the set, but I very much dislike Pendulum and Low Light. For someone else, it could be the exact opposite. So to each their own. 
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden

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    JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,425
    I prefer fast starts.....I can deal with a slow opener, but 3 or 4 in a row to open the show lessens my enjoyment.
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    bbiggsbbiggs Posts: 6,931
    Slow start
    I will say the fast start at Wrigley 2 was kick ass. I guess just looking to switch it up for one of the two Boston shows. 
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    PB11041PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,765
    They can play whatever they want start
    Whatever they want, but what I would be personally into night 2 (as that is when I am there)...

    Drop in an immediate early set, ala Tweeter 3 in 2003, Gorge 2005, Santa Barbara 2006

    With that in mind I will create a crazy set list that is almost as likely as snow on September 4th

    Opening set from 6:30 to just around sundown....
    Thin Air, Jeremy (no Jeremy version played in 95 and 96), Hard to Imagine, Corduroy (alt version played at 1996 bridge shows), Waiting on a Friend, Nothing as it Seems, Falling Down, Lukin (acoustic slow), Red Mosquito, Fatal - break

    do whatever the hell you want after that, even if you just wave buh bye I'd be good.

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    JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 18,887
    Slow start
    Neither Hard To Imagine nor Wash has been played in Massachusetts since 2008. Oceans hasn't been played here since 2003. Hoping that changes at Fenway.
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    TheLongRoadTheLongRoad Posts: 44
    Slow start
    I’d like:

    Oceans
    Off he goes
    Tremor Christ
    Nothingman
    Undone

    But we’ll probably get

    HTI
    Lowlight
    Elderly
    given to fly
    LBC





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    droptheleash9droptheleash9 Posts: 1,337
    Fast start
    Fast start always. Come out and kick the door down!
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    hugepjfanhugepjfan Posts: 110
    Fast start
    I prefer a ticket. Please help me! I'll return the favor! A Heisler always pays his debts. I have Jamily cred! 
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    LCLC North Andover, MA Posts: 258
    Slow start
    I like the one slow song intro into fast tunes.  I’m a sucker for:
    Release
    Corduroy
    Last Exit
    Brain of J
    Hail Hail

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    hugepjfanhugepjfan Posts: 110
    Fast start
    LC said:
    I like the one slow song intro into fast tunes.  I’m a sucker for:
    Release
    Corduroy
    Last Exit
    Brain of J
    Hail Hail

    Getaway is an incredible song that needs to be a staple. And where the hell is avocado? Severed Hand  at a minimum, should be in steady rotation. 
    HugePJFan
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    mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,844
    bbiggs said:
    Release > Long Road > HTI...then do whatever they’d like. 
    god damn that's the holy trinity of pj openers right there.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
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    hugepjfanhugepjfan Posts: 110
    Fast start
    Porch
    Rvm
    Severed Hand 
    Solat
    Alive
    Get away
    Lukin
    Comatose 
    Animal
    Brain of j
    Grievance (where has this song been?) 

    That's how you start a rock show. 


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    Dr.Teeth and the Electric MayhDr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh Posts: 1,176
    Fast start
    Go
    Brain of J
    Once
    Corduroy
    Severed Hand
    looking to hear of the earth
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    fall by the waysidefall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 753
    Slow start
    I like the slow burn to start. We've got all night for the fast stuff. Something like
    1. Wash
    2. Of The Girl
    3. Sometimes
    4. Low Light
    5. In My Tree
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    bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 15,532
    Fast start
    bbiggs said:
    Release > Long Road > HTI...then do whatever they’d like. 

    All three outstanding songs but halfway through Long Road my brain would be wishing Why Go or Animal was being played.  Sometimes I get amped up before shows and the slow starts just drain that energy and when it gets crazy it isn't as good.
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    hugepjfanhugepjfan Posts: 110
    Fast start
    Insig is a fucking awesome song too. Throw that in there. As a matter of fact  I'm going to hit the vape and put binaural on right now. I'm a pj fan primarily because of the later albums. Love the earlier stuff but the later albums are what make the band legendary. 
    HugePJFan
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    jefftjefft Posts: 650
    They can play whatever they want start
    Go
    Corduroy
    Rear view
    Leash
    Black red yellow
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