Lack of Backspacer

TA243471
TA243471 The Great Northwest Posts: 1,251
in The Porch
Does anyone think they have been skipping Backspacer on purpose, so that they can play the full album one of the nights in Seattle next week?
  • 2006: Gorge 1
  • 2009: Seattle 1
  • 2013: Seattle
  • 2016: Wrigley 1 & 2
  • 2018: Seattle 1&2, Montana
  • 2020: San Diego, LA 1&2, Oakland 1&2
  • 2022: San Diego, LA 1&2, Fresno, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Denver
  • 2024: Vancouver 1, Portland, Las Vegas 1&2, Seattle 1&2, Missoula, Dana Point 1 & 2
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  • thomascbullock
    thomascbullock Posts: 431
    Not a chance.

    I love that they threw in Got Some the other day - it’s not gonna end up on any best of but it’s a solid fun rocker. Like a lot of Backspacer is that respect actually.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,522
    No one cares about Backspacer. 
    Including the band. 

    Even Unthought Known has died off as a live staple. Hasn’t it. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    There's just too many songs to play. Something's going to get left out. I'd actually love it if they'd bring back something completely out of left field of BS, like Force of Nature or Speed of Sound
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • lastexit78
    lastexit78 Posts: 618
    Pretty much everything post Yield has been shelved from consistent play minus the album they are touring for several decades now. Those first 5 albums have so many hits it’s impossible to equally add in songs from the other 6 albums and make room for Dark Matter. I’ve love more Binaural and Riot Act but it’s not happening. Those albums had their tours and time in the rotation.
    06/22/95, 11/04/95, 11/15/97, 07/16/98, 10/30/99, 10/30/00, 10/31/00, 10/20/01, 10/21/01, 12/08/02, 06/01/03, 06/06/03, 10/25/03, 10/26/03, 09/28/04, 03/18/05, 09/01/05, 07/15/06, 07/16/06, 07/18/06, 07/22/06, 07/23/06, 10/21/06, 10/22/06, 08/28/09, 09/21/09, 09/22/09, 05/20/10, 05/21/10, 10/24/10, 11/26/13, 12/06/13, 06/28/14, 10/26/14, 07/10/18, 08/10/18, 10/02/21, 
  • TA243471
    TA243471 The Great Northwest Posts: 1,251
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    No one cares about Backspacer. 
    Including the band. 

    Even Unthought Known has died off as a live staple. Hasn’t it. 

    I'm hoping you are right.  I've always thought that if I ever was at a show they played a whole album, I would end up with Backspacer, and it never seems to leave my head.  Hopefully, with the 25 song sets, they only one they would even try it with would be Dark Matter.
    • 2006: Gorge 1
    • 2009: Seattle 1
    • 2013: Seattle
    • 2016: Wrigley 1 & 2
    • 2018: Seattle 1&2, Montana
    • 2020: San Diego, LA 1&2, Oakland 1&2
    • 2022: San Diego, LA 1&2, Fresno, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Denver
    • 2024: Vancouver 1, Portland, Las Vegas 1&2, Seattle 1&2, Missoula, Dana Point 1 & 2
  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,676
    They're not playing a lot of Gigaton, either.
  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    darthvedder said:
    They're not playing a lot of Gigaton, either.
    Gigaton got the shaft and I’m not happy about it. 
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • SandyRavage
    SandyRavage Posts: 1,126
    Do we think Ed has a good "Amongst The Waves" left in him? 
  • ForceofNature101
    ForceofNature101 Posts: 1,295
    In LA we got Got Some and Just Breathe!  

    I do think that it is hard fitting all the albums into the mix, and Backspacer is in an interesting spot where it isn't old enough to be one of the older albums that fans want cuts from but it isn't new enough to where the emphasis would be placed on it higher than any material off of the last couple of new albums
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,294
    PJammin' said:
    darthvedder said:
    They're not playing a lot of Gigaton, either.
    Gigaton got the shaft and I’m not happy about it. 
    I couldn’t be happier. 
  • BR2428
    BR2428 Posts: 138
    Given that the one show on the Gigaton tour I was supposed to attend was postponed and that I couldn’t make the rescheduled date, I would have like to have had more Gigaton at my show this year.
  • Planet of Sound
    Planet of Sound UK Posts: 637
    I’m quite happy with the mix of songs this year, with a lot of love for the first six albums and the Dark Matter songs which they are rightly proud of, with the odd later career song thrown in.
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 827
    SandyRavage said:
    Do we think Ed has a good "Amongst The Waves" left in him? 
    I hope so. That's my all-time favorite PJ song. I have "If not for love, I would be drowning.", a wave, and the initials of my grandfather, mom, and brother tattooed on my arm. I've only heard it 3 times. Would LOVE to hear it again. 
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,163
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    No one cares about Backspacer. 
    Including the band. 

    Even Unthought Known has died off as a live staple. Hasn’t it. 
    Thank goodness. Only song on Backspacer worth playing is Force of Nature. 
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,163
    ForceofNature101 said:
    In LA we got Got Some and Just Breathe!  

    I do think that it is hard fitting all the albums into the mix, and Backspacer is in an interesting spot where it isn't old enough to be one of the older albums that fans want cuts from but it isn't new enough to where the emphasis would be placed on it higher than any material off of the last couple of new albums
    Also, it’s just not that good. Way more songs off of Lightning Bolt I’d rather hear than from BS. 
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • shep
    shep Houston Posts: 5,901
    yosi said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    No one cares about Backspacer. 
    Including the band. 

    Even Unthought Known has died off as a live staple. Hasn’t it. 
    Thank goodness. Only song on Backspacer worth playing is Force of Nature. 
    Y'all are fucking nuts. Unthought known is one of my favorite pearl jam tunes. I will listen to it back to back with upper hand. So good.

    Not to mention supersonic, getaway, or speed of sound.

    The fact is that they have too many albums and just 2:20 minutes to play. I want them to play all fucking night. Every tour post covid I have left just feeling it's too short.. I need more. Toronto in 2011 spoiled me rotten.

    Don't shoot the messenger, but lightning bolt has been played exactly once since 2018.... and that is a fucking tragedy...

    Just embrace what they give you and be happy they are still killing it live... if that's not doing it for you, I suggest you take a break for a year and try it again.... a 5 year gap due to kids and life made every tune special again... even those I don't love.

    See you in chi-town.
    Houston, Texas... Believe it or not, there are 7 million people here... must be a couple of fans who'd love to see you play.
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,808
    PJammin' said:
    darthvedder said:
    They're not playing a lot of Gigaton, either.
    Gigaton got the shaft and I’m not happy about it. 
    I’m hoping for a couple of Gigaton songs in Australia this year. We haven’t had a tour since 2014 so nothing from that record has ever been played here.

    I’ve seen all of the BS songs that I need to see, but I always enjoy Got Some.
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,163
    shep said:
    yosi said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    No one cares about Backspacer. 
    Including the band. 

    Even Unthought Known has died off as a live staple. Hasn’t it. 
    Thank goodness. Only song on Backspacer worth playing is Force of Nature. 
    Y'all are fucking nuts. Unthought known is one of my favorite pearl jam tunes. I will listen to it back to back with upper hand. So good.

    Not to mention supersonic, getaway, or speed of sound.

    The fact is that they have too many albums and just 2:20 minutes to play. I want them to play all fucking night. Every tour post covid I have left just feeling it's too short.. I need more. Toronto in 2011 spoiled me rotten.

    Don't shoot the messenger, but lightning bolt has been played exactly once since 2018.... and that is a fucking tragedy...

    Just embrace what they give you and be happy they are still killing it live... if that's not doing it for you, I suggest you take a break for a year and try it again.... a 5 year gap due to kids and life made every tune special again... even those I don't love.

    See you in chi-town.
    While I disagree with your take on Backspacer tunes, I will never not be grateful for getting to see this band live. No more gaps needed (did a 5 year gap twice) and while there are lots of songs I haven’t heard that I hope to, there are plenty of staples I would be sad not to hear. 
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,522
    I want Got Some again :/
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,932
    Got some was on point at the LA show, never thought I’d hear it again

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