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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    Setting Sun is now my second favorite closing song in the PJ catalog behind Release. The final 1-2 combo of Got To Give and Setting Sun is incredible. Bravo! 
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,199
    Planet of Sound said:
    Just hoping it stays as a closer into the following legs of the tour now.
    Same here. 
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 801
    Am I the only one...that this song is breaking down? I can't stop listening to it and being devastated by it. I'm trying to discount the recency bias, but it's skyrocketing up my all-time PJ list.

    Got it 4 times, both Vegas and Seattle shows. Can't say it enough, I'm good with the song being a permanent closer.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,199
    We All Believe said:
    Got it 4 times, both Vegas and Seattle shows. Can't say it enough, I'm good with the song being a permanent closer.

    Same. I was at both Seattle shows. Setting Sun closing both nights felt so damn good.


    If you could see what I see now
    You'd find a way to stay somehow
    Oh, if you could see, yeah, what I see now
    You'd make your way to stay somehow

    May your days be long 'til kingdom come
    May our days be long before kingdom come
    May our days be long until kingdom come
    We can become one last setting sun
    Am I the only one hanging on?
    We could become one last setting sun
    Or be the sun at the break of dawn
    Let us not fade
    Let us not fade


    It gives me goosebumps, every .. single .. time.


  • deb1211
    deb1211 Posts: 2,027
    We All Believe said:
    Am I the only one...that this song is breaking down? I can't stop listening to it and being devastated by it. I'm trying to discount the recency bias, but it's skyrocketing up my all-time PJ list.

    Got it 4 times, both Vegas and Seattle shows. Can't say it enough, I'm good with the song being a permanent closer.
    This song has this ability to make me feel so emotional and ready to lose it. In Vegas i got teary eyed listening to it night two and I put my arm around my teen daughter for a sec just to soak it in. I was listening to the bootleg on my back porch and wanted to cry again. It's a very powerful song.
  • MikeDigs
    MikeDigs Santa Monica, CA Posts: 1,680
    It's interesting for me, this song really stood out to me on the first listen.  I initially wasn't sure what to think of the other songs, as those needed time to settled in.  But right off the bat, I knew Setting Sun was special.  Right when I heard the beautifully hypnotic guitar + percussion.  So good.  Then that outro.  This is a powerful song.
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,012
    MikeDigs said:
    It's interesting for me, this song really stood out to me on the first listen.  I initially wasn't sure what to think of the other songs, as those needed time to settled in.  But right off the bat, I knew Setting Sun was special.  Right when I heard the beautifully hypnotic guitar + percussion.  So good.  Then that outro.  This is a powerful song.
    Exactly the same here and to the comments above. In the movie theater on first listen, Setting Sun was the only song I said to myself “that’s Pearl Jam”. Then I listened to it 1000x. I’ve probably watched the LV1 version on YouTube a million times. Eddie is so fucking into it. I was at that show and both Seattle shows…great sets but I most looked forward to Setting Sun.
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  • slyhiggs
    slyhiggs Posts: 133
    Watch, it will be in the next Lion King movie in December.  I know that would piss some people off but it's so powerful it would work.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,148
    MikeDigs said:
    It's interesting for me, this song really stood out to me on the first listen.  I initially wasn't sure what to think of the other songs, as those needed time to settled in.  But right off the bat, I knew Setting Sun was special.  Right when I heard the beautifully hypnotic guitar + percussion.  So good.  Then that outro.  This is a powerful song.
    I blew by it initially...but damn...great fucking song. 
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,938
    My only problem with this song is that I am now conditioned, after seeing it as the closer to ten shows, some of which were followed by lengthy overnight drives home to L.A., to start thinking "What's the fastest way out of here?" whenever I hear it.
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  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 801
    Bumping this because I'm on the verge of declaring this song as my all-time favorite PJ song, which makes it my all-time favorite song, period. Trying to discount the recency bias/new album euphoria.

    For the longest time, my fav has been "Amongst The Waves", and then either "Long Road" or "Parting Ways", depending on the day lol.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    We All Believe said:
    Bumping this because I'm on the verge of declaring this song as my all-time favorite PJ song, which makes it my all-time favorite song, period. Trying to discount the recency bias/new album euphoria.

    For the longest time, my fav has been "Amongst The Waves", and then either "Long Road" or "Parting Ways", depending on the day lol.
    Wow that's great.

    Although....Amongst The Waves held the previous number 1 spot for you? Also, wow!
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  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 801
    The Juggler said:
    Wow that's great.

    Although....Amongst The Waves held the previous number 1 spot for you? Also, wow!
    Yeah, ATW is pretty perfect IMO, lyrically and musically. Love, in all its forms, has saved my life, still does.

    I might keep ATW at the top only because I hate to let such a sad song take the crown lol.
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  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 801
    MSG 2 was the first time I had seen PJ at MSG since 2003.

    My dream of dreams was/is to see the band there with someone, a special someone.

    I got all woe-is-me when they played this, because I was at MSG 2 alone, so I closed my eyes during the bridge, listened, and cried.

    It sucked.

    Still does lol.

    But I woke up the next morning, and hopefully many more mornings to come.

    - end of pity post
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,354
    Amongst the Waves is pretty awesome. Backspacer I think is underrated by a lot of PJ fans.
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  • MikeDigs
    MikeDigs Santa Monica, CA Posts: 1,680
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    Amongst the Waves is pretty awesome. Backspacer I think is underrated by a lot of PJ fans.
    A great one for Ohana.  I'm hoping we get a bunch of Backspacer songs.  I like many of them.
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  • KM73780
    KM73780 Posts: 1,171
    I hope Setting Sun is the closer for Baltimore 
  • KN219077
    KN219077 Montana Posts: 1,199
    Planet of Sound said:
    Just hoping it stays as a closer into the following legs of the tour now.
    Looks like it got bumped up a few slots, I didn’t mind that it was not the closer at the show I saw. But it definitely has that good mellow vibe to send you on your way home.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,199
    Surprised Setting Sun was not played in Philly or Baltimore. 
  • LC
    LC North Andover, MA Posts: 307
    I'd like to see this song developed as an opener....the slow build would be a great way to start a show
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