Setting Sun

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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,464
    We All Believe said:

    Got a new phone today (S25 Ultra).

    Chose this for my wallpaper: a pic from Rob Sheridan's IG that he took during Setting Sun while the band was in Seattle for Dark Matter tour rehearsals last year.

    I fucking love the way my home screen looks.
    That looks amazing!!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,492
    ^ NICE!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,492
    It sure was the perfect song to close that night in Seattle. 


  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,492
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMaiHYalGfk
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980

    Bumping this to congratulate Setting Sun on recently being named my favorite Pearl Jam song of all time.

    From the home office in Eastchester, New York, the category tonight: My Top Ten Favorite Pearl Jam Songs.

    10) Black
      9) Rearviewmirror
      8) Given To Fly
      7) Hard To Imagine
      6) Who You Are
      5) Release
      4) Parting Ways
      3) Long Road
      2) Amongst The Waves
      1) Setting Sun

    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,339
    Couldn’t resist picking up my first Setting Sun:



    To quote the 10C from Newsletter #8: "Please understand we have a lot of members and it is very hard to please everybody. If you are one of those unhappy people...please call 1-900-IDN-TCAR."

    "Me knowing the truth, I can not concur."

    1996: Toronto - 1998: Chicago, Montreal, Barrie - 2000: Montreal, Toronto - 2002: Seattle X2 (Key Arena) - 2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal, Seattle (Benaroya Hall) - 2004: Reading, Toledo, Grand Rapids - 2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec City - 2006: Toronto X2, Albany, Hartford, Grand Rapids, Cleveland - 2007: Chicago (Vic Theatre) - 2008: NYC X2, Hartford, Mansfield X2 - 2009: Toronto, Chicago X2, Seattle X2, Philadelphia X4 - 2010: Columbus, Noblesville, Cleveland, Buffalo, Hartford - 2011: Montreal, Toronto X2, Ottawa, Hamilton - 2012: Missoula - 2013: London, Chicago, Buffalo, Hartford - 2014: Detroit, Moline - 2015: NYC (Global Citizen Festival) - 2016: Greenville, Toronto X2, Chicago 1 - 2017: Brooklyn (RRHOF Induction) - 2018: Chicago 1, Boston 1 - 2022: Fresno, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto, NYC, Camden - 2023: St. Paul X2, Austin X2 - 2024: Vancouver X2, Portland, Sacramento, Missoula, Noblesville, Philadelphia X2, Baltimore - 2025: Hollywood X2, Atlanta 2, Nashville X2, Pittsburgh X2
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,492
    100 Pacer said:
    Couldn’t resist picking up my first Setting Sun:




    Sweet!  B)

  • deb1211
    deb1211 Posts: 2,204
    100 Pacer said:
    Couldn’t resist picking up my first Setting Sun:



    Im so tempted but at same time I want to see his pics from shows I attended but its beautiful 
  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,339
    deb1211 said:
    100 Pacer said:
    Couldn’t resist picking up my first Setting Sun:



    Im so tempted but at same time I want to see his pics from shows I attended but its beautiful 
    I saw 16 shows on the Dark Matter tour, including the openers in Vancouver, so personally it made sense to go with the first.
    To quote the 10C from Newsletter #8: "Please understand we have a lot of members and it is very hard to please everybody. If you are one of those unhappy people...please call 1-900-IDN-TCAR."

    "Me knowing the truth, I can not concur."

    1996: Toronto - 1998: Chicago, Montreal, Barrie - 2000: Montreal, Toronto - 2002: Seattle X2 (Key Arena) - 2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal, Seattle (Benaroya Hall) - 2004: Reading, Toledo, Grand Rapids - 2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Quebec City - 2006: Toronto X2, Albany, Hartford, Grand Rapids, Cleveland - 2007: Chicago (Vic Theatre) - 2008: NYC X2, Hartford, Mansfield X2 - 2009: Toronto, Chicago X2, Seattle X2, Philadelphia X4 - 2010: Columbus, Noblesville, Cleveland, Buffalo, Hartford - 2011: Montreal, Toronto X2, Ottawa, Hamilton - 2012: Missoula - 2013: London, Chicago, Buffalo, Hartford - 2014: Detroit, Moline - 2015: NYC (Global Citizen Festival) - 2016: Greenville, Toronto X2, Chicago 1 - 2017: Brooklyn (RRHOF Induction) - 2018: Chicago 1, Boston 1 - 2022: Fresno, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto, NYC, Camden - 2023: St. Paul X2, Austin X2 - 2024: Vancouver X2, Portland, Sacramento, Missoula, Noblesville, Philadelphia X2, Baltimore - 2025: Hollywood X2, Atlanta 2, Nashville X2, Pittsburgh X2
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980
    edited September 2025
    I'm trying to get my family/friends to all chip in for the Adler Smith Setting Sun pic as a Christmas gift lol. I'll let you all know how it goes. I figure I'm a good and well-liked enough person, enough that I could probably get 19 people to contribute $100 each.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,492
    We All Believe said:
    I'm trying to get my family/friends to all chip in for the Adler Smith Setting Sun pic as a Christmas gift lol. I'll let you all know how it goes. I figure I'm a good and well-liked enough person, enough that I could probably get 19 people to contribute $100 each.

    Hope you get one. https://robsheridan.storenvy.com/collections/2017626-pearl-jam-photos/products/36966561-setting-sun-i-vancouver-24-05-06-pearl-jam-dark-matter-tour-large-gicl
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980
    edited October 2025
    The "I woke up 3 hours ago to pee, played Setting Sun, and left it on and went back to bed and just woke up again and it was still playing" bump.


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    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • eboweddie
    eboweddie Posts: 1,141
    One of the greatest songs the Band have ever written imo


    i wish i wish i wish i wish, i guess it never stops
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980
    Bumping for the end of Daylight Savings Time, thus an earlier setting sun.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980
    December end-of-year winter-is-here bump.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980
    Lol a spammer just called about a personal loan, so I opted in and started singing Setting Sun when someone picked up. They stayed on for like 30 seconds and hung up.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • Mike D88
    Mike D88 Tampa Posts: 770
    This song hits so hard. It was a perfect way to close out Hollywood night one.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,492
    "Setting Sun" - Pearl Jam: A Prayer Against Impermanence
    There are songs that entertain, songs that comfort, and then there are songs that fundamentally alter something in you. "Setting Sun" is the latter - a meditation on mortality and meaning that refuses the protective distance of irony or cleverness, choosing instead the more dangerous path of absolute sincerity.
    The song opens with restraint, almost delicate - a whispered vulnerability that draws you into an intimate space. Eddie Vedder's voice carries the weight of someone who has looked directly at loss without flinching, and the musical arrangement mirrors this careful approach to devastating subject matter. This isn't mourning performed; this is mourning felt.
    Then comes the transformation.
    The middle section is where "Setting Sun" transcends itself. The song doesn't simply build in volume - it undergoes a fundamental metamorphosis, transmuting grief and fear into something approaching grace. It's the musical embodiment of that moment when you stop running from darkness and turn to face it, discovering that in the facing itself, there's a strange kind of power. Vedder's voice cracks with genuine emotion, the instrumentation swells with controlled intensity, and suddenly you're not just listening - you're experiencing a truth about what it means to be human and mortal.
    "May your days be long till kingdom come" functions as both prayer and defiant declaration. The lyrics acknowledge what cannot be escaped - kingdom will come, time is limited, we are all in the process of fading - but they refuse resignation. There's a fierce insistence on meaning, on presence, on making the days we have count for something substantial. "Let us not fade" becomes not a denial of impermanence but a commitment to burn brightly against it.
    What makes "Setting Sun" extraordinary is its refusal of the false binary between darkness and hope. It doesn't offer hollow reassurance or wallow in despair. Instead, it occupies that difficult space where anguish and transcendence coexist - where you can acknowledge the full weight of loss while simultaneously reaching for something beyond it. The song rewards repeated listening because its layers continue to reveal themselves: the philosophical depth embedded in visceral emotion, the way musical complexity serves meaning rather than showing off, the absolute commitment to authenticity without self-consciousness.
    This is Pearl Jam at their most essential - unafraid of sincere emotion, committed to saying something that matters, willing to be vulnerable in service of genuine expression. In an era often characterized by ironic detachment, "Setting Sun" stands as proof that earnestness, when earned through honest confrontation with life's hardest questions, is the most powerful artistic choice of all.
    It's a song about fading that refuses to fade. And that contradiction - that defiance - is what makes it unforgettable.
    Let us not fade. Let us not fade...



  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY Posts: 980
    ^^^ That is a pretty spectacular assessment.

    I listen to it pretty much daily, but not yesterday. Yesterday was my ex's birthday, and since I was already down the mental and emotional rabbit hole, I purposely avoided making things worse by turning it on. Maybe that's progress. Maybe I should give the song a break. It's so fucking otherworldly though.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.

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