Wall of Mouths

soul doubt wrote:

I’m affraid they’ll never change it much… but if they do, they may not forget Skinning Pit!!!

that would be a wicked opener or closer

Meat abstract should be played more, its quite singalongable.

Long distance and lonely cryin’ are the ones a missed..!

play a bit longer and it will fit perfectly by you perfect setlist… :D

cheers

I guess you haven’t seen the boys lately because they have played those songs quite often the last 2 - 3 years.

Title: Set List for UK Tour May 06 (merged)

What does everyone here think should be the set list for for the tour next month -

Only criteria is must be 15 songs long.

Mine would be

Sprung
Deluded Son
Stand In Line
Die Laughing
Lose It All
Rise Up
Dopermine, Seretonin, Adrenaline
Our White Noise
Polar Bear
A Moment of Clarity
Teethgrinder
Unconsoled
Walk Through Darkness
Nowhere
Screamager

This one would make me pretty happy :D

Sprung
Rain Hits Concrete
Deluded Son
Stories
Church of Noise
Panic
Dopamine, Seratonin, Adrenaline
If It Kills Me
Long Distance
Crazy Cocaine Eyes
Sister
I am the money
Voodoo Doll
Teethgrinder
Walk Through Darkness
Last one to heaven’s a loser

Meat Abstract
Straight life
Never Ending
Lonely Cryin’ only

oh dear, people, people! Surely we need to be losing screamager, and nowhere, and die laughing? i’m so BORED of those songs! :D

They really need to be leaving troublegum alone now i think, maybe 1 or 2 tracks, but certainly none of the above.

I think a great set for me would lean heavily on the last couple of albums, and 1 or 2 off each of the previous ones.

Pip wrote:

You may be bored of them but the people going to there first T? gig would appreciate it :p

there IS that, but unfortunately i’m a very selfish sort! :D

That is a really good set list, though!

Fuzzeh wrote:

That is a really good set list, though!

Thanks

Just did what I do every time a thread like this comes up: went thru the album tracks and selected a couple from each that I’d love to hear live. Problem is, with 11 albums, there’s just too many tracks! And that doesn’t include those special ones that never were on an album…

That’s why, once again, I hope that T? take a leaf out of Pearl Jam’s book, and realise they have such a vast catalogue, with so many strong songs, and especially when they play two or three dates within a hundred miles of each other, realise that people might well go to more than one gig in a tour…, and pick, say 12 songs out of the staples that everyone really really wants to hear (no doubt with a bias to the current album), put in another 6 tracks out of the most popular 15 and then 6 complete surprises. So, for example:

From the current album:

Outro/Sprung
Deluded Son
Our White Noise
Rain Hits Concrete
Fear Of God
Walk Through Darkness

Some “staples”:

If It Kills Me
Die Laughing
Teethgrinder
Potato Junkie
Knives
Stories

6 other popular ones:

Polar Bear
Rock You Monkeys
Rust
Rise Up
He’s Not That Girl
Punishment Kiss

6 “surprises”:

Accelerator
Misery
Straight Life
Big Cave In
Bad Karma or Fat Camp
Skyward

Of course, all of these are examples — and the “surprises” could be from a pool of any number of rehearsed songs…

But you get the idea — something more akin to PJ rather than the same set list (with many just the one alternating track) for the whole tour.

That said, I’m not a professional musician and I wouldn’t presume anything, but I can’t help thinking that if PJ can do it with a huge back catalogue, can’t T? — as I’ve said before, wouldn’t a professional band get bored of playing the same set of songs every night?

I agree about the two guitar thing. I think a lot of their stuff from previous albums would lose it’s ‘oomph’ with only one geetar.

I’d just love to see more songs that they don’t usually play. Anything other than the norm.

Jelle wrote:

And as much as I’d like to hear Straight life, it would lose a lot of its power with only one guitar.

I would tend to agree (*). I have heard Straight Life (as a four-piece) and it rocked. Maybe it would work with three, maybe not.

To play devil’s advocate — how did having the extra guitar affect the older songs (think the first three albums especially)? Does a 4-piece playing a 3-piece’s songs have the same effect as vice versa?

(*) Is it not a worry to think that a lot of those 4-piece songs that really need a 4-piece might never be heard live again? I won’t name track names, that’s easy enough to work out…

Colin? wrote:

But, they gotta play potatoe junkie!

DEATH AND BURIAL to Potato Junkie…

Alan wrote:

…time to concentrate on the new stuff! :)

Hey, Alan — I would kinda agree with you — but for the fact this hasn’t happened in the past. As the black sheep who actually likes Shameless, seeing a couple or few gigs on that (those?) tour(s) and having a fantastic time, I was incredibly disappointed to see how Shameless was all but ignored in the next tour.

This was magnified by finally managing to take a good friend to a T? gig for the first time — a friend who actually thought Shameless was “bearable” listening (!! — compared to the rest of T? just being “noise”!!) and being disappointed that apart from I Am The Money, nothing else being brought out to air.

It’s not the first time an album has been released, and the album before, or the one immediate before that, almost being ignored.

Thinking about the Shameless position, I am going along the lines of chicken and egg. Andy doesn’t seem to like standing by Shameless. A lot of fans (see the album poll) don’t appear to like Shameless. Is one leading the other? Is it coincidence? Or are band and fans on some sort of cosmic mind-sync that I really don’t understand?!

I find it hard to believe that Michael can jump around so enthusiastically, with a big grin on his face, to Stalk & Slash, only for it to ever be played an extended handful of times…

Alan wrote:

The setlist I picked out is as likely to be played as I am to be Therapy’s next drummer.

You’re not ?
Thought you had that one arranged with the Evil Priest already over a scoop or two on a Tilburg terrace. ;)