Because We Can Tour, 2013 - Song Tally

See, I saw that yesterday and did not make a snarky comment LOL

Aloha !

The problem isn't that the hits are always being played, everyone gets that.

The problem is that half of the setlist nowadays consists of songs of a new album no one likes, singles that were never a hit and no one cares for, or poor album cuts only Jon seems to love. At least 10 songs per setlist can be changed for something both die hards and casuals will love, but in the end none of that matters because the reason Jon tours is to get the adoration for the big hits so he can get away with playing songs that just don't work.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I really don't think that it is just about that half of the setlist consists new songs and singles that weren't hit songs or something else... The only problem for me is that the songs that aren't their hits, are the same show after show, tour after tour.

Songs like We Got it Going on, Raise Your Hands, Cpt. Crash, Whole Lot of Leaving, I Love This Town and many more. None of them were hits, WLOF is the only single from them. Still all of them are pretty much all the time there on the set. And have been for years.

They should just change those "songs of a new album no one likes, singles that were never a hit and no one cares for" like you said, to different ones on every tour. They don't have to change the set every night. Just rehearse new songs for new tours. And everybody are happy.

And it was very shocking to me when I was doing some research about what was the last time they were bringing some new song (meaning older than from their two latest albums) to their regular setlist (meaning that they are played more than 5-10 times a tour), to realise that all I could find from post Crush era were Raise Your Hands (brought to One Wild Night tour), These Days and Always (brought to Lost Highway tour). But that's it! Meaning that the only songs they have been taking to their regular sets besides the hits after These Days tour, were from the album they were touring or the ones they've kept on the set from the day they came out (referring to the songs like We Got it Going On, We Weren't Born to Follow, Make a Memory, Cpt. Crash and Lost Highway).

That was interesting, thanks!

I've seen BJ 5 times now and heard Always 3 times, These Days 2 times and no sign of Dry County (although rumour has it that once it was supposed to come but Jon was a bit sick and cut it off).

Interesting results, and impressive detective work.

Good points in the conversation, too. There are not-so-well-known-songs regularly played that could be changed, and I wouldn´t mind hearin those Summertime or I got the girl "again"