Give Me the Setlist
Any music geek will tell you that a post-gig ritual is to review the songs he just heard. Once you’ve committed the list to memory, it is also customary to seek out other setlists from other shows to compare which city had the best set. This is fun with bands that have a large catalogue or vaults of unreleased material that is not played often.
You’d think with the advent of the Internet and fan forums that this process would be easy. If anything were easy, do you think I’d be writing about it? Good answer. It seems an even more tiring task to find recapped songs then to try and memorize the order they were played before you fall asleep. Instead on these ‘fansites’ you find dozens of tweens writing in text (lol, g2g), and none of them tell you what was played. They all want to comment on outfits of the band or some ‘wannabe’ fan they stood in line with. Listen to me: no one cares if the lead singer had a perm, just tell me what they played!
Before most gigs I like to do a recon and figure out what will be in store for the night. I don’t to read a biased review and two song highlights. I’ve learned that if a post topic has over 12 pages, you need to skip to the end and one good soul will post a setlist.
You’d imagine since texting and Twitter are soooo important these kids easily could take notes on a handful of songs. You’d also imagine that a bunch of self-proclaimed ‘super fans’ would know correct song titles. There are a few fan sites that crush those myths, but many are full of garbage. You’re better off grabbing the setlist yourself from the stage.
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