calvino Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 I'll guess "California Stars" -- (Brian F.) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian F. Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 35 minutes ago, calvino said: I'll guess "California Stars" -- (Brian F.) Excellent guess, but I'm happy to say that "California Stars" is second-- happy because it would depress me if that song, which I dread hearing, were first. I do think "California Stars" is destined to become number one, though. If you count Jeff solo performances, it has to be the runaway leader. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
coornelius Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 A Shot in the Arm? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian F. Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 We have a winner! The run of shows in the fall of 2021 coming out of the pandemic where they opened with this every night gave it a booster, so to speak, that allowed it to remain ahead of "California Stars" for the time being. The top ten are: A Shot in the Arm California Stars Impossible Germany Jesus, etc. I'm the Man Who Loves You Hummingbird Outtasite (Outta Mind) I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Misunderstood I Got You (At the End of the Century) And just for fun, here are the 56 songs that I've only seen them play once. At least four of these songs have not been played since 1995, and fifteen (I think) were played at Solid Sound this year, including the two songs from the EP: Ambulance Annihilation Another Man's Done Gone A Beard of Stars Be Not So Fearful Blood of the Lamb Blue Eyed Soul Camera Climbing Common Sense Country Disappeared Country Song Upside-Down Dark Neon Darkness Is Cheap Don't You Honey Me The Empty Condor Give Back the Key to My Heart Happiness Hesitation Rocks If That's Alright I'll Fight Just a Kid Just Say Goodbye Let's Not Get Carried Away Magnetized Many Worlds Message from Mid-Bar More Like the Moon More… No Sense in Lovin' Once a Day Open Mind Panthers The Plains Please Be Wrong Quiet Amplifier Rising Red Lung Sad Kind of Way Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down Say You Love Me Screen Door She's a Rock Should've Been in Love Someday Soon Sunloathe Taste the Ceiling Tell Your Friends Tonight's the Day U.S. Blues Venus Stopped the Train Wait Up When the Roses Bloom Again Where Do I Begin Wild Mountain Thyme You and I You Satellite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 I have spread sheets of Dylan, Stones, and Grateful Dead songs seen - but I don't think I have done one for Wilco. Always a fun activity to do. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 it would be nice if you could export your setlist.fm history as a CSV file (but maybe you can?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
summerdai Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Am missing 2 setlists of my 29 shows, and my winner is ..... Jesus etc, with I'm the Man Who Loves You in 2nd and Impssible Germany in 3rd. Total of 167 unique songs, 65 of them only played once. Ambulance An Empty Corner Annihilation At My Window Sad and Lonely Blue Eyed Soul Bob Dylan's 49th Beard Candyfloss Can't Stand It Cars Can't Escape Casino Queen Climbing Cold Slope Darkness Is Cheap Deeper Down ELT Evicted Feed of Man Hearts Hard to Find I Am the Walrus I Must Be High I Shall Be Released Infinite Surprise Just a Kid Just Say Goodbye Kicking Television Less Than You Think Magnetized Many Worlds Meant to Be Message From Mid-Bar More Like the Moon More... My Darling Mystery Binds Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again) Once a Day Outta Mind (Outta Sight) Please Be Wrong Quiet Amplifier Reincarnation Rising Red Lung Sad Kind of Way Say You Love Me Say You Miss Me She's My Rock Sonny Feeling Standing O Sunloathe Taste the Ceiling Tell Your Friends The Empty Condor The Lonely 1 The Plains The Thanks I Get The Universe Tomorrow Never Knows Tonight's the Day Venus Stopped the Train We're Just Friends We've Been Had When the Roses Bloom Again Where Do I Begin Wild Mountain Thyme You Never Know You Satellite 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian F. Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 1 hour ago, tinnitus photography said: it would be nice if you could export your setlist.fm history as a CSV file (but maybe you can?) Setlist.fm is unreliable, especially for the early years of Wilco so, even if you could do that, I would have to do a show-by-show audit. In the course of making my spreadsheet, I found a few errors and omissions on that site (and on Wilcobase, which may be where Setlist is getting its info from for the early years). I was able to fix the errors on Setlist, but can't fix them on Wilcobase. There are a lot of sets on Setlist that show "Outta Mind (Outta Sight)" where it should be "Outtasite (Outta Mind)." There was a show in November 1997 listed as Jeff solo at the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge when it was actually Jeff and Jay Bennett at the Middle East Upstairs. There was a Spring Weekend show at Brown University (with Wilco preceded by Mos Def & Talib Kweli's Black Star-- now there was a juxtaposition) that was listed as being played at an indoor arena when it was outside on the lawn. Those are just the things I remember off the top of my head, and I didn't even look at shows I didn't attend, which probably have their own issues. I mentioned this on the "Stuff in My House" thread, but I have actual set lists from most of the early shows as well as contemporaneous notes from the shows, and an email I wrote to an indulgent girlfriend in 2000 listing and detailing all of the Wilco or Tweedy shows I had seen to that point. So, for example, at the October 1995 show in Providence, the printed set list that I got the night of the show listed "We've Been Had," but the set lists on Setlist and Wilcobase did not show that song as having been played. I don't have any specific recollection, 29 years later, of that song being played, but then I noticed that I had tried to keep a set list on the back of my ticket stub. In the spot in the set where "We've Been Had" was supposed to have been played, I had written, in real time, "Cover Blown." I had only limited familiarity with the Uncle Tupelo songs in 1995, so I did not know that song's title, but knew it contained the repeated phrase "just waiting for his cover to be blown," and so that's what I wrote. It's kind of cool that, against all odds, I have "proof" that they played the song that night. The only other band I have made a spreadsheet for is Pearl Jam, and I've been maintaining that one since before the days of online set lists. There is actually an app (called PJ Tracker?) that people in the Pearl Jam fan club talk about that automatically tracks this information for people, but it pulls its data from the set lists on the Pearl Jam website, and those also have mistakes. There's one error in particular from a show in 1994 where an improv that happened to have the refrain "Hold On" is listed as the completely different song titled "Hold On"-- which wasn't played live until over a decade later, and they refuse to fix it for some reason. I was at the show, and I have a recording of it. It's definitely not that song. Similarly, there are blocks of songs incorrectly listed for shows from the 2000 tour. Anyway, I guess it all depends on how concerned a person is about accuracy or whether they are happy to have a general sense of what songs they've seen and roughly how many times they've seen them. Needless to say, I'm a wee bit obsessive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
summerdai Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 I corrected one Wilco related thing on setlist.fm telling them that "Tweedy" played at Solid Sound in 2015 rather than "Jeff Tweedy", I produced the poster as evidence Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 yeah i am not compulsive enough to care about every last detail, but as I see photos of set lists in my photo archive i check setlist.fm and update/revise/create as needed. I also went through the archived issues of the Boston Phoenix for a while and searched club listings and added shows i remembered going to in the 90s (and some others too). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
coornelius Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 I have spreadsheets for Wilco, the Drive-By Truckers, and The Hold Steady. My most-seen Wilco song is a tie between I'm The Man Who Loves You and Jesus, Etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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