With the tour starting tonight, I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread for it. Anyone know if the setlist will be coming in live as it happens? That would be sweet!
6 out of 16 songs being from one album does seem OTT. It's essentially 40% of the set devoted to a single album
I'm assuming they'll extend the set on future dates to 18/19 songs. Assuming it reaches 18 they should balance it as below:
TJR: 1
Whoracle: 1
Colony: 1
Clayman: 2
R2R: 2
STYE: 1
CC: 2
ASOP: 3
SOAPF: 5
Keep in mind I despise ASOP, I'd still be happy to go to a show with that balance. The new albums get decent representation, whilst the older ones also get a fair share of the set. As an "older" fan I'm not demanding they play an entire set based on 1996 - 2000, I know that's unrealistic, but a little balance wouldn't go amiss.
1. Sounds of a Playground Fading
2. Deliver Us
3. The Mirror's Truth
4. Fear Is The Weakness
5. Where The Dead Ships Dwell
6. The Jester Race
7. Episode 666
8. Colony
9. The Quiet Place
10. Delight and Angers
11. Ropes
12. Trigger
13. Alias
14. Pinball Map
15. Only For The Weak
16. Cloud Connected
17. Come Clarity
18. Take This Life
Keep in mind isn't the set I would personally want, but a set I'd realistically expect them to play that I'd actually be interested in. All albums from their history are represented in some form, the majority of the hits are in there (the ones left out can be switched around during the tour, for example System for Trigger or My Sweet Shadow for The Quiet Place). The latest album is well represented and most of the new songs come early on, which most bands tend to do. Then go from the new to the old, tell the crowd you're going to teach them the history of In Flames (hopefully convert a few to go into your back catalogue) ... might as well get all three out of the way at once. it'll only take up around ten minutes of the show, then if the crowd's looking a little dead because they're too gay to recognise the awesomeness of the older era get back to "tha hitz" for the remainder of the set.
Maybe I should apply to be tour manager.
Every album should be represented by at least one song (yes...even ASOP).
Maybe it's time they start doing "Old IF" and "New IF" shows...
That way I don't have to pay them money to have the privilege of listening Anders whiny mid-life crisis lyrics/singing, and poor emo/core kids can sing along and feel like shit without being frightened by that pesky ol' melodeath.
IMO it's down to two reasons:
A) they're lazy. evidenced in studio diaries and the comments of producers who've worked with them.
B) they consider those songs "the hits" that everyone has come to see. as an example, one of my friends went to a show recently and one of his txts to me said "man, I really hope they play cloud connected and take this life!!" similarly I was at a festival a couple of years back that In Flames were headlining and a kid next to me said "I'll be happy as long as they play the quiet place!" I mentioned TJR and got a blank look in return. He didn't know the album
Dear jesus fuck I had the same thing happen at Mayhem while I was in the line to get my clayman album signed.
Why i dont understand is why in fucks name they keep playing the same songs from the new albums. When was the last time we heard minus, drifter, superhero, vacuum, crawl through knives?...And they cant throw around that stupid excuse that those songs are hard to replicate live, since all the new albums are meant for a live setting or so they said. Really how many times do we have to hear cloud fucking connected or take this life?