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August 16, 2020: Live Songs from Riot Act

Hi Brad and Brad,

Both you two and the girls on The Porch have recently touched on Riot Act's popularity amongst the other studio albums in the catalog.  One point you guys brought up was the fact there aren't many songs on Riot Act you would want to see live.  That got me thinking, if there is any correlation between my favorite studio albums and which tracks I have enjoyed seeing live or would want to see live.  I recently reordered my favorite albums, except for Gigaton because it's too early for me to place it.  I'm certain it will end up in the top half of my list, but I'm going to give it the rest of the year to see if the track list continues to grow on me or starts to fade. 

I listed out each tracklist from each album and marked off which tracks I want to see live.  There isn't a direct correlation between my two favorites (Yield and No Code), however the amount of tracks I would consider to be a "piss break" increases by a lot once I get to Riot Act.  I do want to make clear, just because I exempted a song from wanting to be seen live does not mean that I don't enjoy the studio version.  I don't skip any track on Riot Act, however almost half of the album I would prefer not to be in a set list.  The same goes for my two least favorites in Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.  What I think is most interesting is that I would love to see any track from Ten and Vs.  I'm not sure if it's because they have been around the longest or that each of those records lack any filler tracks.  


I really do enjoy Riot Act as a record, and despite it being almost an hour long, it honestly doesn't feel like it's too drawn out to me.  Maybe it's because I think it finishes strong with 1/2 Full, Arc and All or None.  I just feel like half of the record really doesn't pop enough to get excited to hear in a setlist.

Rank Album See Live Not See Live Percentage Would Not See
1 Yield 9 4 69% Pilate, Red Dot, Low Light, Push Me/Pull Me
2 No Code 12 1 92% I'm Open
3 Vs. 12 0 100%  
4 Vitalogy 9 4 69% Pry To, Bugs, Aye Davanita, Stupid Mop
5 Binaural 11 2 85% Slight of Hand, Soon Forget
6 Ten 11 0 100%  
7 Avocado 9 4 69% Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, Unemployed, Big Wave
8 Riot Act 8 7 53% Cropduster, Ghost, Get Right, Green Disease, Help Help, Bu$hleaguer, Arc
9 Backspacer 6 5 55% Johnny Guitar, Supersonic, Speed of Sound, Force of Nature, The End
10 Lightning Bolt 6 6 50% Sirens, Swallowed Whole, Let the Records Play, Sleeping by Myself, Yellow Moon, Future Days
TBD Gigaton 9 3 75% Buckle Up, Comes Then Goes, Retrograde

Forced to endure, what I could not forgive,

Chris

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