RESULTS: The '59 Sound Tour setlist poll

The results of our The ’59 Sound Setlist poll are in! So below you find the overall results as well as some Details for the statistics geeks amongst us.

Just to be clear: the poll is for all albums APART from The '59 Sound which will be played in full at all of the upcoming anniversary shows!  

The Top 20 are very SOS heavy with a good dose of American Slang thrown in. In order to not to neglect the other albums we’ve also looked at the Top 5 per album which you find below.

OVERALL TOP 20 RANKING (based on weighted average)
01. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts (Senor And The Queen EP)
02. American Slang (American Slang)
03. We Came To Dance (Sink Or Swim)
04. 1930 (Sink Or Swim)
05. Bring It On (American Slang)
06. 45 (Handwritten)
07. Handwritten (Handwritten)
08. Stay Lucky (American Slang)
09. The Diamond Church Street Choir (American Slang)
10. Wooderson (Sink Or Swim)
11. Boomboxes & Dictionaries (Sink Or Swim)
12. I'da Called You Woody, Joe (Sink Or Swim)
13. Drive (Sink Or Swim)
14. Boxer (American Slang)
15. Wherefore Art Though, Elvis? (Senor And The Queen EP)
16. We're Getting A Divorce, You Keep The Diner (Sink Or Swim)
17. I Coul'da Been A Contender (Sink Or Swim)
18. The Navesink Banks (Sink Or Swim)
19. Orphans (American Slang)
20. The Queen Of Lower Chelsea (American Slang)

SOME FUN FACTS
• In the overall top 20 nine songs come from SOS, seven from AS and two each from SATQ and HW.
• Red is rather sinking than swimming with both Red At Night and Red In The Morning coming in last from SOS
• Looking at the total sum of the points given (not weighted), Blue Jeans remains at No. 1 but Handwritten and 45 come in on No 2 and 3.
• And Mae, Blue Dahlia, She Loves You, Mullholland Drive, Have Mercy, Halloween, Howl, Here Comes My Man and Biloxi Parish make it into the Top 20 as well.
• 1930 was ranked first most of all songs, followed by Blue Jeans
• Other new Top 10 entries in first preference rating are Mae (No 5), Contender (No. 6), Have Mercy (No. 7) and Blue Dahlia (no. 11)

TOP 10 IN FIRST PREFERENCE
(quite different with 6 out of 10 not appearing in the overall top 10 ranking)
01. 1930 (Sink Or Swim)
02. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts (Senor And The Queen EP)
03. We Came To Dance (Sink Or Swim)
04. I'da Called You Woody, Joe (Sink Or Swim)
05. Mae (Handwritten)
06. I Coul'da Been A Contender (Sink Or Swim)
07. Have Mercy (Get Hurt)
08. Bring It On (American Slang)
09. 45 (Handwritten)
10. Boomboxes & Dictionaries (Sink Or Swim)

TOP 3 PER ALBUM
SINK OR SWIM
01. We Came To Dance
02. 1930
03. Wooderson

SENOR AND THE QUEEN EP
01. Blue Jeans And White T-Shirts
02. Wherefore Art Though, Elvis?
03. Senor And The Queen

AMERICAN SLANG
01. American Slang
02. Bring It On
03. Stay Lucky

HANDWRITTEN
01. 45
02. Handwritten
03. Here Comes My Man

GET HURT
01. 1000 Years
02. Get Hurt
03. Stay Vicious

So, all that is left now is to wait with excitement to see which songs will actually be played!

This is impossible! I've got it down to 20, and that's with removing National Anthem and The Navesink Banks because Brian does them fairly regularly on his own and they don't sound too different.  I'm really glad there is a long deadline on it!

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Nah, it's easy.

cowgirlwiththeblues wrote:

This is impossible! I've got it down to 20, and that's with removing National Anthem and The Navesink Banks because Brian does them fairly regularly on his own and they don't sound too different.  I'm really glad there is a long deadline on it!

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You can vote for as many songs you like but unfortunately they won't play all of them

I know, I take this kind of thing far too seriously! Voting is important though!

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Just voted. It's pretty tough to narrow it down to 15 and to put the songs in order, but i went with:
1)Wherefore Art Thou Elvis
2) We Came to Dance
3) Senor and the Queen
4) Bring It On
5) 45
6) American Slang
7) Say I Won't
1930
9) Here Comes My Man
10) She Loves You
11) I Coulda Been A Contender
12) Blue Dahlia
13) Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts
14) Drive
15) Handwritten

Last chance to vote for your favs! Poll closes in 5 days!

(Yes, I've changed the end date as the responses have slowed down a bit 😉)

finally gotten round to doing this <3

I hope you all going to the shows record lots of stuff for those who can't make it <3

ivienco wrote:

finally gotten round to doing this <3

I hope you all going to the shows record lots of stuff for those who can't make it <3

I pray not. Put the phones down and enjoy the moment.

Just got thinking about the last full album show I went to, which was The Wildhearts doing Earth Vs. For the second half, at the start of each song they had two guys come out with song titles on big signs and you had to cheer for the one you wanted - the one with the loudest cheer got played. It was kind of silly, but immense fun, especially for those of us with a mildly competitive nature!

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Results are in and the original post is updated

What do you think? Is it what you expected?

Surprised there are no Get Hurt tracks in the Top 20. Would love to see Dark Places in there. Halloween too as it only ever seems to work well live.

kjakm wrote:

Surprised there are no Get Hurt tracks in the Top 20. Would love to see Dark Places in there. Halloween too as it only ever seems to work well live.

I think that's at least partially because the last time the band toured was in support of Get Hurt and they played everything from that album pretty heavily in those shows, so people haven't heard some of these older songs live in a really long time.

pleasepassthesoup wrote:

kjakm wrote:

Surprised there are no Get Hurt tracks in the Top 20. Would love to see Dark Places in there. Halloween too as it only ever seems to work well live.

I think that's at least partially because the last time the band toured was in support of Get Hurt and they played everything from that album pretty heavily in those shows, so people haven't heard some of these older songs live in a really long time.

Good point! I got lucky I guess seeing a Get Hurt show + their final headline show about a year later before the hiatus (Shepherd's Bush). That final show had lots of SoS and very little Get Hurt. In fact that's one of my favourite setlists they've played. Here's hoping for a 3 hour set so we can hear everything! haha

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-gaslight-anthem/2015/o2-shepherds-bush-empire-london-england-6bf71682.html

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kjakm wrote:

Surprised there are no Get Hurt tracks in the Top 20. Would love to see Dark Places in there. Halloween too as it only ever seems to work well live.

I think that's at least partially because the last time the band toured was in support of Get Hurt and they played everything from that album pretty heavily in those shows, so people haven't heard some of these older songs live in a really long time.

I could be remembering wrong, but I feel like they didn't play that album heavily at all on that tour with the exception of the first 2 nights in DC.  I hope they still play a song or two off it anyway.

I can't believe Mae didn't make the top 15 and that Bring it On wasn't higher. Two of their best songs that are the least played. And I can't believe that a song we've gotten a number of times on Brian's solo tours (aka not at risk for never getting played live again after this tour like 99% of their other songs) ended up number 1 I love Blue Jeans too but c'mon people.

Manuela, thanks for all the extra break down of stats. Very interesting to see.

StitchesOnTheRadio wrote:

pleasepassthesoup wrote:

kjakm wrote:

Surprised there are no Get Hurt tracks in the Top 20. Would love to see Dark Places in there. Halloween too as it only ever seems to work well live.

I think that's at least partially because the last time the band toured was in support of Get Hurt and they played everything from that album pretty heavily in those shows, so people haven't heard some of these older songs live in a really long time.

I could be remembering wrong, but I feel like they didn't play that album heavily at all on that tour with the exception of the first 2 nights in DC.  I hope they still play a song or two off it anyway.

I can't believe Mae didn't make the top 15 and that Bring it On wasn't higher. Two of their best songs that are the least played. And I can't believe that a song we've gotten a number of times on Brian's solo tours (aka not at risk for never getting played live again after this tour like 99% of their other songs) ended up number 1 I love Blue Jeans too but c'mon people.

Manuela, thanks for all the extra break down of stats. Very interesting to see.

I voted for Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts. It's a song that has meaning to me. I'd hear it every day. So what if Brian plays it solo. I still want to hear it over everything else. I suppose you'd advise Skynyrd to skip Freebird because everyone's heard it before.

I'm glad Bring It On is #5. It is my all time favorite song and they haven't played it in so long (I put it in my #1 spot).

There is a lot of Sink or Swim. I know there's a lot of day 1 fans on the forum but for me I would put that album on par with Get Hurt personally. I saw one of the last headlining US show that Gaslight played in Lancaster PA and they only Sweet Morphine and Have Mercy from Get Hurt, and they played way more songs from Sink Or Swim. So @pleasepassthesoup I'm using the same logic as you but with a different result haha. It would be awesome to hear We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner or I Coulda Been a Contender, but I'd like to hear more of a variety. I bet they'll play more Handwritten than people expect, they always seem to like to enjoy playing those songs (I'm hoping for Blue Dahlia, Muholland Drive, or Keepsake).

My favorite Gaslight album is probably American Slang, followed by The '59 Sound and Handwritten, then Get Hurt and Sink or Swim. The '59 Sound is more of a hopeful, romantic album than their later stuff, so it might be cool to hear a contrast with a really intense song like Keepsake or We Did It When We Were Young. Can't wait to see footage from the shows this month! I hope they announce more dates but not sure what's gonna happen.

It was fun choosing my favourites, and who knows; maybe they&rsquo;ll bear the poll in mind when writing set lists. But actually, they&rsquo;re playing my second favourite record of all time in its entirety, so I have plenty to be excited about either way!

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cowgirlwiththeblues wrote:

It was fun choosing my favourites, and who knows; maybe they&rsquo;ll bear the poll in mind when writing set lists. But actually, they&rsquo;re playing my second favourite record of all time in its entirety, so I have plenty to be excited about either way!

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What is your #1 favorite album, out of curiosity?

DeathoftheCool wrote:

What is your #1 favorite album, out of curiosity? [smiley]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_basketball.gif[/smiley]

Born To Run. I guess I&rsquo;m just a typical Gaslight fan!


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Quick reality check:

At the first 9:30 show 13 songs were played in addition to The '59 Sound album.

10 of these were in the Top 20 of the poll and came from the following albums:

SOS: 4
SATQ: 1
AS: 3
HW: 3
GH: 2

Setlist on the second night at the 9:30 Club introduces a break in the '59 Sound set and features more songs from HW (4) and SOTQ (2), different ones from SOS (4) and less from GH (1) and AS (2).