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Old 12-10-2010, 11:36
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The most unlikely single to be played live

There's a lot of talk about only playing the singles on this tour, but it got me thinking which are the least likely singles to ever be played again? Obviously with as many singles as they've released they won't always see the light in every gig, but there are some it struck me we might never hear again.

My picks would be:
- Richard Nixon
- There by the grace of god
- So why so sad (no bad thing there...)
- Love's Sweet Exile?
- Revol? Maybe?
- Indian Summer

I don't think it's necessarily linked to how well they did - I don't know how high Autumnsong went in the charts, but Nixon made it to #2, and TBTGOG got to 6, which isn't awful.

Anyone agree? I just think it's odd that there's such a divide between those singles which are mandatory and those which we probably won't hear again.

But then again, with 10 albums worth and 30 plus singles they're never going to play everything.
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Old 12-10-2010, 11:39
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Autumnsong. For the lolz. xx
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A less techno version of TBTGOG?
She Is Suffering. Ronan Keating likes it!
And you never hear Australia anymore so I'd put that down as an unlikely single as well.
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We'll get Revol again at some point. The others, I'd be hugely surprised.
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But then again, with 10 albums worth and 30 plus singles they're never going to play everything.
No, but it wouldn't kill them to mix it up a bit. I'd love to hear There By The Grace of God or Life Becoming A Landslide again!

I reckon Love's Sweet Exile is the most unlikely to get played as James hates it, doesn't he?
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Life Becoming a Landslide??

Have they played that recently?? That's my favourite track of theirs, although from videos I've seen when they played it in the past it never worked that well
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They did Australia pretty much every night on the last tour didn't they? I left off Slash N Burn as well because they did that on the GH tour I think.
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No, but it wouldn't kill them to mix it up a bit. I'd love to hear There By The Grace of God or Life Becoming A Landslide again!
I couldn't agree more!
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Suicide Alley?

No seriously, erm, 'So Why So Sad' perhaps.
Don't remember when they last played that. Must've been quite awhile back.
They tend to play most singles off the first two albums now and again
(even if they don't play 'Love's Sweet Exile' anymore but somehow LSE dosen't
count as the band have tried to disown that song since the late nineties).
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And you never hear Australia anymore so I'd put that down as an unlikely single as well.
Didn't they play that at the JFPL gigs?
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Old 12-10-2010, 11:49
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I'd go for Suicide Alley. Would love to hear TBTGOG again, or Landslide at least once.
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LBAL is a good call actually, they haven't played that in forever, and it's majestic!
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They played LBAL in the 2007 tour didn't they?
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Setlist.fm suggests its last outing was in Japan on the tail-end of the Greatest Hits tour in January 2003.
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