The Obscure Song Fun Game!

Next time you go to a concert, I suggest playing this game. Here's the idea:

1. Choose a song that you really want to hear the band play, tell the people that you're going with to do the same.

2. Decide amongst your selves the order of the obscurity of the songs. Meaning: which ones are most likely to be played. Basically it goes new singles, hit singles, new other songs, old other songs, bad songs, etc. (For example, at Daft Punk, Harder Better Faster Stronger is more likely than Emotion is more likely than Rock 'n Roll. Something like that. Comment if you disagree.)

3. If you're song is the most obscure one to be played, you win! You can spice things up by making wagers to this effect.

Of course there are many strategies. You can pick a sure think, and hope that no one else is lucky. Or, conversely, pick a weird song, and hope to get lucky. I always does pick a song that I doubt they'll play, but really want to hear. This also makes the concert more interesting, because if they play your song, it's an added bonus! For example, at a concert for Coheed and Cambria's Good Apollo I tour, I picked Delirium Trigger. This is an old song, and not even a single, so there was virtually no chance of them playing it. But it's an excellent live tune, and it totally builds up to a precipice of awesomeness. And they played it! It totally pumped me up for the whole show. Same thing for NP (see last post), I picked Jackie, at which point my girlfriend figured that there's no way they'll play it, so she went for the safety play with Mass Romantic. I was getting worried that they wouldn't play it since it wasn't in their main set (it's not their most popular song), but they did it as the opening song for their first encore! How awesome is that?