Heartland

While one loves the band's ever evolving antics, there are a number of occasions where absolute perfection has been obtained. I appreciate that for ideological/vocal reasons, these can be dropped from the setlist.

However, for a very very long time, we've become accustomed to the smoke/bathroom break instrumental. And I absolutely adore the band throwing out every rockstar pose imaginable during this, but for the longest time, I find myself constantly caught in a mental loop wondering, why the hell aren't they playing Top Nite Out/Snub-nose.

I enjoyed the shock of Jihad. I giggled at Pipeline etc. I like instrumental but seriously,... Play f**king Top Nite Out! What an absolute f**king banger!

Kickline is something they worked on together to the best of my knowledge, they're probably looking to fill the setlist with as much of their new material as possible.
It also could be that dylan hasn't worked it out yet?

I meant to say instrumental 86, getting my songs confused.

I suspect it's probably as simple as letting the people who are playing on the instrumental section of show decide what it is.

The interesting thing to me is that despite being called instrumentals, both Top Nite Out and Instrumental 86 give a fairly strong impression of being Sisters songs that are basically complete save for the vocals, rather than songs which were written as instrumentals. Obviously different songs have different origin stories but these both seem like songs where the band didn't really want to hold off on playing these songs till they had words in 'em. I even suspect that Instrumental 86 has had part of a proposed vocal melody transposed to one of Ben's guitar parts.

Is any of this relevant? No. But it is fun to think about. I think that the reason Top Nite Out has fallen by the wayside is simply that it seems progressively less necessary as time goes on. Maybe Adam had another use for it that never eventuated?

Good point the way that, yeah, they sound like Sisters songs despite being vocal less

I don’t dislike them - but let’s face it, their purpose is to afford a mid set cigarette break either outside or behind a speaker stack.

I’d rather have an extended intro to a proper song. Driven like the snow, Rain from Heaven, Kiss the Carpet or Some Kind of Stranger would all be more than acceptable!

It's a bit dull though isn't it?