The Ultimate Yellowcard Setlist

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Last week Yellowcard made the announcement that their forthcoming self-titled album would also be their last. After nearly 20 years, the pop punk outfit has decided to call it quits. So it only seemed fitting that we use this week’s playlist to honor the band and take a look back at their long and noteworthy career.

As always, the rules are 22 songs and a two song encore. Check out the full track listing below and stream the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music.

As I dove into making this playlist, I started to realize how many hits there are in Yellowcard’s discography. It’s hard to do the band any real justice because for every song that made the list, there were at least two that I would’ve loved to include and simply didn’t have the space for. While we wait to see what the band’s setlist will look like as they take their final lap around the US this fall, we’d love for everyone head to the replies and let us know what songs they’d most like to hear.

Track Listing

1. Awakening
2. Make Me So
3. Way Away
4. Here I Am Alive
5. Light Up The Sky
6. With You Around
7. Rough Landing, Holly
8. Crash The Gates
9. Soundtrack
10. Lights And Sounds
11. October Nights
12. Only One
13. Lift A Sail
14. Empty Apartment
15. Rest In Peace
16. Shadows and Regrets
17. Sing For Me
18. Believe
19. You and Me and One Spotlight
20. Holly Wood Died

Encore

• Southern Air
• Ocean Avenue

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Interesting setlist. For me I would swap out Sing For Me, Soundtrack, Southern Air and Spotlight for Be The Young, Bombers, Fighting and Fragile and Dear.

 

It should be noted by the way that apparently Ocean Avenue isn't on Apple Music. Feel free to sub in your local files or the acoustic album in those song's place.

 

Not Breathing or For You and Your Denial from you either?

 

I lost my Dad when I was 10 so Life of a Salesman is my all time favorite song.

 

I wanted "Breathing" and "For You and Your Denial" and "Bombers" and "Fighting" "and "Be The Young" on there. I really did.

Also "Surface Of The Sun," "How I Go," "Miles Apart," "Five Becomes Four," "Rough Draft," "Life Of Leaving Home," "Always Summer," "Gifts and Curses," "The Deepest Well," and basically every other damn song in this band's discography.

 

You're breaking my heart with the lack of "Back Home." I think that should be their main set closer for this tour.

 

Underdog

 

Agreed. If YC had a song that had the tempo of Back Home and the lyrics from Miles Apart, it would be the PERFECT closer, IMO.

 

I think you can put both of those near the end of the set.

 

Bummer...no fighting! But the list looks great. A nod to how many great songs this band wrote over the years.

 

Needs Rough Draft, Fighting, and Back Home!

Good setlist though.

 

As much as I love "Back Home" I just didn't feel like the message lined up all that well. If anything, I would've loved to throw "Miles Apart" in there as a closer.

 

Huh. I think the message of that song fits better than "Holly Wood Died," personally.

 

Keeper, Rough Draft, and close on Three Flights Down (just kidding too sad)

 

Honestly not sure either message is a good fit, I just really love the outro on "Holly Wood Died" as a set closer

 

Been waiting for this one! Let's goooooooooo.

1. "The Takedown"
2. "With You Around"
3. "Always Summer"
4. "Rough Landing, Holly"
5. "Empty Apartment"
6. "The Deepest Well"
7. "Be The Young"
8. "Only One"
9. "Light Up The Sky"
10. "Lights & Sounds"
11. "Shrink The World"
12. "The Sound of You & Me"
13. "Rest In Peace"
14. "Keeper"
15. "Awakening"
16. "Martin Sheen or JFK"
17. "Soundtrack"
18. "Believe"
19. "Back Home"
20. "Paper Walls"

Encore

21. "Ten"
22. "Ocean Avenue"

This one was really difficult, maybe even the hardest yet. Couldn't make room for anything pre-Ocean Avenue, which is a real shame but that's just a testament to how consistently great they've been for almost their entire career.

 

I'd go with:

1. Convocation/Transmission Home
2. Lights & Sounds
3. With You Around
4. Only One
5. For You, and Your Denial
6. Awakening
7. Light Up The Sky
8. Breathing
9. Here I Am Alive
10. Shadows & Regrets
11. Empty Apartment
12. Fighting
13. Illuminate
14. Breathing
15. Lift a Sail
16. Rest In Peace
17. Rough Landing, Holly
18. Always Summer
19. Southern Air
20. Way Away
Encore:
21. California
22. Ocean Avenue

Wow, that was tough. And I still couldn't find a way to squeeze in about 12 more songs I wanted. Making this into a playlist right now!

 

The lack of Rivertown Blues on any of these lists is deeply troubling to me.

 

Interesting setlist, but no chance Make Me So is on here for me personally. One of my least favorite songs on LAS to be quite honest.

 

I dig this one a lot. The only thing I'd change is taking "Ten" off. It's a great song but Key has straight up said they'll never play it and that he prefers not to talk about it.

 

I completely forget about how great a song "Illuminate" is. Goddamn. Also, isn't it cheating to put "Convocation/Transmission Home" as one spot? ;)

 

A little, I suppose! I was just kind of picturing what they did on the Lift a Sail tour where they walked out to Convocation and broke into Transmission Home. Probably not the most popular way to start a show but I feel like it works so well. Illuminate is such a jam...it was so tough to balance a set list across their entire discography. Can't imagine how the band is going to do it for a final tour!

 

Oh, I know but it would still be so good live. I totally understand why he wouldn't want to play it, it's just such a powerful song. Gets me teared up every single time. I put it on there because I couldn't not. If I had to replace it with anything, I'd probably throw in "Sing For Me." If you couldn't tell from my previous set lists, I'm a big fan of the "Ballad, Greatest Hit" encore format.

 

Shadows and Regrets made the list. As did You and Me and One Spotlight.