Boca - I hope Edith was there...

*** Boca Raton, FL 2006 - my encounter with Edith - I will never forget her...

Boca 2008 - WHA??? Seems the same thing happened to my spreadsheet last tour....within days of starting to post the setlist analysis a certain un-named rockstar messes me up by changing it up. In 2006 it was a whole chunk of songs that were moved to earlier in the setlist...that wasn’t so bad...I just added a few blank cells and presto! things still lined up and made sense visually for me...except for that one song in Lowell that the Kid requested for me and we ended up with 2 "box songs"....but I digress...

So I get the setlist from last nights show in Boca and WHAT?? the misc song changes are no biggie...I can adjust for those....but what does she do but keep most all of the core songs but changes their order!! Does she not know this makes it impossible to line everything up and have my nice neat rows?? That’s my excuse for why this has taken me ALL day to review....well....that and wicked heartburn....*mental note to self....don’t run out of antacids for 3 days and think it wont matter....LOL

We started off the tour with 20 core songs....last night there were only 18 of those played....missing were I've Loved You Before and God Is In The People....however, If You Want To was played in one of those spots and it was fun to see it appear in the setlist! Always a crowd favorite and makes for some interesting conversations....2006 power outage in SC...anyone remember that one? LMAO....or Melissa asking the Kid who would she be calling?" (she wont call kids) and the Kid saying "MY MOM!" ....Melissa was momentarilly confused what a kid was doing in the audience....full of women...and wanting her mom called....the Kid cleared things up and clarified "My OTHER mother!" lol....She made her cover her ears for part of the call that ensued....LOL

where was I.....oh, yeah....18 core songs were played. BUT...3 of those changed position in the order....2001 / I Need To Wake Up was moved to before Message to Myself / Come To My Window instead of after....and All We Can Really Do had previously been played in aprox the #3 position and was moved to 3/4 of the way through the concert appearing between Come To My Window and The Kingdom Of Heaven. Despite all this...the basic format between core songs and intermingled "other" songs still remains roughly the same as listed previously......HA! whew....lol

So far there have been 44 different/unique songs for a total of 84 songs sung. (accounting for duplicates songs). The first show, which ran very long, was 30 songs, since then there have been 27 songs sung per concert. Including the core songs the breakdown per album is as follows:

Melissa Etheridge - 3 songs played a total of 5 times for 6% of all songs played
Brave & Crazy - 4 songs played a total of 4 times for 4.8% of all songs played
Never Enough - 3 songs played a total of 5 times for 6% of all songs played
Yes I Am - 4 songs played a total of 9 times for 10.7% of all songs played
Your Little Secret - 3 songs played a total of 5 times for 6% of all songs played
Breakdown - 5 songs played a total of 5 times for 6% of all songs played
Skin - 1 song played a total of 1 time for 1.2% of all songs played
Live and Alone *- 1 song played a total of 1 time for 1.2% of all songs played
Lucky - 3 songs played a total of 3 times for 3.6% of all songs played
Road Less Traveled *- 3 songs played a total of 8 times for 9.5% of all songs played
The Awakening - 13 songs played a total of 35 times for 41.7% of all songs played
M.E.I.N. cd single - 1 song played a total of 3 times for 3.6% of all songs played
* I am only counting songs that appeared solely on L&A or TRLT. Other songs from these 2 recordings are credited to thier original albums.

Interesting tidbit - during the 2006 Summer Tour only 1 song was ever played off the Skin album and it was The Different, played at 18 of the concerts. Could we possibly see more songs from that album this tour or will it again only be represented by this one song?....only time will tell!