Now, I am supposing we are supposed to vote songs OFF, and as openers, I had to vote off Rooms on Fire. While it is my favorite, if not one of my favorites, from the list, I don't like it as an opener. It's a little too slow for an opener, but out of the OSOTM songs, I WOULD pick it as the opener. But when I think of an opener, I always think of what I would like to hear open a concert, and really I only like a handful of Stevie songs as openers. Outside the Rain to me was always the best one...and for example, Gold Dust Woman, my favorite song ever, I did not think was a good opener. Other songs I think that would be good openers or were good openers for concerts are Stop Draggin, Blue Denim, Enchanted, Trouble in Shangri-La, Angel, and I think that's about it. But to me, openers should have a certain energy in them, but not TOO much. They should get the crowd moving but not to the point that a song or two later they are still wound up when you're playing something more mellow like, say, Dreams. And, I just realized, I forgot The Chain as an opener. Just my thoughts...
