Originally posted by ahn1991:The Troubles is a very interesting song because of how flexible it can be in a set. It sounds like a closer, but it can clearly go somewhere else.
But given the current show format, I don't ever see The Troubles as a closer. It's too heavy of a song for them to close with and it also doesn't have a very well defined closing section. Compare that to songs like One, WOWY, 40, even Still Haven't Found, The Troubles doesn't have as strong of an ending.
I really think the best spot is where they've put it before, a lead-in to WOWY. I used to think of it as a transition from Beautiful Day to WOWY, but I'm starting to think that Beautiful Day is the song out of place here.
Alternative spots:
*End the main set with Bullet-Pride-BD, and create an encore with Troubles-Bad/AIWIY-WOWY.
*Try Troubles after COBL. I know that COBL is similar to Pride and BD, but at least is not coming after the whole sequence and emotional baggage of Wave-Bullet-Hands-Pride-BD (imho is the whole ride what makes Troubles hard to swallow at that spot).
They won't get rid of M&CR and the speach before Streets, because at least in their minds that speach is more important than Streets, but still I can dream that it would fit perfectly Troubles into Streets.