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Originally Posted by kelchlsm
3rd verse completes the song, best verse and builds the choruses- saying it sucks and is the worst verse should be an unpopular opinion yes
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I don't understand how anyone who thinks the third verse somehow makes this song worse or that Grey Street is otherwise a "tired" song still goes to DMB concerts. When I think of the songs that are truly great in DMB's catalogue, it's the songs that build to crescendos, whether mid-stream or at the end of the song. I'm not saying Grey Street is their single best song, but it probably exemplifies this "crescendo" technique more any other tune. Each chorus gets an additional section culminated with the "kicking out all the windows" piece. Skipping straight to the crescendo after the second verse misses the buildup. And that is before even discussing how the song is a dark story that begs for that third verse to finish the downward spiral.
I would accept arguments that the LWS version is even better (I prefer the Busted Stuff crescendo but that's my opinion), but I really believe anyone that would prefer Grey Street shorter without the third verse perhaps has just run their course with DMB. I've believed that this has been the single most perplexing live choice of the band over the last 20 years and its nice to see it rectified (btw, runners-up for perplexing calls have been to drop the one sweet world intro, to not have Tim play exclusively acoustic, to not use PNP into songs other than Rapunzel except for two times, to not re-work Spotlight's lyrics, and to never once try to do a Hello Again-->Halloween segue from the Hello Again drum solo breakdown, which I maintain would be perfection)