There are two types of people: those who ardently seek out the set list for every Bruce Springsteen show prior to the tour arriving in their town, and those who don’t. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration. I suppose I represent a smaller, third subset of humanity: those of us who go on the Web and briefly get obsessed with that kind of minutiae at the start of a tour, and then think better of it a few dates in, realizing that when he gets to our city, it might be nice not to know that "Badlands" will inevitably follow "Long Walk Home," or to be completely surprised if "Candy’s Room" or "Meeting Across the River" or some other song that’s only been performed once this tour has the chance of being pulled out as a wild card. (You say there’s a fourth category of people — those who couldn’t care less about Springsteen or his shows, at all? Listen, my little census can’t account for every bizarre variable.)
We all know what constitutes a spoiler in the world of movies — and in case we at EW ever forget, our readers are there to angrily remind us. But is knowing what might be or is probably coming in a rock ‘n’ roll show grounds for spoiling, or does it simply whet the appetite all the more? I’d be interested to know your thoughts, PopWatchers, being of two minds about the whole thing, myself. It’s not as if we haven’t heard these songs and even committed them to memory, so, you might reckon, what’s to ruin? And with Springsteen, who usually changes his set by at least four songs from night to night, it can be thrilling for a diehard fan to know that an oldie everyone else down the row is taking for granted is actually that holy grail that fans refer to as a "tour premiere." (Last night in L.A., there was one of those: "Kitty’s Back," being played in California for the first time since the 1970s, by some fan accounts.)

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