2026, counted
Every number below comes from the 74 shows in this archive — transcribed from go-set.net, which is run by the band. For all-time play counts and gap charts, go-set itself is the authority; this page counts this year.
Counted from cover credits on each show page. Two special shows are excluded — the 4/20 "Dogs Play Dead" launch party and a private all-Dead set (25 more Dead-family covers between them) — because leaving them in would say more about two setlists than about a year of shows.
Biggest night: Saturday, May 2, 2026 at Deep Ellum Art Co. — 22 songs.
How rare is rare?
These count all 691 shows in the archive, 2018 to now — not just this year. Across them the band has played 498 different songs, and 194 of those (39%) exactly once. The repertoire is a small core and a very long tail.
Songs the band has played at only 2–12 shows ever, but that turned up in the last 120 — the rare ones you could actually have caught. Deliberately a list and not a chart: the rarest songs are all tied at two or three shows, so bars would be twelve identical lengths in alphabetical order.
- Tell Me Something Good — 2 shows ever, last on Saturday, August 15, 2026
- Cabbage Alley — 4 shows ever, last on Saturday, August 15, 2026
- Bulls on Parade — 12 shows ever, last on Friday, August 14, 2026
- In Your Eyes — 5 shows ever, last on Thursday, August 13, 2026
- Smokestack Lightning — 10 shows ever, last on Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Fever — 8 shows ever, last on Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- You've Got a Friend in Me — 4 shows ever, last on Saturday, August 8, 2026
- Let’s Dance — 3 shows ever, last on Saturday, August 8, 2026
- Psychobilly Freakout — 5 shows ever, last on Saturday, August 8, 2026
- Grease — 12 shows ever, last on Saturday, August 8, 2026
Only songs with at least five lifetime plays, so this reads as "overdue" rather than "played once in 2019 and never again". Counted from this archive, not from go-set's own gap figures.
The story of the band in one chart: 93% covers in 2018, settling around a quarter as the original repertoire took over. Counted with the band-family rule — Dogs in a Pile and its side projects are originals.
Songs with at least eight timed performances; lengths are the band's own track times, recorded consistently since 2023. The longest single version in this set ran 47 minutes.
These counts are 2026 only — the archive here goes back to 2018. Browse any year from the show list. All-time play counts and gaps are the band's, at go-set.net.
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