Chris Conley does a lot of little, memorable, things on record and live on stage.

On Tuesday, at The Social in Orlando, the 38-year-old songwriter and Saves the Day frontman whipped out a shaker on a few songs like “Xenophobic Blind Left Hook” and “Rosé” from the band’s last two albums — 9 and Saves The Day — released this year and in 2013, respectively. He did it again on Saves The Day gems “Freakish” and “Anywhere With You” from the band’s dramatically contrasted albums from 2001, Stay What You Are, and 2003, In Reverie.

Conely — dressed on Tuesday almost the same way he looks in a new video for “Side By Side” — also softens the “S” sounds on a some songs. He did it on set-opener “At Your Funeral” (“celebrate” became “chelabrate”), for another In Reverie gem “What Went Wrong” (“soley,” “choley”) and on “Ring Pop” (“sing,” “ching”).

The idiosyncrasies may have been lost on anyone under the age of 25, but the little things are big parts of what have kept longtime listeners coming back over and over again throughout Saves The Day's many musical modes. The once Princeton, New Jersey-based band began as a hyper-melodic hardcore outfit and molted into a do-no-wrong pop-punk band before brilliantly (albeit briefly) diving into Beatles-worshipping experimental-rock on the way to settling on almost radio-ready power-pop and hard-rock.

Conely has utilized a couple handfuls of players over the years (most notably ex-members bassist Eben D'Amico and guitarist David Soloway), but the heart of Saves The Day’s music beats, undoubtedly, around Conely’s seemingly infinite curiosity plus his appreciation for rhythm, melody and often painfully unveiling lyrics that shed light on the mental turmoil that’s always seemed to plague him.

So many of the little things from Saves The Day’s career shone on Tuesday. The idol worship Conely warns of on 17-year-old song “Cars and Calories,” sadly, still exists. Flying out to Montana — which Conely suggested doing on 1999’s “Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots” — is totally a thing now thanks to John Mayer and Justin Timberlake (Kanye West even went out to nearby Wyoming to get his fix of fresh air). The paranoid xenophobia from “What Went Wrong” could be the CliffsNotes from a script built around our current administration's attitudes towards immigrants.

And fans sang along to nearly every word, which is notable considering the volume of music that pines for our collective attention these days. Saves The Day skipped the encore break in Orlando and went straight into the last four songs, which included an acapella run through one of the band’s oldest tunes, “Three Miles Down,” and an impassioned sing-along of “Rocks Tonic Juice Magic” where big kids crowd surfed like they were 16 again (Side note: We’re all much heavier than we were back then, so maybe skip the second and third stage dives, dude?). Towards the end of the set someone’s son — who was probably five or six years old, tops — made it onstage and dove fearlessly into the crowd, too.

Watching the littlest dude in the building making the biggest memory of his young life — while surfing on the hands of the big guys and girls beneath him — made you feel like music is the only thing that really matters. The weight of all those little things will make you think that, and that’s a little thing you’ll never be able to take away.

See the setlist and listen to songs from the show via Spotify.

Setlist
At Your Funeral
Xenophobic Blind Left Hook
Suzuki
Get Fucked Up
Kerouac & Cassady
Shoulder To the Wheel
Cars and Calories
The End
Anywhere With You
1984
Rosé
Say You'll Never Leave
Kaleidoscope
Z
Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots
Freakish
Let It All Go
What Went Wrong
It’s Such A Beautiful World
Firefly
Three Miles Down (acapella)
Ring Pop
Side By Side
Rocks Tonic Juice Magic