Would could have potentially been the perfect R40 tour setlist

[TheGhostRider]

Like a lot of you, I wish every album had been represented. I would have done one or two songs from each of their nineteen albums (three from MP). I did like the going back in time idea, so I'd have done it like this:

 

Set 1

 

1. The Anarchist

2. Far Cry

3. Secret Touch

4. Test For Echo

5. Between Sun & Moon

6. Bravado

7. Show Don't Tell

8. Time Stand Still

9. Manhattan Project

10. Marathon

11. Distant Early Warning

12. Losing It

 

Break

 

Set 2

 

13. Subdivisions

14. Tom Sawyer

15. Limelight

16. YYZ

17. The Spirit of Radio

18. Freewill

19. La Villa Strangiato

20. Closer to the Heart

21. Xanadu

22. 2112 (Overture + Temples of Syrinx + Grand Finale)

 

Encore

 

23. Bastille Day

24. Anthem

25. Working Man/Garden Road

 

Thank you and good night!

I thought they did a phenomenal job with the set list on the tour. I might have switched out one or two songs but overall they really outdid themselves by pulling out many rarities like take for example Jacob’s Ladder (hadn’t been played live in over 35 years!) and Cygnus X-1 Book II (had not been played live for over 21 years). They represented almost 15 albums I think, and they only excluded certain ones like Power Windows because the majority of the album had been played live during the Clockwork Angels tour, and Test For Echo is a very emotional album for them, Neil especially, considering everything that happened to him after that tour.

[TheGhostRider]

Here's my opinion on a good setlist:

 

 

Setlist 1:

1. The Anarchist

2. Caravan

3. BU2B

4.Clockwork Angels

5. Far Cry

6. Time Stand Still

7. Test For Echo

8. Ceiling Unlimited

9. How It Is

10. Cold Fire

11. Face Up

12.Neurotica

 

Break

Setlist 2:

13. Chain Lightning

14. Digital Man

15. Jacob's Ladder

16.Losing It

17. Manhattan Project

18. Emotion Detector

19.The Camera Eye

20.Witch Hunt

21.Xanadu

22.La Villa Strangiato

23. 2112 (Overture, Temples Of Syrinx, Presentation, Grand Finale)

 

Encore

24. Bastille Day

25. Anthem

26. Working Man/Garden Road

 

Bow to audience and Good Night!

 

I still loved the setlist for the R40 tour, it was an amazing sendoff and a great end to 40+ years of music.

Edited June 17, 2019 by TheGhostRider

[ShowgunSam]

The R40 set was fine... That said, here's my dream version:

 

[set 1]

Headlong Flight

Clockwork Angels

Far Cry

Malignant Narcissism

Ghost Rider

Secret Touch (alt. One Little Victory)

Animate

Dreamline

Where's My Thing

Force Ten (alt. Time Stand Still)

The Big Money (alt. Marathon)

Subdivisions

 

[set 2]

 

Tom Sawyer

Red Barchetta (alt. Limelight)

The Camera Eye

Jacob's Ladder

The Spirit Of Radio

La Villa Strangiato

[Drum Solo]

Cygnus X-1: Hemispheres

Xanadu

Closer To The Heart (extended outro)

 

[Encore]

Lakeside Park

Anthem

Working Man

 

Given their age, that's a bear of a set to get through... Hell, I'm not even thirty and I shutter at the idea of getting through half of it. Nevertheless, one can dream.