10-song dream concert set by a favorite band or solo artist

Maybe this has been done before but it’s always fun to do, especially if you choose a few songs the artist has either never performed live, or at least not in many years. Here’s, IMO, a kick-butt ELO set I’d love to see Jeff and band perform on stage...

ELO
1. Standing In the Rain
2. Yours Truly, 2095
3. Poker
4. Ocean Breakup/King of the Universe
5. Stranger
6. Nightrider
7. Above The Clouds
8. Lonesome Lullabye
9. Moment In Paradise
10. Big Wheels

 

1. Sgt Pepper
2. With a Little Help From My Friends
3. Dear Prudence
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. I've Got A Feeling
6. And Your Bird Can Sing
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Let It Be
9. Sgt Pepper Reprise
10. A Day In The Life

 

Peter Gabriel

Red Rain
Games Without Frontiers
Come Talk to Me
Mercy Street
I Have The Touch
Sky Blue
Digging in the Dirt
Solsbury Hill
Biko
Signal to Noise
(Either of these last 2 Songs listed could close the Set)

Do I get a 4 Song Encore? If so then:

Shaking the Tree
Shock The Monkey
In Your Eyes
Secret World

 

CCR reunion (Fogerty/Cook/Clifford)

Swingin' in a Hammock
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
Instrumental No 1
Rude Awakening #2
Zanz Kant Danz
Take It Like a Friend
Poorboy Shuffle
The Working Man
You Got The Magic
Death Machine

 

Rush:

A Farewell to Kings
Cygnus X-1
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres
Different Strings
The Weapon
Afterimage
Emotion Detector
Open Secrets
Cut to the Chase
Countdown

 

Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris:
Return Of The Grievous Angel
A Song For You
Ooh Las Vegas
Luxury Liner
Christine's Tune
Hickory Wind
Love Hurts
Hot Burrito #1
Hot Burrito #2
In My Hour Of Darkness

 

Joy Division (how I wish...):

Transmission
She's Lost Control
Shadowplay
Ceremony
Heart And Soul
Day Of The Lords
A Means To An End
Dead Souls
The Eternal
Decades

Encore:
New Dawn Fades
Love Will Tear Us Apart

...and then I go home and die in my sleep. Happy!

 

Genesis

Down and Out
Dancing With Moonlit Knight
Fountain of Salmacis
Can Utility and The Coastliners
The Lamia
White Mountain
Ripples
Home By The Sea
Firth of Fifth
Suppers Ready



Pearl Jam

Oceans
Go
Hail Hail
Even Flow
Of He Goes
Thumbing My Way
Sleeping By Myself
Jeremy
Immortality
Indifference


Metallica

Battery
Fight Fire With Fire
Creeping Death
Shortest Straw
Sanitarium
Orion
Outlaw Torn
Master of Puppets
Dyers Eve
Spit Out The Bone

 

XTC

Summer’s Cauldron
Grass
Everyday Story of Smalltown
The Disappointed
Wrapped in Grey
Love on a Farmboys Wages
No Thugs in Our House
Life Begins at the Hop
Making Plans for Nigel
Respectable Street

 

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
1. Tear My Stillhouse Down
2. Cumberland Gap
3. By The Mark
4. One More Dollar
5. Hard Times
6. Caleb Meyer
7. Ruination Day Part 2
8. Revelator
9. Dusty Boxcar Wall
10. Manic Depression

 

Elvis Costello

No Action
This Year’s Girl
Radio Sweetheart
Big Tears
Strict Time
Goon Squad
Crawling to the USA
Five Gears in Reverse
Just a Memory

and...Hoover Factory!

 

Please list bands as some songs maybe obscure to non fanatics

 

Paul McCartney

1. Every Night
2. No More Lonely Nights
3. Take It Away
4. I’ve Had Enough
5. To You
6. Spies Like Us
7. Write Away
8. Dominoes
9. My Brave Face
10. Back On My Feet


This covers a lot of ground.

Also my dream mini concert would include a cd/dvd package, 2 8X10 glossy personalized autographs, and a professional photo op (2 physical prints and a jpeg emailed to me as well).

 

The Clash:
London Calling
Safe European Home
Somebody Got Murdered
Clampdown
Straight To Hell
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Stay Free
Lost In The Supermarket
Remote Control
Train In Vain

 

Simple Minds

1.Banging On The Door
2.Waterfront
3.Speed Your Love To Me
4.See The Lights
5.Cry
6.Hypnotised
7.New Gold Dream
8.Life In A Day
9.Someone Somewhere in the Summertime
10.Don't You [Forget About Me]

...so we'll leave the venue singing "...la la la laaa, la la la laaa ..." all the way back home...

 

David Bowie - with rotating musicians

1 STATIONTOSTATION (with Isolar I band)
2 Little Wonder (with 1997 tour band)
3 Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (with The Hype)
4 The Bewlay Brothers (with Reality tour band)
5 Blackstar (with Blackstar band + Mike Garson)
6 Teenage Wildlife (with Isolar II band plus Sigma Studio backing vocal singers)
7 Quicksand (with Outside tour band + Barry White string section)
8 Sweet Thing-Candidate-Sweet Thing (reprise) (with 1974 soul tour band)
9 Underground (with 1996 TAO Jones Index+ Sigma Studio backing vocal singers)
10 Absolute Beginners (Heathen tour band +Sigma Studio backing vocal singers)

Recorded, mixed and mastered under Steven Wilson supervision.

 

A concert by Justin Bieber doing John Cage's 4'33 ten times would be fun

 

For who????

 

For the non-beliebers that do have a sense of humor

 

Brian May & Roger Taylor

Keep Yourself Alive
April Lady
Great King Rat
Tenement Funster
Long Away
You and I
Fight From the Inside
Sail Away Sweet Sister
Dancer
Machines (or Back to Humans)
Princes of the Universe
Gimme the Prize
Hitman
Was It All Worth It
Dead on Time

Okay, I definitely cheated on that one, with 15 tracks. So here's a strictly 10 track setlist that I would be (more or less) happy with.

KISS

She
Rip It Out
Thou Shalt Not
Hotter Than Hell
Creatures of the Night
Heart of Chrome
Unholy
Dark Light
Larger than Life
I Pledge Allegiance to the State

 

I hope they lay on plenty of bar staff that night.

 

Genesis

Watcher of the skies
Get'em out by Friday
Return of the Giant Hogweed
The Fountain of Salmacis
Selling England by the pound
Firth of Fitfth
Cinema Show
Supper's Ready
The Musical Box
The Knife

 

Sparks

1. Talent Is An Asset
2. Something For The Girl With Everything
3. Moon Over Kentucky
4. Hasta Manana Monsieur
5. When Do I Get To Sing My Way
6. Sherlock Holmes
7. In The Future
8. Thanks But No Thanks
9. Goofing Off
10. How Are You Getting Home

 

Paul McCartney:
1. Mumbo
2. My Brave Face
3. That Was Me
4. Hope Of Deliverance
5. Calico Skies
6. Wanderlust
7. Tomorrow
8. Little Lamb Dragonfly
9. Back Seat Of My Car
10. 1985

 

Neil Young with Crazy Horse (featuring Danny Whitten):
1. When You Dance I Can Really Love
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Look At All The Things (Danny song)
4. Birds
5. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Danny)
6. I Believe In You
7. The Losing End
8. Come On Baby Lets Go Downtown (Danny)
9. Down By The River
10. Cinnamon Girl