Dream Setlist

So as we all know, Queen did a massive number of tours with quite different setlists. Now, what would be your personal dream setlist? There is nothing that you have to include - pick oh, say, 25 songs. Assume God Save the Queen is automatically tacked on at the end, and Brighton Rock is automatically tacked on somewhere in the middle - so they don't count against the 25. List them in order. Medleys are allowed, but each song takes up a "slot". It could be a song they haven't played live in their career, if you so desire.

Of course, We Will Rock You fast is a seperate version.

Now, after much careful rearranging taking in account the general sound of each song, here goes my list which goes something from garnering crowd interest to lighter songs to heavier ones:

1. We Will Rock You (fast)
2. In the Lap of the Gods Revisited
3. Under Pressure
4. Killer Queen (medleyed into)
Bicycle Race
6. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
7. The Millionaire Waltz
8. Somebody To Love
9. White Queen
10. You Take My Breath Away
11. Love Of My Life
12. '39
13. Brighton Rock
14. Spread Your Wings
15. It's Late
16. Who Wants to Live Forever
17. Hammer to Fall
18. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
19. Bohemian Rhapsody
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. Dragon Attack
22. I Want to Break Free
23. Keep Yourself Alive
24. Friends Will Be Friends
25. We Will Rock You
26. We Are the Champions
27. God Save The Queen

1.WWRY(Fast)
2.TYMD
3.I Want It All
4.Play The Game
5.I'm In Love With My Car
6.Save Me
7.Under Pressure
8.AOBTD
9.IWTBF
10.Dragon Attack
11.Now I'm Here
12.Is This The World We Created?
13.Love Of My Life
14.Brighton Rock
15.A Kind Of Magic
16.Bohemian Rhapsody
17.Hammer To Fall
18.Headlong
19.Crazy Little Thing Called Love
20.WWTLF
21.Innuendo
22.These Are The Days Of Our Lives
23.Liar
24.Radio Ga Ga
25.We Will Rock You
26.We Are The Champions
27.God Save The Queen

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]DeeEmm wrote: [/QUOTENAME]So as we all know, Queen did a massive number of tours with quite different setlists. Now, what would be your personal dream setlist? There is nothing that you have to include - pick oh, say, 25 songs. Assume God Save the Queen is automatically tacked on at the end, and Brighton Rock is automatically tacked on somewhere in the middle - so they don't count against the 25. List them in order. Medleys are allowed, but each song takes up a "slot". It could be a song they haven't played live in their career, if you so desire.

Of course, We Will Rock You fast is a seperate version.

Now, after much careful rearranging taking in account the general sound of each song, here goes my list which goes something from garnering crowd interest to lighter songs to heavier ones:

1. We Will Rock You (fast)
2. In the Lap of the Gods Revisited
3. Under Pressure
4. Killer Queen (medleyed into)
Bicycle Race
6. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
7. The Millionaire Waltz
8. Somebody To Love
9. White Queen
10. You Take My Breath Away
11. Love Of My Life
12. '39
13. Brighton Rock
14. Spread Your Wings
15. It's Late
16. Who Wants to Live Forever
17. Hammer to Fall
18. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
19. Bohemian Rhapsody
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. Dragon Attack
22. I Want to Break Free
23. Keep Yourself Alive
24. Friends Will Be Friends
25. We Will Rock You
26. We Are the Champions
27. God Save The Queen[/QUOTE]

Where the fuck are Innuendo and the Show must go on? Don't stop me now??? You really give a chance to Dragon Attack, Keep yourself alive and It's late instead of these three? Something's not right with your head. But, in general, apart from 3-4 songs, I agree with your setlist

on the 1st one elbow Friends Will Be Friends & replace with Tie Your Mother Down & you're on a winner TYMD - has to be in

Despite what I said I decided to keep from the Innuendo songs, because I would want to include the entire album and thus not have space for anything else...

To be honest, I forgot about Don't Stop Me Now. I intended to slot that in - maybe it can replace You Take My Breath Away...

And I happen to like It's Late and Dragon Attack. Actually, Dragon Attack kind of sucks on stage because Brian has to include a silly solo thus replacing the awesome bass and drum solos of the original, so I'll replace that with Don't Stop Me Now.

my dream setlist would be

not in order

Someday one day
Silver Salmmon
Night comes down
Let us climb together
Father to son
Polar Bear
Doin all right
In the lap of the gods
she makes me
leavin home ain't easy
prophet's song
39
all dead all dead
it's late
sheer hear attack
dead on time
jealousy
Back chat
Princess of the Universe
Let me live
Dragon Attack
Don't try suicide
Innuendo

also Hangman

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Oszmercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME]my dream setlist would be

not in order

Someday one day
Silver Salmmon
Night comes down
Let us climb together
Father to son
Polar Bear
Doin all right
In the lap of the gods
she makes me
leavin home ain't easy
prophet's song
39
all dead all dead
it's late
sheer hear attack
dead on time
jealousy
Back chat
Princess of the Universe
Let me live
Dragon Attack
Don't try suicide
Innuendo
[/QUOTE]

I would like to take this a step further if I may. What if Queen had preformed one more concert before Freddie died? What would the set list be? After careful consideration, here is in my opinion what it might have looked like.

Breakthru (with tape intro from studio recording)
Tie your mother down
Kashoggi’s ship
I’m going slightly mad
I want to break free
Under pressure
Innuendo
The miracle
Another one bites the dust
Scandal
A kind of magic
Now I’m here (Guitar solo)
Love of my life
Those were the days of our lives
I want it all
Headlong
Invisible man
Bohemian rhapsody
Show must go on
Crazy little thing called love

Encore 1
Radio, ga, ga

Encore 2
We will rock you
Was it all worth it
We are the champions
God save the Queen

1. Machines (intro)
2. One Vision
3. We Will Rock You (Fast)
4. Let Me Entertain You
5. Action This Day
6. I Want It All
7. Seven Seas Of Rhye
8. The Miracle
9. A Kind Of Magic (followed by vocal excercises/"Day-oh")
10. Another One Bites The Dust
11. Under Pressure
12. I Want To Break Free
13. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
14. Brighton Rock Solo (doesn't count in the 25)
-intermission (lasts about 2 minutes)-
15. Death On Two Legs
16. Bohemian Rhapsody
17. Tie Your Mother Down
18. Hammer To Fall
19. Dragon Attack
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
22. Was It All Worth It

encore:
23. The Show Must Go On
24. Jailhouse Rock
25. We Will Rock You
26. We Are The Champions
27. God Save The Queen (doesn't count in the 25)

This sounds pretty good, but I'm not sure...i may change a couple things around later, I don't know...

I've taken it maybe a bit further, and choreographed what I would love to see in a Queen concert, right down to the details of pyrotechnics and key transitions. Like it? Think I'm crazy? Have at it.

1. Seven Seas of Rhye (curtain falls when Freddie sings the first "Seven Seas of Rhye")
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. One Vision
4. Who Wants to Live Forever
5. Somebody to Love
6. You're My Best Friend
7. Killer Queen
8. The March of the Black Queen (the full song, not a medley)
9. Don't Stop Me Now
10. I Want to Break Free
11. Under Pressure
12. '39
13. Brighton Rock (does not count against the 25)
14. Love of My Life
15. Radio Ga-Ga
16. I Want It All
17. Hammer to Fall
18. Dragon Attack
19. Fat Bottomed Girls
20. Another One Bites the Dust
21. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
22. Bohemian Rhapsody (with a piano solo intro)
23. The Show Must Go On
--encore--
24. We Will Rock You
25. In the Lap of the Gods Revisited (see notes for transition details)
26. We Are the Champions
27. God Save the Queen (Does not count against the 25)


Notes:

-Since this is a dream setlist, Freddie Mercury is my frontman. No offense to Paul Rodgers, who did an excellent job in the role, but Freddie *owns* most of these songs.

-Freddie would not be playing piano during "Seven Seas of Rhye," as he would need to be center-stage for the dramatic intro (right after he sings the first "The seven seas of Rhye!" and the guitar hits).

-The band would just keep playing through the end of "Tie Your Mother Down," at which point Freddie would do the introductions.

-As you can probably tell from the song order, I agonized over whether or not to make a medley of "Killer Queen," "March of the Black Queen," and either "You're My Best Friend" or "Lap of the Gods Revisited." YMBF didn't give me any really good transition points, and I really wanted "Gods" at the end of the album, for reasons I'll go into later. Beyond that, I think that with technology being what it is today, Queen could pull off "March of the Black Queen" live, perhaps in a "Bohemian Rhapsody"-esque form, with part of the song being removed completely, and parts being done on tape to a dark stage.

-I stumbled across the transition from "Dragon Attack" to "Fat Bottomed Girls" when my iPod was set to shuffle one day, and maybe I'm crazy, but I've loved the effect ever since.

-Hardest cuts to make: "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "A Kind of Magic"

-My setlist was (obviously) influenced most heavily by Wembley '86 and Q+PR.

-Songs which use pyrotechnics:
Seven Seas of Rhye (a nice bang of an intro as the curtain falls and the band enters)
Tie Your Mother Down (deep boom at the final drum hit)
Bohemian Rhapsody (the usual explosion as the band comes back on for the hard rock section; a curtain of white sparks behind the stage right after "Any way the wind blows" gives way to cymbals and a sustained guitar chord, ending at the gong)
In the Lap of the Gods Revisited (see the setlist for an exact description)

-I was experimenting with songs between WWRY and WATC a while back, and settled on "Killer Queen" and "In the Lap of the Gods Revisited" as two of my favorites. Ultimately, I prefer "Gods" there. The music goes from the heavy beats of WWRY almost instantly into a voice accompanied only by piano singing a soft melody. The intensity of that song, obviously, increases until the crowd is fully involved, and then there's the sudden ending, punctuated by large smoke bombs (similar the ones seen at the end of the 1975 Hammersmith Odeon Christmas concert). The room stays dark and the band silent for 30 seconds or so, before Freddie begins singing WATC and the spotlight shines on him at the piano, with the rest of the lights gradually coming up as well.

Yeah its a really hard choice as I could easily do a 40+ set-list. but here's my 27:

1:One vision
2:I want it all
3:Tie you mother down
4:Killer Queen
5:Seven seas of Rhye
6:Keep yourslef alive Meledy-like works tour
7:Liar (Full version)
8:Death on Two Legs
9:Don't stop me now
10:Innuendo (First 2 verses)
11: The Miricle
12: Under Pressure
13: Now I'm here+Vocal improvisation in middle
14: Love of my life
15: The Hero
16:Gimme the Prize (Never got played but I'd bet it would sound awsome!) Leads onto:
17: Brighton Rock
18:Another one bites the dust
19:Lap of the Gods revisted
20:Bohemian Rhapsody
21:Hammer to fall
22:Crazy little thing called love
23:Radio Ga ga
24:Sheer heart attack
25:We will rock you
26:We are the champions
27:God save the Queen

Very hard choice, If i had a 32 set song list, i'd include a meledy I thought of which goes:

Gimme the Prize, Tear it up, Princes of the Universe, leads on to Brighton rock, but there are other songs more worthy of the place so I just did Gimme the prize and Brighton rock.

One Vision would by exactly the same as the one on magic tour, I want it all would be played slightly faster and with hard drums. TYMD would be like the one from Hot Space tour. Then you have the works meledy of the early songs which I thought was nice but I also decided to have Liar as the full song, just thought it was too epic to cut it down like the real queen did. Death on Two legs, had to include it as its a great song. Don't stop me now is a great fast paced song so no way was I not going to include this. I love the first two verses of Innuendo, prehaps some of the best 2 verses Queen ever made and while they never got to play it live its in my dream set-list, as is the Miricle which is another great song. Under Pressure played exactly like the Budapest 86 version, love that version!
Now I'm here to be played like the late 70's version with vocal improvisation in the middle and hopefully Freddie smashing those high notes. Love of my life, no need for an explantion really!
The Hero is a great song and it feels very climatic to me and I think its a great song, best on the flash album for sure. Gimme the Prize is an intresting one and I feel is a vastly under-rated song, quite why Queen didn't actually play this song live I don't know as it could have been a stunning song live, so I've decided to put it in. Halway through and where the guitar solo starts I'd have Brighton rock, the version on Live Killers would be great!
Then Another one bites the dust, another great that can't really be missed out. Lap of the Gods Revisted is another great song and I think could prove to be a great lead-in to the big one, Bohemian Rhapsody. First two verses sang like the version from the MK Bowl, rock section sang like the Newcastle 79 version, then ending with the Wembley version and a big climax to the song.
From now on its easy to decide the songs, the furst sng after Bo rap is Hammer to fall, a great song, has to be in there I think. Crazy little thing called love next because its a great number and would be a fuzion between the early and later versions, a fast beat like the early ones and the long Guitar section in the middle. Next song would be another legend, Radio Ga Ga, just had to b ein there and exactly the ame to the live aid version which is probably the best version of that song ever live I think. For the encore, starts of with a blistering version of sheer heart attack, not quite sure why they dropped it from the set-list because it was a truely great rock song. The final three are blatently obvious, We will rock followed by we are the Champions and ended by God save the queen.

Here is my Setlist



1.Procession intro (on tape), wich goes into Ogre Battle (i made this some timeago and post it in the fanmixes:http: //www.queenzone.com/queenzone/forumnew/forum_topic_view.aspx?Q=753108)

2.Princes Of The Universe
3.Staying Power
4.Sombody To Love
5.Play the Game
6.Killer Queen/ I'm In Love With My Car or Show Must Go On
7.Now I'm Here
8. Vocal improvisation (with the audience)/Keep Yourself Alive/ Dragon Attack/ Now I'm Here Reprise
9.Is This The World We created or '39
10.Love Of My Live
11. Brighton Rock( complete)/Bring Back That Leroy Brown
12.You Take My Breath Away or Who Wants To Live Forever
13.Prophet's Song
14.Crazy Little Thing Called Love
15.Back Chat
16.Bohemian Rhapsody
17.Hammer To Fall
18.Innuendo

1st encoure:
19.One Vision (without taped intro)
20.Radio Gaga
21. I Want To Break Free
22. A Kind Of Magic
23.Tie Your Mother Down

2nd encoure:
24.Another One Bites The Dust
25.We Will Rock You
26.We Are The Champions
27.God Save The Queen

Let me take this a step further. If Quuen had done one last concert, I think the set list would have looked something like this.
1. Breakthru (with tape intro)
2. Tie your mother down
3. I want to break free
4. I’m going slightly mad
5. Under pressure
6. Innuendo
7. The miracle
8. A kind of magic
9. Scandal
10. Another one bites the dust
11. Now I’m here /Guitar solo
12. Love of my life
13. Those were the days of our lives
14. I want it all
15. Headlong
16. Invisible man
17. Bohemian rhapsody
18. Show must go on
19. Crazy little thing called love
20. Radio Ga, Ga (first encore)
21. We will rock you (second encore)
22. Was it all worth it?
23. We are the champions

Well i'm goin to go along the lines of a setlit that would please me. I suppose mine would sway towards the more heavier elements of the show. Anyway here it goes.

1: Day At The Races (Taped Intro)
2: Princes Of The Universe
3: We Will Rock You (fast)
4: Let Me Entertain You
5: Sweet Lady
6: Seven Seas Of Rhye
7: The Miracle
8: Somebody To Love
9: Killer Queen (Into)
10: I'm In Love With My Car
11: Get Down Make Love
12: Staying Power
13: '39
14: Love Of My Life
15: Stone Cold Crazy
16: Now I'm Here
17: Dragon Attack/Vocal Impro/ Put Out The Fire/ Now I'm Here (Reprise)
18: Brighton Rock (Does Not Count in the 25)
19: Keep Yourself Alive
20: Bohemian Rhapsody

Encore 1
21: I Want It All
22: Radio Ga Ga

Encore 2
23: Tie Your Mother Down
24: Show Must Go On
25: These Are The Days Of Our Lives
26: Hammer To Fall
27: God Save The Queen