2015 Setlists...Predictable and Stale...(Spoilers)
Aug 18, 2015 14:46:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2015 14:46:45 GMT -5
The recent set lists speak of a band tired and unimaginative. They played Port Chester in NY earlier this month, on their own (well one opener) and could have done some interesting stuff. But nope here one set:
Wild Boys
A View to a Kill
The Reflex
Come Undone
Is There Something I Should Know?
Girl Panic!
All You Need Is Now
The Chauffeur
Election Day
(Arcadia cover)
Ordinary World
Notorious
Pressure Off
Planet Earth
Hungry Like the Wolf
(Reach Up for the) Sunrise
Encore:
White Lines
(Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel cover)
Rio
17 songs. That's it. The only real 'outside the box' songs were 'The Chauffeur' (played many many times in modern history) and 'Election Day' (again, somewhat rare but still was a major hit). Everything else was the same old re-hashed hits. I mean White Lines? Again? Sunrise? Really? Awful.
To compare we saw U2 in June. They played 25 songs, including a bside, several rare album tracks, and plenty of hits. A very diversified set.
I saw Rush last month; 27 songs, again rare tracks, etc...
Duran Duran just do not give a damn. You can't go out there with a theater show and play 17 songs and basically the same greatest hits set list... Yes, they played 'Careless Memories' on the first night, but again, so what?
Is it Simon's voice? Can he not handle more than 17 songs? Then play an instrumental like they did in the past...
It just seems that when the official PG tour starts they will need to fit another 4 - 5 new songs in the set, and any chance of something rare or outside the box will get cut. There are still a few songs from the 81 - 85 period that have not been played live in 30 years; Seventh Stranger, Cracks in the Pavement, Of Crime & Passion, Shadows on Your Side (except for the few fan shows in 2010..), many have barely seen play; Lonely in Your Nightmare, many of the bsides.
Not to mention the entire 1986 - 2000 period, of which is only represented by 4 songs (Notorious, OW, CU, and White Lines)....
Are DD just too afraid to go too far outside the box at this point? They have before on the RCM tour (Last Chance on the Stairway, I Take the Dice..) and certainly during 2004 - 2006. Just seems that they are getting more and more afraid to go beyond the hits. I get you need the big ones in every set, but a 20 song setlist could include 10 'greatest hits', 5 new songs and 5 rare bones for the hardcore fans... Of course festivals you have to stick with the hits (Unless you're The Cure who have the balls to play the rarest of rare tracks at festivals).
Still, I'm hoping DD shake things up in 2016 when they tour the US properly, because I'm not paying $100 for another purely greatest hits set.
Wild Boys
A View to a Kill
The Reflex
Come Undone
Is There Something I Should Know?
Girl Panic!
All You Need Is Now
The Chauffeur
Election Day
(Arcadia cover)
Ordinary World
Notorious
Pressure Off
Planet Earth
Hungry Like the Wolf
(Reach Up for the) Sunrise
Encore:
White Lines
(Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel cover)
Rio
17 songs. That's it. The only real 'outside the box' songs were 'The Chauffeur' (played many many times in modern history) and 'Election Day' (again, somewhat rare but still was a major hit). Everything else was the same old re-hashed hits. I mean White Lines? Again? Sunrise? Really? Awful.
To compare we saw U2 in June. They played 25 songs, including a bside, several rare album tracks, and plenty of hits. A very diversified set.
I saw Rush last month; 27 songs, again rare tracks, etc...
Duran Duran just do not give a damn. You can't go out there with a theater show and play 17 songs and basically the same greatest hits set list... Yes, they played 'Careless Memories' on the first night, but again, so what?
Is it Simon's voice? Can he not handle more than 17 songs? Then play an instrumental like they did in the past...
It just seems that when the official PG tour starts they will need to fit another 4 - 5 new songs in the set, and any chance of something rare or outside the box will get cut. There are still a few songs from the 81 - 85 period that have not been played live in 30 years; Seventh Stranger, Cracks in the Pavement, Of Crime & Passion, Shadows on Your Side (except for the few fan shows in 2010..), many have barely seen play; Lonely in Your Nightmare, many of the bsides.
Not to mention the entire 1986 - 2000 period, of which is only represented by 4 songs (Notorious, OW, CU, and White Lines)....
Are DD just too afraid to go too far outside the box at this point? They have before on the RCM tour (Last Chance on the Stairway, I Take the Dice..) and certainly during 2004 - 2006. Just seems that they are getting more and more afraid to go beyond the hits. I get you need the big ones in every set, but a 20 song setlist could include 10 'greatest hits', 5 new songs and 5 rare bones for the hardcore fans... Of course festivals you have to stick with the hits (Unless you're The Cure who have the balls to play the rarest of rare tracks at festivals).
Still, I'm hoping DD shake things up in 2016 when they tour the US properly, because I'm not paying $100 for another purely greatest hits set.