Setlist discussion

[keyboardistmatt]

Something that came to me the other day was "If I could choose Arena's setlist for ONE SHOW, what songs would I get them to play?"  Then I thought "What a great question to put to the guys on the forum!" So here we go!

I decided to put this in General Discussion instead of Polls because it's pointless me writing out the Arena back catalogue when you could even choose what order they would be played in.

A couple of things...
1.  Keep it real.  Don't put things like "Everything!!" or "The whole lot!!" or "All their songs!!!"  Imagine there is a time limit of say, 2 hours.
2.  Keep it real.  Songs have to be played at full length.  No splicing the first half of "Moviedrome" with the second half of "Solomon" or forming medleys out of the songs in an attempt to fit in more songs.  (That goes for adjusting tempo as well.)  It's cheating!

Right then. I may as well start!

A Crack In The Ice
Vanishing Act
Witch Hunt
Medusa
Crying for help IV (Only Child)
Skin Game
Salamander
On The Box
Moviedrome
Running From Damascus
Tears In The Rain
Purgatory Road
In The Blink Of An Eye
Riding The Tide
Chosen
Ghost In The Firewall


Confrontation
Opera Fanatica
Crying For Help VII

[kmorse]

Freebird!

Sorry, Matt. I couldn't resist.

[johninblack]

Freebird!

Sorry, Matt. I couldn't resist.

There's always bloody one!

Having given this a bit of thought I came up with this...

Bedlam Fayre
A Crack in the Ice
Elea
The Hanging Tree
(Don't Forget To) Breathe
The Butterfly Man
Smoke And Mirrors
Purgatory Road
Witch Hunt
An Angel Falls
Painted Man
Spectre At The Feast
Skin Game
Waiting for the Flood
The Shattered Room
City of Lanterns
Riding the Tide
Cutting The Cards
Chosen
Enemy Without

Friday's Dream
Jericho
Opera Fanatica
Crying For Help

This would run to about 2hrs 15 minutes And is very similar to the set list from the last tour which I thought was a pretty fantastic set.
I know you said 2 hours but I can't cut it any more, i've removed 40 minutes allready!

[PH]

No splicing the first half of "Moviedrome" with the second half of "Solomon" or forming medleys out of the songs in an attempt to fit in more songs.

Why not? It's completely common in concerts!

Anyway here's my list:

Bedlam Fayre                  6:08
Medusa                           4:28
The Butterfly Man            4:55
Jericho                           6:50
Painted Man                    4:41
The Eyes Of Lara Moon    4:30
Elea                               2:36
The Hanging Tree           7:09
Crying For Help IV          5:05
The Hour Glass               2:45
Fool's Gold                     9:37
A Crack In The Ice          7:25
On The Edge Of Despair   5:43
March Of Time                7:30
Tantalus                          6:51
Climbing The Net             4:40
Moviedrome                    19:43
On The Box                     2:40
Enemy Without                5:05
Solomon                         14:37
Crying For Help VII          3:04

With a total running time of 2 hours 16 minutes and 2 seconds. No more and certainly no less, man!

Note the contagious and contagium songs! I really like them!
I choose a lot of uncommon songs, I guess... (The Eyes Of Lara Moon, Crying For Help IV, The Hour Glass, Fool's Gold, On The Edge Of Despair, March Of Time, Tantalus, On The Box...)

Anyway, a concert like this one should be filmed for DVD!

[JJ II]

I'd love to have some proper portions of The Visitor and Contagion played (together, that is).
Say 30 min's per album and lot's of other songs in between.

Queensryche did this once and I think it worked really well: LIVE EVOLUTION (2001) has a great setlist.

Maybe "Back in Time" would be a great concept:
2 tracks PG [Bedlam Fayre and Opera Fanatica] 20 mins.
30 mins. Contagion
2 tracks Immortal [Chosen and Butterfly Man] 20 mins.
30 mins The Visitor
1 track Pride [Sirens?] 10 mins
----
encore: 2 tracks Songs [Jericho and Solomon] 20 mins.

in total 2 hours 10 mins

[Bupie]

My two cents :

Witch Hunt
Painted Man
Spectre at the Feast
Friday's Dream
Shattered Room
Jericho
Cutting the Cards
Smoke and Mirrors
Waiting for the Flood
Solomon
Butterfly man
Enemy Without
Opera Fanatica
***
Chosen
Cry for Help VII

It might be a little shorter than two hours but I plan the boys to play largely extended versions of Chosen and Cry for Help