Last night on the drive home from the RUSH concert, my friend Randy and I discussed what we had liked about the evening’s setlist and what we hadn’t.  In my case, there were a few songs that I especially missed hearing, and a few I would not have missed had they been excluded.

That got me thinking — what would be my dream setlist for a RUSH concert?  Here’s my first pass at what I’d consider the “ultimate” RUSH concert setlist:
 

SET ONE (1 hour, 29 min)

0. Opening Short Film (05:00)

1. “The Spirit of Radio” (05:00)

2. “Dreamline” (04:37)

3. “Beneath, Between & Behind” (02:36)

4. “Freewill” (05:33)

5. “Bravado” (06:23)

6. “Subdivisions” (05:34)

7. “Cut to the Chase” (04:49)

8. “A Passage to Bangkok” (03:47)

9. “The Analog Kid” (05:15)

10. “Alien Shore” (05:48)

11. “Roll the Bones” (06:16)

12. “Far Cry” (05:19)

13. “Driven” (05:23)

14. “Tom Sawyer” (05:05)

15. “Limelight” (04:29)

16. “Natural Science” (08:05)
 

(intermission: 30 minutes)

SET TWO: (1 hour, 35 min.)

0. Short Film Intro (05:00)

1. “Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres” (18:05)

I. Prelude
II. Apollo/Dionysus
III. Armageddon
IV. Cygnus
V. The Sphere

2. “Circumstances” (3:45)

3. “The Trees” (4:45)

4. “Xanadu” (12:00)

5. “Test for Echo” (06:16)

6. “Workin’ Them Angels” (04:47)

7. “Entre Nous” (04:38)

8. “Witch Hunt” (04:41)

9. “YYZ” (05:26)

10. “The Rhythm Method” (08:20)

11. “Resist” [acoustic version] (04:24)

12. 2112: I. “Overture” & 2112: II.”The Temples of Syrinx” (06:52)

13. “One Little Victory” (05:32)
 

ENCORE (20 min.)

1. “La Villa Strangiato” [complete with Alex Lifeson vocal tangent] (10:05)

2. “Working Man” (07:11)

X. Closing Short Film (03:00)

So, fellow RUSH fans — thoughts?