My dream setlist for a RUSH concert
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?