I have just been listening to The Cult on Spotify and the first seven tunes form a perfect 30 minute set.
She Sells Sanctuary
Fire Women
Rain
Love Removal Machine
Wild Flower
Edie (Ciao Baby)
Lil’ Devil
After playing those I don’t need any more and can go home happy!
Dawes:
Somewhere Along the Way
Time Spent in Los Angeles
My Way Back Home
I Can’t Love You
Telescope
Most People
A Little Bit of Everything
When My Time Comes
When My Time Comes is a shoo-in.
But there must be a space for All Your Favourite Bands … shirley
Agree: the first one that came instantly to mind!
I recently saw London Calling (Clash tribute act), and despite the posing and posturing I think they nailed it:
Tommy Gun
English Civil War
Guns Of Brixton
Rudie Can’t Fail
Stay Free
London Calling
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
I Fought The Law
Complete Control
9 songs in 30 minutes … Clashtastic
Looks good that!
I saw London Calling earlier this year and they did the whole of Give ‘Em Enough Rope followed by what, in retrospect, was a blinding tight 30 minute set. Kids’ favourite: Bankrobber..
I’ve just remembered I also saw The Jesus and Mary Chain once in one of the few venues with a big clock on the wall. They had already done a best of the first three albums plus Sidewalking and when I glanced at the clock and realised they’d only been on for 45 minutes so far…
Kylie Minogue:
Better The Devil You Know
Confide In Me
Say Something
Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
Being Boiled/Slow
Padam Padam
I Believe In You
On A Night Like This
All The Lovers
I genuinely adore Love at First Sight by Kylie. A great pop song.
I think I’d want Lucky for the well deserved encore. Contrary to most opinion I love it, never more so than with the video.
Jonathan Richman – I’d reckon he’d easily make double figures in 30 minutes –
Vincent Van Gogh
Chewing Gum Wrapper
The Beach
It’s You
Abdul and Cleopatra
Give Paris One More Chance
Someone I Care About
Roadrunner
Surrender
That Summer Feeling
I’ve seen him lots of times and have probably only seen three of those songs live. It’d be a different 10 tomorrow. I have about 60 songs on my Best of.. minidisc.
It Will Stand and Morning Of Our Lives are both brilliant.
Well…okay…a nice restrained four from Van der Graaf Generator:
Pilgrims
Scorched Earth
La Rossa
Gog
On a different day, it would have been two:
A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
House with no Door
Fairport Convention: Sloth.
Huzzah!
I’d like Depeche Mode to do their 30 minutes in the style of the time i.e. not in the beefed up stadium-filling 21st century way. Anyway:
Photographic
New Life
Leave in Silence
Black Celebration
Personal Jesus
Wrong
Never Let Me Down Again
Ghosts Again
New Life is my favourite DM song.
Come on, Colin H….
See below…
Neil Young and the Horse
1. Cortez the Killer
2. Like a Hurricane
3. Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)
He may have to shorten Cortez though!
Set 2
Down by the river
Velvet Underground.
Sister Ray
Choosing on the basis that these tunes are not necessarily my faves, but I think they’d work well as a 30-minute set, with a kick-ass song or two to start, a bit of fast and slow, light and shade, in the middle, and then a big song to finish:
Marillion:
Hooks in You
Incommunicado
Incubus
Script for a Jester’s Tear
Murder Machines
Seasons End
Jethro Tull:
Steel Monkey
Songs from the Wood
Broadsword
Nursie
Thick as a Brick (the short version)
Velvet Green
Locomotive Breath
Pink Floyd:
One Slip
Not Now John
Sheep
The Fletcher Memorial Home
If
Wish You Were Here
Run Like Hell
Richard Thompson
Walking the long miles home
Gethsemane
Turning of the tide
I misunderstood
Persuasion
Tear stained letter
That’s particularly good!
Grateful Dead:
Dark Star
(of course)
Steely Dan.
With a bit of time-travelling to when Walter Becker was still alive and playing..
Don’t Take Me Alive
Do It Again
Black Cow
Babylon Sisters
Black Friday
Kid Charlemagne
Bodhisattva
Opener is one of my favouritts
I’ve put together a very “specialist” 30 minute Led Zeppelin set.
Only one long song, no slow/quiet numbers, and it relies on them maintaining a bit of discipline to keep them all tight (but loose). High energy to the very end!
Custard Pie
Celebration Day
Wearing & Tearing
Achilles’ Last Stand
Living Loving Maid
Immigrant Song
Communication Breakdown
Train Kept a’ Rollin’
October 59… the Memphis Flash, on a weekend pass from the dreary army, gets a bell from the Colonel:
“Get yer arse over to Stockholm, it’s all set up for you… thirty minutes, Rock ‘n’ Roll, TV Special due to go out in EVERY country around the World this Christmas”.
Being Rock ‘n’ Roll, this can be a fifteen song set-list, none of that post-five minute song hokum, and the Flash isn’t going to be wasting our time if he isn’t prepared to waste his own.
Good Rockin’ Tonight
That’s All Right
Mystery Train
I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine
“Then I moved to RCA…” (Audience gets closer to the stage…)
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Blue Suede Shoes
Don’t Be Cruel
One-Sided Love Affair
Paralysed
You’re So Square
Jailhouse Rock
King Creole
I Got Stung
‘From me, Elvis Presley, to the whole World, Happy Christmas…”
Excellent!
Kudos for One-Sided Love Affair!
The Mahavishnu Orchestra – ‘One Word’.
Beat me to it.
Arf!
I’ve been listening to The Yes quite a bit lately, and it seems that they could basically do this:
And You And I
Close to the Edge
…that would show off all their strengths, and both from the same album.
All you need right there.
I see where you’re coming from. But I’ve been giving this one some thought – and, frankly, I can’t do it in a 30 minute set. Too many gems and classics running just under 10 minutes and I’d want more than three…
On reflection: how about this?
And You and I
Heart of the Sunrise
To Be Over
I like this a lot! How about…
Heart of the Sunrise
Long Distance Runaround
The Fish
Roundabout
I’m thinking that almost any of their albums can be made into a 30 minute stormer…
Oh, yes!
(Mind you, ‘The Fish’ without Chris Squire?)
30 minute sets are perfect for non-prolific acts with small discographies and awkward frontmen. With that in mind:
KRAFTWERK
The Man Machine
The Robots
Trans-Europe Express
Home Computer / It’s More Fun To Compute
Tour de France
THE SISTERS OF MERCY
Alice
Burn
Ribbons
Temple Of Love
Marian
This Corrosion
Great set from the Sisters. I’d prefer More instead of Alice to kick things off, but that looks like a storming 30 minutes, especially if they could add a choir on stage for the full sturm und drang of This Corrosion.
Did you know (You probably did) that the Sisters didn’t consider themselves Goth? Ridiculous!
They weren’t – in the Batcave model of Goth that Eldritch saw saw the genre as informed by.
30 minutes of originals:
* First & Last & Always
* Marian
* Body & Soul
* A Rock & A Hard Place
* Fix
* Floorshow
* Body Electric
30 minutes of covers:
* Emma
* Gimme Shelter
* Knockin’ On Heavens Door
* Sister Ray
* 1969
If The Sisters of Mercy had released their records in white cover sleeves rather than black (and changed the font), people wouldn’t have classed them as Goth.
Great sleeves though.
The Cure don’t consider themselves Goth either.
Madness in both cases.
(I used to live round the corner from the Sisters in Leeds. They were goths or none of us were)
Was that the house with Eldritch and Marx? Where the windows were blacked out and they were practically nocturnal?
(To be fair, that does sound a bit Goth.)
I’d like to have a go at Kraftwerk:
Radioactivity
Numbers
TEE
Europe Endless
Tour de France
HAWKWIND
Song of the Swords
Angels of Death
Master of the Universe
Zarozinia
Spirit of the Age
Moonglum
Alternatively: Brainstorm – the full wig-out, with Nik Turner (RIP) squonking away and DikMik and Del turning every knob up to 11.
BLUTENGEL (a bit niche, I know, but check ’em out, pop kids!)
Reich Mir Die Hand
Angels of the Dark
Kinder Dieser Stadt
Complete
Black
Engelsblut
Children of the Night
KATE BUSH (we can but dream that she treads the boards again)
The Big Sky
James and the Cold Gun
Heads We’re Dancing
Lionheart
Wuthering Heights
Babooshka
Hounds of Love
Running Up That Hill
RAMMSTEIN
Ich Will
Links 2-3-4
Deutschland
Mutter
Radio
Zick Zack
Du Hast
The Dickies:
Their entire recorded output.
And for the remaining 5 minutes?
Some cover versions…
XTC (we can only hope)
Peter Pumpkinhead
No Thugs in Our House
Stupidly Happy
Grass
Season Cycle
Scarecrow People
Senses Working Overtime
This Is Pop
I can’t imagine Colin would be happy with only one of his songs on the setlist.
So, democratically, how about..?
Generals & Majors
Love On A Farmboy’s Wages
English Roundabout
The Wheel And The Maypole
One Of The Millions
Statue Of Liberty
Senses Working Overtime
Encore: Making Plans For Nigel
Little Feat
Rock n roll Doctor
Two trains
Six feet of snow
Spanish Moon
Willin
Teenage Nervous Breakdown
(Could be completely different tomorrow).
Don’t know what you’ll make of this one, @Twang – I like Little Feat but I’m not an uber-fan like you and some others on here, so this might look like an unnecessarily oblique approach…
Fat man in the bathtub
Red Streamliner
Sailin’ shoes
Strawberry Flats
Trouble
Mercenary Territory
Spanish Moon
If I could squeeze in a fantasy encore, I’d want them to play China White, the Lowell song on Hoy-Hoy! Great shame that was never worked up as a Feat song (unless I’m wrong and it’s out there somewhere…)
Perfectly good set Fitz. Some real faves missing though. I think the fans might feel short changed though any 6 works for me.
I’ve been contemplating this for a little while:
Easy To Slip
Hi Roller
Two Trains
Rocket In My Pocket
All That You Dream
Long Distance Love
Skin It Back
Spanish Moon
Dixie Chicken
Nice to see some ‘Time Loves a Hero’ songs included, Tiggs – that and ‘The Last Record Album’ don’t seem to get so much love around these parts…
Not here! Love them both. I paid a foolish amount on fleabay for a full page ad for TLAH from NME in the week of issue then had it framed and it resides on my music room wall to this day!
I probably like TLRA more as that was the first Feat I owned.
That’s interesting – TLAH was my first encounter with the Feats – one of my school friends had a big brother who was a drummer. He played us Old Folks’ Boogie, pointed out the shuffle break at about 1’35” – he couldn’t stop moving! But he loaned the album to me and that was that!
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Music for a found harmonium
Scherzo and trio
Giles Farnabys dream
Salty bean fumble
Bean fields
T. Rex
Telegram Sam
Jeepster
Children of the revolution
Metal Guru
The Groover
Get it on
Just under 21 minutes – still enough time left for, say, 20th Century Boy and Hot Love.
Or remove Children of the Revolution with Raw Ramp
I might go for a deep cut with “Root of star” given the time.
The Residents Commercial Album concert.
Each number is only one minute long. I had to drop ten songs from the forty track album. It was a hard task. I wonder if I could persuade the promotor to allow them to overrun by ten minutes?
Easter Woman
Perfect Love
Picnic Boy
Amber
Japanese Watercolor
Secrets
Die in Terror
Red Rider
My Second Wife
Floyd
Suburban Bathers
Dimples and Toes
Love Leaks Out
Act of Being Polite
Loss of Innocence
The Simple Song
Give It to Someone Else
Phantom
Less Not More
My Work Is So Behind
Moisture
Love Is…
La La
Loneliness
Nice Old Man
Fingertips
In Between Dreams
Margaret Freeman
The Coming of the Crow
When We Were Young
No one knows what took place the night before she died
But when they opened up her purse
They found a snail inside
World party 30 minute set as below
Message in a box
Is it like today ?
Sweet soul dream
The Ballard of the little man
Private revolution
Kuwait City
Love street
Call me up
Ship of fools
Ooh, that’s good.
Could never understand why they weren’t more popular.
Me neither. First few albums were sublime.
Top choice.
I met Karl Wallinger after a gig at Leeds Uni in 1986 when there were just 5 people in the audience. We shared their sandwich rider and a beer after the show and got the ticket signed.
The following year they mad it big.
His death was a sad loss to music.
I don’t remember that (and I should have been working – maybe one of my 1 in 5 off).not in the refec? Riley Smith?
The Beat
Best Friend
Too Nice To Talk To
Hands Off…She’s Mine
All Out To Get You
Twist & Crawl
Drowning
Whine And Grine/Stand Down Margaret
Save It For Later
Mirror In The Bathroom
Tears Of A Clown
31 minutes. If you insist, drop Twist & Crawl and extend Stand Down Margaret by a minute.
Who’s about to take the stage for half an hour’s worth of Kolossal Muswell Hill Klassics?
Why – tis the mighty KINKS!
You Really Got Me
Some Mother’s Son
Sweet Lady Genevieve
Dead End Street
Mindless Child of Motherhood
Strangers
Come Dancing
Waterloo Sunset
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
29½ minutes. Laydeez an’ gennelmen – thangyewverymuch!
Hmmmm. These counts seem based on a dodgy premise. Yer Kinks are probably a safe bet but how many acts can we count on not to have an unscheduled bongo solo or bit of crowd involvement to pad out their set?
We once had Dublin pinheads The Golden Horde play a blinding tight 45 at our college. So I rushed to see them at a proper venue some months later. They played the same songs, but the set was stretched closer to 90 minutes by singer Simon Carmody’s endless anecdotes and general wittering..
Just saying!
Earth, Wind & Fire
Let’s Groove
Serpentine Fire
Shining Star
Fantasy
Reasons
In The Stone
September
Fantastic: I can’t imagine a better time than grooving to that.
Chic Cheer
Everybody Dance
I Want Your Love
Le Freak
Good Times
Nice…
…perfectly sequenced as well. Superb.
Echo and the Bunnymen:
Stars are Stars
Lips like Sugar
The Cutter
Ocean Rain
Rescue
The Killing Moon
Nothing Lasts Forever
Bring on the Dancing Horses
Genesis (Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins):
Horizons
Supper’s Ready
Would that be preceded by a long, surreal monologue by Gabriel about Britannia getting wet?
More likely one about old Henry going for a walk then writhing around on the ground and making worms think it must be raining…
Peter might have to be told there’s a strict time limit on the monologue.
As I am seeing them soon, a cosy 30 minutes from OMD would be:
2nd Thought
Enola Gay
Joan of Arc/Maid of Orleans
The Romance of the Telescope
History of Modern part IV
Walking on the Milky Way