October 23rd, 2013 
Stuart Here’s a challenge for fans…
You’ve got your tickets. You’re heading to the show. You’re energised and you haven’t even had a beer.
Pick your ultimate set list.
Strictly 20 tracks to keep a limit.
Check the songs list for inspiration.
The Crucible tribute showed that tracks fans and the band dig can differ.
Put your list in the online comments for this thread so the band can see it when they do rehearsals 🙂
*The area to post replies is at the bottom of the page after the replies!*
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Here’s 20 I came up… 🙂
Talking to a Stranger
Skin of our Teeth
Towtruck
The Slab
I Couldn’t Give It To You
Little Chalkie
Say Goodbye
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Inside A Fireball
Do You See What I See?
Faraway Man
Under the Sun
When The River Runs Dry
Blind Eye
Holy Grail
True Tears of Joy
Where Do You Go?
Hear No Evil
Back in the Hole
Wasted in the Sun
Always a difficult one. After an initial 30 it came down to a fight to the death between Lazy Summer Day and Lumps of Lead. Oh to hear that bass on Lumps of Lead played one last time, but Lazy won, just on the basis that it’s more likely to be played than Lumps. No offence to Throw your arms or Holy Grail…but I’m sure you can squeeze them into the encore (along with World of Stone).
If they choose this setlist, I’m flying in from Barcelona. $#%@ the marriage!
So here goes….in order.
1. Talking to a stranger
2. Head above water
3. Is there anybody in there?
4. Back on the breadline
5. Hear no Evil
6. Do you see what I see?
7. Lazy Summers Day
8. Mr. Bigmouth
9. Betty’s Worry or The Slab
10. Under the Sun
11. The way you live
12. True Tears of joy
13. 42 Wheels
14. Blind Eye
15. So Long Ago
16. Run, run, run
17. Know your product
18. When the river runs dry
19. Skin of our teeth
20. Say goodbye
I thought long and hard about this and composed my list without peeking at anyone else’s first. I drew on the fond memories that I have of seeing the band touring in support of specific albums including What’s a Few Men, Ghost Nation and Cut, as well as every cherished note from the boxed set.
01 Holy Grail
02 Everything’s on Fire
03 Blind Eye
04 Easy
05 Is there Anybody In There?
06 Grindstone
07 Hear No Evil
08 Breakneck Road
09 Inside a Fireball
10 Under the Sun
11 Say Goodbye
12 Stuck on You
13 Talking to a Stranger
14 I Believe
15 Living Daylight
16 Wasted in the Sun
17 Do You See What I See?
18 Throw Your Arms Around Me
19 Know Your Product
20 When the River Runs Dry
The final two could be considered encore songs. Close contenders that I had to sacrifice from the list were Gut Feeling (very clever lyrics!) and The Price of Freedom.
Apart from the obvious suspects, it seems Under The Sun is in the running for most popular album track! Gut Feeling and Price of Freedom = Great call. Make those 2 the encore.
The call-outs for me are Breakneck Road, Living Daylights and Under the Sun. Looks like I’m in good company with the latter. I recall how great it was when I saw the band perform it at my first ever H&C gig, Hordern Pavillion 1987. Same for Breakneck Road.
I could have happily added Relief and This Morning too, but I guess you’ve got to draw the line somewhere and give others a go too.
Cheers,
Gary.
I hate to think what the band thinks of this list…its entirely selfish of course! Just compiled from fond memories of songs I flogged to death while driving, and songs I have fond memories from hot sweaty gigs.
…but I really would die happy if I got to hear them play Run Run Run for 10 mins….one last time.
1.Run Run Run
2.Towtruck
3.Talking To A stanger
4.42 Wheels
5.Lumps of Lead
6.World OF Stone
7.Red Lane
8.Little Chalkie
9.Slab
10.Sway
11.Throw Your Arms Around Me
12.Dog
13.Hayley’s Doorstep
14.I Couldn’t Give To You
15.Whats A Few Men
16.Is There Anybody In There
17.January Rain
18.Everythings on Fire
19.Stuck on You
20.Say Goodbye
Yes Stuart! Great idea. I’m not going to do 20, because there’s some fairly obvious ones I think we’ll all have (I imagine the band will definitely put in Stranger, Slab, Goodbye, Throw, See, River, Blind, Grail, Tears and Go? – so that’s 10 songs I’m not worried about). I’m interested in the songs at the margins, so I’ll offer 10:
(I did it only after seeing Stu’s list)
1. Skin of our Teeth: was a highlight of the V8 gig and should continue, however if the band were feeling like re-learning another old song, I’d happily replace it with “Run Run Run”. This would be good for those of us doing multiple gigs. I know this is a big ask, and I wouldn’t expect both in the same show.
2. Towtruck
3. Red Lane – underrated Jaws track. Controversial I know!
4. I Believe – great song for the encore I reckon!
5. This Morning – is a must for me.
6. Living Daylight – Inside a Fireball is too common for me
7. Under the Sun – great track!
8. Ladykiller (or maybe Betrayer) – something a bit different from Demon Flower
9. Those Days Are Gone – farewell from Juggernaut
10. Know Your Product
Honourable mentions to Relief, We the People, Little Chalkie – sorry, you missed out this time.
So hard to choose just 20. There are a few really solid ones I would always want and then a bunch that may change depending on my mood. If the band is reading and there is a doubt add songs from the first three albums. In order of album release:
1. Talking To A Stranger
2. Alligator Engine
3. Tender Kinder Baby
4. Mr. Right
5. 42 Wheels
6. I Couldn’t Give It To You
7. Betty’s Worry or The Slab
8. Say Goodbye
9. Is There Anybody In There
10. Dog
11. Everything’s On Fire
12. Throw Your Arms Around Me
13. Do You See What I See
14. Under The Sun
15. Real World
16. Faraway Man
17. When The River Runs Dry
18. Blind Eye
19. Crime Of Passion
20. You Stole My Thunder
My ultimate setlist would include a bit of a best of chronology plus a couple of old favourites from the living daylights EP and a Paul Kelly cameo to work through Parting Glass and a couple of others.
OK here goes:
1. Talking To A Stranger
2. Lumps of Lead
3. The Way To Go Out
4. Little Chalkie
5. The Slab
6. January Rain
7. Say Goodbye
8. Everything’s On Fire
9. The Living Daylights
10. Is There Anybody In There
11. Do You See What I See
12. What’s A Few Men
13. When The River Runs Dry
14. Blind Eye
15. The Way You Live
16. Head Above Water
17. We The People
Encore (With Paul Kelly)
18. Parting Glass
19. This Morning
20. Stuck On You
Going down from album:
01. Talking to a Stranger
02. Skin of Our Teeth / Alligator Engine (w/ The Panics)
03. 42 Wheels
04. I Wouldn’t Give It Too You / Red Lane
05. The Slab
06. Say Goodbye
07. Throw Your Arms Around Me (1986 Version)
08. Is There Anybody In There?
09. Do You See What I See? (w/ British India)
10. So Long Ago / What Are You Waiting For?
11. Droptank / Living Daylight / Inside A Fireball
12. When The River Runs Dry (w/ Something For Kate)
13. Blind Eye
14. Head Above Water
15. Holy Grail
16. True Tears of Joy
17. Back In The Hole / The One and Only You
18. Panic In The Shade / Betrayer
19. Human Kind / Long Way To The Water
20. Know Your Product (The Saint Cover) / Any Other B-Side
With so many top notch songs, it’s hard to pick only one so most I’ve gone between two. So I guess I’m calling this the realistic set-list 😀
With three of the artists performing on Crucible joining the Tour, Why not get them up on stage to help perform the song they covered?
This is a totally self indulgent set list…. I’m sure some songs the average punter would never have heard! Obviously I am adding some of the favs… Here goes and in no particular order:
1. Talking to a Stranger
2. I believe
3. The way to go out
4. The Slab
5. Say Goodbye
6. Dog
7. 99th Home Position
8. You stole my thunder
9. Around the flame
10. Suit your style
11. Holy Grail
12. Blind Eye
13. Inside a fireball
14. Still hanging round
15. When the river runs dry
16. What are you waiting for?
17. Love all over again
18. We the people
19. Carry me
20 Throw your arms around me
Certain songs on this list take me back to the days of the Tivoli Hotel in Adelaide when I snuck in under age and got back stage for autographs…. god love the Hunnas 🙂
Spent a lot of my weekend on this. Very tough. Going to do the same thing with crowded house, u2 and oils for fun (I think).
1. Where do you go
2. blind eye
3. Still hanging round
4. Dog
5. Lady killer
6. Suit your style
7. Everything’s on fire
8. Breadline
9. True tears of joy
10. Holy grail
11. When the river runs dry
12. Breakneck road
13. What’s a few men
14. Faraway man
15. Around the flame
16. Is there anybody in there
17. Say goodbye
18. The one and only you
19. We the people
20. Hear no evil
very self indulgent of me
World Of Stone
Talking To A Stranger
Skin Of Our Teeth
Junket Head
Run Run Run
Towtruck
Lumps Of Lead
Throw Your Arms Around Me
The Way To Go Out
Follow Me No More
The Slab
Carry Me
I Couldn’t Give It To You
Everything’s On Fire
Is There Anybody In There?
Do You See What I See
What’s A Few Men
When The River Runs Dry
Holy Grail
True Believers
I believe in……….
1 tow truck
2 blind eye
3 give me a reason
4 do you see what i see
5 dog
6 this moorning
7 hayleys doorstep
8 Carry me
9 hear no evil
10 Titanic
11 everything’s on fire
12 holy grail
13 when the rivers run dry
14 big mouth
15 the slab
16 head above water
17 talking to a stranger
18 sway
19 say goodbye
20 Throw your arms around me
I did a quick tally of the top 20 votes so far…
(includes the songs Jobby assumed would get a guernsey)
Talking To a Stranger 11
When The River Runs Dry 11
Say Goodbye 11
Slab 10
Blind Eye 10
Throw Your Arms Around Me 9
Is There Anybody In There 8
Holy Grail 8
Do You See What I See 8
Everything’s On Fire 7
Dog 5
Hear No Evil 5
I Couldn’t Give It To You 5
True Tears Of Joy 5
Towtruck 4
Skin Of Out Teeth 4
Head Above water 4
Whats A Few Men 4
We The People 4
42 Wheels 4
sadly only 3 votes for Run Run Run so far 🙁
make that 4 !!!
BTW, thanks for collating that, Mark! 🙂
Top 20 only is a tough ask, so here goes, would love to see Run Run Run again with the crowd going ballistic…..a la the Gluepot in Auckland in ’83
1. The Slab
2. I Believe
3. Towtruck
4. Stuck on You
5. Wasted in The Sun
6. Where Do You Go
7. Say Goodbye
8. Head Above Water
9. This Morning
10.Stuck On You
11.True Believers
12.Throw Your Arms Around Me
13.Under the Sun
14.Drop In The Ocean
15.Relief
16.Everything’s On Fire
17.Blind Eye
18.When the River Runs Dry
19.Run Run Run
20.Do You See What I See
As much as “Stuck on you” is a great song, it can not be played twice when there are so many other contenders begging to be played….so 4. should be Red lane
My list
Back On The Breadline
Follow Me
42 Wheels
Honey in the Jar/Thin White Thighs (love love love this song with or without lyrics)
Little Chalkie
99th Home Position
Under the Sun (Where I Come From)
Still Hanging Round
Talking to a Stranger
Throw your arms around me
The Way to Go Out
The Slab
Carry Me
Dog
Crime of Passion
Head above Water
Easy
When the River Runs Dry
The Unbeliever
Say Goodbye
Breakneck Road
Living Daylight
True Tears of Joy
The One and Only You
Another One Like You
Hear No Evil
Pocket
Courtship of America
Good Man Down
Newborn
Still Hangin’ ‘Round
Betrayer
Mother Hubbard
Tender
What’s a Few Men?
Dog
The Trade Off
Encore:
Love All Over Again
Under the Sun
Say Goodbye
42 wheels
Blind eye
True tears of joy
Talking to a stranger
Back in the hole
Holy Grail
Ghost nation
Edge of Nowhere
Say Goodbye
Grindstone
Easy
Hear no evil
Stuck on You
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Say Goodbye
Where Do You Go
When the river runs dry
Do you see what I See
From the edge of nowhere
True Believers
I’m a bit of a 90’s guy but… Meh! 🙂
So many great tracks but after considerable thought, my 20 favourite are the following:
1. Run Run Run
2. True Believers
3. This Morning
4. Lumps of Lead
5. Courtship of America
6. 42 Wheels
7. Hear No Evil
8. Those Days are Gone
9. Ghost Nation
10. Dog
11. Ladykiller
12. Relief
13. Carry Me
14. I’m Set Free
15. Wasted in the Sun
16. Inside a Fireball
17. Boo Boo Kiss
18. Edge of Nowhere
19. Everything’s on Fire
20. Holy Grail
that was soooooooo tough !!!!
Holy Grail
Where do you go
When the river runs dry
Talking to a stranger
Skin of our teeth
Run Run Run
World of Stone
The Slab
Carry Me
Faraway man
Do you see what I see?
So long ago
Breakneck Road
What are you waiting for?
Say Goodbye
Dog
Everything’s on fire
The Finger
Is there anybody in there
This morning
Take me back to the early days! One of my favourite gigs was at the ‘old’ Chevron Hotel in Kings Cross…. in the very early days where, standing at the very front, the stage height was just above my knees and you could ‘touch’ the band…. My list and in no particular order;
1. The Slab
2. Run Run Run (oh please please please play this April 5 Syd gig!!)
3. Head Above Water
4. Give Me A Reason
5. Talking to a Stranger
6. Say Goodbye
7. I Believe (oh you know my name is Ray)
8. Breakneck Road
9. Breadline
10. Where Do You Go
11. Throw Your Arms
12. Inside a Fireball
13. Everything’s on Fire
14. Far Away Man
15. Do You See What I See?
16. Anybody In There?
17. River Runs Dry
18. 42 Wheels
19. Couldn’t give it to you
20. We The People
Thanks H&C
As painfull as this was, it was a lot of fun. To only select 20 songs from the hundreds is a mean task. Who would put their hand up to tell ‘when the river runs dry’ that it didn’t make the cut, or ” sorry, ‘carry me’, just can’t play you this time. No easy task! But what a dream come true, to have your own Hunters set list.
Here goes,
Titanic
Inside a Fireball
Holy Grail
Those Days are Gone
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Tears of Joy
Little Chalkie
42 Wheels
We The People
Something to Believe in
Tow truck
Follow Me No More
Blind Eye
Talking to a Stranger
True Believers
The Slab
Matter of Time
Hear No Evil
Love All Over Again
Betrayer
Thanks H+C for all the memories and looking forward to seeing you guys one last time in the Hunter Valley
1. We the People
2. Most Unoriginal Sin
3. Say Good Bye
4. True Tears of Joy
5. Betrayer
6. Lady Killer
7. Talking to a Stranger
8. Everythings On Fire
9. Blind Eye
10. Where Do You Go?
11. Head Above Water
12. The Slab
13. Hear No Evil
14. Run Run Run
15. 42 Wheels
16. Little Chalkie
17. The One and Only You
18. Throw Your Arms Around Me
19. Do You See What I See
20. Holy Grail
I hope the band can celebrate the shows next year with more than a handful of songs from the classic 80’period…
1. Faraway Man
2. Is There Anybody In There
3. When The River Runs Dry
4. Blind Eye
5. Everything’s on Fire
6. Dog
7. The Slab
8. Still Hanging Round
9. 99th Home Position
10. Easy
11. I Believe
12. Holy Grail
13. Stuck On You
14. Inside A Fireball
15. Where Do You Go
16. Say Goodbye
17. Throw Your Arms Around Me
18. Do You See What I See
19. This Morning
20. Know Your Product
1. Holy Grail (First song of my first live gig)
2. Know Your Product
3. Do You See What I See?
4. We The People (Have NEVER seen it played live)
5. Talking to a Stranger
6. The Slab
6.5 . 42 Wheels
7. Easy
8. When The River Runs Dry
9. This Morning
10. Where Do You Go?
11. Blind Eye
12. Still Hanging Round
12.25 Say Goodbye
13. Chalkie
13.33333 True Tears of Joy.
14. Follow Me No More
14.75 The Way You Live
15. Head Above Water
15.125 Throw Your Arms Around Me
16. Dog
17. Inside a Fireball
17.66666 Stuck on You
18. Back on the Breadline
19. What’s a Few Men?
20. Everything’s on Fire
In no particular order….