Your Ultimate Rush

It's been a while since I've done one of these.

You get Rush to perform a concert for you and your friends for two hours.  And YOU get to choose the set list.  Two hours, though- then they're out.  What would be your ultimate Rush set list?

*faints*

Ok.  I'll play.

Heh.

Crucially

Bastille Day
Lakeside Park
I Think I'm Going Bald
The Necromancer
The Fountain Of Lamneth
Cygnus X-I

And to fill up time...

Vital Signs
The Spirit Of Radio
The Enemy Within
Red Sector A (or whatever it's called)
Distant Early Warning
Far Cry
Closer To The Heart
Xanadu
Something For Nothing

Probably within two hours.

Epignosis wrote: Ricochet wrote: 1. Anthem 2. Distant Early Warning 3. Animate 4. Closer To The Heart 5. Spirit Of The Radio 6. Limelight 7. Entre Nous 8. Working Man 9. Bastille Day 10. Fly By Night 11. 2112 (8 minutes of fragments) Intermission 8. Cygnus X-1 I & II 9. The Trees 10. La Vita Strangiato 12. Mystic Rhythms 13. Roll The Bones 14. Tom Sawyer 18. Der Trommler 19. Natural Science 20. Subdivisions 21. Summertime Blues 22. YYZ Someone's being greedy.  That's a tad longer than 2 hours, I suspect.

No it isn't. One epic in each part, plus lot of short ones make up an hour each part.

Of course, I haven't actually done the math.

The Doctor wrote: Ricochet wrote: Epignosis wrote: Ricochet wrote: 1. Anthem 2. Distant Early Warning 3. Animate 4. Closer To The Heart 5. Spirit Of The Radio 6. Limelight 7. Entre Nous 8. Working Man 9. Bastille Day 10. Fly By Night 11. 2112 (8 minutes of fragments) Intermission 8. Cygnus X-1 I & II 9. The Trees 10. La Vita Strangiato 12. Mystic Rhythms 13. Roll The Bones 14. Tom Sawyer 18. Der Trommler 19. Natural Science 20. Subdivisions 21. Summertime Blues 22. YYZ Someone's being greedy.  That's a tad longer than 2 hours, I suspect. No it isn't. One epic in each part, plus lot of short ones make up an hour each part. Of course, I haven't actually done the math.   I did for you.  At a minimum that's about 140 minutes.    Your first part may be only about 60 minutes, but you have a 30 minute epic and two 9 minute songs in the second part.

Damn.

How about now?

Oh man!!!

Ricochet wrote: Fine. 1. Distant Early Warning 2. Animate 3. Closer To The Heart 4. Spirit Of The Radio 5. Working Man 6. Fly By Night 7. 2112 (8 minutes of fragments) Intermission 8. Cygnus X-1 I & II 9. By-Tor and the Snow Dog 10. La Vita Strangiato 11. Roll The Bones 12. Der Trommler 13. Natural Science 14. Summertime Blues How's it now?

1. Bastille Day (4.5)
2. Working Man* (5)
3. Xanadu (11)
4. Entre Nous (4.5)
5. Camera Eye (11)
6. Losing It (5)

Intermission

7. Circumstances (3.5)
8. Red Barchetta (6)
9. Cygnus X-1 Book II* (14)
10. The Trees (5)
11. La Villa Strangiato + various displays of virtuosity (16)
12. Anthem (4.5)
13. Natural Science (9.5)


Encore:
2112 (20.5)

* indicates a shortened version of the song


That was tough. I'm glad I don't know much of their 1984-2002 stuff otherwise the paradox of choice would have struck even harder. My first go at this brought the setlist to right about 3 hours. I had to make some sacrifices that I would surely regret if I actually had to pick a 2 hour setlist for them.



Edited by TheCaptain - March 31 2009 at 16:54

The Necromancer
In The End
Different Stings
Lessons
Broons Bane/The Trees
Emotion Detector
Kid Gloves
Open Secrets
Territories
--INTERMISSION--
Red Lenses
Red Tide
Red Barchetta
Red Sector A
.Didacts/Narpets (Fountain Drum Solo) through Bacchus Plateau
Beneath,Between,Behind
Chemistry
Losing it

Red is a Peart motif so I thought I'd start the second half with all of em'. Either that or the Fear trilogy would be nice to start of as well..


Edited by zachfive - March 31 2009 at 17:47