Manics Unplugged: Create your setlist

[darkanddivine]

OK, so lets see what people would like if they did a full acoustic show. These gigs tend to be quite short and sweet, so I'm going to say the max number of songs is 15. What would your ideal setlist be?

[riot_star]

1. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
2. Red Sleeping Beauty
3. You Love Us
4. Some Kind of Nothingness
5. Born A Girl
6. Bright Eyes
7. This Is Yesterday
8. No Surface All Feeling
9. I Live To Fall Asleep
10. If You Tolerate This....
11. Royal Correspondent
12. Motorcycle Emptiness
13. Facing Page: Top Left
14. Motown Junk
15. A Design For Life

I kept in a mixture of what they would be most likely to play and songs that I love done acoustic.

[Dean V]

Motorcycle Emptiness (a 4 minute version, acoustic over 7 minutes for this song makes it drag)
Door to the River
Elvis Impersonator
Tolerate
The Everlasting
Baby Elian
So Why So Sad
To Repel Ghosts
Cardiff Afterlife
Hibernation
Donkeys
All Alone Here
Hazelton Avenue
Valley Boy
Year of Purification
Epicentre
Forever Delayed

No idea on how I'd lay them out, but there you are.

[manicspain]

1-Mr carbohydrate
2-Donkeys
3-Epicentre
4-This is yesterday
5-Black dog on my shoulder
6-Small black flowers
7-Some kind of nothingness
8-Firefight
9-The girl from tiger bay
10-Little baby nothing
11-Golden platitudes
12-Let Robeson sing

[jdb's nipple]

1.Little baby nothing
2.Be Natural
3.Hazelton avenue
4.Valley Boy
5. The girl from tiger bay
6.1985
7.cant take my eyes off you
8.Facing page Top Left
9.Masoleum
10. Dead Trees and Traffic islands
11. golden platitudes
12 Design for Life

[the-indy-script]

1- Your love alone is not enough
2- Enola/Alone
3- 1985
4- Some kind of nothingness
5- You Stole the sun from my heart
6- Yes
7- This joke sport severed
8- If you tolerate this your children will be next
9- Stay beautiful
10- Can't take my eyes off you (!)
11- You love us
12- Golden platitudes
13- A design for life

[laramblas]

I'd like to hear Umbrella, 1404 & Red Sleeping Beauty in the set

[PCCCP]

01 Donkeys
02 Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
03 Ain't Goin' Down
04 Faster
05 Hibernation
06 Born A Girl
07 Facing Page: Top Left
08 Yes
09 Little Baby Nothing
10 Baby Èlian
11 So Why So Sad
12 Too Cold Here
13 This Is Yesterday
14 4 st 7 lb
15 Red Sleeping Beauty
16 1404
17 Archives Of Pain
18 R.P. McMurphy
19 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
20 The Intense Humming Of Evil


...and if it's just 15 songs, then:

01 Donkeys
02 Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
03 Ain't Goin' Down
04 Hibernation
05 Facing Page: Top Left
06 Yes
07 Little Baby Nothing
08 So Why So Sad
09 Too Cold Here
10 This Is Yesterday
11 4 st 7 lb
12 1404
13 Archives Of Pain
14 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
15 The Intense Humming Of Evil

[darkanddivine]

Interesting choices! I'd love to see them do this with an orchestra and piano type setup.

Here's my go.

1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. My Little Empire
3. Donkeys
4. Too Cold Here
5. Black Dog on My Shoulder
6. Facing Page: Top Left
7. Life Becoming A Landslide
8. Ready for Drowning
9. Further Away
10. 4st 7lbs
11. Methadone Pretty
12. Close My Eyes
13. Small Black Flowers
14. I Live To Fall Asleep
15. Tolerate

[starstruck]

well, if (and it's a major if) they were going to ever do an unplugged / storytellers and release it, in order to "break their promise" about no live albums, i think they'd have to do a standard blend for the format, which would be one off performances of songs and covers to justify the release. mindful of that, and what the band would "want" to do from a commercial perspective, an entirely wildcard set for you :

01 1985
02 Lithium (Nirvana cover)
03 A Design For Life
04 Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
05 This Is Yesterday
06 From Despair To Where
07 Sweet Child O Mine (G N R cover)
08 If You Tolerate This.....
09 *Happy Mondays cover other than WFL* (Donovan? God's Cop?)
10 It's Not War....
11 Autumnsong
12 *any James Bond theme* (my choice - View To A Kill)
13 Some Kind Of Nothingness (presumably, if this is the next/current single?)
14 Motown Junk intro to Motorcycle Emptiness

that wouldn't be my particular choice, that's what i think they might think might make it different enough to do and yet also commercial. a mix of fan favourites, big hits, curveball choices and not entirely "unplugged" either so that the whole band would/could do it rather than just the James and guitar show.

open to suggestions on the covers, they just strike me as bands they might have a go at, and i always get the sense that they are itching to have a crack at a "classic" Bond number one of these days..... dream come true would be a Stones or Bowie cover?

[Donkey]

I'm not particulary interested in them doing that but...


1. Archives Of Pain
2. Donkeys
3. Peeled Apples
4. This Joke Sport Severed
5. Solitude Sometimes Is
6. 4st 7lb
7. All Is Vanity
8. Emily
9. Enola/Alone
10. Just A Kid
11. Doors Closing Slowly
12. Hibernation
13. Auto - Intoxication
14. Die In The Summertime
15. I Live To Fall Asleep



I'd pay a million to hear that!

[River Boy]

I'm sure they'd probably put a couple if hits in - Design, Tolerate or YSTSFYH - but if they were to go down the route of an untypical setlist these are the songs that I think would sound great.

1. Don't Be Evil
2. Further Away
3. This Joke Sport Severed
4. Little Baby Nothing
5. Black Dog on My Shoulder
6. Some Kind of Nothingness
7. To Repel Ghosts
8. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
9. Life Becoming a Landslide
10. 4st 7lbs
11. Dead Trees and Traffic Islands
12. RP McMurphy
13. Doors Closing Slowly
14. Golden Platitudes
15. Welcome to the Dead Zone

Hmmm! Not sure about Little Baby Nothing but little from GT would work acoustically.

[Isola]

1) Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
2) Ready For Drowning
3) Facing Page: Top Left
4) 1985
5) Some Kind of Nothingness
6) Bright Eyes
7) My Little Empire
8) Door To The River
9) Little Baby Nothing
10) Solitude Sometimes Is
11) There By The Grace of God
12) Baby Elian
13) Golden Platitudes
14) If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
15) A Design For Life

[A boy called Rita]

1. Enola/Alone
2. Little baby nothing
3. Ready for drowing
4. The intense humming of evil
5. I live to fall asleep
6. His last painting
7. This joke sport severed
8. No surface all feeling
9. Small black flowers that grow in the sky
10. Donkeys
12. Die in the summertime
13. Forever delayed
14. Life becoming a landslide
15. Firefight

[roi]

Procrastinating so i'll do this

Australia
Little Baby Nothing
Your Love Alone
Golden Platitudes
Ready For Drowning
Donkeys
The Girl From Tiger Bay
Life Becoming A Landslide
This Is Yesterday
Small Black Flowers
You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
I Think I Found It
I Live To Fall Asleep
Stay Beautiful
A Design For Life