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Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?

Vapor Trails tour
2 (9.5%)
R30: 30th Anniversary tour
3 (14.3%)
Snakes & Arrows tour
1 (4.8%)
Time Machine tour
4 (19%)
Clockwork Angels tour
11 (52.4%)

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Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« on: April 03, 2014, 02:17:33 PM »
Vapor Trails tour set list
Tom Sawyer
Distant Early Warning
New World Man
Roll the Bones
Earthshine
YYZ
The Pass
Bravado
The Big Money
Between Sun and Moon (alternated with The Trees on latter half of the tour)
Vital Signs (alternated with Freewill on latter half of the tour)
Closer to the Heart (only added for a handful of shows)
Natural Science

One Little Victory
Driven
Ghost Rider or Ceiling Unlimited
Secret Touch
Dreamline
Red Sector A
Leave That Thing Alone
Drum solo
Resist (acoustic)
2112 (Parts I & II)
Limelight
La Villa Strangiato
The Spirit of Radio

By-Tor and the Snow Dog (abbreviated)
Cygnus X-1 (first half only)
Working Man

R30: 30th Anniversary tour set list
"R30 Overture" (instrumental medley representing excerpts of Finding My Way, Anthem, Bastille Day, A Passage to Bangkok, Cygnus X-1, and Hemispheres)
The Spirit of Radio
Force Ten
Animate
Subdivisions
Earthshine
Red Barchetta
Roll the Bones
Bravado
YYZ
The Trees
The Seeker
One Little Victory

Tom Sawyer
Dreamline
Secret Touch
Between the Wheels
Mystic Rhythms
Red Sector A
Drum solo
Resist (acoustic)
Heart Full of Soul (Acoustic version with Peart on drums)
2112 (Parts I, II and VII)
La Villa Strangiato
By-Tor & The Snow Dog (abbreviated)
Xanadu (abbreviated)
Working Man
Encore
Summertime Blues
Crossroads
Limelight

Snakes & Arrows tour set list
Limelight
Digital Man
Entre Nous (2007 leg)/Ghost of a Chance (2008 leg)
Mission
Freewill
The Main Monkey Business
The Larger Bowl
Secret Touch (2007 leg)/Red Barchetta (2008 leg)
Circumstances (2007 leg)/The Trees (2008 leg)
Between the Wheels
Dreamline

Far Cry
Workin' Them Angels
Armor and Sword
Spindrift
The Way the Wind Blows
Subdivisions
Natural Science
Witch Hunt
Malignant Narcissism
Drum Solo
Hope
Distant Early Warning (alternated with Summertime Blues early on in the 2007 tour)/2112 (Parts I & II) (2008 tour, and one spot lower)
The Spirit of Radio (one spot higher on 2008 tour)
Tom Sawyer

One Little Victory
A Passage to Bangkok
YYZ

Time Machine tour set list
The Spirit of Radio
Time Stand Still
Presto
Stick It Out
Workin' Them Angels
Leave That Thing Alone
Faithless
BU2B
Freewill
Marathon
Subdivisions

Tom Sawyer
Red Barchetta
YYZ
Limelight
The Camera Eye
Witch Hunt
Vital Signs
Caravan
Drum Solo
Closer to the Heart
2112 (Parts I & II)
Far Cry

La Villa Strangiato (with polka intro)
Working Man (with reggae intro)
Cygnus X-1 teaser (second leg only)

Clockwork Angels tour set list
Subdivisions
The Big Money
Force Ten
Grand Designs
Middletown Dreams/The Body Electric alternating (and occasionally alternating with Limelight)
Territories
The Analog Kid
The Pass/Bravado (alternating)
Where's My Thing/Drum solo
Far Cry

Caravan
Clockwork Angels
The Anarchist
Carnies (every show but one, where Seven Cities of Gold took its place)
The Wreckers
Headlong Flight/short second Drum solo
Acoustic guitar solo/Halo Effect
Wish Them Well or Seven Cities of Gold
The Garden
Manhattan Project or Dreamline
third Drum solo
Red Sector A
YYZ
The Spirit of Radio (alternated with Working Man for first eight dates of the tour)

Tom Sawyer
2112 (Parts I, II and VII)

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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2014, 02:20:19 PM »
Tough call between the first two and the CA tour, but I have to give the slight edge to Vapor Trails tour; it just had so many classics, as well as a bunch of new great ones.  Plus, I have major nostalgic love for it, since it was the return of the boys, and the show I saw in August 2002 remains one of my three favorite shows by anyone, ever.

The CA tour was awesome with all of those Clockwork Angels and Power Windows songs.

The R30 set list was absolute money as well, but it was pretty similar to the VT one, and while I get why they did some covers, their presence devalued the set list a little, especially when compared to these others.

The first set of the S&A tour was a diehard fan's wet dream - we saw the return of Mission, Circumstances and Digital Man, as well as the first live debut of Entre Nous, and then the return of Ghost of a Chance on the 2008 leg - but, while I liked S&A a lot, five songs in a row from it to kick off the 2nd set just sucked the life out of many live crowds.  One Little Victory as an encore remains one of their biggest set list WTFs ever.

The Time Machine tour set list was solid, what with all of MP, but that middle section of the first set had a lot of fans scratching their heads, myself included.  I love Leave That Thing Alone, but I think that was a bad spot for it, and while I don't dislike Stick It Out, Workin' Them Angels, Faithless or BU2B, them occupying four of the five slots of a five-song run was more than a bit questionable.  And ending the second set with Far Cry?  Just, no.
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2014, 02:26:44 PM »
If judging only be the setlists, it would be Clockwork Angels followed by Snakes and Arrows.
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2014, 03:29:11 PM »
I'll go with Clockwork Angels, that was a great show
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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2014, 04:45:53 PM »
CA was so damn refreshing I had to pick it.

Every tour there are those nuggets us Rush nuts love (seeing Between The Sun And Moon on the opening night of the VT tour) but CA was electric.  *nugget*
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2014, 05:06:56 PM »
BECAUSE THEY PLAYED THE BODY ELECTRIC
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2014, 05:14:22 PM »
Vapor Trails! I saw that tour as a 15 year old kid and it was magical. Clockwork Angels was amazing too though.
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2014, 05:17:29 PM »
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2014, 05:25:21 PM »
Quote from: Nick on April 03, 2014, 02:26:44 PM
If judging only be the setlists, it would be Clockwork Angels followed by Snakes and Arrows.
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2014, 06:49:35 PM »
To be honest, I think the setlist from all of last few tours are great but I had to go with the Clockwork Angels Tour set list. When I saw them they played the "B" set with Middletown Dreams, The Pass, Wish Them Well and Dreamline as part of the set. Loved the '80s oriented first set, and they finally played Where's My Thing? for the first time in 20 years. I had always hoped to see live since I became a fan and as soon as I was about to lose hope on ever hearing it live, they bring it out which was great. Grand Designs was the surprise favorite song that tour for me. Overall, it was a great tour IMO.
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2014, 07:25:50 PM »
I'd actually go with R30.  Mainly because of Between the Wheels.
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2014, 08:03:25 PM »
Quote from: wolfking on April 03, 2014, 07:25:50 PM
I'd actually go with R30.  Mainly because of Between the Wheels.

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« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2014, 01:38:10 PM »
Least favorite by far is R30, but there are a lot of gems there too.

The version of Red Barchetta on R30 might be the best I've ever heard for one.


I'm sure the evening with format has something to do with it, but  there aren't too many sets from their whole career that can compete with those.

Test For Echo
Counterparts
Grace Under Pressure
Signals
Permanent Waves
Hemispheres
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« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2014, 10:13:47 PM »
Hemispheres, to me, will always be *the* ultimate Rush setlist.    Permanent Waves is close...but I believe they had to slightly shorten the epics from the previous tour.

But Test for Echo scores pretty high for the fully unabridged 2112 for the first time ever.  (and I actually got to *see* that one)

But Clockwork Angels scores among the top 5 greatest setlists of all time to me.
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Re: Which post-hiatus Rush set list have you liked the best?
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2014, 09:01:56 AM »
Clockwork Angels' set is WAAAAY better than the rest.
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« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2014, 11:29:28 PM »
I would probably have to say Clockwork Angels Tour.  The main reasons why I bought that DVD (not just because of the free shirt that came with it) was for that setlist and the live strings ensemble.

As for the 2nd, I would say Snakes & Arrows just because of Entre Nous, the S&A songs, and Passage To Bangkok.  I do like Vapor Trails a lot since it was probably the most balanced setlist.
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« Reply #16 on: April 16, 2014, 03:40:00 PM »
Quote from: jammindude on April 04, 2014, 10:13:47 PM
Hemispheres, to me, will always be *the* ultimate Rush setlist.    Permanent Waves is close...but I believe they had to slightly shorten the epics from the previous tour.

But Test for Echo scores pretty high for the fully unabridged 2112 for the first time ever.  (and I actually got to *see* that one)

But Clockwork Angels scores among the top 5 greatest setlists of all time to me.

Hemispheres pretty much encapulates everything that Rush in the 1970s had to offer and they put it all in one tour.

They changed so much after that which makes it pretty impossible to pick a favorite tour from the '80s and to a lesser extent the 1990s.


The tours after that with the exception of R30 (which also had its moments) are pretty much peerless.
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