"Losing It" would be a great piece to perform. I'm hoping there's a couple more pieces from the last 6 studio albums that they can pull out and utilize the strings properly for an awesome performance. There are 29 songs that have gone unplayed between Presto and S&A, while only 15 from Rush to HYF. If Geddy's voice has an issue with covering older material, I wouldn't mind seeing them pull out some deep tracks from the last 6 albums.
-Marc.
Wow, nice job with the stats, M.
I LOVE Losing It.
Thanks! To be honest, all I did was count the tracks listen on the Power Windows website. Here's the full list:
ALBUM TRACKS NEVER PERFORMED LIVE
Take A Friend
Before And After
Making Memories
Rivendell
The Fountain Of Lamneth*
Lessons
Tears
Madrigal
Different Strings
Losing It
Emotion Detector
Open Secrets
Second Nature
Tai Shan
High Water
Chain Lighting
Anagram
Red Tide
Hand Over Fist
Available Light
Face Up
The Big Wheel
Heresy
Neurotica
You Bet Your Life
Cut To The Chase
Alien Shore
Speed Of Love
Everyday Glory
The Color Of Right
Totem
Dog Years
Carve Away The Stone
Peaceable Kingdom
The Stars Look Down
How It Is
Vapor Trail
Sweet Miracle
Nocturne
Freeze
Out Of The Cradle
Bravest Face
Good News First
We Hold On
*Unknown, as no authentic COS Tour headline setlists have been found
As you can see, starting with
Hold Your Fire, they started playing half (or less) of the songs on each new album's tour, with the only exceptions being
Test For Echo (7 out of 11 played live) and
Snakes & Arrows (9 out of 13 played live, then 10 counting "Faithless" on the next tour).
Before
Hold Your Fire, every album had nearly all their songs played live at some point, either for that album's tour or afterwards (like with "Witch Hunt"). Only
Hemispheres,
Moving Pictures and
Grace Under Pressure have the honor of being the only albums to have all their songs played live at one tour or another, and in the case of the first and last of those, on the tour for their album.
Only 11 songs from their debut to
Power Windows (11 albums) had never been played live, an average of one song per album. From
Hold Your Fire onward, 33 songs haven't been played live, over 6 albums, an average of 5.5 songs per album, and in the case of
Presto,
Counterparts and
Test For Echo, that's exactly half of the album.
Eventually, I would enjoy seeing/hearing them pull out many of those 33 tracks for the live show, if only because Geddy's aging voice may limit him to which older tracks (i.e. from before
Moving Pictures) can still be sung without dropping the song a whole step or more (like they did with "Circumstances" and "Entre Nous").
-Marc.