Obscure setlist - the Community Consensus

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DopeFiend wrote: Sat 21 Feb 2026, 6:38 am
I didn't read beyond the first two songs.
..and that’s exactly why you missed the entire point of that setlist :D

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1. Delusions of Grandeur
2. In the Club or in the Queue
3. You’ve Got to Start Somewhere
4. Do I Have To
5. Bright Young Things
6. No Time for Tears
7. The Resurrectionist
8. Miserablism
9. An Open Mind
10. Bounce
11. So Sorry I Said
12. It Must be Obvious
13. Call Me Old Fashioned
14. In Slow Motion
15. This Used to be the Future
16. Hit and Miss
17. Don Juan
18. After the Event
19. The End of the World
20. Decide

Followed by an encore of everyone’s favourites:

21. The Sound of the Atom Splitting
22. Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus
23. Wedding in Berlin

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#48 Post by MikeyC »

They could REALLY do an encore of everyone’s favorites as a mash-up:
Winner in Berlin.

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The Sound of the Wedding Splitting

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What Keeps an Atom Alive

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Hold On (Ringtone)

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Smash Hits - Stick it on.
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Dog wrote: Sun 14 Dec 2025, 9:19 pm I’ve been through everyone’s setlists in the Obscure Setlist thread, worked out the most popular choices and put them into a single setlist. I’ve tried to put each song in roughly the most commonly chosen position.

It’s pretty good!

1. Will‑O‑The‑Wisp
2. An Open Mind
3. Shameless
4. Miserablism
5. Radiophonic
6. The Resurrectionist
7. Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend
8. Delusions of Grandeur
9. Forever in Love
10. Always
11. Jack the Lad
12. A New Life
13. After the Event
14. I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today
15. The End of the World
16. The Way It Used to Be
17. Your Funny Uncle
18. One Thing Leads to Another
19. Up Against It
20. Fugitive
21. I Want a Lover
22. Tonight Is Forever

Encore:
23. This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
24. I Want to Wake Up
25. Decide

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3p2VA ... RDrSOTQq0F
A pretty good setlist. I cannot wait to know what songs the boys choose.

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#55 Post by Sandy Shaw »

If you know about David Bowie fans voting for Dame David to play The Laughing Gnome in 1990 and him refusing, the Obscure anticipation slightly reminds me of this episode in musical history!
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#56 Post by Tom Angel »

A man could get arrested I think HAS to be played - it's got a surprisingly loose feel that would work so well live, and it's the sort of first b-side calling card (that and in the night of course and paniniro)
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#57 Post by Tom Angel »

ElectriCity wrote: Sun 04 Jan 2026, 1:51 pm In Literaally 32, February 2008, Chris gave his own list.

Chris: I would like to go and see a show of ours where we didn't do any of the hits though.
Actually I did a playlist of it the other day - it's really good. Everything I liked that's not a single.
[He subsequently supplies a copy of this playlist.
It reads: "Tonight is forever", "The survivors",
"To face the truth", "Do I have to?",
"To step aside", "The Resurrectionist",
"Fugitive", "Up against it", "Your funny uncle",
"King's Cross", "Only the wind", "It couldn't happen here", "Casanova in Hell",
"The theatre", "Happiness is an option",
"It always comes as a surprise", "Jack the lad",
"To speak is a sin", "My October symphony",
"One and one make five", "The Samurai in autumn", "Love is a catastrophe",
"Later tonight", "Why don't we live together?"
"Forever in love" and "If love were all".
As an encore: "One thing leads to another".
Chris further notes that he imagines such a set
"being performed with full orchestra and band at the Albert Hall or similar".]

i notice there's no chris tracks! And jack the lad was Neil's track on suburbia for his Paninaro

Happiness is an option though! It's so bad!
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Tom Angel wrote: Wed 25 Feb 2026, 7:02 pm i notice there's no chris tracks! And jack the lad was Neil's track on suburbia for his Paninaro

Happiness is an option though! It's so bad!
Missing a Chris track and calling one of Chris' favourite tracks "bad" in the same moment is peak irony. :clap:
A blues would be in B flat, pain defining wisdom,
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#59 Post by Hamlet »

Wedding in Berlin - extended
Winner
What keeps mankind alive
Sound of atom splitting
Hold on
Pazzo
Saturday night forever
In private (Tomcraft mix)
Tall thin man
K Hole
Hot for you - instrumental
Lies
Twentieth century blues
Ego music
Schlager hit parade - German version
Casting a shadow
Wedding in Berlin outro

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#60 Post by MikeyC »

Hamlet wrote: Mon 06 Apr 2026, 2:40 pm Wedding in Berlin - extended
Winner
What keeps mankind alive
Sound of atom splitting
Hold on
Pazzo
Saturday night forever
In private (Tomcraft mix)
Tall thin man
K Hole
Hot for you - instrumental
Lies
Twentieth century blues
Ego music
Schlager hit parade - German version
Casting a shadow
Wedding in Berlin outro
Naughty. 😎

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