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Songs they've never been played before (specially B-sides)

- A New Life
- You know where You went Wrong
- Bet She is not your Girlfriend (tribute to Krysia, she worked for PSB on their fans club)
- Too Many People
- The Truck Driver and his Mate
- Hit and Miss
- I didn't get where I am Today
- Between Two Islands
- Confidential (tribute to Tina)
- Delusions of Grandeur
- The View from your Balcony
- Screaming
- Lies (the only one song from Chris, we've never seen played before)
- Out of my System (maybe the most interesting song from Closer to Heaven, one of the best)
- A Certain 'Je ne sais quoi'
- Hell

You can put the songs above in any order but if I could choose the final par of the show, I think these last ones could work fine on this order.

- An Open Mind (quite big cuality song that could have been even single material, catchy at best)
- Thought You (it has that amosphere of a big anthemic almost instrumental song)
- One Thing leads to Another (a perfect sing along song for the end before the encore)

Encore:
- Bounce (the big quality song fans were looking for on the net for ages, very emotional)
- The Dark End of the Street (a cover, almost the last song they have released with a dancing par for the end, it works with the title of the show).

Going through a big Bounce phase, huh Nickname?

My favourite setlist;

-A New Life
-Jack The Lad
-Fugitive(Richard x remix)(It would be a great intro)
-Shameless
-Paninaro
-Decide
-An Open Mind
-King’s Cross
-Inside a Dream
-The Theatre
-The Man Who has everything
-New London Boy
-For your own good
-The Samurai in autumn
-You Know where You went wrong
-Bet she’s not your girlfriend

Ramzy wrote: Wed 03 Dec 2025, 8:42 pm Going through a big Bounce phase, huh Nickname?

It's a real gem from the highest peak of form from PSB, some fans don't even know.

Pleased you're enjoying it doesn't really do anything for me but maybe if they'd rewritten the chorus and recorded it properly it could have been fun. As it is I think they made the right decision not to take it any further.

Ramzy wrote: Sat 06 Dec 2025, 2:24 pm Pleased you're enjoying it doesn't really do anything for me but maybe if they'd rewritten the chorus and recorded it properly it could have been fun. As it is I think they made the right decision not to take it any further.

Yes but it wasn't even a b-side.

Nickname wrote: Wed 03 Dec 2025, 12:19 pm Songs they've never been played before (specially B-sides)

- A New Life
- You know where You went Wrong
- Bet She is not your Girlfriend (tribute to Krysia, she worked for PSB on their fans club)
- Too Many People
- The Truck Driver and his Mate
- Hit and Miss
- I didn't get where I am Today
- Between Two Islands
- Confidential (tribute to Tina)
- Delusions of Grandeur
- The View from your Balcony
- Screaming
- Lies (the only one song from Chris, we've never seen played before)
- Out of my System (maybe the most interesting song from Closer to Heaven, one of the best)
- A Certain 'Je ne sais quoi'
- Hell

You can put the songs above in any order but if I could choose the final par of the show, I think these last ones could work fine on this order.

- An Open Mind (quite big cuality song that could have been even single material, catchy at best)
- Thought You (it has that amosphere of a big anthemic almost instrumental song)
- One Thing leads to Another (a perfect sing along song for the end before the encore)

Encore:
- Bounce (the big quality song fans were looking for on the net for ages, very emotional)
- The Dark End of the Street (a cover, almost the last song they have released with a dancing par for the end, it works with the title of the show).

Thankfully it's not just going to be tracks they've never performed before because that would be an underwhelming set.

Hello. When choosing from songs that were not released as singles the options are much broader. iEven if they only opted for songs they've never performed before, the possibilities are still numerous. It will be difficult for fans lucky enough to be there not to miss some songs.
Personally, thinking about B-sides, I'd be very disappointed if they didn't play "Hit and Miss" and "An Open Mind."
I hope they're great concerts and that the fans lucky enough to attend enjoy them immensely.
And I also hope this encourages a third B-sides album.

Truck Driver is the 2nd opening song of the Somewhere tour.
I agree that playlist is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

The problem with a lot of these playlists is they're isolated to a section of PSB's catalogue, essentially Alternative Disc 1 or Alternative Disc 2. There are plenty of really great songs from all eras to choose from. The ideal set would have a mixture of all 5 decades worth of obscurities.
It's wonderful when PSB follow up an older song with a newer one, in my opinion.
Some of the new ones are way better than the early 90s material.

Another problem is I think people are choosing songs they simply have a personal connection with, opposed to objectively better songs and ones that would work well live. Nickname's list is way too mellow for a live set.

Anyway, just to steer the conversation a bit, here's a set list I've just came up with.
I'm choosing 26 tracks because that's how long the Dreamworld tour is.

By the way, they have 180+ songs that qualify to be included in Obscure.
Honestly you could basically just randomly generate a playlist out of the whole 180+ songs that qualify (criteria being, no singles, no songs previously performed live in their original form) and it'd still be very very good.

Anyway:
1. Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus
(Neil and Chris join the stage)
2. Will-o-the-wisp
3. Don Juan
(Spoken intro)
4. In His Imagination*
5. The End of the World
6. I Want a Lover
7. An Open Mind*
8. I Want to Wake Up
9. Get It Online
10. On Social Media
11. Miserablism
12. DJ Culture*
13. Disco Potential
14. The Resurrectionist
15. My October Symphony*
16. Tonight Is Forever
17. Jack the Lad
18. New Boy
19. Radiophonic
20. That's My Impression
21. Vulnerable
22. Young Offender
23. Give Stupidity a Chance
24. The Way It Used to Be*
(Encore)
25. Here
26. Decide

*Star denotes fan favourite.
All songs previously never performed except The Way It Used To Be. October has only been done with guest vocals. Tonight Is Forever was only an excerpt. Young Offender has only been done as a remix, though it's replaceable w/ One and One Make Five or A Different Point Of View if needed.

I don't think anyone has suggested Give Stupidity A Chance. But I've revisited it in exploring PSB Obscurities and it's quite the fun song. I can see it going well live, it's easy to follow and a little snide and bitchy. Donald Trump is still in office now, so the song is relevant and I think Neil + Chris would enjoy performing it. It's a light hearted song opposed to the others that will tug our heartstrings and give us flashbacks of euphoric nostalgia, but that's okay to diversify the set.
Feel free to share your opinions! Personally I think this set looks incredible. So many really awesome hard hitting songs. Listen to Get It Online and picture it with massive speakers. Also it has vocals from Chris. Segwaying it into the fantastic On Social Media seems clever to me.
My set also gives love to those core handful of b-sides from the first couple of albums. Don Juan and Jack The Lad are pretty stella. I think all 5 decades are important to touch on.
Here's my list sorted into decades.

1980s
I Want a Lover — 1986
Tonight Is Forever — 1986
That's My Impression — 1986
Jack the Lad — 1986
I Want to Wake Up — 1987
Don Juan — 1988

1990s
The End of the World — 1990
My October Symphony — 1990
Miserablism — 1991
DJ Culture — 1991
Young Offender — 1994
Disco Potential — 1997
Radiophonic — 1999

2000s
Here — 2002
The Resurrectionist — 2006
Vulnerable — 2008
The Way It Used to Be — 2009

2010s
In His Imagination — 2012
Get It Online — 2013
On Social Media — 2019
Give Stupidity a Chance — 2019

2020s
Will-o-the-wisp — 2020
An Open Mind — 2020
New Boy — 2020
Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus — 2024

Edit: Actually in hindsight, Get It Online is a bit similar to Decide so I'd probably opt out Get It Online with another song to make Decide stand out a bit more. I don't envy whoever has to choose the final setlist!

As much as I love DJ Culture and would be delighted if they performed it, I believe as it was a single it doesn't meet the criteria they have set. I could well be wrong though..

DopeFiend wrote: Sun 07 Dec 2025, 12:09 pm Truck Driver is the 2nd opening song of the Somewhere tour.
I agree that playlist is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Anyway:
1. Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus
(Neil and Chris join the stage)
2. Will-o-the-wisp
3. Don Juan
(Spoken intro)
4. In His Imagination*
5. The End of the World
6. I Want a Lover
7. An Open Mind*
8. I Want to Wake Up
9. Get It Online
10. On Social Media
11. Miserablism
12. DJ Culture*
13. Disco Potential
14. The Resurrectionist
15. My October Symphony*
16. Tonight Is Forever
17. Jack the Lad
18. New Boy
19. Radiophonic
20. That's My Impression
21. Vulnerable
22. Young Offender
23. Give Stupidity a Chance
24. The Way It Used to Be*
(Encore)
25. Here
26. Decide

As you have been so "kind" about my list, I'll do the same about yours and explaining why:

1) I think your list is more random that mine. All of us give a chance to our personal taste but I think you go more far than me on that. I think songs like The Way It Used to Be or Social Media are good tracks to put on the list but leaving songs like I didn't get Where I am Today, A Certain 'Je ne sais quoi' or The Dark End of the Street is a sin.

2) Tina y Krysia deserve their tribute, you don't give them a chance for it.

3) Chris could sing Lies, he has never been playing this song before.

3) The last part of your list has these songs. My October Symphony Tonight Is Forever Jack the Lad New Boy Radiophonic That's My Impression Vulnerable Young Offender Give Stupidity a Chance The Way It Used to Be Here Decide. Ok, you like those song but I see no joy. Ballads, dowtempo songs and songs you can't even dance with them. Maybe Radiophonic and Young Offender are the only ones. A really boring last part of the show.

4) An ending with The Dark End of the Street would give a full sense to the concept Obscure and it was their last release by now.

Just reposting my setlist as I find it marvellous

Prologue
Decide
An Open Mind
In the Night

Act I
4. King’s Cross
5. Sad Robot World
6. I Want a Dog

Act II
7. This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
8. The Way It Used to Be
9. Between Two Islands

Act III
10. The Theatre
11. Vulnerable
12. Delusions of Grandeur
13. The Ghost of Myself

Act IV
14. Violence (Haçienda Version)
15. Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend
16. The Boy Who Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On
17. Up Against It
18. Positive Role Model

Act V
19. Was That What It Was?
20. Somebody Else’s Business
21. The Patience of a Saint (Guest: Bernard Sumner)

Encore
22. We All Feel Better in the Dark
23. I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today

minimal wrote: Sun 07 Dec 2025, 3:40 pm Just reposting my setlist as I find it marvellous

Prologue
Decide
An Open Mind
In the Night

Act I
4. King’s Cross
5. Sad Robot World
6. I Want a Dog

Act II
7. This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
8. The Way It Used to Be
9. Between Two Islands

Act III
10. The Theatre
11. Vulnerable
12. Delusions of Grandeur
13. The Ghost of Myself

Act IV
14. Violence (Haçienda Version)
15. Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend
16. The Boy Who Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On
17. Up Against It
18. Positive Role Model

Act V
19. Was That What It Was?
20. Somebody Else’s Business
21. The Patience of a Saint (Guest: Bernard Sumner)

Encore
22. We All Feel Better in the Dark
23. I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today

Post of the day!

I prefer dopefiend list than minimal one.

jules wrote: Sun 07 Dec 2025, 11:43 pm I prefer dopefiend list than minimal one.

Not when get it online, on social media or stupidity are included.

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