Ultimate Setlist - A Challenge
by Shawn Lampron | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
PHOTO: Nine Inch Nails Live @ Rock Oz’Arenes Festival - Avenches, Switzerland, 8.15.07 on Flickr by Nine Inch Nails Official CC BY-NC-SA
Chris’s quest to secure setlists of every concert he’s attended prompted me to think up a gauntlet to throw upon the ground for him and other readers. As a fellow Nine Inch Nails fanatic, it was beneficial for me to meet Chris, given that my dedication to the band is nothing compared to the near-frightening depth of knowledge the man possesses in regards to the band. How could I compete when writing about music? Well, let’s throw out a not-so-original challenge to Chris and to all the readers: Imagine if you will that your favorite musical artist calls you up. If you can’t suspend your disbelief, imagine that you’ve won some manner of contest. Your favorite musician explains that you have twenty minutes to come up with a setlist. For the sake of argument, let’s say it’s an eighty minute setlist, the length of an average CD. Factoring in live performance interludes, this would equate to a ninety minute show. You’re allowed to ask for any version of a song as long as it fits within these time constraints. What do you pick? There’s my challenge to Chris: Show me your perfect personal NIN show. To the rest, pick your favorite artist and show me the personal concert that would permit you to die in peace afterward.
Just to show I’m a good sport, here’s my setlist for Trent and the boys in advance of Chris’s list:
Shawn’s Setlist
- Dead Souls
- 1,000,000 (rehearsal)
- Burn
- God Given
- The Perfect Drug
- Heresy (version)
- The Hand That Feeds
- Hurt (live)
- Get Down Make Love
- Sin (long)
- Closer to God (remix)
- Capital G
- Echoplex (rehearsal)
- Survivalism (tardusted)
- Only
- Ringfinger
A devastating and varied list, if I do say so myself. *promptly dies*
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