For me it's the LA 22-12-77 concert.
WHAT A SETLIST:
We Will Rock You (slow/fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, It's Late, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Spread Your Wings, Liar, Love Of My Life, White Christmas, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, guitar solo, The Prophet's Song (reprise), Now I'm Here, Stone Cold Crazy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Keep Yourself Alive, Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock, God Save The Queen
I really hope we'll get to hear this show one day!
Now, what do other Queen fans think about this? What is the concert with the best setlist? So, not a fantasy setlist but a set they actually did play back in the day.
on my way up wrote:
For me it's the LA 22-12-77 concert.
WHAT A SETLIST:
We Will Rock You (slow/fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, It's Late, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Spread Your Wings, Liar, Love Of My Life, White Christmas, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, guitar solo, The Prophet's Song (reprise), Now I'm Here, Stone Cold Crazy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Keep Yourself Alive, Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock, God Save The Queen
I really hope we'll get to hear this show one day!
Now, what do other Queen fans think about this? What is the concert with the best setlist? So, not a fantasy setlist but a set they actually did play back in the day.
on my way up wrote:
For me it's the LA 22-12-77 concert.
WHAT A SETLIST:
We Will Rock You (slow/fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, It's Late, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Spread Your Wings, Liar, Love Of My Life, White Christmas, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, guitar solo, The Prophet's Song (reprise), Now I'm Here, Stone Cold Crazy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Keep Yourself Alive, Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock, God Save The Queen
I really hope we'll get to hear this show one day!
Now, what do other Queen fans think about this? What is the concert with the best setlist? So, not a fantasy setlist but a set they actually did play back in the day.
White Christmas?
Did you mean White Queen??
Nope, he means White Christmas. It was a Christmas show (kind of), they even had Santa on stage with them for the encores. Plus exotic dancers, Christmas tree and various crazy sh*t. Unofrtunately all we have are photos and reviews, but an audience and possibly a soundboard recording do exist. I even heard about a 8mm film
*goodco* wrote:
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stevelondon20: note the date.
From queenconcerts.com
The last night of this North American tour was very special - it was shortly before Christmas (December 22) so the band performed an acoustic version of White Christmas with several people (incl. John Reid and Peter Straker) on backing vocals. A recording apparantely exists although I admit I haven't managed to get hold of it yet.
As for me, this setlist is very good, but am probably stuck on the 'Jazz' tour setlists. WWRY/WATC as the closer might be the clincher. Kind of a toss up between the two.
This setlist is the ultimate for me because it has it all: great rocking songs, a beautiful acoustic set, fast energetic songs, crowd pleasers like watc/wwry, lighter stuff like loverboy...
01. Flash Intro
02. The Hero
03. We Will Rock You (Fast)
04. Let Me Entertain You
05. Ogre Battle
06. White Queen
07. Somebody To Love
08. Killer Queen/I'm In Love With My Car
09. Under Pressure
10. Save Me
11. Now I'm Here
12. Brighton Rock
13. 39/Love Of My Life
14. Save Me
15. Stone Cold Crazy
16. Keep yourself Alive
17. Mustapha/Bohemian Rhapsody
18. Hammer To Fall
19. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. Liar
22. In The Lap Of The Gods..Revisited
23. Sheer Heart Attack
24. We Will Rock You
25. We Are The Champions
26. God Save The Queen
For me it would be 10.03.1972 it may be old but the set list
01. Son & Daughter
02. Great King Rat
03. Jesus
04. The Night Comes Down
05. Liar
06. Keep Yourself Alive
07. See What A Fool I've Been
08. Stone Cold Crazy
09. Hangman
10. Jailhouse Rock
11. Bama Lama Bama Lou
Jesus ,the night comes down, and an early stone cold crazy plus hangman just those four songs would make the entire concert worth it
Dead On Time
We Will Rock You (Fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Dancer
White Queen
Spread Your Wings
Jealousy
Somebody To Love
Im In Love with My Car/Fun It/ Loser In The End
Brighton Rock
Long Away
39
Love Of My Life
Mad The Swine
Las Palabas De Amor
Get Down Make Love
White Man
Guitar Solo (Chinese Torture)
Prophets Song
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Man On The Prowl
-encore wait-
Stone Cold Crazy
Cool Cat
-encore wait 2-
Bohemian Rhapsody
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Sheer Heart Attack (Brian comes out with a different guitar so they can smash stuff and wreck things onstage for the end)
Anything in the 1976-77 era, really. That's when they were at the top of their game.
But if I had to pick one, it'd be pretty much any night from the autumn 77 US tour. Every show we have on tape is different, as they had more of a rotating setlist than any other tour.
Doing All Right, Ogre Battle, Now I'm Here, Sleeping On The Sidewalk, Spread Your Wings, It's Late, My Melancholy Blues (and maybe even others) were all on rotation - they had over 30 songs in the can. Clearly the relative ease of the NOTW songs gave them a lot of confidence. They slayed every night.
I'm sure they were great pretty much every night of their career, but there was a certain musical focus they had in this period. Every artist has their peak, and this was theirs.