Which three songs?

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Which three songs?

Post by dadascot » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:24 pm

Ok I'm restless for Sunday's gig! So Alice gets in touch, because your such an avid fan, and asks you to recommend three songs for the uk tour! Two for the main set and one for the ACG to shake it up a bit, three for the die hard fans! Which would you recommend?
Personally I'd go with 'grim facts' and 'scarlet and Sheba' with 'dead babies' for the ACG. but I could change those choices a dozen times over!
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by padre_sliprat » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:37 pm

dadascot wrote:Ok I'm restless for Sunday's gig! So Alice gets in touch, because your such an avid fan, and asks you to recommend three songs for the uk tour! Two for the main set and one for the ACG to shake it up a bit, three for the die hard fans! Which would you recommend?
Personally I'd go with grim facts and scarlet and Sheba with dead babies for the ACG. but I could those choices a dozen times over!
Great choices. I'd swap out Scarlet and Sheba for Zorro's Ascent.
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by dadascot » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:41 pm

padre_sliprat wrote:
dadascot wrote:Ok I'm restless for Sunday's gig! So Alice gets in touch, because your such an avid fan, and asks you to recommend three songs for the uk tour! Two for the main set and one for the ACG to shake it up a bit, three for the die hard fans! Which would you recommend?
Personally I'd go with grim facts and scarlet and Sheba with dead babies for the ACG. but I could those choices a dozen times over!
Great choices. I'd swap out Scarlet and Sheba for Zorro's Ascent.
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by AlongCameASpider27 » Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:48 pm

Freedom
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Luney Tune
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by dadascot » Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:51 pm

AlongCameASpider27 wrote:Freedom
Roses on White Lace

Luney Tune
A couple of nights ago I played RYFAY to two people coming to the gigs. One was my friend who had been a huge Alice fanatic in the seventies and early eighties. Right up to Special Forces! He knows all the WB albums inside out but hadn't heard much of the albums after that. The other person, my partner, is a new convert to Alice, likes some and can take or leave some of it. I explained that RYFAY was a marmite album for fans and revered by many on this forum, especially side two. Anyway I played it for them and to say they thought it was utter garbage would be kind. And to me it is just painful on the ears. But, as I said in an earlier post, it seems to be when you were introduced to Alice as to which of his periods appeals most! Can't argue with luney tunes though!

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by jettrainfan » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:58 pm

Wind Up Toy: I'd say this every time I got a chance. The fact that it would fit with the stage setup (toy box) makes it that much better.

Dead Babies: add props, hence why I'm putting this for the usual set.

Luney Tune: Because why not? It would probably fit right in for the ACG set!

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by Si » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:12 pm

For Britain Only segued into Guilty in the obvious place (but could live with Under The Bed or Wind Up Toy or I'm So Angry or Sister Sara or Inmates or King Of The Silver Screen etc etc.... basically ANY song I love that never gets played!)

My Stars - by current band - in place of Halo of Flies - this should have been done by now, they CAN play it. Why not to be played by the original band? Because...

Black Juju (by original band, with Tommy on keyboards if needed)

...you only allowed 1 original band song in the question and I want BOTH! :)

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by Dannorama » Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:12 pm

Si wrote: My Stars - by current band - in place of Halo of Flies - this should have been done by now...
100% agree, Si! Shake it up. Bounce it around a little. Time ain't cheap.

+1 for "My Stars."
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by VinceRaven » Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:53 pm

So many possibilities....

At the moment I'd agree with Wind Up Toy as it suits what he's doing with the show and would fit well.

Something that would be immense would be Second Coming performed before Dwight Fry as it is on the album.

It would have to be Luney Tune with the original guys.

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by dadascot » Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:32 am

Si wrote:For Britain Only segued into Guilty in the obvious place (but could live with Under The Bed or Wind Up Toy or I'm So Angry or Sister Sara or Inmates or King Of The Silver Screen etc etc.... basically ANY song I love that never gets played!)

My Stars - by current band - in place of Halo of Flies - this should have been done by now, they CAN play it. Why not to be played by the original band? Because...

Black Juju (by original band, with Tommy on keyboards if needed)

...you only allowed 1 original band song in the question and I want BOTH! :)
'For Britain only' Si pulls it out the bag!! I'd agree wind up toy would be perfect, not as good as my choices obviously but still inspired!

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by ianmac » Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:06 am

Far, far too many for me to try to pick two for the main set, but how about Return Of The Spiders by the original band. 46 years (not quite to the day) since they first played in the UK.

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by wind_up_toy » Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:12 pm

Wind Up Toy for sure! I'd also love Fallen In Love from the new album as it's a belter.

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by Shoesalesman » Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:27 pm

Dangerous Tonight
Prettiest Cop On The Block (acoustic)
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by del » Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:29 pm

Can we have 1.5 each? Fireball, just thinking that this is the best he has done for 20+ years so I'd have to pick that over all the earlier favourites. Last tune of the main set would see a mood change, low lights, smoke and Titanic Overture played by the new band but half way through the old band picks it up and then slips into My Stars (always in my top 20).

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by lordcatfish » Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:36 pm

My Stars
Nothing's Free
Six Hours

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by evil syd » Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:43 pm

1. Dangerous Tonight
2, My Stars
3. Identity Crisis
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Re: Which three songs?

Post by bigbradwolf » Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:54 am

Very much agree with Wind Up Toy...it's such an Alice Cooper track...I've always said I'd love to hear that one live, being too young for the Hey Stoopid tours.

Another one I'd go with that I've never seen live but is one of my favourites (although it does feature on A Fistful of Alice) is Teenage Lament 74'. Love the track.

For the original band group I'd go with Caught In A Dream. Great song that would be a great opener for their mini set...as if to say you've come out of the Nightmare and your now in this mad dream watching the original members strut their stuff...something I thought I'd never see.

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by cooperrocks » Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:49 pm

Crawlin'
Nothing's Free
Generation Landslide

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by MVS 1009 » Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:00 pm

Wind up Toy
Luney Tune
My Stars - ACG

Whole host of songs I would like to see ACG perform.....waited 45 years for this!

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Re: Which three songs?

Post by patrick » Thu Nov 09, 2017 3:06 pm

for the acg : mr and ms demeanor
new opener : who do you think we are ?
and Zombie dance would give him the opportunity to walk over a graveyard again ( like the wtmn split screen...)
you really wouldn't understand..

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