thanks a lot for posting the full setlist..!

Styles said:

Honestly, this was a dream setlist to witness last night. Sure Estelle and Miguel were mistakes to bring on stage, but hey, it could've been larry graham, so we should be happy.

The first hour was ONE OF THE BEST 60 CONTINUOUS MINUTES of any Prince show I've ever seen, and I've been going to Prince shows for over 20 years now.

Did the sound in the venue suck? yes. But this wasn't Paisley Park, so what did you expect? The sound always stinks in large arenas, with the keyboard sounding especially bad... Now, the sound engineers could have done a better job for sure, but since he calls out band members and switches instruments so fast, it would take someone with experience to be on their game the entire night with the frenetic pace of this show. If he brought his own engineer to town, he got fired tonight. At one point he called out for a sax solo, and since you couldn't hear him, he had to call out for the guy standing next to him to play instead... embarrasing.

Perhaps labelling the show as being something other than all about himself brought about a departure from the "normal eclecticness" that comes with his shows and required him to give a more "unifying setlist" which to me, is the setlist fans have been wanting for quite some time. None of this "Plectrum Electrum", "Fixurlifeup", "Colonized Mind" stuff that nobody knows except us loyalists who visit the org. This was an inclusionary affair all the way up to the last encore when he FINALLY satisfied the hardcore fans and did "C.O.O.L.", "Mountains", and "The Dance Electric".

I haven't checked, but the first 20-25 songs or so, all probably charted or had received significant radio play, minus "Baltimore". And lets be honest, the whole "Question of U / The One / Electric Man" medly was a genius move because folks who didn't know the songs, went crazy over Prince doing that sexy stuff all the fairweather female fans came to see Prince do AND gave the fans a taste of the slow jams we love, but rarely get to hear.

~C

[Edited 5/11/15 12:22pm]

Zannaloaf said:

UmustB said:

• I READ THIS WAS THE SET LIST - TRUE? IF SO - WOW SOME CONCERT! I WOULD LOVE TO DANCE THE DANCE ELECTRIC TO THIS ONE AND BE INVISIBLE! (I'm painfully shy)

• 1. We March
  2. Act of God
  3. Family Name
  4. When Will We Be Payed
     (The Staple Singers song)
  5. Love Sign
  6. Slave
  7. Colonized Mind
  8. Dear Mr. Man
  9. Sign “☮” the Times
  10. Undisputed
  11. Peace
  12. Race
  13. Let's Go Crazy
  14. Take Me With U
  15. Raspberry Beret
  16. Baltimore
  17. U Got the Look
  18. The One
      (The New Power Generation cover)
  19. Electric Man
      (Muddy Waters cover)
  20. Controversy
  21. 1999
  22. Little Red Corvette
  23. Nothing Compares 2 U
  24. Encore:
  25. When Doves Cry
  26. Sign “☮” the Times
      (preceded by Nasty Girl intro)
  27. Hot Thing
  28. I Would Die 4 U
  29. Encore 2:
  30. Kiss
      (with Doug E. Fresh)
  31. Take Me With U
  32. Darling Nikki
      (excerpt)
  33. Pop Life
      (excerpt)
  34. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? / Diamonds and Pearls / The Beautiful Ones / Do Me Baby / Forever in My Life
  35. Encore 3:
  36. When Will We Be Paid
      (The Staple Singers cover) (with Miguel)
  37. As Trains Go By
      (Judith Hill cover) (with Judith Hill)
  38. Purple Rain
      (with Estelle)
  39. Encore 4:
  40. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
      (Michael Jackson cover)
  41. Cool
      (The Time cover)
  42. Alphabet St.
  43. Mountains
  44. The Dance Electric
      (André Cymone cover) (with Doug E. Fresh)

Let's Go Crazy was actually the first live song. The previous songs were playlist songs over the PA

[Edited 5/11/15 20:23pm]