Prince now days sucks at creating a nice set list.

He plays some gems here and there

but most of the time he is very predictable.

So can you create a set list that you think will please

Prince fan base and casual fans?

Endorphinmachine

1999

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Crucial

Little Red Corvette

Raspberry Beret

Starfish and Coffee

Take Me With U

Computer Blue

Kiss

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

Delerious

Black Sweat

U Got the Look

Sticky Like Glue

Purple Rain

As Prince has said countless times in his recent tours, "So many hits. So little time."

Lets go crazy(extended version)

Endorphine MAchine

Shhh!

Little Red Corvette

I Like It There

America

Computer Blue

Uptown

Chaos and Disorder

Peach

Diamonds and Pearls

The Most Beautiful Girl in the world

Crimson and Clover

Spirituality(full version, no one verse crap)

Anotherlover/rock lobster version

When Doves Cry(with Prince playing the guitar solo)

I Could Never take the Place of your man

Encore 1

Boom

Wall of Berlin

Purple Rain

Encore 2

Gold

Lets Go Crazy

The Beautiful Ones

Computer Blue

I Cant Make U Luv Me

Nasty Girl

Get Off

Here

U Got The Look

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

When Doves Cry

Adore

She Gave Her Angels

Dance 4 Me

Forever In My Life

She Spoke To Me

I Wanna Be Your Lover

D.M.S.R.

I Would Die 4 U

Erotic City

Condition of The Heart

If I Was Ur Girlfriend

Girls & boys

I Hate U

Nothing Compares 2 U

When The Lights Go Down

Insatiable

[Edited 3/1/11 16:35pm]

1. Let's Go Crazy (full 'dearly beloved' intro, 1st verse + chorus) into......

2. 1999 (1st verse, chorus + jam) into.....

3. Mountains (full song) into.....

4. Let's Go Crazy (Gogogo, go go go extended into a jazz jam, chorus + guitar solo end)
5. The Beautiful Ones (full song)
6. I Wanna Be Your Lover (1st verse, chorus + jam) into....

7. D.M.S.R. (full song extended)

8. Sexy MF (instrumental jam - band introduction) into...

9. Head (instrumental jam - Prince on bass) into...

10. Musicology (full song - Prince on bass) into...

11. Prince And The Band (full song - Prince on bass)

12. If I Was Your Girlfriend (the whole talking section is removed - Prince on bass)

Solo Piano:

13. Satisfied (first few lines)

14. The Love We Make (full song extended) [with band]

15. Condition Of The Heart (1st verse) into...

16 Do Me, Baby (1st verse + chorus)

17. Forever In My Life (acepella, except for last 30 seconds)

18. Sign "O" The Times (1st verse, chorus + jam) into....

19. Strange Relationship (1st verse) into....

20. Starfish And Coffee (1st verse + chorus) into....

21. Pink Cashmere (1st verse, chorus + jam) [with band]

22. Adore (full song) [with band]

23. Anna Stesia (full song) [with band]

24. Girls And Boys (full song) into...

25. Kiss (full song extended) into...

26. When Doves Cry (1st verse + chorus) [chorus stops just before Prince would say "This is what it sounds like when doves cry"] into....

27. Uptown (1st verse + chorus) into....

28. U Got The Look (full song)*

29. Controversy (1st verse, chorus + Parade Tour interlude) into....

30. Mutiny (extended jam)

Encore:

31. Joy In Repetiton (full song extended) into...

32. Endorphinmachine (full song) into...

33. She's Always In My Hair (full song)

34. 17 Days (full song extended)*

35. Cream (full song)*

36. 7 (full song)

37. Purple Rain (full song)

"Secret" Encore:

38. Dance 4 Me (full song)* into...

39. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful (full song)*

40. Crystal Ball (full song)

41. Can't Stop This Feeling I Got (full song)

The Band:

Prince - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards/piano, drumpads

John Blackwell - drums, drumpads

Rhonda Smith - bass

Mike Scott - guitar

Morris Hayes - keyboards

Renato Neto - keyboards/piano

Elisa Dease - backing vocals (on tracks highlighted with *)

Liv Warfield - backing vocals (on tracks highlighted with *)

Eric Leeds - saxophone, flute (24-30 only)

Greg Boyer - trombone (24-30 only)

Maceo Parker - saxophone (24-30 only)

Mike Phillips - saxophone (24-30 only)

[Edited 2/28/11 22:39pm]

[Edited 2/28/11 22:48pm]

Controversy (LA Forum PR Tour version)

D.M.S.R.

Computer Blue

Darling Nikki (I know...)

Erotic City (see above)

Head

(piano medley:

Under the Cherry Moon

Condition of the Heart

Strange Relationship

Baby You're a Trip

One Nite Alone)

Crystal Ball

Let's Work

Mutiny

Dream Factory

Witness

Lady Cab Driver

Housequake

encore:

Purple Music

Movie Star

Madhouse 6

All Day All Night

The Screams of Passion

NightGod said:

Controversy (LA Forum PR Tour version)

D.M.S.R.

Computer Blue

Darling Nikki (I know...)

Erotic City (see above)

Head

(piano medley:

Under the Cherry Moon

Condition of the Heart

Strange Relationship

Baby You're a Trip

One Nite Alone)

Crystal Ball

Let's Work

Mutiny

Dream Factory

Witness

Lady Cab Driver

Housequake

encore:

Purple Music

Movie Star

Madhouse 6

All Day All Night

The Screams of Passion

Would this please people that just want the hits?

Would this please people that just want the hits?

Nope, just me.

gold31 said:

As Prince has said countless times in his recent tours, "So many hits. So little time."

You mean you want a setlist that is completely made out of cover songs?

1. The Beautiful Ones
2. Sexy Dancer (Instrumental)
3. Head (Instrumental)
4. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
5. All the Critics Love U In New York/Housequake
6. Controversy
7. Uptown
8. Partyup (Instrumental)
9. The Stick
10. 777-9311
11. Cool
12. Baby I'm a Star
13. Let's Go Crazy/Delirious
14. 1999
15. Little Red Corvette
16. When You Were Mine
17. I Could Never take the Place of Your Man
18. Crimson and Clover
19. Insatiable
20. Scandalous!
21. Adore
22. Do Me, Baby
23. I Wanna Be Your Lover
24. Alphabet St.
25. D.M.S.R./Musicology
26. Sticky Like Glue
27. Still Waiting
28. Nothing Compares 2 U
29. Purple Rain

[Edited 3/1/11 5:40am]

I've been going crazy thinking about setlists all day.

Setlist 1

1. Alexa de Paris
2. Mountains
3. Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
4. Sticky Like Glue
5. Lavaux
6. Alphabet St.
7. Everyday People
8. I Want to Take You Higher
9. Musicology
10. D.M.S.R.
11. 3121
12. Forever in My Life
13. If I Was Your Girlfriend
14. The Beautiful Ones
15. Let's Go Crazy/Delirious
16. 1999
17. Little Red Corvette
18. Sexy Dancer
19. All the Critics Love U In New York
20. Jungle Love
21. The Bird
22. 777-9311
23. Lady Cab Driver (Instrumental)
24. Controversy
25. When You Were Mine
26. Shhh
27. Somewhere Here on Earth
28. I Love U, but I Don't Trust U Anymore
29. A Love Bizarre
30. Kiss
31. Colonized Mind
32. Sometimes It Snows in April
33. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
34. Raspberry Beret
35. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
36. Purple Rain
37. Adore

Setlist 2

1. Laydown
2. Sign o' the Times
3. When Doves Cry
4. Cream
5. Act of God
6. Dreamer
7. She's Always In My Hair
8. Nothing Compares 2 U
9. Diamonds and Pearls
10. Future Soul Song
11. Still Waiting
12. Sweet Thing
13. Peach
14. Girls & Boys
15. Satisfied
16. 7
17. Anna Stesia
18. The Question of U
19. Joy In Repetition
20. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
21. Strange Relationship
22. Dance (Disco Heat)
23. Baby I'm a Star
24. Guitar
25. Purple Rain

Setlist 3

1. Empty Room
2. Stratus
3. Beautiful Strange
4. The Love We Make
5. A Glamarous Life
6. Money Don't Matter 2 Night
7. Pop Life
8. Do Me, Baby
9. I Wanna Be Your Lover
10. Sexy Dancer
11. I Feel for You
12. Controversy
13. Chelsea Rodgers
14. Uptown
15. Raspberry Beret
16. Cream
17. U Got the Look
18. Cool
19. Let's Work
20. When 2 R In Love
21. Insatiable
22. Scandalous!
23. She Spoke 2 Me
24. Love Like Jazz
25. When I Lay My Hands on U
26. Get On the Boat
27. Lolita
28. The Ladder

Setlist 4

1. Into the light
2. Gold
3. The Holy River
4. Damn U
5. Condition of the Heart
6. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
7. Walk In Sand
8. She Loves Me 4 Me
9. Thieves in the Temple
10. Bambi
11. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
12. When You Were Mine
13. Extraordinary
14. The Dance
15. Black Sweat
16. Kiss
17. Musicology
18. Crimson and Clover
19. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful
20. Fury
21. Ol' Skool Company
22. No More Candy 4 U
23. Act of God
24. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
25. 1999
26. Little Red Corvette
27. Take Me With U
28. Do Me, Baby
29. Adore
30. Nothing Compares 2 U
31. Purple Rain

Setlist 5

1. Sampler Medley: Sign o' the Times/Erotic City/Nasty Girl/Head/D.M.S.R./Pop Life/I Wanna Be Your Lover/The Most Beautiful Girl in the World/Darling Nikki/When Doves Cry
2. Kiss
3. Let's Go Crazy/Delirious
4. I Would Die 4 U
5. Raspberry Beret
6. Dreamer
7. Peach
8. Spanish Castle Magic
9. When You Were Mine
10. Crimson and Clover
11. Ol' Skool Company
12. No More Candy 4 U
13. Dance 4 Me
14. 1999
15. Baby I'm a Star
16. If I Was Your Girlfriend
17. Insatiable
18. Love
19. Shhh
20. Little Red Corvette
21. Take Me With U
22. Guitar
23. Purple Rain
24. Adore

Setlist 6

1. The Beautiful Ones
2. Crucial
3. U Make My Sun Shine
4. When I Lay My Hands on U
5. Love Like Jazz
6. Somewhere Here on Earth
7. Insatiable
8. Joy In Repetition
9. A Case of U
10. 17 Days
11. Beautiful Strange
12. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
13. Endorphinmachine
14. Wall of Berlin
15. She's Always In My Hair
16. Under the Cherry Moon
17. The Question of U
18. If I Was Your Girlfriend
19. Adore
20. Call My Name
21. Betcha by Golly Wow!
22. A Love Bizarre
23. Controversy
24. Musicology
25. 3121
26. D.M.S.R.
27. Alphabet St.
28. Everyday People
29. I Want to Take You Higher
30. Mountains
31. Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
32. Kiss
33. Little Red Corvette
34. All the Critics Love U In New York
35. The Ladder
36. Sometimes It Snows in April

Rebirth of The Flesh

When U Love Somebody

Automatic

There is Lonely

Dance With The Devil

Computer Blue

Noon Rendezvous

Bob George

Extra Loveable

Feel U Up/Irresistible Bitch

Train

Moonbeam Levels

Mountains

Encore 1:

Good Love

The Question of U

Forever in my Life

Anna Stesia

The Dance Electric

Encore 2:

Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden

The Beautiful Ones

Amazingly, although so many moan about the setlists, not many have been forthcoming in providing the answer to an improved one. And maybe coz it's incredibly difficult. I'm stuck between playing what I want, what would mix well together and what others would want. So I haven't come further than this...

Arboretum

Controversy

New world

Take me with you

Sign of the times

Beginning endlessly

The future

Fury

Boom

Roadhouse garden

The rest of my life

From the lotus

Lets go crazy

Kiss

The everlasting now

Lavaux

7

Purple music

Love Rollercoaster