Ideal Manson Tour Setlist

[Iulian]

1. Little Horn
2. 1996
3. Cake and sodomy
4. Mechanical animals
5. The fight song
6. No reflection
7. Hey Cruel World
8. In the shadow of the valley of death
9. The Nobodies
10. Eat Me Drink Me
11. Leave a scar
12. King Kill 33
13. Slutgarden
14. Spade
15. Putting holes in happiness
16. Coma white/Coma black
17. Antichrist Superstar / The fall of adam outro
18. The beautiful people / Disposable teens
19. Irresponsible hate anthem
20. Rock n roll nigger or Murderers

[alexismbench]

Overneath the Path of Misery
Lunchbox
Irresponsible Hate Anthem
I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)
Evidence
Cake and Sodomy
Born Villain
(s)AINT
Into the Fire
The Death Song
Better of Two Evils
The Speed Of Pain
WOW
Dope Hat
Cruci-Fiction in Space
User Friendly
No Reflection
King Kill 33º
Antichrist Superstar

[S.D.]

Here is a set I would love to see. I'm the sort of person who thinks very methodically about which songs would compliment each other in the most appropriate ways, whilst also being a set you'd get a lot out of aesthetically and musically. If I wanted this to just be a Manson compilation then I'd submit different songs, that's another topic though, these are the ones I think would work best in the live arena.

[intro . recorded track, preferably by the band]

01. Cruci-Fiction In Space
02. Apple Of Sodom
03. Deformography
04. The Love Song
05. Pretty As A Swastika
06. Snake Eyes And Sissies
07. Angel With The Scabbed Wings
08. The Nobodies
09. The Death Song

[brief interlude . pre-recorded backing]

10. Devour
11. Mechanical Animals
12. Spade
13. I Want To kill You Like They Do In The Movies
14. Wight Spider
15. Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day
16. We're From America
17. Antichrist Superstar

[final interlude . extended mix of penultimate song intro]

18. EAT ME, DRINK ME
19. The Last Day On Earth

This - for me at least - would be note-perfect. These aren't necessarily all my favourite Marilyn Manson songs, neither are they necessarily the best from their respective albums, or the best that could be given a performance live, but it's the fluid selection I feel does the right job of taking the audience on a journey through Manson's sound, whilst also visiting every studio album or 'era' at least once.

For the backing tracks, I wanted to use some of the incidental pieces Manson's done over the years. The opening track for The High End Of Low tour was one of the best, it worked with whatever they chose as an opener on each leg. There are other great ones though.

Does anyone want to replicate the experiment I made whilst writing this, and actually create a playlist of all these songs in order (with intro tapes if they have them) and see how you think it all sounds?
As I finish this post I am at Mechanical Animals, and the whole thing has sounded amazing, the transition from Deformography into The Love Song was especially brilliant, as are the opening bars of Spade that just started.
Can't wait for the conclusion...

[Erico Ferry]

01 - GodEatGod
02 - The Love Song/The Fight Song/The Death Song
03 - This is The New Shit
04 - Great Big White World
05 - Mechanical Animals
06 - Disposable Teens
07 - The Dope Show
08 - Tourniquet
09 - Apple Of Sodom
10 - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)/Hell Outro
11 - Cruci-fiction In Space
12 - The Speed Of Pain
13 - The Gardener
14 - Antichrist Superstar/The Fall Of Adam outro
15 - The Beautiful People
16 - King Kill 33/The Reflecting God
17 - Man That You Fear

[mgwxta19]

Neat. I used to do that in notebooks when I was younger and only wishing I could see him . . . he doesn't come to the "deep south" that often, can't say that I blame him.

1. Willy Wonka intro/Cake and Sodomy
2. No Reflection
3. Disposable Teens
4. Overneath the Path of Misery (MacBeth intro of course)
5. Heart-Shaped Glasses
6. Saint
7. The Love Song
8. The Fight Song
9. The Death Song
10. Dope Hat Intro/The Dope Show
11. Sweet Dreams (with a combination of all the nifty endings he's done before, and maybe him spanking some naked women, as he's done before . . . heh)
12. Tourniquet
13. The Beautiful People
14. Coma White
15. 1996 Intro/Antichrist Superstar

Encore:

16. Armageddon
17. Irresponsible Hate Anthem
18. Lunchbox
19. Born Villain

Final Encore - to be reserved only for responsive crowds, _not_ the ones eating nachos and fucking around on their phones:

Man That You Fear

So in writing that up, I realized how tough it must be to try to please everyone, with so much to choose from and some albums that are "iffy" that anyone will remember, compared to his "classics" (i.e. the "trilogy" and stuff before that) . . . he does a great job as it is. The one show I did finally get to see him (and it wasn't easy, drove a barely-surviving jalopie many hours, on my own, with an also-deteriorating cell phone - and to boot, nearly got mugged while lost in an unfamiliar city - yeah, I love music enough to really wing it sometimes) did not read like a greatest hits list, they only gave him time for about ten songs (festival), and he didn't get around to the one I'd always wished I could hear live ("Coma White"). But it was still even more awesome than I had built my hopes for all those years. So I just hope he keeps the element of surprise going, and . . . a bit self-serving, hope he keeps "Coma White" in the mix until I can see him again, if that ever happens. Frankly I'm just glad he's still around, because when Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry are considered controversial, I feel like music has become way less exciting than when he came on the scene.

And if you're really gonna' talk the ideal show, I'd just really like to see him ham it up like maybe a presidential-speech mockery for "The Beautiful People," some desecration of Bible and flag at the right times, and so on. The stuff I knew him for back when. And even though he likes to dress in black coats and stuff now since I guess he's put on some weight, I think it'd be cool to do the older songs in fishnet stockings and stuff, bondage gear, or that weird outfit he had for a while that sort of looked like "mummy" wrappings. You don't have to have a beautiful body for that. It was meant to be kinda' gross and unsettling in the first place . . . eh, but I'm kinda' glad he's finding new ways to express himself . . . that stuff was good at the time he did it because he wanted to make a statement and provoke people. I can see where once it becomes known as a "shtick" there doesn't seem to be much point in it anymore, from an artistic point of view. But just being selfish . . . I would like to see a show where he brought an amalgam of all the theatrics he's done throughout his career. It sounds like he's pretty colorful on this tour though . . . the stuff I've read sounds pretty close to "ideal" IMHO. Too bad he's not coming back to the "Bible belt."

[CokeWhore]

Intro: Suspiria
1. Hey Cruel World
2. Disposable Teens
3. Cake and Sodomy
4. Great Big White World
5. No Reflection
6. mOBSCENE
7. Get Your Gunn
8. Little Horn
9. Rock is Dead
10. The Love Song
11. The Fight Song
12. Personal Jesus
13. The Dope Show
14. Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin'-Geddon
15. Dogma
16. Slo-Mo-Tion
17. Tourniquet
18. The Nobodies
19. Coma White/Coma Black
20. Putting Holes in Happiness
21. Heart-Shaped Glasses
22. Devour
23. Into the Fire
24. Minute of Decay
25. The Speed Of Pain/Cryptorchid Outro
26. Rock n´Roll Nigger
27. The Reflecting God
28. Irresponsible Hate Anthem
29. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)/Hell Outro
20. Antichrist Superstar
21. Lunchbox
22. The Beautiful People
Encore: 1996

-CokeWhore-