What's your dream setlist?

[Erneuert]

I do not want this

Imagine an Assault set then an instrumental set split in half - equally (1.5 hours each) each night. I Do Want That.

[neorev]

01 Mr. Self Destruct
02 Branches/Bones
03 March Of The Pigs
04 Last/Throw This Away outro
05 The Frail
06 The Wretched
07 The Fragile
08 Reptile
09 Kinda I Want To
10 Shit Mirror
11 Letting You
12 Ahead Of Ourselves
13 My Violent Heart
14 Underneath It All
15 Closer To God
16 Sin
17 Wish
18 With Teeth
19 The Perfect Drug
20 Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me)
21 Head Down
22 All The Love In The World
23 She's Gone Away
24 31 Ghosts IV intro / Burning Bright (Field On Fire) / The Great Destroyer outro jam
25 Hand Covers Bruise intro / Beside You In Time

(Band exits stage)

Letting Go While Holding On plays during encore break, which builds into...

26 The Way Out Is Through
27 You Know What You Are?
28 In Two
29 And All That Could Have Been
30 Help Me I Am In Hell / Happiness In Slavery / Screaming Slave outro jam

[FULLMETAL]

This is my "one-time" setlist (songs that I've only heard once live) & thought this would make a crazy one-off show during a residency tour.

Pinion / The Eater of Dreams
Parasite
Hallo Spaceboy
We're In This Together
Scary Monsters
Ringfinger
Please
Not So Pretty Now
Ice Age
I Die: You Die
Cars
BBB
Atmosphere
Corona Radiata
Dear World,
32 Ghosts IV
28 Ghosts IV
10 Ghosts II
1 Ghosts

[enola]

Now I'm Nothing
Terrible Lie
Everything
Wish
Copy Of A
Less Than
March Of The Pigs
The Lovers
Deep
Suck
The Becoming
Shit Mirror
Only
The Perfect Drug
The Idea Of You
God Break Down The Door
I'm Afraid Of Americans
Subterraneans
The Day The World Went Away
What If We Could?
A Drowning
The Frail
The Wretched
All The Love In The World
Last
Head Like A Hole
Dead Souls
Hurt

[ManBurning]

At this point in time, I would take an hour of 20 minutes of The Hand That Feeds and a 10 minute version of Hurt to close the show if it meant getting to go to a concert again.

I don't think I'll ever complain about the "singles onslaught" in a setlist ever again after this.

[fillow]

The Pandemic Special:

Branches/Bones
Everything
We're in This Together
Every Day Is Exactly the Same
Isn't Everyone
Reptile
Dead Souls
Hyperpower!
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
The Good Soldier
Vessel
Me, I'm Not
Capital G
My Violent Heart
The Warning
God Given
Meet Your Master
The Greater Good
The Great Destroyer
Another Version of the Truth
In this Twilight
Zero-Sum

[AVirtualMemoryOfficial]

Dream setlist? Something, anything that involves "Memorabilia"... come on Trent, it's time. You know it, we all know it...

[sonic_discord]

This "dream setlist" is partially comprised of songs that I have not yet seen live and want to see (called out in italics) – including a few that NIN have never played. It's what I'd consider a dream setlist at this point in time, but it's different from the one I assembled a few years ago and would likely be different next year. I've included a few live staples like March of the Pigs and Head Like a Hole (despite the fact I've seen them at nearly every NIN show I've attended) because they get the entire crowd into it.

Pinion
Mr. Self Destruct
Branches/Bones
Wish
Last
March of the Pigs
Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now version)
Now I'm Nothing
Terrible Lie
My Violent Heart
The Idea of You
Ruiner
The Becoming
The Perfect Drug
Various Methods of Escape
Into the Void
Over and Out
Somewhat Damaged
No, You Don't
Dead Souls
I'm Afraid of Americans
This Isn't the Place
Burning Bright (Field on Fire)
Demon Seed
Reptile
Ahead of Ourselves
Not Anymore
Burn
Please
Gave Up
Down In It

Encore:
We're in This Together
Head Like a Hole
In This Twilight

[Moebius]

Encore:
We're in This Together
Head Like a Hole
In This Twilight

Man, I miss In This Twilight as a closer. Lights in the Sky was an incredible tour.

[hellospaceboy]

Ever since the 2018 tour finally gave us TPD, And All That Could Have Been and the entire Broken live, I feel like the sky is the limit...
So my new impossible dream is that they play Maybe Just Once

[M1ke]

I think my dream setlist would have to be having NIN come to my house to sing me happy birthday.

That'd be rad.

[Erneuert]

"Still" from beginning to end (sequentially; identical to the album version), then select deep cuts that fit the theme of the album in the same stripped down format (The Great Below, Ripe (With Decay), Underneath It All, ILFTJY,F, Zero-Sum), with a final NIN live interpretation of At The Heart Of It All (with RDJ if he wants to guest), with additional emotional pads and samples that ends the set on a confusing note: somber, triumphant, distraught, paranoid, but with a glimmer of hope twinkling out to the NIN logo set against a setting sun, then fade to black.

Who else would shoot jizz onto the ceiling experiencing that live?

[hellospaceboy]

I've always liked Maybe Just Once and thought it was much less cheesy than Purest Feeling. If they gave it a bit of a heavier makeover and made it sound a little more sinister, it could really be a badass song!

Yes, I agree! As tongue-and-cheek as my suggestion sounds, I do have genuine love for the song, and I think it could've been included on PHM (or on one of the singles at least).

[sonic_discord]

Ever since the 2018 tour finally gave us TPD, And All That Could Have Been and the entire Broken live, I feel like the sky is the limit...
So my new impossible dream is that they play Maybe Just Once

I've always liked Maybe Just Once and thought it was much less cheesy than Purest Feeling. If they gave it a bit of a heavier makeover and made it sound a little more sinister, it could really be a badass song!

[Thor]

Honestly I would be happy to just seeing them live again.
But I would kill to be able to hear these ones live:

Into the Void
Complication (this one would be such a great intro)
Where Is everybody?
That's What I Get
Sunspots
Deep
Not So Pretty Now
Right Where It Belongs (i would cry my eyes out with this one)

[elevenism]

"Still" from beginning to end (sequentially; identical to the album version), then select deep cuts that fit the theme of the album in the same stripped down format (The Great Below, Ripe (With Decay), Underneath It All, ILFTJY,F, Zero-Sum), with a final NIN live interpretation of At The Heart Of It All (with RDJ if he wants to guest), with additional emotional pads and samples that ends the set on a confusing note: somber, triumphant, distraught, paranoid, but with a glimmer of hope twinkling out to the NIN logo set against a setting sun, then fade to black.

I've been saying it for ages: this sort of show would be a graceful way to age NIN, if they still feel like doing it in fifteen years.

[nmitchell86]

Open with a new, never heard before, song. No warning about it either.

[AThousandDaysBefore]

1.-Gave up
2.-Burn
3.-Last
4.-Ahead of Ourselves
5.-The Hand that Feeds
6.-Not anymore
7.-Find my way
8.-What if we could
9.-Together
10.-Every day is exactly the Same
11.-Copy of A
12.-Where is Everybody
13.-Ghost 32 (Ghosts IV)
14.-In Two
15.-The Line Begins to Blur
16.- No You Dont
17.-Right Where it Belongs
18.-Hurt

19.-Still Right Here (1st part of the song) into Eraser
20.-Closer
21.-Head like a Hole
22.-Leaving Hope (Piano)
23.-In this Twilight (2008 version)

[center27j]

eagerly anticipating Louder Than Life, its a festival - but a metal one, so he's gonna have to get serious and leave the ambiant tunes on the shelf:

1. mr. self destruct
2. heresy
3. march of the pigs
4. head like a hole
5. terrible lie
6. happiness in slavery
7. the wretched
8. pinion
9. wish
10. last
11. the perfect drug
12. down in it

***
1. somewhat damaged
2. eraser
3. hurt

[BRoswell]

eagerly anticipating Louder Than Life, its a festival - but a metal one, so he's gonna have to get serious and leave the ambiant tunes on the shelf:

Unless they does what they did a couple times on the Wave Goodbye tour and purposefully play a quieter set.

[Deacon Blackfire]

Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica - Cleveland, Ohio

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st

Now I’m Nothing
Terrible Lie
You Know What You Are?
Sin
We’re In This Together
Me, I’m Not
Head Down
The Lovers
She’s Gone Away
Closer (full album version)
Please
God Given
The Becoming
Help Me I Am In Hell
Happiness In Slavery
1,000,000 (EDIT: with Robin playing guitar and not keys!)
Demon Seed

ENCORE
10 Miles High
The Idea Of You
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
And All That Could Have Been
Beside You In Time

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd

Somewhat Damaged
Last
Piggy
I Do Not Want This
Something I Can Never Have
The Frail
The Wretched
Ruiner
Dear World,
No, You Don’t
The Big Come Down
In Two
Survivalism
Nun With A Motherfucking Gun
Underneath It All
The Great Destroyer
Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
The Background World
(outro from Add Violence plays as band leaves and is gone)

ENCORE
(as band returns outro from The Background World mutates into the bass melody of…)
Shit Mirror
Sunspots
The New Flesh
The Great Below
In This Twilight

(for the record the 2021 dates happening at all would have made them dream setlists regardless of their content but I'm going to be wistful about it because I'm a sad sack!)

[M1ke]

I'm just really hoping they bring out the everlasting gaze for this tour.

[Patrick_Nicholas]

Mine constantly changes, usually with the release of a new album, but I'm pretty sure "Isn't Everyone" will be on my next one (probably with Robin and/or Alessandro singing Jake Duzsik's parts) when I make a new setlist for the next album.

[Patrick_Nicholas]

Fuck it. If I can't have new music before the tour stars, I want Year Zero played in full.

1. Hyperpower!
2. The Beginning of the End
3. Survivalism
4. The Good Soldier
5. Vessel
6. Me, I'm Not
7. Capital G
8. My Violent Heart
9. The Warning
10. God Given
11. Meet Your Master
12. The Greater Good
13. The Great Destroyer
14. Another Version of the Truth
15. In This Twilight
16. Zero-Sum

Encore:

17. The Day the World Went Away
18. Isn't Everyone
19. The Background World
20. Happiness In Slavery
21. Eraser
22. Echoplex
23. The Hand That Feeds
24. Head Like a Hole

[AThousandDaysBefore]

What do you prefer 21 songs with 1 or 2 instrumentals or 26-28 songs with more instrumentals?


1.-New Song
2.-The Hand that Feeds
3.-Copy of A
4.-New Song
5.-Where is Everybody (First Time Live)
6.-Only
7.-Getting Smaller (First Time since 06)
8.-Ahead of Ourselves
9.-The Great Below (First Time since 00)
10.-Right Where it Belongs (First Time since 06...In 09 was played Version 2)
11.-The Line Begins to Blur
12.-The Idea of You
13.-Ghosts 34 Into Not Anymore
14.-The Big Come Down
15.-In Two
16.-New Song
17.-Another Version of the Truth (First Time Ever)
18.-I am afraid of Americans

19.-Together(First Time Live)
20.-Every day is Exactly the Same (First Time since 2006)
21.-New Song (Slow)
22.-Leaving Hope [Piano] (First Time Live)
23.- In This Twilight w/Outro (First Time since 2009)

[Patrick_Nicholas]

What do you prefer 21 songs with 1 or 2 instrumentals or 26-28 songs with more instrumentals?

26-28 songs with more instrumentals, mainly so Trent can have some more moments to catch his breath during longer sets so he doesn't blow his voice out.

[ryanmcfly]

Somewhat Damaged
Last
Sin
Terrible Lie
Discipline
March of the Pigs
Piggy
Love is Not Enough
Closer
Ruiner
Various Methods of Escape
Just Like You Imagined
Me, I’m Not
This Isn’t the Place
la mer
31 Ghosts
Wish
The Big Come Down
The Perfect Drug
Head Like a Hole
——————————-
Help Me I Am in Hell
Happiness in Slavery
Sunspots
And All that Could Have Been
Hurt
In This Twilight (zero-sum outro)

[Kyle]

Ghosts I-VI played in their entirety

[Swykk]

Update:

Hyperpower
Branches/Bones
The Line Begins To Blur
Less Than
Not Anymore
The Frail/The Wretched
The Becoming
Reptile
Ruiner
Wish
The Idea Of You
A Warm Place
The Great Destroyer
Burning Bright
In Two
The Big Come Down
Various Methods Of Escape
In This Twilight

-------encore-------

Demon Seed
And All That Could Have Been
The Background World

[thefragile_jake]

Based on current material and what I feel would be a solid show …

Mr. Self Destruct
Last
The Line Begins to Blur
Sin
March of the Pigs
She’s Gone Away
Not Anymore
God Break Down the Door
The Perfect Drug
Into the Void
Various Methods of Escape
Ruiner
Deep
Demon Seed
No, You Don’t
La Mer
Closer
Memorabilia

- -

And All That Could Have Been
Even Deeper
Hurt