Setlist surprises - What's your favorite year?

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I'm sitting in my job for hours drinking my black-coffe and thinking.
What year we have the most awesome surprises at the setlist?
I'll list some of my favorite Sisters Moments(with no particular order), but i'd love to hear from you guys, your favs sisters 'surprises'.

1 ) FALAA with the Original Riff in 2005
2 ) Marian and Valentine in 2003
3 ) Burn in 2006
4 ) Good Things at Suikers Rock 2008
5 ) No time to Cry + Rain From Heaven in 2010
6 ) A Rock and Hard Place in 2010/2011
7 ) 2010/2011 Covers (Gift That Shines, John and Pipeline)
8 ) 2011/2012 - Top Nite Out returns :lol:

lachert made an addendum:
9 ) More in leeds 2011
10 ) Lucretia at Bex 2002

Pista too:
11 ) Kiss the Carpet in 2011 (One of the best sisters moments ever, indeed)
12 ) Confide in me back in 1997 (Nice, and unexpected , just like Gimme Gimme Gimme!)
13 ) Comforatbly Numb back in 1992



i'd like to add
14) Floorshow/Phantom in 2009, what a GREAT moment!
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you forgot lucretia at bex 02 and more in leeds 11 but i must say that good things at suikerrock was my best one :lol:
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lachert wrote:you forgot lucretia at bex 02 and more in leeds 11 but i must say that good things at suikerrock was my best one :lol:
The Most important thing in Leeds'11 was the cupcakes not the setlist :lol: :lol:.
JK, More was awesome that night, i've never imagine that song being played with the actual line-up.

Of course, Lucretia in 2002, a Classic!(That i hated soon i head, and now, ten years later...i just like it, isn't the same thing, i mean, herr Dok can play that bass with more feeling, just like in floodland(ops) , you know?)
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The return of Kiss The Carpet in 2011

Confide In Me in 97

Comfortably Numb as an opener in Birmingham 1992

More in Budapest 2011

;D
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Pista wrote:Confide In Me in 97
Comfortably Numb as an opener in Birmingham 1992
we talking about xxi century, old man... :lol: :wink:
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lachert wrote:
Pista wrote:Confide In Me in 97
Comfortably Numb as an opener in Birmingham 1992
we talking about xxi century, old man... :lol: :wink:
:lol: it could be worst.
He isn't mentioning Giving Ground in 1993 :lol:.
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Pista wrote:The return of Kiss The Carpet in 2011

Confide In Me in 97

Comfortably Numb as an opener in Birmingham 1992

More in Budapest 2011

;D
Comfortably Numb in Brum in '92 for me too, and agree with your other choices too. :notworthy:
Plus Temple of Love for the first time in '90 as :von: had gone on record to say we'd never hear it live.
The On The Wire/Teachers medley on the Overbombing tour was also a fantastic surprise.
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opening with Kiss the Carpet in Leeds last year was lovely :)

i miss Bei Mir Bist Du Schon though. i've always loved that cover and thought it was one of the more absurd but better worked-through covers they've done ;D
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I Wanna Be Sedated & Sugar Baby Love 2003
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Peter KJ wrote:Emma/Uptown top ranking
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seconded! but it was Lokeren 2005.
Jolene -Leeds 2001(my first gig)
numb/starnger - Porto 2001
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I forgot Rain from heaven in Lokeren 2010(brilliant)
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Husek wrote:
lachert wrote:
Pista wrote:Confide In Me in 97
Comfortably Numb as an opener in Birmingham 1992
we talking about xxi century, old man... :lol: :wink:
:lol: it could be worst.
He isn't mentioning Giving Ground in 1993 :lol:.
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Oi!!
I resemble those remarks.
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Pista wrote:Comfortably Numb as an opener in Birmingham 1992
Very much that. I laughed so hard. ;D
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Well, it reminds me:

Ancienne Belgique 1998 - Sister Ray/Lucretia/Walkin the Dog/ Louie Louie/ Capricorn/ Walking the Dog / Sister Ray
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@Husek
Sadly I wasn't in Belgium in 1998.

but the image of a field full of goffs sining 'always look on the bright side of life' is hard to beat.
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Suleiman wrote:@Husek
Sadly I wasn't in Belgium in 1998.

but the image of a field full of goffs sining 'always look on the bright side of life' is hard to beat.
Don't get sad bro, i wasn't in 99.99% of sisters gigs :lol: .
Actually i just went to the gigs in Sao Paulo.
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Can't remember the year but the slow version of body electric was a surprise.
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Suleiman wrote:Can't remember the year but the slow version of body electric was a surprise.
2001, three times.
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Suleiman wrote:He's got the whole world in his hands/ Always look on the bright side of life,

Reading 1991.

Weren't we supposed to be nominating pleasant surprises ??
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Anything from the Varjak/Pearson era 97-99 8)

Why not Varjaks last concert with the band in Mexico City october 1999, THIS is what I call a setlist :D

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Ribbons
Train/Detonation Boulevard
Come Together
Amphetamine Logic
Giving Ground
We are the Same, Susanne
On the Wire/Teachers/On the Wire
Temple of Love
Will I Dream
Flood I
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Dominion/Mother Russia

Summer
Romeo Down
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Comfortably Numb/Some Kind of Stranger
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Vision Thing
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This Corrosion
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As to former times:
Sugar Baby Love in Bonn 2001 was great
And War On Drugs in Hasselt the same year
I also agree about Confide In Me (Glauchau 1997)
And of course, Comfortably Numb/SKOS at the time


One great moment was the introduction of Arms in 2009!

For 2010:
Rain From Heaven - especially in Leamington and at the M'era Luna
Body Electric the slow version of Leamington was just wonderful

In 2011:
Gift That Shines, Pipeline, such a sweet and lovely choice, both songs.
John, I'm Only Dancing ... wonderful and with a lot potential ... endless, almost ... hihi.
Top Nite Out in Groningen ... great !
Almost all versions of FALAA, they played last year were wonderful.
Anaconda in Vienna, though I can imagine a very different lovely version at the moment, that's never been played
Never liked Dominion all that much, but it was very good in Berlin.
More, I love the old version, but the current one is just so blatantly awesome ... :lol: :lol: ;D ;D ;D ...
Also, this year, I've really enjoyed Alice a few times, which I usually don't.

For me it's never about the setlist anyway, more about the versions of the songs as they might come out on that day.
There've been so plentyful great moments and surprises in songs they played last year, also soundwise. I can't list them all.
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No Time To Cry in Leamington Spa was fantastic,but hearing the opening of More in Leeds last year was better,simply because I genuinely thought I would never get to hear it played live.
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