1983 Setlist

1983 - Setlist


Info below is based on concert recollections and recordings.
Because of the theatrical set-up of the show, the setlist was basically the same every night...


First Set:
Psycho Killer
Heaven
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
Love -> Building On Fire
The Book I Read
Slippery People
Cities
Big Blue Plymouth
Burning Down The House
Life During Wartime

Second Set:
Making Flippy Floppy
Swamp
What A Day That Was
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Once In A Lifetime
Big Business
I Zimbra
Houses In Motion
Genius Of Love
Girlfriend Is Better
Take Me To The River
Encore: Crosseyed & Painless


On August 6th, and August 9th thru September 4th, a second encore was added; a repeat/reprise of Burning Down the House.


On the second leg of the tour, the reprise of Burning Down the House encore was dropped, and Pull Up the Roots was added as an Encore; but only played at Plattsburgh 09/30, UVM 10/01, and Providence 10/04 -- after which it was inexplicably dropped. Crosseyed & Painless was skipped at Plattsburgh.
(Differing newspaper accounts of UNC 10/13/83 say either one or two encores were played at that date.)


Other known exceptions to the setlist...

(1)
TH played a shortened one-set opening slot before the Police at Montreal on August 3rd:
Burning Down the House
Making Flippy Floppy
Swamp
What a Day that Was
Once in a Lifetime
Big Business
I Zimbra
Houses in Motion
Genius of Love
Girlfriend is Better
Take Me to the River
Life During Wartime

(2)
At Lowell MA on October 2nd, there was a power failure near the end of the first set, and the set was cut short. The show was shortened, and unfolded like this...

First Set:
Psycho Killer
Heaven
Love -> Building On Fire
The Book I Read
Slipper People
Cities
Big Blue Plymouth
*Power failure*

Second Set:
Burning Down The House
Making Flippy Floppy
Swamp
What A Day That Was
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Once In A Lifetime
Big Business
I Zimbra
Houses In Motion
Genius Of Love
Girlfriend Is Better
Take Me To The River
Encore: Life During Wartime

(3)
At Long Beach on December 8th, the show was shortened by two songs, with Big Blue Plymouth and Houses in Motion dropped from the setlist.

(4)
For the Pantages shows during the movie filming (December 13 thru 16), Love -> Building on Fire and The Book I Read were removed from the setlist and replaced by a truncated (argh!) version of Found a Job. Big Blue Plymouth and Houses in Motion were also dropped from the setlist.