Your dream setlist

One Wild Night
Raise Your Hands
Let It Rock
99 in the Shade
I Believe
Wild in the Streets
Say It Isn't So
The Distance
You Can Sleep While I Dream
Stick to Your Guns / Ride Cowboy Ride intro
Love For Sale
Hey God
These Days
Stay
Something for the Pain
I'll Sleep when I'm Dead/ Papa was a Rolling Stone
Keep the Faith
Lay Your Hands on Me
Damned
Hook Me UP
Next 100 Years

Love's the Only Rule
Homebound Train

I'm gonna put 30 songs just cause it was be a dream set list for me that way. I'm gonna put songs I've never seen them play before live & some I would want to see played again.

The Circle Intro Music
We Weren´t Born To Follow
Say It Isn't So
I'd Die For You
She Don't Know Me
If That's What It Takes
Any Other Day
I Want You
Novocaine
Thorn In My Side
David Bryan Piano Solo
Brokenpromisedland
Living In Sin
If I Was Your Mother
You Had Me From Hello (Acoustic)
Seat Next To You (Acoustic)
Make A Memory (Acoustic)
Undivided (Acoustic)
Complicated
Bullet
Lie To Me
She's A Mystery
Bounce
Love's The Only Rule (with extended intro)
---------Encore 1---------
Two Story Town
Story Of My Life
Wild In The Streets
---------Encore 2---------
Last Man Standing
Roulette
Radio Saved My Life Tonight
Dirty Little Secret
One Wild Night

* All songs to be played in the tempo they were recorded at, acoustic versions are exceptions

1. Lost Highway
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Wild In The Streets
4. Breakout
5. I Want To Be Loved
6. Bad Medicine (Roadhouse Blues)
7. Lie To Me
8. In These Arms
9. Bed Of Roses
10. Runaway
11. Have A Nice Day
12. Just Older
13. Misunderstood
14. I'll Be There For You (Richie Sambora)
15. Hey God
16. Undivided
17. Runaway
18. Born To Be My Baby
19. Raise Your Hands
20. Livin' On A Prayer

21. Silent Night
22. Blaze Of Glory
23. These Days
24. Wanted Dead Or Alive

25. Something To Believe In
26. Living In Sin
27. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
28. Next 100 Years
29. Keep The Faith

30. Never Say Goodbye (acoustic)

I'm updating mine.

1. One Wild Night
2. Runaway
3. Wild In The Streets (with a Richie solo, not Bobby)
4. Just Older
5. Something for the Pain (electric)
6. Damned
7. Livin' on a Prayer
8. Bed of Roses
9. Last Man Standing
10. Homebound Train
11. I'll Be There For You
12. Always
13. Any Other Day (with long, kickass Richie solo)
14. Wanted Dead Or Alive
15. Stranger In This Town (Richie vox)
16. Thorn In My Side
17. Next 100 Years
18. Tokyo Road
19. Misunderstood
20. Wild Is the Wind
21. I Believe
22. Dry County
23. This Ain't a Love Song

24. You Give Love A Bad Name (this would be awesome opening the encore)
25. These Days
26. Blood on Blood
27. Keep the Faith w/ Sympathy for the Devil and Jungle Noises

28. Something To Believe In
29. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
30. Never Say Goodbye (electric)

I would try too give Jon a set that casual fans could enjoy and that I could enjoy. It would go something like this.

1. BLAME IT ON THE LOVE OF ROCK 'n ROLL
2. STICK TO YOUR GUNS
3. HAVE A NICE DAY
4. BLAZE OF GLORY
5. RUNAWAY
6. ROULETTE
7. BED OF ROSES

---acustic set---
8. LOVE FOR SALE
9. YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME (yeas the TLFR version)
10. OPEN ALL NIGHT (Box set version)
11. intro to SAVE A PRAYER (Dear Jesus or can I just call you Bob.. etc)
--- ---
12. SAVE A PRAYER
13. TEMPTATION
14. LETS MAKE IT BABY
15. ITS MY LIFE
16. BAD MEDECINE (with PAINT IT BLACK)
17. MR SAMBO (Jon takes a break and the song slowly turns into...)
18. HOMEBOUND TRAIN (JON on vocals!)
19. LIVING ON A PRAYER

20. SOMEDAY ILL BE SATURDAY NIGHT (whit improvised part)
21. KEEP THE FAITH (with SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL)
22. SOMETHING TOO BELIEVE IN
23. DAMNED

24. LITTLE CITY
25. WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

26. I LOVE THIS TOWN (Just kidding:P)

Probably something like this:
Purely a dream setlist, but I've done my best to construct it in a way that would actually flow well.

1. It's My Life
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Wild In The Streets
4. Say It Isn't So
5. In These Arms (Dave Vox on first verse)
6. This Ain't a Love Song
7. I'd Die For you
8. Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars
9. Love's The Only Rule
10. Dry County
11. Stranger In This Town (Richie Vox)
~Acoustic~
12. Diamond Ring
13. I'll Be There For You
14. Mystery Train
15. Something To Believe In
16. Love For Sale
~Back To Electric~
17. Lay Your Hands On Me
18. Have a Nice Day
19. Good Guys Don't Always Wear White
20. Hey God
21. The Radio Saved My life Tonight
22. Bad Medicine W/Pretty Woman
23. Wild Is The Wind
24. Always
25. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night

Encore 1:
26. I Believe
27. Blood On Blood W/Acoustic Intro
28. Wanted Dead Or Alive W/Ride Cowboy Ride intro.
29. Keep The Faith

Encore 2:
30. These Days
31. Livin' On A Prayer

Encore 3:
32. Never Say Goodbye

This thread should be renamed "List your 30 favorite Bon Jovi songs in random order"

Most of these setlists are stupid. 30 songs that 95% of the audience has never heard before would go off like a lead balloon. The atmosphere alone would bore me to death.

Is that a challenge for me to explain my setlist song by song, because I can

there is a reason it's called a 'dream setlist' not the most realistic setlist thread

Yours was fine - if not a little long. You included all the #1s and big hits.

The only problem I have with your setlist is that you have completely avoided the first two albums, Blaze Of Glory, Bounce and Lost Highway. Which hardly is able to showcase a bands career. But then again, it's YOUR dream setlist. If I had to chose a setlist, I would include songs that I do not nessasarely care for as much, but still highlights a song from each album.

1. I Believe
2. Wild In The Streets
I chose these two as openers because they would work. Audience members would know I Believe just as much as they would know Blood On Blood. Wild In The Streets would be known just as much as Born To Follow because it is on Slippery When Wet, and the majority of the audience probably owns that album.


3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Born To Be My Baby
Throw some hits in the beginning to get the crowd going. These are both fan favorites and both have been vastly improved live this past tour.

5. In These Arms
6. Runaway
7. Blaze Of Glory
Play a few songs that don't slow down the setlist. From the shows I've seen, the slower songs like ST and WWWB completely kill the hype built up from playing bad name and baby.

8. It's My Life
9. This Ain't A Love Song
10. One Wild Night
Keep the energy going and don't lose it. If your going to be playing a 28 song set list, don't kill the energy at the beginning. Songs like IML are nessasary and kind of work. In the ninth spot is where you want to put a ballad, but make sure you pick it back up right after.

11. Bad Medicine (Doctor, Doctor)
12. Stranger In This Town (Richie)

Assuming this is a regular "Special" Bon Jovi show, the template here calls for Bad Medicine and then a Richie Song. Which is good, as Bad Medicine is high energy and fun. Then Richie should sing a slower song to bring down the mood for the acoustic set.

13. Any Other Day
14. I'll Be There For You
15. Something For The Pain (acoustic)
16. These Days (acoustic)

This is the on-the-circle set. Most of the Audience aren't really looking for a song they've heard before, so they won't care. A monster hit right in the middle (IBTFY) will hopefully be good enough to keep people interested. I always thought it would be cool if Richie joined Jon on the circle and ripped out an amazing o2ish AOD solo.


17. Lay Your Hands On Me (Long Drum/keyboard intro)
18. Undivided
18. Something To Believe In
19. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
20. Keep The Faith (Sympathy For The Devil)

Now, the audience needs something to get back up on their feet. LYHOM is a perfect song, especially since it gives Jon and Richie some time to rest their vocals. Keep the energy going with Undivided, (a fan favorite) and then play a big monster die hard ballad. Pick it up again with two fun and fast crowd interacting songs, and then close the show.

-Encore-
21. Tokyo Road
22. Wanted Dead Or Alive
23. Love's The Only Rule
Encores are generally supposed to be for the diehards. Open with a very rare fast song. Even if the crowd isn't as interested, the diehards will be pleased. Also, the audience will be rewarded with Wanted, a song that both diehards and casual fans alike seam to really enjoy. Then close with LTOR because well... I like it as a closer

-Encore 2-
24. (It's Hard) Letting You Go
25. Livin' On A Prayer

The fans still want Livin on a Prayer, and the diehards are still looking for more. Play a song for each and end the night. Everyone will leave happy.


The setlist isn't abnormally long, AND I didn't include all my favorites. If they played this very realistic setlist (maybe adding WSYCGH and WWBTF in somewhere) everyone would be happy. Except yomamasofat. I purposely left BOB out for that reason.

For every one or two unknown songs, it is followed with a song everyone knows, to keep the fans interested, as well as the diehards.