Motley Crue and Def Leppard 2022 Set List Predictions: Roundtable

Motley Crue and Def Leppard‘s anticipated stadium tour is lastly able to hit the road this week, two and a half years after it was announced.

To have a good time the tour, which additionally contains Poison and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, three UCR writers try to guess what songs the Crue and Def Leppard will play onstage. We have set a 15-song restrict because the co-headliners are every anticipated to play 90-minute shows.

We additionally requested them what they’d do if given management of the bands’ set lists and to attempt to predict what wild new drum-solo stunt Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee will try this day out. This is what they stated.

1. What songs do you suppose Def Leppard will play?

Matt Wake: Each are beloved and era-defining rock bands, however neither Def Leppard nor Motely Crue may do a tour of stadiums in 2022 by themselves. So set lists must be totally different than if both was headlining arenas or amphitheaters on their very own – not to mention a residency or shock membership present the place current materials and classic obscurities go over higher for traditional bands. Def Leppard simply put out a strong album, Diamond Star Halos. However taking part in a couple of new music on this tour – and taking part in it in any place moreover the opener, when followers are going nuts anyway – can be folly. “Kick” is essentially the most stadium-ready music on Diamond Star Halos. Def Leppard make an announcement by opening with a rocking new monitor however serve their viewers by sticking to classics moreover that.

1. “Kick”
2. “Animal”
3. “Too Late for Love”
4. “Let’s Get Rocked”
5. “Armageddon It”
6. “When Love and Hate Collide”
7. “Foolin’”
8. “Love Bites”
9. “Rocket”
10. “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”
11. “Change 625”
12. “Hysteria”
13. “Rock of Ages”
14. “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
15. “{Photograph}”

Matt Wardlaw: Taking a look at set lists, together with their most up-to-date present on the Whisky, there are 10-11 mega Def Leppard hits that appear to be on the “must play” checklist. There are all the time a few wildcard positions for stuff that goes a bit deeper. “When Love and Hate Collide” had a type of slots earlier than the pandemic. They’ve additionally used these positions to stay in songs like “Too Late for Love.” They’re going to wish to keep aggressive with a set checklist that can kill with the Stadium Tour crowd, so I don’t suppose we’ll see something loopy on this run. Plus, I believe they’re going to make use of these slots to play a minimum of two new songs, most likely the 2 they’ve already been taking part in, with “Hearth It Up” being a doable third. I put in “Let’s Get Rocked” as possible due to the thirtieth anniversary of Adrenalize.

1. “Take What You Need”
2. “Animal”
3. “Foolin’”
4. “Armageddon It”
5. “Kick”
6. “Love Bites”
7. “Let’s Get Rocked”
8. “Rocket”
9. “Hearth It Up”
10. “Bringin On The Heartbreak”
11. “Change 625”
12. “Hysteria”
13. “Pour Some Sugar on Me
14. “Rock of Ages”
15. “{Photograph}”

Matthew Wilkening: They opened their current pre-tour membership present with “Take What You Need,” the perfect music on the brand new Diamond Star Halos album, so this is hoping that is the beginning of a tour-long custom. They will most likely play “Kick” and “Hearth It Up,” the 2 different singles from the brand new album after which persist with their largest radio hits.

1. “Take What You Need”
2. “{Photograph}”
3. “Animal”
4. “Hearth It Up”
5. “Let’s Get Rocked”
6. “Armageddon It”
7. “Kick”
8. “Foolin’”
9. “Love Bites”
10. “Rocket”
11. “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”
12. “Hysteria”
13. “Too Late for Love”
14. “Rock of Ages”
15. “Pour Some Sugar on Me”

2) Should you had been in cost, how totally different would Def Leppard’s set checklist be?

Wake: Def Leppard are a lot better studio craftsmen than the Crue. However I’d additionally say Motley have extra better-known songs which might be raucous or shaggy or have extra of an edge. So I’d love to listen to Leppard slip one or two extra bangers like “Excessive ‘N’ Dry (Saturday Night time)” or “Let It Go” into their set. However any deep minimize or current music deviations from the basic hits – by both band – within the set most likely wants superior visible manufacturing to go together with it. Or it would instantly ignite a town-sized exodus to beer traces and merch tables.

Wardlaw: Truthfully, for the gang they’re taking part in to that largely will simply know the hits, their set checklist is fairly good. However even nonetheless, they’ve all the time been good about spiking in a few issues for the die-hards. I don’t suppose that can occur this time. But when they had been going to go rogue, I’d sub in “Billy’s Bought a Gun” or “Stagefright” from Pyromania, or “Two Steps Behind” to throw in an additional energy ballad second. However due to the brand new album stuff, it’s laborious to think about what you possibly can take out so far as the hits.

Wilkening: I get that Hysteria offered hundreds of thousands extra information and spawned a lot larger hit singles than its predecessor, however I would like to get a a lot larger slice of Pyromania within the set checklist, significantly “Rock! Rock! (Til You Drop),” “Comin’ Beneath Hearth” and “Stagefright.”

Hear Def Leppard’s ‘Take What You Need’

3) What songs do you suppose Motley Crue will play?

Wake: Due to The Dirt biopic, Motley Crue have a headscarf’s-width extra wiggle room to deviate from a greatest-hits set checklist and nonetheless have each music join. Six songs from the Crue’s Too Fast for Love debut album had been on the soundtrack. That Netflix movie launched the band to a brand new era of followers and reintroduced the early materials to older followers. I believe they’ll embrace a minimum of one Too Quick tune moreover “Dwell Wire” within the set. “On With the Present,” which has a refrain and glam-anthem vibe which might be simple to get into, looks as if a good guess. “With out You,” which Motley did the final time I noticed them in 2014, can be a savvy solution to take the foot off the fuel and provides the set some dynamics. So far as high quality current songs, Leppard have a serious benefit. However Motley’s accessible and raucous deep cuts are a bonus, too.

1. “Dwell Wire”
2. “Shout on the Satan”
3. “Women, Women, Women”
4. “Wild Aspect”
5. “Smokin’ within the Boys Room”
6. “Seems to be That Kill”
7. “With out You”
8. “Primal Scream”
9. “Too Younger to Fall in Love”
10. “On With the Present”
11. “Seems to be That Kill”
12. “Don’t Go Away Mad (Simply Go Away)”
13. “Dr. Feelgood”
14. “Kickstart My Coronary heart”
15. “Dwelling Candy Dwelling”

Wardlaw: I believe Motley is in an identical state of affairs to Def Leppard. There are a whole lot of hits that appear like they gained’t budge from the set checklist. The drum solo is an apparent factor they’re not going to chop, and I believe most rock followers are wanting ahead to seeing how Tommy Lee goes to prime all of his earlier solo shenanigans. Hopefully, they’ll skip some other solos. They’ve acquired some “new” materials to play with due to The Filth soundtrack, and I believe they’ll most likely find yourself doing a minimum of two of these songs. I can’t see them taking part in their current cowl of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” however simply think about in the event that they did!

1. “Wild Aspect”
2. “Dwell Wire”
3. “Primal Scream”
4. “Women, Women, Women”
5. “The Filth (Est. 1981)”
6. “Identical Ol’ Scenario”
7. “Smokin within the Boys Room”
8. “Shout on the Satan”
9. “Seems to be That Kill”
10. “Don’t Go Away Mad (Simply Go Away)”
11. “Crash and Burn”
12. “Too Younger to Fall in Love”
13. “Dr. Feelgood”
14. “Kickstart My Coronary heart”
15. “Dwelling Candy Dwelling”

Wilkening: Seeing as how they have not performed in seven years, and because the impetus for Motley Crue ending their retirement was the large new (and younger) viewers they gained from The Filth, that is going to be a straight-up hit parade, with the film’s current title monitor thrown in someplace.

1. “Shout on the Satan”
2. “Women, Women, Women”
3. “Dwell Wire”
4. “Wild Aspect”
5. “Seems to be That Kill”
6. “Primal Scream”
7. “With out You”
8. “Dr. Feelgood”
9. “Too Younger to Fall in Love”
10. “The Filth”
11. “Don’t Go Away Mad (Simply Go Away)”
12. “Identical Ol’ Scenario (S.O.S.)”
13. “Smokin’ within the Boys Room”
14. “Kickstart My Coronary heart”
15. “Dwelling Candy Dwelling”

4) Should you had been in cost, how totally different would Motley Crue’s set checklist be?

Wake: With Hulu’s restricted sequence Pistol, the Sex Pistols have been again within the information not too long ago. Motley’s “Anarchy within the U.Ok.” cowl was an MTV hit, in order that’s one thing that would rock a stadium proper now. Like “Anarchy,” “Angela” is one other bonus monitor from the Crue’s Decade of Decadence 81–91 compilation. I’d be shocked in the event that they’d ever play “Angela” dwell on an enormous tour like this. However that music is a boogie-metal hit-that-should’ve-been – and I believe it might shortly join, even in a stadium.

Wardlaw: The “different” songs they may play are ones they’ve performed, so it looks as if “Knock ‘Em Lifeless Child,” “Too Quick for Love” and “Piece of Your Motion” are all on the desk. Taking a look at streaming numbers, their set lists from the final tour and earlier than account for all the huge weapons, song-wise. However “With out You” isn’t all the time an automated within the set and looks as if it’d be good for this type of tour, so it might be nice to see them play that. Past that apparent one, I’d like to see “Toast of the City” or one thing equally deep like that as a nod to their early historical past.

Wilkening: Since I loaded Def Leppard’s set filled with Pyromania songs, it is solely honest to arm Motley Crue with an even bigger dose than regular of tracks from their 1983 breakthrough, Shout at the Devil. “Bastard,” their cowl of “Helter Skelter” and, most significantly, new present opener “Crimson Scorching” can be the primary songs added.

Hear Motley Crue’s ‘Crimson Scorching’

5) What’s one music you’d personally love to listen to that every band could be very unlikely to play?

Wake: It might be extremely dangerous for Motley to do the John Corabi-era “Hooligan’s Vacation” with Vince Neil on the mic. But when they pulled it off, what a cool second every night time for Crue followers and the tour. Subtraction-wise, it might be a woke-era publicity masterstroke if Motley dropped “Women, Women, Women” from the set. They’ve loads of different hits. And there are various journalists who can’t wait to ding them for that music once more. Take “Women” out of the set and those self same writers as an alternative must cope with how efficient the remainder of Motley’s classics are. For Def Leppard, my Stadium Tour dream sequence would contain “Getcha Rocks Off.” That tune’s a uncooked and riffy standout that goes method again to Leppard’s unique 1979 self-titled EP. Earlier than they turned Mutt Lange-led overdub androids (and good at that), they had been simply lads with guitars searching for kicks. “Getcha Rocks Off” is the sound of that.

Wardlaw: Def Leppard taking part in “Overture” from the primary album (and their indie EP earlier than that) appears fairly unlikely, so that may be a enjoyable one. For Motley, I can’t see in any universe that they’d ever play “Hell on Excessive Heels” from the Tommy Lee-less New Tattoo, however I believe that may have the suitable vitality for this tour. And simply think about in the event that they had been to drag out “Hooligan’s Vacation.” I may see Vince Neil pulling that one off.

Wilkening: That is about as probably as David Lee Roth breaking into “Goals” throughout considered one of his solo exhibits, however it might be a blast to see the Crue mild into “Smoke the Sky” from 1994’s Corabi-fronted Motley Crue. Would New Tattoo‘s amusingly self-aware “1st Band on the Moon” be an excessive amount of to ask for? Def Leppard have no lineup-change-mandated forbidden fruit of their again catalog, however it’s been almost a decade since they’ve played “Stagefright.”

Hear Motley Crue’s ‘Hooligan’s Vacation’

6) What’s Tommy Lee’s new drum solo stunt going to be?

Wake: How about some type of onstage collaboration with Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen? It might be fascinating to listen to the rhythmic and textural stuff these two may put collectively, between Tommy Lee’s King Kong pummeling and Allen’s digital savvy.

Wardlaw: He’s seemingly carried out all of it with the assorted drum solos he’s carried out over time. However one thing that may be cool can be a multimedia compilation that pulls collectively the perfect of his solos by way of the years – with him taking part in alongside – and it might operate as an intro to no matter this 12 months’s gimmick goes to be. What in the event that they used holograms for these earlier solos? I’d like to see that.

Wilkening: This query is the rock ‘n’ roll model of “How is the following Quick & Livid film going to prime the final one?” Besides after all that Lee’s been at this death-defying stuff for nearly twice as lengthy. Vin Diesel’s franchise went to outer house final day out, and I would not be the slightest bit stunned to see Lee take off from the stage in considered one of Jeff Bezos’ penis-shaped rockets proper in the course of the Crue’s opening-night present.

Watch Tommy Lee’s ‘Cruecifly’ Drum Solo