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Everyone loves a good song by a musical artist or group, regardless of if it's considered their biggest hit or even a hit at all. Unfortunately, there are occasions where said good/popular song is almost never heard again in concert, on television, on the radio, or otherwise. This can occur for a variety of reasons. It's possible that the song is an Old Shame or can be hated by the musician(s) themselves, in spite of its popularity. Another reason could be that the song is too difficult to perform live due to the changes to the artist's voice in the time between when it was first released and now, and them fearing of it not being performed to the best of their abilities or the complexity/legality of the song (certain instruments are required, they could be sued for playing it, etc.) deters them from playing it again. Another popular explanation is that the song is one from an emotional standpoint (oftentimes, dedicated to a deceased loved one or its subject matter now being Distanced from Current Events) and is considered too intimate or painful to perform again. Sometimes though, their reasoning for not playing it again is either unclear or unexplained. A Sub-Trope of Creator Backlash. This trope may result in Keep Circulating the Tapes. See also Old Shame, Black Sheep Hit, Screwed by the Lawyers, Distanced from Current Events, Harsher in Hindsight, Hitless Hit Album, and No-Hit Wonder. Also compare Canon Discontinuity. Please do not confuse this with Album Filler, which regards songs not usually meant to be played live or released as a single. NOTE: Zero Content Examples are not allowed. Please explain or provide some background as to why a song you're going to add to the list is considered a Rarely Performed Song. Also, the examples have been alphabetized by artist for your convenience. |
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Dream Theater very rarely plays songs from the "Twelve-Step Suite" after drummer and founding member Mike Portnoy's departure from the band in 2010. The "Suite" is a set of five connected songsnote The Glass Prison, This Dying Soul, The Root of All Evil, Repentance, and The Shattered Fortress written by Portnoy detailing his battle with alcoholism. The first three songs haven't been played at all since his departure. The fourth, Reptentance, was only played live a single time even when Portnoy was with the band. The final song, The Shattered Fortress, continued to be played until 2014, in large part because it was one of the hits of the band's 2009 Black Clouds & Silver Linings album, the final with Portnoy. For the same reason, The Mirror, formerly one of their most-performed songs and officially considered a "prelude" to the Twelve-Step Suite, has also been retired from live play since 2014. | |
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According to Pop Up Video, Boy George no longer performs his 1992 cover of Dave Barry's 1964 hit "The Crying Game" for the the soundtrack for the film of the same name due to the strain it causes to his voice. | |
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Metallica: Despite being on their popular album Ride the Lightning, the band has only ever played "Escape" live a single time during an anniversary concert where they played every song from the album. "Escape" was a last-minute addition to the album, literally written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich in the recording studio when they were told by the producer that they had to have one more song on the album, and the label wanted a song with a melodic hook for release as a single.note In the end, the singles were "Creeping Death", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and "Fade to Black" instead. Metallica hadn't played "Orion" from Master of Puppets in its entirety until 2006, having last played it at original bassist Cliff Burton's funeral in 1986. It's mainly because the middle portion of the song was built exclusively around Burton's bass-playing, which the following bassists struggled to match. Though it's their second best-selling album, it's rare for the band to play anything other than "One" from ...And Justice For All live. It was their first album after Burton's death, new bassist Jason Newsted was all but mixed out of the album altogether, and they didn't have their usual mixing producer, leading it to have an overly "sterile" and "tinny" sound lacking bass. It was also their most aggressive and technically demanding album, leading to burnout. Finally, the album has some of their longest songs, which, according to Hetfield, the crowds don't always respond well to when they're played live. Though many of its songs are beloved by fans, the band itself rarely plays most of them for these reasons. From the 2010s onward, "Blackened", "Harvester of Sorrow", and "The Shortest Straw" get played a few times a year, though "One" remains the album's only staple. Three songs off Metallica, "My Friend of Misery", "Don't Tread on Me", and "The Struggle Within", only had their live debuts 20 years after the album came out, as the band decided to celebrate the occasion by playing it in its entirety. Only "My Friend of Misery" had another performance other than those 20 concerts. "The Unforgiven II" from ReLoad is a sequel song to "The Unforgiven", one of the most popular songs from Metallica. It was released as a single and had a music video, but as a slow Power Ballad, was a Black Sheep Hit for the band. They initially played it live once at the Billboard Music Awards in 1997 (the same year ReLoad was released) before shelving it until 2015. Even after, they've only played it a total of 10 times as of 2022. In general quite a few songs from Load and ReLoad have either rarely been performed ("Poor Twisted Me", "Mama Said", "Outlaw Torn", "Carpe Diem Baby", "Fixxxer") or never been played ("The House That Jack Built", "Cure", "Ronnie", "Thorn Within", "Bad Seed"). Given the Creator Breakdown going on at the time of production (as explained in the tie-in documentary Some Kind of Monster) and its status as a near-Creator Killer, the band almost never plays anything from St. Anger these days. Even during the supporting tour some songs off that album were rarely played, with "Sweet Amber" only having been performed once in 2004. |
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The band avoided including any material from ...Calling All Stations... in their setlist during the 2007 and 2021 reunions. The album was made solely due to an Abilene Paradox between Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, neither of whom wanted to continue the band after Phil Collins left but assumed the other bandmate wished to do so, resulting in material that was widely panned by fans, critics, and the musicians involved. Consequently, Banks and Rutherford's poor memories of the album's production ensured that it would go unrepresented on stage (and off). | |
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Three songs off Metallica, "My Friend of Misery", "Don't Tread on Me", and "The Struggle Within", only had their live debuts 20 years after the album came out, as the band decided to celebrate the occasion by playing it in its entirety. Only "My Friend of Misery" had another performance other than those 20 concerts. | |
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Despite being a fan-favorite, "The Perfect Kiss" disappeared from their concerts between 1993 and 2006, due to difficulties with converting the sample programming to newer equipment. | |
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The song "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" was a fairly well-received single, and the band members themselves seemed to like the song, since they always included it on compilations and generally described it as a good track that managed to lighten the rather somber mood of the album Automatic for the People. Despite this, they never played the song live. | |
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Despite being on their popular album Ride the Lightning, the band has only ever played "Escape" live a single time during an anniversary concert where they played every song from the album. "Escape" was a last-minute addition to the album, literally written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich in the recording studio when they were told by the producer that they had to have one more song on the album, and the label wanted a song with a melodic hook for release as a single.note In the end, the singles were "Creeping Death", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and "Fade to Black" instead. | |
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Metallica hadn't played "Orion" from Master of Puppets in its entirety until 2006, having last played it at original bassist Cliff Burton's funeral in 1986. It's mainly because the middle portion of the song was built exclusively around Burton's bass-playing, which the following bassists struggled to match. | |
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Barring "Creep", the only other songs they have performed from Pablo Honey since 2000 are "You," "Lurgee" and "Blow Out," the latter being performed as recently as 2018. The band still has a strong amount of Creator Backlash towards the album. | |
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They retired "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (from War) for some years as the result of a performance one day after the Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen in 1987, captured in the documentary Rattle and Hum (released the following year), in which Bono went on a fiery rant emphatically denouncing the IRA and their actions on that day (the lyrics of the song itself don't denounce either side explicitly for fear of reprisals, which led some to interpret it as being supportive of their cause). The band decided they could never top the performance or the raw emotion they felt on that day. However they brought it back on a full-time basis in the late '90s (probably not coincidentally, just as the Good Friday Agreement was coming into force) and it has remained on their setlists ever since. | |
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Their cover of Bob & Earl's "Harlem Shuffle" is pretty much the only song off of Dirty Work that they've played live since (as it's their biggest hit from the album), but even then it's just on rare occasions. | |
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"The Unforgiven II" from ReLoad is a sequel song to "The Unforgiven", one of the most popular songs from Metallica. It was released as a single and had a music video, but as a slow Power Ballad, was a Black Sheep Hit for the band. They initially played it live once at the Billboard Music Awards in 1997 (the same year ReLoad was released) before shelving it until 2015. Even after, they've only played it a total of 10 times as of 2022. In general quite a few songs from Load and ReLoad have either rarely been performed ("Poor Twisted Me", "Mama Said", "Outlaw Torn", "Carpe Diem Baby", "Fixxxer") or never been played ("The House That Jack Built", "Cure", "Ronnie", "Thorn Within", "Bad Seed"). | |
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In spite of the popularity of the self-titled Moonraker theme, Shirley Bassey seldom performed the song publicly, citing how it didn't feel like her own song, which was initially offered to both Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra. | |
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Despite being a hit single for the band, "High and Dry" hasn't appeared in concert since 1998, thanks to the band members' Creator Backlash towards it. | |
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Guns N' Roses has two of the tracks from Appetite for Destruction, "Anything Goes", which has not been played since 1988, and "Think About You", which had most of its plays between 2001 and 2006 (meaning Slash (Musician) hasn't performed it since 1987!). | |
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The original 1994 album version of "Hurt" from The Downward Spiral is rarely, if ever, played anymore. The song has a bit of a "cursed" reputation in that several live performances of it have been interrupted for various circumstances (such as technical difficulties and fan trolling), and when it was Covered Up so well by Johnny Cash in 2002, Reznor outright said "that song isn't mine anymore". Still, they continued to play it until about 2005, where they began almost exclusively playing a toned-down version, literally called "Hurt (Quiet Version)", at all live performances. It features Reznor providing vocals and playing the keyboard, with the rest of the band only joining in at the final chorus. | |
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"Illegal Alien" has never been performed in its entirety since its parent album's supporting tour wrapped up in 1984, due to controversy over the song's highly stereotypical depiction of Mexican immigrants. The closest they got was including a snippet of it during a medley of past songs as part of the tour for We Can't Dance. | |
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While "Brown Sugar" from Sticky Fingers was the band's second most popular live track for years, they removed it from their setlists in 2019 due to renewed scrutiny towards its lyrics, which lasciviously depict an affair between an enslaved Black woman and her white master. Although both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have expressed hope to bring it back in the future. | |
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A couple of the James Bond themes became this: In spite of the popularity of the self-titled Moonraker theme, Shirley Bassey seldom performed the song publicly, citing how it didn't feel like her own song, which was initially offered to both Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra. Although Alicia Keys included the song on her 2010 The Freedom Tour, neither she nor Jack White has performed "Another Way to Die", the theme song of Quantum of Solace, since then, likely due to its unpopularity. |
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System of a Down's "Dreaming" features several vocal tracks from Serj and Daron overlaid on top of each other. It's never been played live as a result. | |
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Northlane: After switching vocalist from Adrian Fitipales to Marcus Bridge, tunes from Discovery and Singularity started appearing less and less in live sets. Main reason is Adrian and Marcus having different vocal styles and both albums being considered Early-Installment Weirdness. That said "Quantum Flux" is a live staple, and occasionally "Dispossesion" will be played in headline sets. Also saying that, both songs have been slowly disappearing from shows as of 2023. The first two Marcus Bridge albums Node and Mesmer stopped showing up in shows after 2020. The latter in particular was a near Creator Killer for Northlane and were all too happy to abandon the album once Alien dropped. |
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"Mad Pierrot" was taken out of the band's setlist following their earliest performances in 1978, due to the song's fast pace and dense arrangement making it difficult to consistently replicate. | |
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Eminem retired all his Encore! material from his live set once the album's era was over, owing to its negative reception amongst fans and critics; for a while he still performed "Like Toy Soldiers", then later added "Evil Deeds" and "Mosh". | |
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Despite it being one of his biggest hits, George Michael stopped performing "I Want Your Sex" after the Faith World Tour wrapped up in 1989, thanks to him viewing it as overly imitative of Prince. | |
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They rarely perform "Let Down" from OK Computer live, since the song's effects are difficult to recreate live. | |
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The Rolling Stones: While "Brown Sugar" from Sticky Fingers was the band's second most popular live track for years, they removed it from their setlists in 2019 due to renewed scrutiny towards its lyrics, which lasciviously depict an affair between an enslaved Black woman and her white master. Although both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have expressed hope to bring it back in the future. Their cover of Bob & Earl's "Harlem Shuffle" is pretty much the only song off of Dirty Work that they've played live since (as it's their biggest hit from the album), but even then it's just on rare occasions. |
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The band stopped playing "Catapult" live after 1984 due to their bad memories of attempting to record it for Murmur with producer Stephen Hague. Hague was an acidic perfectionist during the band's tryout sessions with him, and the Sisyphean process of recording the song deeply demoralized them before they eventually got fed up and convinced I.R.S. Records to replace him with prior collaborators Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. Even after they recorded a satisfactory version of "Catapult" with Easter and Dixon, R.E.M. couldn't perform it on-stage without thinking back to their turbulent first attempts with Hague. | |
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"Anything She Does" has only rarely shown up in the band's setlists over the years, most prominently being omitted from the Invisible Touch tour. In the companion documentary Visible Touch, Tony Banks explained that this is because of the song's heavy reliance on sampled horns and synth bass, which makes it prohibitively difficult to play on-stage. | |
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The Who: The group retired "A Quick One, While He's Away" for some time. Pete Townshend initially wrote it on a whim as a light-hearted story about affairs and a love triangle. But years later, he started seeing it as a metaphor for the sexual abuse and other bad experiences he suffered while living with his grandmother as a child. In his autobiography, he claims that he might have subconsciously written the song as a way to cope. They retired the song from their concerts for many years until The New '10s, when they began include more deep cuts. | |
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Cannibal Corpse played "Frantic Disembowelment" from The Wretched Spawn live exactly once before permanently retiring it from their setlists, as it's a ridiculously technical song that is physically painful to play, and, while the most well-known song from its album, is nowhere near enough of a fan favorite to justify slogging through it. | |
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X Japan largely abandoned their debut album Vanishing Vision after reuniting in 2008, likely due to the deaths of Hide and Taiji leading to their songs being retired ("Sadistic Desire", "Phantom of Guilt") as well as many of Yoshiki's compositions ("Vanishing Love", "I'll Kill You") containing extremely difficult drumming that would be painful for him to perform due to aging and previous injuries. The two exceptions are "Kurenai", which would later be re-recorded for the band's sophomore album Blue Blood and is considered a contender for the band's Signature Song, and "Unfinished", which was also re-recorded for Blue Blood. | |
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Invoked by Aaron Carter, who told the audience at a live show of his that he would not perform some of his older hits, like "I Want Candy", even as some begged him to due to his wish to be taken as a "serious artist". | |
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Ever since the release of 2019's Death Atlas, Cattle Decapitation has seldom performed anything from the albums before it, with 2009's The Harvest Floor being a particularly major pariah for them despite having numerous fan favorites. The case regarding The Harvest Floor is because most of its songs are technically difficult and often physically painful to play, and Dave McGraw in particular hates his drumming on the album, believing that he overplayed in a misguided attempt to prove himself as the then-new drummer. | |
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While Technique is a fan-favorite album, the band dropped its songs from their setlist after their 1994-1998 hiatus. "Vanishing Point" briefly reappeared in 2017, but that was it. In a 2023 interview with the Irish Times, Gillian Gilbert claimed that the album's lack of on-stage representation is due to frontman Bernard Sumner considering it "unfinished." | |
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Reznor's vocal strain is also why "We're In This Together", released in 1999 on The Fragile, has only been performed during the European leg of the Performance 2007 tour. The live performance was also in a lower key than the studio version. | |
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In a 2015 interview, Al stated that he no longer performs "Jerry Springer" live due to its frequent use of terms now recognized as slurs. He also avoids performing the popular "Albuquerque", off the same album, because its 12-minute Epic Rocking length and extensive passages of comedic yelling and screaming put a strain on his vocal cords, saving it for special occasions (namely, when he is performing in Albuquerque, New Mexico), though he did bring it back into regular rotation for both Ridiculously Self Indulgent tours. | |
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AC/DC has not performed "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock & Roll)" live since original frontman Bon Scott's death in 1980, as the next frontman Brian Johnson considers it "Bon's Song" and wouldn't be right for him to sing it. | |
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Erra doesn’t play much from the 2015 EP A Moment of Clarity. The vocalist who tracked it, Ian Eubanks, was only in Erra for a short period of time thanks to poor technique and health issues. Once JT Cavey joined songs from the EP were dropped from set lists. They might bust out “Dreamcatcher� on a headliner set, but the last time they played that song was from 2019. | |
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Outside of a handful of early concerts, Korn refused to play the song "Daddy" live due to its deeply personal subject matter of frontman Jonathan Davis' sexual abuse as a child. In 2015, Davis would relent and perform the song for a series of concerts commemorating the self-titled album's (from which "Daddy" came from) 20th anniversary, since his abuser had died by then and thus he felt comfortable performing it. | |
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They retired "Exit" (from The Joshua Tree) from their setlist after Robert John Bardo (murderer of actress Rebecca Shaeffer) claimed that the song influenced his actions. The band would later bring the song back for The Joshua Tree's 30th anniversary tours, where they played the album in its entirety. | |
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Foo Fighters: They for the longest time refused to play "Big Me" live because whenever they did, they'd be pelted with Mentos mints, since the song's video spoofed Mentos commercials, frequently making Dave chastise their audience. They started playing it again after Weezer covered it with great acclaim during their joint "Foozer" tour in 2005-'06. Dave Grohl is notably not a fan of their album One by One, stating that seven of its eleven tracks are "sub-par". He claims to have never played them again after recording them, but fans claiming to have seen it live dispute this (only "Burn Away" and "Halo" didn't appear in any concerts). In either case, they are, at best, exceptionally rare plays. Inverted for the song "Butterflies." It was recorded on the original cassette tape version of their first album (in which Grohl played every instrument himself) but was not included in the CD release, or on any album since. However, the band does play it live, meaning "live" was the only way for most to hear it until it the cassette version was uploaded to YouTube and other similar sites. Many of their tracks have less than 15 plays, with some like "Hell", "Erase/Replace", "Come Back", "Concrete and Gold" and "Subterranean" having only been performed once. These rare tracks sadly include all but three songs off Medicine at Midnight given drummer Taylor Hawkins died early in the album's tour. |
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Pat Benatar has stated that she will no longer sing her hit "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" in deference to the victims of the families of the multiple 2022 mass shootings in the US. | |
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Psychostick rarely plays "Orgasm = Love", a fan favorite from their very first album, live. Vocalist and songwriter Rob "Rawrb" Kersey noted that "this song was written during a weird phase in my life. I was going through some weird turbulent stuff with relationships" and at one point dubbed it a "studio only" song when asked by a fan if they would ever play it live. Additionally, it's a slow Power Ballad for an otherwise "thrashy" comedy metal band, giving it Black Sheep Hit vibes. The band has ultimately relented, playing it live on a few occasions, but nowhere near as often as other songs of its popularity. | |
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Killswitch Engage has significantly decreased the number of times they play their famous 2006 cover of Ronnie James Dio's "Holy Diver" live over the years. It was their mainstream Breakthrough Hit (they were already popular in Metalcore circles) complete with a popular music video, though also something of a Blacksheep Hit since it was a cover that differed from their usual style. In 2012, vocalist Howard Jones left the band to focus on his health and original vocalist Jesse Leach returned. Leach's differing style doesn't lend as well to "Holy Diver", leading to the decrease in live performances. The band does still play it, but much more rarely than their other hits. (It may only get played once or twice a year now.) | |
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After the Glass Spider Tour in 1987, material from Tonight mostly vanished from Bowie's setlists, while material from Never Let Me Down completely vanished, owed to Bowie's fierce Creator Backlash towards both albums. The most representation Tonight got post-1987 consisted of "Blue Jean" reappearing during the Sound + Vision tour and both it and "Loving the Alien" appearing in the supporting tour for Reality. | |
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Phish: Phish occasionally plays rare songs (known to their fans as "Bust-outs") that they haven't played in years during their concerts, including songs that hadn't been seen in decades or had only been played once or twice before, so very few songs are ever out of their repertoire for good. One song that probably is, however, is "Jennifer Dances", which was only played four times in December 1999 before vanishing from their set lists. Reportedly, the band discarded the song because word got back to them that their devoted fanbase absolutely hated it. It's become a sort of meme in the Phish community in the years since, and it made a goofy reappearance at a July 2014 concert, when drummer Jon Fishman sang a couple lines from the song before admitting he'd forgotten the rest. "Harpua" and the pairing of "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" and "Fly Famous Mockingbird" are three of Phish's most beloved songs, with many fans hoping they get the chance to hear them at any given concert. One of the reasons for this is "Harpua" and "Mockingbird" both feature long narrated stories by guitarist Trey Anastasio that he changed every time they played them and which were usually connected to the band's Gamehendge mythos. However, they've all become rarer in later years. "Forbin" and "Mockingbird" stopped being regular features in Phish concerts after 1996, with just 11 more performances in the 25 years following. "Harpua" also largely dropped out of the band's repertoire by the late 90s, with just eight more performances after 2000. The songs usually only appear on special occasions, like their 2023 New Year's Eve concert. |
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Queen: Because Jazz underperformed by the band's standards, "Don't Stop Me Now" was permanently removed from their setlists in The '80s, having only been played live in 1979. Interestingly, surviving bootlegs of their performances of the song show the crowd taking to it just as you'd expect from what would go on to be known as one of Queen's greatest. With the sole exception of "Under Pressure", which remains a concert staple to this day, material from Hot Space hardly shows up in the band's live shows thanks to Brian May and Roger Taylor's dislike of it and the major backlash that its disco sound spawned. |
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Iron Maiden: Many of their songs were never played live (the only albums that had all tracks performed at some point were their self-titled debut and A Matter of Life and Death), and quite a few only in a few concerts. One that fans particularly lamented never appearing in setlists was "Alexander the Great", which wouldn't see a live debut until the Future Past tour in 2023. Drummer Nicko McBrain's dislike of double bass drum (according to the documentary The Early Days Pt. 1, he considers it "undrummerish") is why "Face in the Sand", the only Maiden song where McBrain plays a drum kit of such kind, was left out of the Dance of Death tour, and any posterior tours. Guitarist Adrian Smith confirmed that the band have no intention of playing "Empire of the Clouds" live, owed to the complexity of its arrangement and its mammoth 18-minute length, both of which caused no shortage of trouble for the band when recording it in the studio. |
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Genesis: They opted to remove the Title Track to Abacab from their setlists when they reunited in 2007, owed to Phil Collins finding the song too incomprehensible for him to comfortably sing. "Illegal Alien" has never been performed in its entirety since its parent album's supporting tour wrapped up in 1984, due to controversy over the song's highly stereotypical depiction of Mexican immigrants. The closest they got was including a snippet of it during a medley of past songs as part of the tour for We Can't Dance. "Anything She Does" has only rarely shown up in the band's setlists over the years, most prominently being omitted from the Invisible Touch tour. In the companion documentary Visible Touch, Tony Banks explained that this is because of the song's heavy reliance on sampled horns and synth bass, which makes it prohibitively difficult to play on-stage. The band avoided including any material from ...Calling All Stations... in their setlist during the 2007 and 2021 reunions. The album was made solely due to an Abilene Paradox between Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, neither of whom wanted to continue the band after Phil Collins left but assumed the other bandmate wished to do so, resulting in material that was widely panned by fans, critics, and the musicians involved. Consequently, Banks and Rutherford's poor memories of the album's production ensured that it would go unrepresented on stage (and off). |
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"U•T" was removed from the band's setlist after their initial dissolution in 1984. While it was scheduled to be played during their 1993 reunion tour, it was taken out after the band discovered that it was recorded in an obsolete equipment standard, making it prohibitively difficult to perform again. | |
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Parodied in the Homestar Runner short "Record Store Day". Alt-rockers Sloshy release "B-est of B-sides", the most obscure song in their already-obscure discography, and the song specifically mentions in the chorus, "We'll never even play this song live." | |
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Supergrass' big hit "Alright" is barely performed in recent band reunions. Although Gaz Coombes seems to still be fond of the song, he states that it doesn't reflect them nowadays since they're not young anymore — he's joked that if they did play it live, it should be "in a minor key, and in the past tense" ("We were young, we ran green" etc). | |
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Because Jazz underperformed by the band's standards, "Don't Stop Me Now" was permanently removed from their setlists in The '80s, having only been played live in 1979. Interestingly, surviving bootlegs of their performances of the song show the crowd taking to it just as you'd expect from what would go on to be known as one of Queen's greatest. | |
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All of Bowie's pre-Space Oddity material disappeared from Bowie's setlists once his career took off in the early '70s, owed to a mix of its Early-Installment Weirdness and his Creator Backlash towards it. Bowie eventually incorporated "Can't Help Thinking About Me" into his setlist during the supporting tour for 'hours...' in 1999 and featured "I Dig Everything" and "The London Boys" in the Mini Tour the following summer. This revisiting of his early material led to the making of the re-recordings album Toy in 2000 (though the album went unreleased until 2021). | |
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With the sole exception of "Under Pressure", which remains a concert staple to this day, material from Hot Space hardly shows up in the band's live shows thanks to Brian May and Roger Taylor's dislike of it and the major backlash that its disco sound spawned. | |
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Though it's their second best-selling album, it's rare for the band to play anything other than "One" from ...And Justice For All live. It was their first album after Burton's death, new bassist Jason Newsted was all but mixed out of the album altogether, and they didn't have their usual mixing producer, leading it to have an overly "sterile" and "tinny" sound lacking bass. It was also their most aggressive and technically demanding album, leading to burnout. Finally, the album has some of their longest songs, which, according to Hetfield, the crowds don't always respond well to when they're played live. Though many of its songs are beloved by fans, the band itself rarely plays most of them for these reasons. From the 2010s onward, "Blackened", "Harvester of Sorrow", and "The Shortest Straw" get played a few times a year, though "One" remains the album's only staple. | |
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