Make Your Own Michael Jackson Setlist/Show

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My Setlist: With Live or Playback
1.) Scream: Playback
2.) They Don't Really Care About Uslayback
3.) Wanna Be Starting Something: Live
4.) Another Part of Me: Live
5.) Human Nature: Live
6.) Smooth Criminal: Live
7.) Stranger in Moscow: Live
8.) In the Closet: Live
9.) Jackson 5 Melody: Live
10.) Thriller: Playback
11.) Billie Jean: Playback
12.) Remember the Time: Playback
13.)Beat It: Playback
14.) Dangerous: Playback
15.) Working Day and Night: Live
16.) Will You Be There: Playback
17.) Heal the World: Live
18.) Earth Song: Live
19.) Man in the Mirror: Half Live/Half Playback
20.) Just Good Friends: Live with Stevie Wonder.

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chris123678 said:

My Setlist: With Live or Playback
1.) Scream: Playback
2.) They Don't Really Care About Uslayback
3.) Wanna Be Starting Something: Live
4.) Another Part of Me: Live
5.) Human Nature: Live
6.) Smooth Criminal: Live
7.) Stranger in Moscow: Live
8.) In the Closet: Live
9.) Jackson 5 Melody: Live
10.) Thriller: Playback
11.) Billie Jean: Playback
12.) Remember the Time: Playback
13.)Beat It: Playback
14.) Dangerous: Playback
15.) Working Day and Night: Live
16.) Will You Be There: Playback
17.) Heal the World: Live
18.) Earth Song: Live
19.) Man in the Mirror: Half Live/Half Playback
20.) Just Good Friends: Live with Stevie Wonder.

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Why on God's green earth would you PREFER playback?

Do you not understand music?

Good setlist though!

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Tony R said:

Why on God's green earth would you PREFER playback?

Do you not understand music?

Good setlist though!

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Because at times, playback sounds much better than his live vocals.
I didn't like Michael's vocals for songs like Billie Jean, and Beat It, for example.
I much more preferred a History style performance of songs like that, rather than Dangerous or Bad.

Furthermore, I see playback as an element used in performing. It's sometimes necessary.

Now, I don't support playback for an entire concert, but here and there doesn't bother me.

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I made another imaginary setlist recently. For this one, I kind of thought of a hypothetical scenario in my head where if I knew a Michael Jackson impersonator/tribute act who does a big, lavish, Las Vegas like production (Kind of like Navi or Michael Firestone) and they asked me "What songs should I perform?" or if I was tasked with making a setlist for them...This is what I would do

1. Intro Video (HIStory promo video)
2. Jam
3. HIStory medley: They Don't Care About Us/HIStory/D.S
4. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
5. Lovely One (sometimes replaced with Things I Do For You)
6. Heartbreak Hotel
7. Pretty Young Thing (sometimes replaced with Another Part Of Me)
8. Smooth Criminal
9. Slave To The Rhythm (sometimes replaced with You Rock My World)
10. The Way You Make Me Feel
11. Jackson 5 Medley
12. Human Nature

(Horror Interlude)

13. Dirty Diana
14. Thriller
15. Working Day and Night
16. Beat It
17. Billie Jean
18. Shake Your Body
19. Come Together
20. Dangerous
21. Earth Song
22. Who Is It
23. Black Or White
24. Bad

(Encore)

25. Heal The World
26. Man In The Mirror

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I'm going to give this some serious thought and come back with a comprehensive answer in the next day or two. Great thread idea!!!

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1- Scream / Xscape
2- Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
3- Stranger in Moscow
4- Smooth Criminal
5- You Rock My World
6- Happy
7- Blood on the Dance Floor
8- Jackson 5 Medley
[Egyptian interlude]
9- Remember the Time
10- Thriller
11- Billie Jean
12- The Way You Make Me Feel
13- Dangerous
14- Beat It
[Black Panther interlude]
15- Another Part of Me
16- Workin' Day and Night
17- Black or White
18- Bad
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Encore
19- Butterflies, Dirty Diana, You Are Not Alone (Varies every show)
20- Heal the World

1. Opening
2. Medley of Jam | Scream | Unbreakable
3. WBSS
4. The Drill
5. They Dont
6 Smooth Criminal
6. Break Of Dawn
7. j5 Medley (Can You Feel It | Walk Right Now | Hearbreak Hotel)
8. I´ll Be There
9. Billie Jean
10. Thriller
11. Beat It
12. Black Or White
13. Of The Wall Medley 9 min (I Cant Help It | Rock With You | Dont Stop)
14. Working Day And Night
15. Bad Medley (The Way you Make me Feel | Fly Away | Leave Me Alone)
16. Bad
17. Dangerous Medley 9 min ( Why You Wanna | In The Closet | Who Is it)
18. Dangerous
19. History Medley 9 min (Little Susie | Smile| Ghosts | D.S.)
20: Money
21. Invincible Medley (What Ever Happens | Butterflies | Privacy | Xscape)
22. The Lost Children
23. Anti War Medley (Earth Song & We Ve Had Enough)
24. Heal The World
25. Speech
26. Man in The Mirror

Triumph Release Party, 9/30/80 & 10/1/80

1. Can You Feel it
2. 1st Night: Get It Together | 2nd Night: Your Ways
3. Things I Do For You
4. 1st Show: Give It Up | 2nd Show: I Am Love
5. Walk Right Now
6. Heartbreak Hotel
7. Time Waits For No One
8. Wondering Who
9. J5 Medley: IWYB/ABC/TLYS/DM
10. 1st Show: Never Can Say Goodbye | 2nd Show: I'll Be There
12. Rock With You
13. Off The Wall
14. 1st Show: Lovely One | 2nd Show: Blame It On The Boogie
~~OTW Band Groove: ICHI/Girlfriend/BTDO ~~
15. Working Day & Night
16. Don't Stop
17. Shake Your Body

Fantastic concept for a thread! Loving these posts so far. :yes:

I'm not sure what kind of concert I would produce, or what theme I would incorporate (Anniversary, Album, Benefit/Charity, Celebration, etc etc.) However, I know what my perfect set-list is. In short: I would pay good freaking money to see this.

1. Intro/Scream
2. Jam
4. Wanna Be Startin Somethin'
5. Workin' Day and Night
6. Human Nature
7. The J5/Jacksons Extended Medley; ABC, I Want You Back, Dancing Machine, Blame it on the Boogie, I'll Be There, Shake Your Body
8. Off The Wall
9. Rock With You
10. Smooth Criminal
11. Remember the Time
12. Leave Me Alone
13. Beat It
14. Thriller
15. Billie Jean
16. They Don't Care About Us
17. Earth Song
18. Heal the World
19. Black or White
20. Will You Be There
21. Man in the Mirror

Also, I had this neat idea the other day.

• The Collab Concert •

1. Intro/Scream (Feat: Janet Jackson)
2. Wanna Be Starting Something/Segments of 'Don’t Stop The Music' (Feat: Rihanna.)
3. They Don't Care About Us/'Tennis Court' (Feat: Lorde)
4. The J5 Medley; ABC, I Want You Back, I'll Be There (Feat: The Jacksons)
5. Off The Wall Medley; Off the Wall, She's Out of My Life, Rock With You (Feat: Bruno Mars)
6. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Feat: Beyoncé)
7. Smooth Criminal (Feat: Alien Ant Farm, and a Guitar Solo by Slash)
8. Billie Jean (Feat: All Aforementioned Artists as backup vocals)
9. Just Good Friends (Feat: Stevie Wonder)
10. Baby Be Mine/'Get Lucky' (Feat: Daft Punk)
11. Human Nature (Feat: Sam Smith)
12. Man in the Mirror (Only Michael)
13. 'Purple Rain' (Feat: Prince)
14. We Are The World (Feat: Everyone)

Jam
TDCAU
WBSS
This Place
Stranger
Smooth Criminal
The Way You Make Me Feel
Jackson 5 Medley
Off the Wall medley
Dangerous
Thriller
Beat It
Bad
Heal The World/Earth Song medley
Billie Jean
Man in the Mirror

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chris123678 said:

Because at times, playback sounds much better than his live vocals.
I didn't like Michael's vocals for songs like Billie Jean, and Beat It, for example.
I much more preferred a History style performance of songs like that, rather than Dangerous or Bad.

Furthermore, I see playback as an element used in performing. It's sometimes necessary.

Now, I don't support playback for an entire concert, but here and there doesn't bother me.

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I have never heard someone actually prefer Playback performances of Billie jean/Beat it in concert...
I'd take live vocals from the Bad tour (first or second leg) over history tour any day. Rehearsals proved Mj could sing several songs just as good if not better than playback. It's simply his dancing that will obviously affect his singing. IMO Billie Jean/Beat it should always be live. Vocally, Beat it on the victory tour was amazing because the choreography was not as refined as later tours. Although I respect your opinion, I can't agree.

I've decided to ditch the Disney medley and off the wall songs, and just focus on thriller singles (minus the girl is mine) and say say say. mine would be more of a one off showcase for the bits of '83

Here's my idea for an ideal Michael concert. The setlist is as follows:

HIStory teaser
1. Jam+2Bad
2. They Don't Care About Us+In The Closet(with excerpts from She Drives Me Wild and HIStory)
3. Wanna Be Starting Something(2nd verse removed)
4. Human Nature(2nd verse removed)
5. Smooth Criminal
6. The Way You Make Me Feel(shortened version)
7. You Are Not Alone
Compliation of childhood videos: Home
8. Jackson 5 medley(I Want You Back+The Love You Save+I'll Be There)
9. Off The Wall medley(Rock With You+Don't Stop Till You Get Enough)
Egyptian Fantasy
10. Thriller(music video version)
11. Working Day And Night(shortened version)
12. Beat It(2nd verse removed)
13. Billie Jean
The Invincible Man(music used: This Land- by Hans Zimmer)
14. Why You Wanna Trip On Me(shortened version)
15. Dangerous(combination of 1993 live version+MTV performance version)
16. You Rock My World(2nd verse removed)
17. Come Together+D.S.
18. Speechless+Best Of Joy
Panther Dance
19. Black Or White
20. We've Had Enough+Earth Song
Children Of The World(music: solo version of We Are The World)
21. Heal The World(2nd verse removed)
22.Bad(2nd verse removed)
23. Will You Be There(shortened version)
24. Blood On The Dance Floor(2nd verse removed)
25. HIStory/Man In The Mirror(2nd verse removed)

Michael's look for this show would be straight, messed up hair(like in the video for Earth Song), with different jackets for each song(there are exceptions). Also, Michael will have his Invincible-era physique for this show.

The show opens with the HIStory teaser. Michael uses the toaster illusion for the opening song. He wears the black and gold Jam jacket(the one he wore at the Super Bowl show in 1993). He wears the same jacket for They Don't Care About Us. His pants are black, with silver buttons(like the one used during Dangerous tour, but a bit baggy-looking).

For WBSS, he wears the jacket for that song from Bad tour. He wears a smooth, silky, gold jacket for Human Nature.

For Smooth Criminal, the opening is the one used in This Is It(the video featuring those old movies), but it also has the narration from Bad and Dangerous tours, as beautiful ladies and well-dressed gentlemen strut and freestyle across the stage. Michael then comes on stage, and opens the song with a "pow!!!".

For TWYMMF, Michael wears his famous blue dress shirt(with buttoned cuffs). The girl he chases around wears a sexy black dress with gold embroidery at the edges. The dress is the same type as the silver dress worn by the girl in the 30th Anniversary show. There are five street boys(including Michael).

For YANA, Michael has one of the girls in the audience come and dance with him. He wears his famous black shirt from the music video.

Michael wears the multi-colour Jam jacket for the J5 medley. He then wears a black jacket with cuffs for the OTW medley.

Michael wears the classic red Thriller jacket(embroidered with blood, instead of quilting, but with a collar), and he doesn't transform into a werewolf in this version. The werewolf appears only in the video introduction.
Michael wears the WD&N outfit from Dangerous tour. He also used the disappearing chair trick to switch to Beat It.

The Beat It jacket has a duller red colour than the one usually used, but the zippers and the shoulders are bright, sparkling silver. The outlines of the sippers are black. There are more than 10 dancers who appear as gangsters in this show(both men and women).

The Billie Jean outfit is the same as the one in Bad Tour. He opens the song with the suitcase segment.

WYWTOM is performed wearing a black Beat it jacket(with fully silver zippers).
Michael then switches to the outfit for Dangerous. Everyone wears smart suits, and only Michael's shirt is red. Everyone else wears white.
You Rock My World opens with a section of the short film. Michael performs the song wearing the blue Blood On The Dance Floor jacket from HIStory tour.

Michael performs Come Together/D.S. wearing a red jacket with a white armband. Speechless+Best Of Joy is performed wearing the Man In The Mirror shirt from Dangerous tour.

Michael performs Black Or White wearing a lighter version of the studded jacket for This is It- it has metal plate instead of studs on it, which reduces the weight of the jacket. He also performs the song very much like the music video- the opening has him dancing with Maasai warriors, and then Balinese dancers come in for the first verse. During the second verse, he dances with a Mohiniyattam dancer from India. He then dances with hopak dancers(male and female), before going to sing the bridge. A smoke vent opens up and sends smoke flying up as silk flames rise up behind Michael and his female guitarist.
He then performs the rap section with a group of street kids, aged 12-16. Then when he comes out after the pause, he has Arab sword dancers and Arab women weaving their hair back and forth. After they leave, a giant display of world landmarks slide on stage(Taj Mahal, Burj Khalifa, Eiffel tower, Statue of Liberty, etc.).

Michael wears his tattered-up Earth Song shirt for WHE+Earth Song. He gets on a cherry picker for the "What bout yesterday" section. If the timing is right, he gets back on stage just before the "whoo! whoo!" section. Then, a group of soldiers come on stage and begin to point their guns at the villagers. Michael tries to stop them, but then they all point their guns at him. He then prays silently, before rising to make a speech on human greed and how it has affected the earth. The soldiers drop their guns and then, one of them hugs Michael. A little boy and girl present him with flowers, which makes the soldiers feel touched.

Michael wears the Global jacket from This is it for HTW.

Michael wears the classic Bad jacket for Bad. He wears a plain white shirt for Will You Be There. At the end, a female dancer dressed as an angel descends from the top of the stage, and hugs Michael.

Michael wears a silky red jacket for Blood On The Dance Floor. The ending section has a young woman come out on stage and dance with Michael. The audience sees that she has a knife handle sticking out from her belt. She moves in front of Michael, and then he falls down, clutching his stomach, at which point, the song stops. The girl walks away, appparently having stabbed Michael.

Michael wears the silver jacket from HIStory tour. HIStory is performed the same way as in the HIStory tour- there is great marching parade weaving flags, and the dancers and singers bow to the audience.The jumbotron plays clips of important incidents from Michael's career. Man In The Mirror is performed wearing a black jacket with gold decorations on it. He ends the song the same way as in the Royal Concert in Brunei.

What about:
00. Overture: HIStory
01. The Michael Medley: Leave Me Alone/Morphine/Superfly Sister
02. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
03. Stranger In Moscow
04. Smooth Criminal
05. The Way You Make Me Feel
06. The Jackson 5ive Medley: I Want You Back/The Love You Save/Never Can Say Goodbye/ I’ll Be There
07. The Off The Wall Medley: Sunset Driver/Off The Wall/Get On The Floor
08. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
09. Dangerous
10. Dirty Diana/Beat It

INTERVAL

11. Entr’Acte Mashup: Thriller/Threatened
12. Earth Song
13. The Global Medley: We Are The World/Heal The World
14. If You Don’t Love Me/Black Or White
15. Billie Jean
16. Someone Put Your Hand Out/Will You Be There
17. Man In The Mirror
18. Smooth Criminal/Thriller (Reprise)
19. Invincible
20. What More Can I Give (Finale)

I always felt like the Dangerous tour didn't have enough songs from the Dangerous album on it, so I changed that setlist to include more songs from that album

1. Jam
2. Wanna Be Startin Somethin
3. Human Nature
4. Smooth Criminal
5. Who Is It
6. Jackson 5 Medley
7. Thriller
8. Billie Jean
9. Give Into Me
10. Working Day And Night
11. Beat It
12. Will You Be There
13. The Way You Make Me Feel
14. Dangerous
15. Black Or White
16. Heal The World
17. Man In The Mirror

Not a massive change. I just replaced ISCSLY and SOOML with Who Is It and Give Into Me.

My Custom Michael Jackson Set List
00. Intro
01. Jam
02. Wanna Be Startin Something
03. Human Nature
04. They Don't Care About Us
05. Leave Me Alone
06. Al Capone/Smooth Criminal
07. Rock With You
08. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
09. Jackson 5 Medley: I Want Your Back/The Love You Save/ I'll Be There.
10. Off The Wall Medley: Off The Wall/ Workin Day and Night/ Get On The Floor/Shes out of my life
INTERMISSION
11. Billie Jean
12. Thriller
13. Beat It
14. Blood On The Dancefloor/A Place With No Name.
15. Dangerous
16. Who Is It
17 Dangerous Medley: Black Or White/She Drives Me Wild/Remember The Time/ In The Closet
18. Dirty Diana
19. The Way You Make Me Feel.
20. The World Medley: Planet Earth (Poem)/Earth Song/ Heal The World/ We Are The World
21. Man In The Mirror
22. Rock My World.
23. 2Bad (Live Debut)

Edits
Al Capone Will Be Performed On The 1st Leg and Smooth Criminal 2nd Leg
Blood On The Dancefloor and A Place With No Name Will Be Performed on the 1st and 2nd Legs Like in history tour Michael Performed Come Together and Performed DS Straight After Come Together here Michael will perform A Place With No Name Straight After Blood On The Dancefloor
2Bad To Make its Live Debut Originally For History Tour

Outfits
Jam and Wanna Be Startin Something: Black and Gold Jacket with History Tour Pants
Human Nature: White Button Shirt and Black Pants
They Don't Care About Us: Prison Outfit Shirt with History Tour Pants
Leave Me Alone Bad Tour: Outfit
Smooth Criminal and Al Capone: Smooth Criminal Outfit
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough: Tuxedo
Jackson 5 Medley: Black Jacket with History Tour Pants
Off The Wall Medley: Black Blazer with History Tour Pants
Billie Jean: Billie Jean Jacket and Black Pants with White Stripes
Thriller: Red Thriller Jacket and Black Pants 1st Leg. White Thriller Jacket and Black Pants 2nd Leg
Beat It: Black Beat It Jacket and Black Pants Michaels Hair is Untied
Blood On The Dance Floor and A Place With No Name: Blue Jacket from History Tour 2nd Leg and Black Pants Hair Untied
Dangerous: Black Suit With White Shirt and Fedora 1st Leg and Black Suit with Red Shirt and Fedora
Who Is It: White Shirt With Top Button Undone and tie slightly Loose
Dangerous Medley: White Shirt Unbuttoned hair Untied
Dirty Diana: White Shirt Unbuttoned hair Untied slightly ripped white t shirt end of song Michael ripps the t shirt like the music video
The Way Make Me Feel: Blue Shirt and Black Pants
The World Medley: Earth Song Shirt and Black Pants
Man In The Mirror: White CTE Shirt and Black Pants
Rock My World: Black Blazer with Red Shirt, Bandana and Fedora Rock My World Choreography makes its live debut at the end of the song.
2Bad: 2Bad Shirt and Black Pants Hair Untied

My Custom Thriller Tour 1982-1983. If Michael Toured for the thriller with 2 legs.
1st Leg 1982
00. Intro/Vincent Price Thriller Quote
01. Wanna Be Startin Something
02. This Place Hotel (Heartbreak Hotel)
03. Human Nature
04. Rock With You
05. P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)
06. Jackson 5 Medley: I Want Your Back/The Love You Save/Never Say Goodbye/I'll Be There
07. She's Out Of My Life
08. Ben
09. Off The Wall
10. Workin Day and Night
BREAK
11. Billie Jean
12. Thriller
13. Beat It
14. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
15. Can You Feel It
16. Shake Your Body To The Ground
2nd Leg 1983
00. Intro/Vincent Price Thriller Quote
01. Wanna Be Startin Something
02. This Place Hotel (Heartbreak Hotel)
03. Human Nature
04. Rock With You
Michael Announces He Going Start Recording For His Next Album In 1985 and Album is Called Bad and Ask The Audience if they want a preview which the audience cheers for it
05. Bad Perfomed for the first time in the Thriller Era Before it's even Released (Replaces P.Y.T)
06. Jackson 5 Medley: ABC/I Want Your Back/ I'll Be There (The Love You Save and Never Say Goodbye Are Replaced With ABC)
07. She's Out Of My Life
08. Get On The Floor (Replaces Ben)
09. Off The Wall
10. Workin Day and Night
Break
11. Billie Jean
12. Beat It
13. Can You Feel It
14. Blame It On The Boogie (The Jacksons Perform This Together)
15. Shake Your Body To The Ground
16. Thriller
17. Say Say Say (Ft Paul McCartney)

Setlist of songs Michael's never performed in concert

1. Unbreakable/Heartbreaker/Invincible (Medley)
2. Get On The Floor
3. Tabloid Junkie
4. The Lady In My Life
5. Remember The Time
6. Who Is It
7. I Can't Help It (With Stevie Wonder on Keyboards)
8. Just Good Friends (Vocal duet with With Stevie Wonder)
9. Speed Demon
10. Liberian Girl
11. She Drives Me Wild
12. Money
13. Is It Scary/Threatened/Ghosts (Medley)
14. 2Bad
15. Give Into Me
16. P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)
17. Baby Be Mine
18. Leave Me Alone
19. Keep The Faith

Well firstly the stage should be a bit smaller, I'd ditch the big choreographies that replicate the videos. There should be room for a big funky backing band, live strings and horns and quality backing singers for harmonies and choruses. The band should be in full view, not shrouded in darkness, I want to see them work their instruments, have a real live feel of it. LIVE singing.

1) Bad (like on bad tour, with a standing mic, it's classic)
2) Another Part of Me (again like bad tour, for me the best part of the concert)
3) The Way You Make Me Feel ( start with a cappella slow version, then epic start of the beat with accompanying improv dance, ditch end choreography)
4) Who Is It (MJ on standing mic, extended passionate ad libs)
5) Give In To Me (Standing behind mic)
6) Dirty Diana (like GITM, look at Bad tour)
7) Shout (working the stage, get the crowd to sing along the chorus)
8) Stranger In Moscow (again just behind a mic, doing some moves if comfortable)
9) One day In Your Life (like in the old J5 shows)
10) Get It Together (3 other dancers with him to do the classic routine)
11) You Need Love Like I Do/ Dancing Machine (classic routine)
12) There Was a Time (James Brown cover, epic solo dancing like JB would do it but the MJ way, extended)
13) The Lady In My Life (Behind the mic again, ad libbing)
14) Carousel
15) We're Here to Entertain You (thanking crowd and band)
16) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough (like the old tours, bottle percussion/jamming band extended while MJ exits the stage)
17) Billie Jean (Mj enters the stage in BJ clothes while percusion continues until the epic BJ beat kicks in)
18) Earth Song (choir still there, smoke and wind on stage during the climax)
19) Will You Be There

Some nights would have some changes like carousel out for I can't help it, Get It Together out for Get on The Floor, Shout for Beat It or State of Shock, APOM for BOTDF and who is it for Liberian Girl/ Money

That's just one show, I can make dozens of varieties as there are so many songs (including Motown) to pick from

there are some really good young MJ impersonators/dancers on YouTube, this guy is called Kash Spry and his youtube account has lots of videos of him dancing to Michael, here he made his own 'Moonwalker' tour and it's so good!

https://youtu.be/arMrezaXiRc

My dream setlist (The One Time Show) :
1) HIStory
2) Blood On The Dance Floor
3) Dangerous
4) You Rock My World
5) Keep The Faith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oPEuMTo2Jo)
6) Billie Jean
7) Say Say Say (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mweXeLK38rk)
8) Unbreakable
9) Family Things
10) Liberian Girl
11) Tabloid Junkie
12) Dangerous
13) TDCAU
14) We Are The World
15) Whatever Happens
16) Morphine
17) Is It Scary
18) Xscape (I thought it was funny.)

Setlist. Thriller Tour 1984

1. Wanna Be Startin 'somethin'
2. PYT
3. Off The Wall
4. Human Nature
5. The Girl Is Mine
6. Shes Out Of My Life
7. Jackson 5 medley (I Want You Back / The Love You Save / ABC / I'll Be There)
8. Rock with you
9. Band Groove (like The Bad Tour MJ has a 15 Minute break and the band play their instruments)
10. Workin 'Day & Night
11. Thriller
12. Beat it
13. Billie jean
Encore:
14. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough

I have quite a few

Number Ones Tour:

Tour would have happened in 2003

GATES OF KIEV INTRO

Don't Stop ('til you Get Enough) (with Can You Feel It intro)
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (with elements of This Place Hotel)
Rock With You
Invincible Medley (2000 Watts/Unbreakable/Heartbreaker/Invincible)
They Don't Care About Us
The Way You Make Me Feel
You Rock My World
Break Of Dawn
I Just Can't Stop Loving You (feat. Siedah Garrett)
Human Nature
Smooth Criminal
Blood On The Dancefloor (with elements of Morphine/Is It Scary)
BEN INTERLUDE
Jackson 5 Medley (I Want You Back/The Love You Save/I'll Be There)
Dancing Machine (With *NSYNC)
Stranger In Moscow
Dirty Diana (with elements of D.S.)
Beat It
Bad
Black Or White
Dangerous (contains elements of Smooth Criminal)
In The Closet (with She Drives Me Wild intro)
Earth Song
WE ARE THE WORLD INTERLUDE
Heal The World
You Are Not Alone
Thriller/Threatened
Ghosts (with 2 Bad dance break)
Scream (feat. Janet Jackson)
Billie Jean
Workin' Day & Night
One More Chance

ENCORE

Man In The Mirror

Blood On The Dance Floor Tour

This would be a setlist for a revamped HIStory Tour that went from 1997-98, and it would have unseen songs on it that he would have never performed live.

HIStory Medley (Scream/They Don't Care About Us (contains elements of She Drives Me Wild)/In The Closet)
Superfly Sister
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Stranger In Moscow/Human Nature
CHILDHOOD INTERLUDE
Smooth Criminal
The Way You Make Me Feel/P. Y. T. (Pretty Young Thing)
You Are Not Alone
Jackson 5 Medley (I Want You Back/The Love You Save/I'll Be There)
Jackson´s Medley (Can You Feel It/Dancing Machine/Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (contains elements of This Place Hotel, Torture, and State Of Shock)
Off The Wall Medley (Rock With You/Off The Wall/Don't Stop ('til you Get Enough))
REMEMBER THE TIME INTERLUDE
Billie Jean
Thriller/(2 Bad Dance Break)/Ghosts
Beat It
Dirty Diana
Come Together/D. S./Morphine
Dangerous (contains elements of Smooth Criminal)
Blood On The Dancefloor
Earth Song
Global Medley (Heal The World/We Are The World)
Will You Be There
Black Or White
HIStory

ENCORE

Man In The Mirror

HBO One Night Only 1995 Setlist

This setlist would have happened on the ill-fated HBO special "One Night Only" that didn't happen because Michael collapsed on stage during rehearsals.

Scream (ft. Janet Jackson)
Military/Love Medley (Jam/They Don't Care About Us/In The Closet)
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Human Nature
Rock With You
Smooth Criminal
Off The Wall Medley (Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough/Off The Wall)
Jackson 5 Medley (I Want You Back/The Love You Save/I'll Be There)
Thriller
Billie Jean
Workin' Day And Night
Beat It
Come Together/D.S.
Dangerous
This Time Around
Black Or White
Earth Song
You Are Not Alone
Heal The World
HIStory

ENCORE

Man In The Mirror

Thriller Tour Setlist

This tour would have taken place from 1983-85, and Michael would not have been included in the Victory tour with the Jacksons

Can You Feel It
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
I Can't Help It
Human Nature
Ben*
Baby Be Mine/The Lady In My Life
She's Out Of My Life
Things I Do For You
Jackson 5 Medley (I Want You Back/ABC/The Love You Save)
I'll Be There
Workin' Day And Night
Beat It
Rock With You
Lovely One
Thriller
P. Y. T. (Pretty Young Thing)
Billie Jean
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
ENCORE

Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
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*On the 1985 leg of the tour, Ben would be replaced with We Are The World

Every single setlist that has been posted is more exciting than everything we got post Motown

My Michael Jackson personal setlist is:

1 Intro (could be Brace yourself)
2 Jam
3 They don't care bout us
4 Wanna be starting something
5 Another part of me
6 Human Nature
7 Smooth criminal
8 Jackson 5 medley
9 Off the wall medley
10 Remember the time
11 Dirty Diana
12 Thriller
13 Working day and night
14 Beat it
15 The way you make me feel
16 Dangerous
17 Blood on the dance floor
18 Bad
19 Billie Jean
20 Love never felt so good
21 Black or white
22 Earth song
23 Heal the world
24 Man in the mirror

Tony R said:

Re: Make your own Michael Jackson setlist/show



Why on God's green earth would you PREFER playback?

Do you not understand music?

Good setlist though!

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What does understanding music have to do with preferring playback to live vocals lol