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Last time I redid the setlist for the Exciter tour, so I decided to follow it up by redoing Touring The Angel's setlist. The setlist that they used really annoys me because it was almost perfect but was held back by just a couple of major issues. My first and biggest issue is the lack of plays for Stripped and In Your Room. This was a problem I had with the original Exciter tour setlist. I personally feel that Depeche Mode should view Stripped like how they view Never Let Me Down Again, Enjoy The Silence, and Personal Jesus. My next issue was that they didn't do It's No Good. Every album up to Delta Machine, minus Exciter and A Broken Frame, has had at least one song that is played on every tour. For Ultra, those songs are It's No Good and Home. While they played Home, I didn't really like the lack of It's No Good. My final issue was that Everything Counts was not the set closer. Truthfully, I feel that Everything Counts should always be the set closer, and while the placement in this setlist is better than on other tours like the Memento Mori Tour, Exciter Tour, Exotic Tour, and World Violation Tour. It really annoys me on this tour because I feel like we were so close to getting it as a set closer. Just about everything is the same, just moved around. I added Lie to Me and Nothing because they said they thought about playing Lie to Me, and I felt like Nothing would have fit very well on this tour. Anyway, here is my redone Touring The Angel Setlist.

Setlist

1 A Pain That I’m Used To

2 Suffer Well

3 It’s No Good

4 World In My Eyes

5 A Question of Time

6 Walking In My Shoes

7 Policy of Truth

8 Behind The Wheel

9 I Want It All

• Lillian
• The Darkest Star

10 Damaged People

• Macro

11 Home

• It Doesn’t Matter Two
• A Question of Lust
• Blue Dress
• It Doesn’t Matter
• The Things You Said
• Comatose

12 Nothing’s Impossible

• The Sinner In Me
• Martyr

13 In Your Room

14 Precious

15 Nothing

16 I Feel You

17 John The Revelator

18 Personal Jesus

19 Stripped

20 Enjoy The Silence

ENCORE 1:

21 Shake The Disease (acoustic)

• Somebody
• Leave In Silence (acoustic)
• Judas (acoustic)

22 Never Let Me Down Again

23 Goodnight Lovers

ENCORE 2:

24 Just Can’t Get Enough

• Lie To Me
• Photographic

25 Everything Counts

For the most part, I'm happy with the setlists Depeche Mode has had over the years; however, two of their tours that have always irritated me were the Exciter tour and the Delta Machine tour. I'm going to start posting my takes on the setlist for each Depeche Mode tour, starting with Exciter. I'm conflicted about this tour. On the one hand, the performance is incredible across all the songs, and Exciter is an incredible album. We also got what is, in my opinion, the best post-Alan live mix of Black Celebration except for the Memento Mori Tour. We also got to hear some classics that we hadn't heard in a while, such as Halo and Clean. However, the order of songs and the songs that were left out have always weighed on me. I can understand them leaving out Policy of Truth and World in My Eyes due to all the other Violator songs we got; however, the fact that Stripped wasn't played is a crime. I also feel like a blend of Devotional/Exotic and Touring the Angel versions of Everything Counts would have been great. Along with that, I think they could have benefited from having a longer setlist, and with Dave being as energetic as he was on this tour, as well as the amount of slow songs played, I feel like they easily could have done 25 songs in their set. I also think that bringing back Strangelove would have worked perfectly for this tour with how much love is talked about on the album. Anyway, this setlist I would have liked to see them do. (Also, if the song does not have (acoustic) next to it is performed full band except somebody. Also, Songs with a dot next to them are subs for the numbered song directly above them.)

Setlist

1 Intro/The Dead of Night

2 I Feel Loved

3 Halo

4 Walking In My Shoes

5. The Sweetest Condition

• Shine

6 Policy of Truth

7 In Your Room

8 Strangelove

9 When The Body Speaks

10 Sister of Night (acoustic)

• Surrender (acoustic)
• It Doesn’t Matter Two (acoustic)
• Dressed In Black (acoustic)
• Somebody
• World Full of Nothing (acoustic)

11 Breathe

• Home
• The Bottom Line
• Judas
• The Sweetest Perfection
• A Question of Lust
• Blue Dress
• I Want You Now
• Comatose

12 Freelove

13 World In My Eyes

14 It’s No Good

15 Black Celebration

16 Dream On

17 I Feel You

18 Personal Jesus

19 Stripped

20 Enjoy The Silence

21 Goodnight Lovers

ENCORE 1:

22 Clean

• Waiting For The Night
• The Love Thieves
• Condemnation

23 Never Let Me Down Again

ENCORE 2:

24 But Not Tonight

25 Everything Counts