setlists

Okay, so the Beat the Champ album tour was was 29 shows. The full band part of the sets featured 37 different songs, 3 of which were pre-Tallahassee.

By comparison, the last major album tour, for Transcendental Youth featured 47 different songs, 6 of which were pre-Tallahassee. (Keep in mind that for this tour there was also a duo section, where JD and Peter would play one song together before the solo set). This tour was 30 shows long, but only 29 sets are known (if anyone from Santa Fe is reading this, we need your help). That seems like a marked difference, but since that tour the band was only a 3 piece instead of a 4-piece, it makes sense that they'd know more songs together.

A better comparison would be the All Eternals Deck tour, which also featured four members (Yuval Semo on the keys and aux. guitar). Yuval joined the band for 26 shows (a brief trip to the UK and Ireland by the 3-piece band in between the East and West coast tours isn't counted here), where they played only 40 different songs together, but—here is the kicker—fourteen of them were pre-Tallahassee. (For the record, Richmond, Atlanta, and especially Ithaca have only partial sets known.)

Full band (BTC)

1. Amy
2. Animal Mask
3. Ballad of Bull Ramos
4. Best Ever Death Metal Band*
5. Black Pear Tree
6. Blood Capsules
7. Blues in Dallas*
8. Choked Out
9. Cry for Judas
10. Deuteronomy 2:10
11. Diaz Brothers
12. Fire Editorial
13. Foreign Object
14. Gameshows
15. Get Lonely
16. Going to Bolivia*
17. Hast Thou
18. Heel Turn 2
19. Heretic Pride
20. Legend of Chavo
21. Love 3x
22. Lovecraft
23. Luna
24. Never Quite Free
25. No Children
26. Palmcorder
27. Pigs That Ran
28. See USA Right
29. Slow West Vultures
30. Song for Dennis Brown
31. SW Territory
32. Spent Gladiator 2
33. Stabbed to Death
34. This Year
35. Up the Wolves
36. Werewolf Gimmick
37. Young Thousands

Full Band (TY)

1. 1 Samuel
2. Amy
3. Best Ever Death Metal Band*
4. Birth of Serpents
5. Broom People
6. Cry for Judas
7. Damn These Vampires
8. Diaz Brothers
9. Dinu Lipatti
10. Ezekiel
11. First Few Desperate
12. For Charles Bronson
13. Going to Kansas*
14. Harlem Roulette
15. Hast Thou
16. Heretic Pride
17. Holidays in the Sun
18. Houseguest
19. In Memory of Satan
20. In the Craters on the Moon
21. Isaiah
22. Jeff Davis County*
23. Lakeside View
24. Lions' Teeth
25. Love 3x
26. Marduk
27. Mess Inside*
28. Never Quite Free
29. Night Light
30. No Children
31. Palmcorder
32. Pigs Whom Ran
33. Psalms
34. Pure Milk*
35. San Bernardino
36. See USA
37. Shadow Song*
38. Southwood
39. Spent Gladiator
40. This /year
41. Transcendental
42. Until I Am Whole
43. Up the Wolves
44. White Cedar
45. Wild Sage
46. You or Your Memory
47. Your Belgian Things

Full band (AED)

1. Age of Kings
2. Beautiful Gas Mask
3. Best Ever Death Metal Band*
4. Birth of Serpents
5. Boxcar
6. Broom People
7. California Song*
8. Cotton
9. Damn These Vampires
10. Dance Music
11. Dinu Lipatti
12. Elijah*
13. Estate Sale
14. Family Happiness*
15. For Charles Bronson
16. Furniture Store*
17. Going to Georgia*
18. Home Again Graden Grove
19. Houseguest
20. Jeff Davis County*
21. Liza
22. Minnesota*
23. Never Quite Free*
24. No Children
25. One Fine Day**
26. Ontario*
27. Palmcorder
28. Pigs That Ran
29. Plain
30. Prowl Great Cain
31. Psalms
32. Quito
33. Rotten Stinking
34. San Bernardino
35. Seeing Daylight*
36. Snow Crush*
37. Song for Dennis Brown
38. Southwood plantation Road
39. This Magic Moment*
40. This Year

EDIT: Solo sets

In terms of sheer variation, Beat the Champ tour is the winner: 61 different songs, 24 of which were pre-Tallahassee. However, it's also the leader in a less impressive (to hardcore fans) category: number of covers. JD did 10 different covers on this tour.

The Transcendental Youth tour had only 46 different songs, 21 of which were pre-Tallahassee. A better percentage of old ones, but less variety overall. Only 4 covers during this tour. (This tour also occasionally had a JD/PPH duo song before the solo set. The song was always either Dance Music, It Froze Me, or Jenny).

All Eternals Deck: 44 different songs, a whopping 32 of which were pre-Tallahassee. I'm not sure what was going on during that tour but that's the most impressive one yet. Even the 3 covers (The Sign, One Fine Day, and Doctor Wu) are tMG oldies. (JD would also perform a song solo with Yuval Semo during this tour; it was either Outer Scorpion Squadron or Tyler Lambert's Grave).

(Solo sets are more variable and therefore more susceptible to the total number of shows. The AED tour had three less shows than BTC, and four less than TY, and several of the shows that we do have setlists for are incomplete—it's no surprise it comes in last in terms of amount of songs.)

Solo, BTC

1. Absolute lithops*
2. Alpha in tauris*
3. Alpha omega*
4. Attention pickpockets
5. baboon
6. Beyond the beyond***
7. Billy the kid*
8. Black pear tree
9. Cotton
10. Cubs in five*
11. Damn these
12. Dance music
13. Dark as a dungeon***
14. Deuteronomy
15. Distant stations*
16. Friend of the devil***
17. From tg&y
18. Genesis 19*
19. Going to Norwalk*
20. Going to Queens*
21. Good morning vultures
22. Have to explode
23. Heel turn
24. Heights*
25. Home on the range***
26. In memory of satan
27. Isaiah 
28. Island garden*
29. Jam eater*
30. Linda blair was born
31. Mamas don’t ‘let***
32. Maybe sprout wings
33. Minnesota*
34. New Britain*
35. Nine black poppies*
36. Noche del guajalote*
37. passaic
38. Poltergeist*
39. Raja vocative*
40. Ripple***
41. Shot in the dark***
42. Song for black sabbath
43. Song for Julian*
44. Song for stepfather
45. St Stephen***
46. Store*
47. Straight six*
48. Steal smoked fish
49. Tall tall trees***
50. tallahassee
51. Thank you mario
52. There will be no divorce*
53. Tribe of the horned
54. Unmasked
55. Until I am whole
56. Waving at you*
57. Weekend in western ill*
58. White cedar
59. Willin***
60. Woke up new
61. You were cool

Solo, TY

1. absolute lithops*
2. alpha rats nest
3. attention picpockets
4. autoclave
5. baboon*
6. black pear tree
7. bluejays*
8. boys are back***
9. bride
10. Civilian***
11. Color in your cheeks*
12. cotton
13. Dark as a dungeon***
14. Day the aliens came
15. Downtown seoul*
16. Fall of the star*
17. From tg&y
18. Going to port WA*
19. Hello old rabbit*
20. In the shadow of the
21. Jaipur*
22. Jam eater*
23. Jeff davis*
24. Last day of jimi Hendrix*
25. Linda blair
26. Mess inside*
27. Minnesota*
28. Ox baker
29. Peacocks
30. Ripple***
31. Rotten mouthpiece
32. Sax rohmer
33. Shadow song*
34. So desperate
35. Song for an old friend*
36. Song for Julian*
37. Song for my step
38. Source decay*
39. Steal smoked fish
40. Thank you mario
41. There will be no*
42. Twin human*
43. Woke up new
44. You were cool
45. You or memory
46. You’re in maya*

Solo, AED

1. 1.     Alpha incipiens*
2. 2.     Alpha omega*
3. 3.     Alphonse mambo*
4. 4.     Baboon*
5. 5.     Bad priestess*
6. 6.     Black molly*
7. 7.     Cheshire county*
8. 8.     Color in your cheeks*
9. 9.     Cubs in five*
10. 10. Day the aliens came
11. 11. Dilaudid
12. 12. Doctor wu*****
13. 13. Going to Cleveland*
14. 14. Going to Jamaica*
15. 15. Going to port Washington*
16. 16. Golden boy*
17. 17. Grendel’s mother*
18. 18. High hawk season
19. 19. If you see light
20. 20. It froze me*
21. 21. Island garden*
22. 22. Jenny*
23. 23. Love love love
24. 24. Maize stalk drinking blood*
25. 25. Matthew 25:21
26. 26. My favorite things*
27. 27. Narakaloka*
28. 28. New zion
29. 29. One fine day*****
30. 30. Orange ball of hate*
31. 31. Raid on Entebbe*
32. 32. Raja vocative*
33. 33. Shower*
34. 34. Sign*****
35. 35. Sinaloan milk snake*
36. 36. Song for an old friend*
37. 37. Song for dana plato*
38. 38. Song for my stepfather
39. 39. There will be no divorce*
40. 40. Torch song*
41. 41. Up the wolves
42. 42. woke up new
43. 43. you were cool
44. 44. you or your memory