Live performance statistics by tour

This page was last updated 18 Jan 2009. To send additions/corrections go to the contact page.

This page gives calculated estimates for the number of live performances of each song based on the known set lists.
For details (and abbreviations used) see the explanatory notes at the bottom of this page.

Based on 418 set lists representing a total of 1117 concerts

		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
	number of set lists:	12	14	5	3	18	8	6	16	2	13	6	14	33	11	5	43	3	7	73	2	18	23	16	67
	total no. of concerts:	62	103	37	38	86	51	9	78	2	68	27	57	77	52	8	63	3	7	98	4	49	25	26	87
LS	One More Time	47	74	22		67		9	78				49			6	50		7	64			25	26	84
LS	Sunday Papers	57	66	7		81	19		78										7	95
LS	Is She Really Going Out With Him?	62	88	37		76	51				68			77	52		63	3	7	97	4	49	25	26	87
LS	Happy Loving Couples	57	29
LS	Throw It Away	52	15																	15
LS	Baby Stick Around	57	29
LS	Look Sharp!	52	59	37		86							29						7	86
LS	Fools In Love	52	15			43		6	44			27	37			8	25			50					25
LS	(Do The) Instant Mash		7
LS	Pretty Girls	47
LS	Got The Time	52	44	30		33						27	53	77			63		6	95		19
cov	Come On	41	7
cov	Pressure Drop	36	15
cov	Ain't That A Shame	47	7
cov	Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries	16
cov	I Can't Give You Anything		22
IM	On Your Radio	10	66	37		81			68										7	50		16	25	26	82
IM	Geraldine And John	21	29
IM	Kinda Kute	26	52	15
IM	It's Different For Girls	21	37	15		57	38		78		47	27	53	77	52	8	60	3	7	70	4	46	25	26	86
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
IM	I'm The Man	52	103	37		53	6	9	73		68	27	49	77					7	98
IM	The Band Wore Blue Shirts		7
IM	Don't Wanna Be Like That	5	103	37				9	44											54
IM	Amateur Hour		15
IM	Get That Girl	5	15
IM	Friday	36	96	37		33					31									30
na	Out Of Style	5	29
na	The Harder They Come	5	59	22
BC	Beat Crazy		29	37		67														68
BC	One To One		7	22		5
BC	The Evil Eye		7	22
BC	Mad At You		22	22
BC	Crime Don't Pay	5	29	7
BC	Someone Up There			15
BC	Biology		7	22																7
BC	Pretty Boys		29	22
BC	Fit		22	30
na	Enough Is Not Enough		7
JU	Jumpin' With Symphony Sid				38						5
JU	Jack, You're Dead				38				63
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
JU	Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby				25		19
JU	We The Cats (Shall Hep Ya)				38
JU	San Francisco Fan				38
JU	Five Guys Named Moe				38
JU	Jumpin' Jive				38		32		73		52
JU	You Run Your Mouth (And I'll Run My Business)				25
JU	What's The Use Of Getting Sober				38			3	68		47	5		12											1
JU	You're My Meat				38
JU	Tuxedo Junction				38	57			5
JU	How Long Must I Wait For You				38
na	Knock Me A Kiss				13
cov	Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out				38
cov	Minnie The Moocher				38
cov	Stompin' At The Savoy				38
cov	Texas And Pacific				25
ND	Another World					72	51		20			18	49	77		5	63						25	26	22
ND	Chinatown					14		2	59				12	77			15							21	39
ND	T.V. Age					72	51
ND	Target					76											63
ND	Steppin' Out					86	51		78		68	27	53	77	52	6	63	3		82	2	49	25	26	87
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
ND	Breaking Us In Two					62	38	8	68		52			77			50								10
ND	Cancer					53			68								9	3					11	10	26
ND	Real Men					62	6						41	77	52	2	53	3	4	51	4	33	8	2	29
ND	A Slow Song					76	45				68	18	49		47	8	63			17			25	26	87
cov	I'm Gonna Make You Love Me					48
cov	(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave					48
cov	Tears Of A Clown					48
cov	Uptight (Everything's Alright)					48
cov	How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)					48
MM	Cosmopolitan					5
MM	Memphis						51
MM	Moonlight					5
BS	The Verdict						51
BS	Cha Cha Loco					10	51				37
BS	Not Here, Not Now						13				10	5		14			10							5	17
BS	You Can't Get What You Want						51	9	78		68		24	77	52	8	60						25	26	84
BS	Go For It						51
BS	Happy Ending						32
BS	Be My Number Two						32		68						52	8	62	3	7	47	4	30		3	21
BS	Heart Of Ice						51
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
cov	Body And Soul						45
cov	Soul Makossa						45
BW	Wild West							9	78					9
BW	Right And Wrong							9	73		68	27	49							8
BW	(It's A) Big World							9	68
BW	Precious Time							8
BW	Tonight And Forever							8	73
BW	Shanghai Sky							5	78
BW	Fifty Dollar Love Affair							5	24		10		16
BW	We Can't Live Together							6			5			5		2
BW	Forty Years							3	54
BW	Survival							5	78
BW	Soul Kiss							8	78
BW	The Jet Set							9	68		63
BW	Tango Atlantico							3	10					16
BW	Home Town							6	78		52	5	12	77	43	5	53	3	6	47	4	49	25		22
BW	Man In The Street							5	73
WP	No Pasaran									2
WP	Solitude									2
WP	Will Power									2
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
WP	Nocturne									2
WP	Symphony In One Movement									2
BG	Tomorrow's World										68
BG	Me And You (Against The World)										68
BG	Down To London										68	5	12	44		8	6			31
BG	Sentimental Thing										47
BG	Acropolis Now								39		37
BG	Blaze Of Glory										68	23				2	32			23					5
BG	Rant And Rave										68	27	57
BG	Nineteen Forever										68	27	57	28	47	3	16
BG	The Best I Can Do										68
BG	Evil Empire										37
BG	Discipline										37
BG	The Human Touch										37				9
cov	Take The 'A' Train										47
cov	You Can't Do That											18
LL	Obvious Song											27	53			8				32		33	4	2	19
LL	Goin' Downtown											27	37			3							12	10	39
LL	Stranger Than Fiction											27	49	75	14	5	42		4						29
LL	Oh Well											27	57
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
LL	Jamie G.											27	57			2				11
LL	Hit Single												16
LL	It's All Too Much											5	12
LL	When You're Not Around											23	20
LL	The Other Me											9	53	33	38			3				19
LL	Trying To Cry											5	4
LL	My House											14	12
LL	The Old Songs											14
LL	Drowning											18				2	7	3		3		8
NM	Ever After													75	9
NM	Nocturne No. 2													77
NM	The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy													77	43		3	3
NM	Lullaby													16
NM	Only The Future													77
NM	Nocturne No. 4													75
NM	Sea Of Secrets													77		2		2
HH	Prelude														52
HH	More Is More														52
HH	Angel														52
HH	Tuzla														52
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
HH	A Bud And A Slice														52
HH	Right														52
HH	The Bridge														47
HH	Song Of Deadalus														47
cov	Eleanor Rigby														52	3	9	1	1			3
cov	Drive-In Saturday															3	3	1
cov	You Can't Be Too Strong															2	13	1	2	4
cov	Mood Indigo															3
cov	For Your Love															6				43					23
cov	Any Major Dude Will Tell You															5	10	1	1	11				2
na	Drunk Song															6							21	5
cov	Karma Police															3
cov	King Of The World															6
cov	Senses Working Overtime															3
cov	Life On Mars															3		1	1			3	1
cov	Don't Get Around Much Anymore															3							10	16	32
cov	Over The Rainbow															2
cov	The In Crowd															5	6
cov	Junkie Girl															2
cov	Summer In The City															3
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
cov	Satin Doll															3	3	2	1
cov	Heroes															2	10
ND2	Prelude																63
ND2	Hell Of A Town																63
ND2	Stranger Than You																63	3	3	1
ND2	Glamour And Pain															5	63
ND2	Dear Mom															5	10
ND2	Love Got Lost															6	63	3
ND2	Just Because�																63
ND2	Happyland																40
ND2	Stay															6	63
cov	Reeling' In The Years																35								12
cov	For No One																41	2	1
V4	Take It Like A Man																		7	97	2	49	25	7	19
V4	Still Alive																		3	24					8
V4	Awkward Age																		5	97	4	46	7	2	14
V4	Chrome																		4	32					1
V4	Love At First Light																		4	89	2	49	11
V4	Fairy Dust																		7	83
V4	Little Bit Stupid																		7	64
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
V4	Blue Flame															3	1	1	3	9
V4	Dirty Martini																		3	35			17	13	19
V4	Thugz 'R' Us																		4	31
V4	Bright Grey																		3	26
cov	The Mayor Of Simpleton																			13
cov	Girl																			36	4	11	2	2	1
cov	I Feel Possessed																			12					3
cov	Don't Ask Why																			1
na	In 20-0-3																				2
cov	While My Guitar Gently Weeps																					46
na	Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend?																					22	2
cov	Inbetweenies																						10	2	5
cov	Rose Darling																						3
cov	Dirty Love																						11	8	8
na	Sunglasses In The Rain																						9
cov	I'm Looking Through You																							3
RN	Invisible Man																						24	8	60
RN	Too Tough																			4			22	13	45
RN	Citizen Sane																					46	25	20	29
RN	Wasted Time																							15	44
		LST	IMT	BCT	JUT	NDT	BST	BWW	BWT	WPC	BGT	LLW	LLT	NMT	HHT	C99	ND2T	ND2a	V4W	V4T	C04	TwTR	JJTT	T07	RNT
RN	The Uptown Train																							21	77
RN	King Pleasure Time																							20	55
RN	Solo (So Low)																							26	86
RN	Rush Across The Road																						13	7	38
RN	Good Bad Boy																							18	43
RN	A Place In The Rain																							5	57
cov	Scary Monsters																								40
cov	Knowing Me, Knowing You																								18
cov	Caravan																								9
cov	Frank & Ava																								3
cov	Yeh Yeh																								3

The following songs were never played in concert:

From Beat Crazy: "In Every Dream Home (A Nightmare)"; "Battleground"
From Mike's Murder: "1-2-3 Go! (This Town's A Fairground)"; "Laundromat Monday"; "Zémio"; "Breakdown"; "Moonlight Theme"
From Body And Soul: "Loisaida" (only played from tape)
From Tucker: everything
From Night Music: "Nocturne No. 1"; "Flying" (only played from tape); "Nocturne No. 3"
From Symphony No. 1: everything

Explanatory notes:

These statistics cover Joe's concerts from the start of the Look Sharp! Tour (1979) to the end of the Rain Tour (2008).
They do neither cover the early concerts before the release of Look Sharp! (because no set list is available) nor live performances on radio and TV.
If a song was played twice for any reason during a concert (e.g. the reprise of "Uptight" in the Motown Medley) it is counted here only once.
If two songs were played as a medley (e.g. Fools In Love/For Your Love) they are both counted.
The true numbers could of course be higher or lower because the known set lists might not be representative of all concerts of a tour and because for some tours the total number of dates is unknown.

The following tour abbreviations are used:

LST = Look Sharp Tour in 1979
IMT = I'm The Man Tour in 1979/80
BCT = Beat Crazy Tour in 1980
JUT = Jumpin' Jive Tour in 1981
NDT = Night And Day Tour in 1982/83
BST = Body And Soul Tour in 1984
BWW = The 'warm-up' concerts of the Big World Tour in 1985/86
BWT = Big World Tour 'proper' in 1986
WPC = The 'Will Power' concerts, i.e. the two concerts outside touring in 1988
BGT = Blaze Of Glory Tour in 1989
LLW = The 'warm-up' concerts of the Laughter & Lust Tour in 1990
LLT = Laughter & Lust Tour 'proper' in 1991
NMT = Night Music Tour in 1994/95
HHT = Heaven & Hell Tour 1997/98
C99 = The eight concerts outside touring in 1999
ND2T = Night And Day II Tour in 2000/01, except the three acoustic shows
ND2a = The three acoustic shows of the Night And Day II Tour in 2001
V4W = The 'warm-up' concerts of the Volume 4 Tour in 2002
V4T = Volume 4 Tour 'proper' in 2003
C04 = The four concerts outside touring in 2004
TwTR = Tour with Todd Rundgren in 2005, including the concert in Aug 2004
JJTT = Joe Jackson Trio Tour 2006
T07 = Tour 2007
RNT = Rain Tour 2008