# How many songs are in a rock band's repertoire?

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**Created:** [November 25, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-are-in-a-rock-bands-repertoire/674718 "2013-11-25T00:34:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-are-in-a-rock-bands-repertoire/674718/21 "2013-12-28T19:56:53Z")

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> [@DChord568](#):
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> A few thoughts:
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> 1. I’m always disappointed when a name act performs the same set night after night on tour. I know this was less of an issue in the pre-internet days, before set lists and videos were posted for every gig. But I would think it would get boring after awhile, especially on a lengthier tour, for the musicians themselves. I know Neil Young, who has a much larger body of work to choose from than most, will sometimes introduce variations from night to night, but even he falls back on fairly regular sets in the course of a tour. If I had that many songs to choose from, I would delight in shaking things up from night-to-night, and especially in surprising my fans by pulling out old and rarely heard tunes.

I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing Young live, but I’ve seen quite a few of his set lists and they never seem particularly set in regular classics. He pulls out random ones from his repertoire a lot. There are always a few of course, but lots less than I’d expect.

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