The unofficial, oddly-specific Hella Mega Tour set list request list

I will continue to campaign for Weezer to play “Peace” from Make Believe until the day that I die.

I will continue to campaign for Weezer to play “Peace” from Make Believe until the day that I die.

Oddly muscular centaur-minotaur-unicorn hybrids aside, we’ve got a whopper of a 2000s nostalgia tour coming our way in 2020. The Harley-Davidson Hella Mega Tour sponsored by Harley-Davidson (brought to us by the good people at Harley-Davidson) is set to send Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy to a city near you in the coming months.

After a few dates in Europe, Hella Mega is slated to come stateside beginning with a July 17 show in Seattle.

In preparation for this gargantuan occasion, we pumped out a mixtape draft over the holidays to take a few stabs at what we’d like to see some of our favorite bands play while on tour. (You can find the Apple Music playlist embedded at the bottom of this article, and you glorious Spotify users can click or tap here to find the playlist for yourself.)

So here’s what we’re hoping for:

WEEZER

I’ll keep this short: Weezer is the best band. Of all the bands. I love them. I’ve seen them six times, twice on the Memories Tour (including the Vegas show where they played those Pinkerton B-sides.) BUT. But. I haven’t seen them play “Peace” from Make Believe, which is one of my favorite tracks. My new life mission is to watch them play this song live, and so I’m using this platform to call for exactly that (among other things).

  • Peace, Make Believe

  • Eulogy for a Rock Band, EWBAITE

  • Across the Sea, Pinkerton

  • Troublemaker, Red

  • El Scorcho, Pinkerton

  • Hash Pipe, Green

  • Buddy Holly, Blue

  • Africa, Teal

GREEN DAY

The Green Day requests are pretty simple: play “Dookie” in its entirety. If this isn’t part of the plan, then just squeak “Whatsername” from American Idiot into the setlist by any means necessary. Gen Y was a little took young to toke ganja and sink into themselves while listening to “Brain Stew” when it was released, so just know that “Whatsername” is fucking important to a generation of Green Day fans and let us have it.

But again, and I say this sentence a lot, give me as much “Dookie” as possible, please.

  • She, Dookie

  • Basket Case, Dookie

  • Pulling Teeth, Dookie

  • Macy’s Day Parade, Warning

  • Whatsername, American Idiot

  • Brain Stew, Insomniac

FALL OUT BOY

New Year’s resolution: 2020 will be the year I embrace “Infinity On High” as a third very good Fall Out Boy record. What and/or who am I running from? Open the set with “Thriller” and pump “Hum Hallelujah” into my mother friggin’ veins.

Additionally, I couldn’t throw together a list of Fall Out Boy requests without asking them to go heavy on the first two albums, sneaking in “Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year’ in particular. That may be my favorite FOB tune if I’m being 100 percent honest with myself. Truth be told, whenever I spell the word “believe” even deep into adulthood I instinctively recall the line “the best part of believe is the lie,” so there you go.

  • Thriller, Infinity On High

  • Hum Hallelujah, Infinity On High

  • Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year, Cork Tree

  • Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner, Cork Tree

  • Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down, Cork Tree

So, there you go. There’s obviously plenty to choose from, but these are just some of our favorites. What do you want to hear? Reach out on Twitter @_ReminiscentFM

-stream or download our ‘Hella Mega Mixtape Draft’ episode below-