If you enjoy Rock Band’s World Tour mode, eventually you’ll get around to the fabled Endless Setlist.

The Endless Setlist is a gig in Moscow. But not just any gig. This gig is 58 songs in length — that’s right, fifty-eight songs!

In order to complete this gig, you must play all 58 songs included with Rock Band — at medium difficulty or higher — without powering down your console or exiting from the gig.

Sure, any band can enter the Hall of Fame in World Tour. But few bands have the intestinal fortitude to complete the grueling Endless Setlist. It is the ultimate gig, the pinnacle of World Tour mode.

(Pro tip: be very, very careful when navigating the menus if your band foolishly chooses to embark upon the Endless Setlist! The disconnected controller menu is particularly dangerous since it contains only two menu items, one of which will exit you from the setlist. Also remember that the Xbox has a dashboard setting to automatically power off after some hours of inactivity. We kept our Xbox running overnight after completing 40 songs, so as to complete the rest in the morning, then woke up to find it had powered itself off. So we had to start over from the beginning, and our 58 song set was really more like a 98 song set. Sigh.)

What do you get for all that effort? A lot of cash (we got around $32,000), a few new fans, and an achievement:

	10	Vinyl Artist Finish the Endless Setlist in Band World Tour on Medium. requires 600 stars; play all 58 set songs, and the game cannot be saved, only paused thus “endless”
	20	Gold Artist Finish the Endless Setlist in Band World Tour on Hard.
	25	Platinum Artist Finish the Endless Setlist in Band World Tour on Expert.

You’ll get a nice message about how you’ve achieved Legendary Status and your in-game icons will be upgraded to a different (and cooler) visual style to represent the difficulty your band completed the endless setlist on — either platinum, gold, or vinyl.

Oh yes, and if the endless setlist is the last gig in Moscow, you’ll also get the “Big in Moscow” achievement for an additional 10 gamerpoints. And a crappy t-shirt of Rasputin for your character.

Our band Jooky! just completed the endless setlist on hard guitar and hard drums, and I reckon it takes about 4 1/2 hours in total if you don’t take any breaks. We did it in three sessions, with about an hour break in between.

The songs are mostly in difficulty order, but not quite. Here’s the actual Endless Setlist:

1. 29 Fingers
2. Say it Aint So
3. In Bloom
4. I Think I’m Paranoid
5. The Time we had
6. Mississippi Queen
7. Here It Goes Again
8. Creep
9. Blood Doll
10. Wave of Mutilation
11. Should I Stay or Should I Go
12. Maps
13. Gimme Shelter
14. Brainpower
15. Sabotage
16. Blitzkrieg Bop
17. Celebrity Skin
18. I’m So Sick
19. When We Were Young
20. Black Hole Sun
21. Wanted Dead or Alive
22. Learn to Fly
23. Seven
24. Orange Crush
25. Main Offender
26. The Hand That Feeds
27. Day Late, Dollar Short
28. Epic
29. Suffragette City
30. Ballroom Blitz
31. Dead On Arrival
32. Pleasure
33. Train Kept a Rollin
34. Are You Gonna Be My Girl
35. Paranoid
36. Timmy & the Lords of the Underworld
37. Welcome Home
38. Go With The Flow
39. Dani California
40. Nightmare
41. Don’t Fear the Reaper
42. Reptilia
43. Electric Version
44. Vasoline
45. Detroit Rock City
46. Can’t Let Go
47. Next to You
48. Cherub Rock
49. Tom Sawyer
50. Enter Sandman
51. Green Grass and High Tides
52. Outside
53. Highway Star
54. Foreplay/Long Time
55. Flirtin With Disaster
56. I Get By
57. Run To The Hills
58. Won’t Get Fooled Again

If you’re frightened after scrolling this far, you should be. It takes a special kind of crazy to complete the Endless Setlist.