No one here is a sheep. Whether you say something positive or negative, your opinion is your own.
My reason for 'complaining' about the stagnant setlist is as follows:
I understand that the band is not Pearl Jam, nor are they Springsteen (bands who elect to play a wide range of their songs (even when they are not perfectly rehearsed) on varying nights, with varying setlists amongst the nights), and I do understand some of the logic behind having the same setlist night in and night out, I just simply do not agree with this logic.
I base this on the fact that I am a long time fan. The problem with being a long time fan of this band is that we have to deal with the idea that the band is always trying to gain younger fans and audiences. Now this is a good thing for a band, but when you have been listening to them for over 20 years, and have been going to their concerts for that long, there is quite a lot of repetition.
Here is an example:
The first time I heard Where the Streets Have No Name live was on September 14, 1987 in Giants Stadium. Since that date (18 years ago) The band has played that song at every single show I have been to in every city I have seen them.
Yes, it is a hit, but at some point I would assume the band would get bored of playing it, and if not that, they might think that some of their longstanding fans might get bored of seeing it. And if not bored, more interested in hearing a different song that they may have fallen in love with 1, 5, or 20 years ago.
The problem that I find is that that song is only one of about 5 or so songs that I can apply this to (Pride, One, Bullet the Blue Sky, Sunday Bloody Sunday, I Still havent Found.) My main gripe, and believe me, it is not such an important gripe in the scheme of things, hey I am still buying tickets, and still going, is that those songs are not necessarily the reason why I fell in love with this band. I like their music as a whole, not a group of 5-10 songs that they bring out on tour every 4 years.
One of my highlights of this tour is being able to see An Cat Dubh live. I never thought in a million years I would ever get to see the band play that song live. It was amazing. But in all honesty 90% of the people in the arena did not know the song, so I can see why the band is hesitant to pull out the rarities. I just think it is too bad they feel like they always have to play all their hits at every show.
I think by taking a Pearl Jam approach to touring it would make this band such a more dynamic being. They want to keep it exciting, they want to keep it fresh, well a couple of lights, or a new LED screen are not going to do it (and coming from a strage design geek, that is hard to say, trust me) I think a greater rotation of songs would not only squelch the complainers here, would even boost those who are now in total admiration of this band.
I think some of the hard feelings that come out here are because we do love the band, but we also love each other's input on this board. That is why we come here - we read each other's opinons, jokes, ideas, etc.
Now a setlist is only a list of songs written on a piece of paper and before the 'net the only way to track what bands had played was to steal the setlist off the stage, correspond with friends who went to the shows, or read it in the paper. Times have changed, and I feel like the element of surprise is gone in tours today. There is a good chance a fan is going to read about what the band has played at their shows, and unfortunately knows what i scoming up at their show (to about an 85% certainty.) This is why so many complaints came out about last night's show, because it was shorter than most, and because we knew they had rehearsed (yet not played) some new songs. had we not known any of this, everyone would have thought it was a classic U2 show. But again, we knew more info than most going into it...
There are bands, however, that even if you read what they played on a Tuesday, you would not know what they would play on a Wednesday.
It adds some element of surprise, and for the fans of those bands it is great.
Unfortunately my heros are not in those bands...
I'd like to end this with an image I saw today that brought a smile to my face.
The early days of innocence:
Exactly what you have said has been said many times previously and its absolutely true. 
I don't know jimjam. You'd think playing Boy songs, Gloria, 40, Running to stand still, Zoo station, Who's gonna ride... and Miss Sarajevo would be enough to please everyone.
