prbiker15
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A Beck remix...I'm intrigued.
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Hewson
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The title concerns me, makes it sound like its all about the free yourself lines.
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lazarus
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I’m intrigued. I’m not as high on the album version as some here, it’s fine, but doesn’t really take off until the end and it’s overall not strong enough for the #2 slot.
There was a time when this news would have made U2 look cooler, but sadly now it’s just one more thing that makes Beck look less cool, much like his support on the JT tour.
There was a time when this news would have made U2 look cooler, but sadly now it’s just one more thing that makes Beck look less cool, much like his support on the JT tour.
martha
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Did I forget who was opening for them this time around?
Hewson
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martha
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That would be nice again.
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Indeed. No opener will allow them to add one or two more snippets to the set
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lazarus
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One of their more unforgivable moves, charging the same price (or higher) for less music than usual, and not even making it up in their own set.
martha
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At least we don't have to sit through some shit band that Bono thinks is good.
Kieran McConville
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I'd sit through a shit band Bono thinks is good as long as it was a good shit band. Wait, that didn't make any sense. I mean I'd stay home. Which is what I've done for twenty years anyhow.
Joey788
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Very true! Though I’d also argue that U2’s selections are no better or worse than most openers. It’s a very hit-or-miss field, more misses than hits.
At least for 360, some shows had Muse or Florence and the Machine. But the JT 2017 tour openers were pretty poor.
cobl04
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I’ve been lucky in that four of the six shows I’ve seen have effectively been double bills: Kanye & Jay Z.
Lumineers opened in LA for JT and they were perfectly fine. I don’t like them but they’re totally inoffensive and their music does everything it needs to to get the crowd warmed up.
Lumineers opened in LA for JT and they were perfectly fine. I don’t like them but they’re totally inoffensive and their music does everything it needs to to get the crowd warmed up.
Popmartijn
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I don't think the JT 2017 Tour openers were that poor. Mumford & Sons was OK, for the one time I saw them. I liked Noel Gallagher too, he was a very good support act. And it would've been nice to have seen Beck.
Their 2009 shows were maybe not that special, but their 2011 shows in South America were excellent.
LuckyNumber7
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It's really hard to complain about U2 opening acts when they're all massive bands that people would pay to see perform on their own.
cobl04
45:33
It's not hard at all when some of them are really fucking shit and they could use their stature to give exposure to a great artist that would benefit from it.
I'd be furious if I had to stand through Muse or Mumford & Sons or One Republic or Black Eyed Peas.
And then there's Interpol...
I'd be furious if I had to stand through Muse or Mumford & Sons or One Republic or Black Eyed Peas.
And then there's Interpol...
LuckyNumber7
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I think U2 care equally about putting on a show as using their stature for another artist. And yet people still complain. You're "furious" about seeing those big acts, but not "furious" about Jay Z or Kanye because you classify those as two-for-ones where you just got lucky?
cobl04
45:33
Correct. because Kanye and Jay Z are good, whereas the ones that I mentioned are not.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Interpol is the only U2 opening act I legitimately enjoyed. Kings of Leon were trash and Lumineers were Ned Flanders music.
LuckyNumber7
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DaveC
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i hated kings of leon in 2005 and decided i wouldn't bother seeing a U2 opener ever again unless it was someone i already liked (i actually came to like a couple of their songs later on after hearing them off the album and not live, then they released that shitty over-played duo of "sex on fire" and "use somebody" and i remembered why i hated them so much at first). i missed the lumineers last time around and i'm not upset about that at all.
best opening lineup i ever saw was when sloan, kanye and alice cooper opened up for the rolling stones in a monsoon.
best opening lineup i ever saw was when sloan, kanye and alice cooper opened up for the rolling stones in a monsoon.
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Now you know how I felt having to stand through Kanye and Jay-Z.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
This is such a bizarre combination, I have to wonder if you dreamed or hallucinated this.
Like skittlebrau.
DaveC
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my friends and i were lit up like vegas on the fourth of july that day, but despite my fuzzy memories it did indeed happen:
50,000 get satisfaction as Rolling Stones rock Halifax - Entertainment - CBC News
LuckyNumber7
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50000 people don't fit in any Halifax venue or plot of space. I'm sorry but you imagined it all.
cobl04
45:33
not in Euclidean space
DaveC
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i guess i'll take the word of the rocket scientist who's really good with statistics.
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