2009/10 - The return of The Unforgettable Fire

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Unforgettable Fire and Wire please.

plus "A Sort Of Homecoming", yep

 

[Hawkfire]

Agree with Blue Room that it is unlikely to return. Also feel that it is one of the few U2 songs better in studio than live, perhaps due to the heavy reliance on sequencers in concert. Moreover, as has been noted, Bono would be unlikely to be able to pull this one off without dropping the key. So probably not a winning combination.

What will we hear instead? I'd venture One, Streets, Beautiful Day, Vertigo, perfunctory versions of SBS, Pride, Bullet, maybe I Will Follow, NYD, Mysterious Ways, Elevation, Sometimes. With a stadium show, expect U2 to play it even safer than their arena setlists. Any semi-obscure track or non-radio song threatens a mass exodus bathroom break (like Miracle Drug was in 2005).

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Also feel that it is one of the few U2 songs better in studio than live, perhaps due to the heavy reliance on sequencers in concert.

if this counts, then U2 have to cancel their tour asap. Haven't heard as many sequencers lately as in U2's current live versions from NLOTH ... Give a live airing of "The Unforgettable Fire" a chance, Bono will sing it fine ...

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

YouTube - U2 - The Unforgettable Fire - Live, Paris July 4, 1987

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

fingers crossed for this to make a return

 

[edgeplaytheblue]

make a website u2-play-unforgettable-fire.com

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

make a website u2-play-unforgettable-fire.com

Even better than us making a website, would be U2 simply performing this song ...

 

[AndrewCowley]

Would dearly love UF to return. Like a lot of their songs, U2 have criminally dust-binned it over the years.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Would dearly love UF to return. Like a lot of their songs, U2 have criminally dust-binned it over the years.

They did not chose the tunes, because a) they felt, these tunes would not fit; b) they didn't want to; c) they didn't care as much as we do, which 'old songs' are to be performed ...but after 20 years, it really is time for the beautiful title track of "The Unforgettable Fire" to be performed again ...C'mon, folks, you can't kill poetry ...

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Anybody else here requesting for the long overdue live comeback of the awesome track "The Unforgettable Fire?"?

 

[Hammer269]

Ab ins Bett, aber schnell!!!

 

[TheEdge1987]

Yes im in, please play it boys!

 

[digitize]

I never thought that TUF sounded very good live - but who knows... it could sound better if they played it now with their arsenal of effects and sequencers.

Now ASOH... that's another story.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Yes im in, please play it boys!

 

[the edges plec]

Me too

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Me too

 

[powerhour24]

Magnificent is the modern U2 cousin of ASOH, it'd be cool to see them in connection, but yes I think its time for some love of UF fire tracks, as well as some October and Zooropa.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

Magnificent is the modern U2 cousin of ASOH, it'd be cool to see them in connection, but yes I think its time for some love of UF fire tracks, as well as some October and Zooropa.

 

[YBORCITY]

This is one of those oldies that is very likely to return. And I'm rooting for Ultra Violet as well.

INDEED

How great would Promenade into Bad into TUF into ASOH be?

I know it will never happen

 

[rastacruz]

MLK > Unforgettable Fire > Exit

it worked in '87. it can work again!

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

MLK > Unforgettable Fire > Exit

it worked in '87. it can work again!

 

[U2C]

i'll think that's TUF is not possible to play on the next tour,
asohc is a big chance that they will play it

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my U2 360 tour shows:

11-07-2009 Paris (GA)
12-07-2009 Paris (seats)
21-07-2009 Amsterdam (seats)
03-08-2009 Gelsenkirchen (GA)
14-08-2009 London (GA)
20-09-2009 Boston MA (GA)
21-09-2009 Boston MA (seats)
24-09-2009 East Rutherford NJ (seats)

 

[d.darroch]

you've got my vote. Give us UF!

While you're at it, give us Bad , ASOH, Promenade ... & why not MLK too.

Now you've got me itching to go & listen to UF, haven't heard it in a while, & it's probably my favourite album.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

you've got my vote. Give us UF!

While you're at it, give us Bad , ASOH, Promenade ... & why not MLK too.

Now you've got me itching to go & listen to UF, haven't heard it in a while, & it's probably my favourite album.

 

[Pero]

when will the sound checking begin?

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

when will the sound checking begin?

For this very tune – as soon as possible

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

 

[TheEdge1987]

I would back the return of The UF.

 

[Gonna Run 2 U]

I could very well hear The Unforgettable Fire sequencer coming in right after Moment Of Surrender

 

[adypole]

Not the biggest unforgettable fan, but MLK into moment of surrender would be utterly sublime. actually, make that, ultraviolet into MLK into moment of surrender.


I'd further dig some pop. that'd fit nicely with the claw methinks.