gvox
Ghost of Love
ZooMacPhisto800:
Shut up.
Thanks.
Shut up.
Thanks.
ZooMacPhisto800:
Shut up.
Thanks.
Gvox,
Let's hear you summarize my point of view. Surely, you can give a timely, accurate rendition of my take if you have the gaul to label it illegitimate and call me "stubborn beyond reason and logic".
First post on this website but I enjoyed reading this thread. I'm more of the casual fan everyone is referring too. I started to like U2 around the time Beautiful Day came out and have been hooked since. I've been to see U2 once but try to download as many live shows as I can. I've already got tickets for the Charlottesville show in October. Personally when I go I wanna hear songs I've heard before and most of the hits. I wouldn't mind to hear one or two obscure songs, but too many of them and I wouldn't care for it. I go to sing along to songs, since I don't know all their songs by heart then I like them playing the big songs. Just my 2 cents
Funny part is, he thinks I don't see through it.
Womanfish
Acrobat
Three Sunrises
Bass Trap
White as Snow
Walk to the Water
Scarlet (*featuring The Edge as Lead Vocalist On The Cringeworthy Headset)
Womanfish Remix
A Room At the Heartbreak Hotel
Streets OR WOWY
Don't Take Your Guns To Town OR Drunken Chicken (because these two are the musical cousins of one another!)
Summer Rain
Levitate
Always
Pride OR Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Larry reads Wild Irish Rose (with a straight face) -
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Your Blue Room
Luminous Times
Magnificent OR Breate OR Moment of Surrender OR Crazy Tonight
Elvis Presley and America
Shadows and Tall Trees
A Man And A Woman
Cedars of Lebanon
- Adam recites 10 minute story of how he was the first manager of the band -
One
Pez: Being Boring
Is That All?
- Band does 2 rounds of Patron with the first row of the inner circle -
Bad OR Unforgettable Fire (no, you can't get two songs off the same amazing album, are you nuts?)
Miami
Womanfish (just in case noone understood it the first two times)
Discuss!
First post on this website but I enjoyed reading this thread. I'm more of the casual fan everyone is referring too. I started to like U2 around the time Beautiful Day came out and have been hooked since. I've been to see U2 once but try to download as many live shows as I can. I've already got tickets for the Charlottesville show in October. Personally when I go I wanna hear songs I've heard before and most of the hits. I wouldn't mind to hear one or two obscure songs, but too many of them and I wouldn't care for it. I go to sing along to songs, since I don't know all their songs by heart then I like them playing the big songs. Just my 2 cents
First post on this website but I enjoyed reading this thread. I'm more of the casual fan everyone is referring too. I started to like U2 around the time Beautiful Day came out and have been hooked since. I've been to see U2 once but try to download as many live shows as I can. I've already got tickets for the Charlottesville show in October. Personally when I go I wanna hear songs I've heard before and most of the hits. I wouldn't mind to hear one or two obscure songs, but too many of them and I wouldn't care for it. I go to sing along to songs, since I don't know all their songs by heart then I like them playing the big songs. Just my 2 cents
(but in actuality anyone who can read can just go back through his post and see right there in black and white his stance, but I think he forgets about that).
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this thread is a lame attempt to "mock" those who have legitimate gripes about U2's static setlist habit.
Wow, belittling and entirely misrepresenting the legitimate concerns of some...
It's not legitimate, you're just stubborn beyond reason and logic.
hey thanks for stopping in. It was a bit sarcastic and all
Let's be clear: we're not asking for Springsteen. We're not asking for spontaneous choices made mid-show. We're asking that U2 simply be prepared to mix it up more than songs 7-9 in the set (which is really all they've done so far) on a night to night basis. Half the "visual effects" are just videos of the band playing live. Why can't that be done for more songs? Is that hard to do, all of a sudden?
1. Magnificent
2. Get on Your Boots
3. No Line on the Horizon
4. Beautiful Day
5. New Year's Day
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
7. Discotheque
8. Breathe
9. Hawkmoon 269
10. Unknown Caller
11. The Unforgettable Fire
12. City of Blinding Lights
13. Fez - Being Born
14. Dirty Day
15. Please
16. MLK
17. Walk On
18. Moment of Surrender
19. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
20. The Fly
21. Until the End of the World
22. Where the Streets Have No Name
23. All I Want Is You
24. Bad
Would that be too much to ask? That was my proposed set for the first night. I think it has decent balance.
You have what 90,000 fans in such a venue? 4 members of the band. And how many setlist watchers in interference?
They all want to hear and see different songs. There will be no setlist that pleases some of you, period.
As a fellow Bill Hicks fan -- I agree with you in principle. They COULD pul it off. But imagine you weren't a U2 die hard -- imagine you went to see them with 10 people that only know the hits. They would rather hear With or Without You than Hawkmoon 269 (one of my favorites).
It's a weird mix. Springsteen seems to have 90% of his audience as die hards while U2 attracts die hards, but casual fans too.
What is the most varied they have been?
BVS,
I think this is what you have trouble grasping... that wasn't the only possible setlist that would do the trick... it was exemplary (it was an example). Who's to say a whole bunch of fans wouldn't get on board for such a (type of) setlist?
The Lovetown Tour was by far U2's most varied tour. In fact, probably their only varied tour, really. And the performances were spectacular.
I saw The Who play when I really only knew a few songs. And you know what? I loved a lot of stuff I wasn't familiar with and went back and looked it up. Because of that performance. I'm not interested in any band catering to casual fans by trotting out tired hits (One and WOWY being two prime examples of U2 playing hits that sound awful nowadays - WOWY has gotten to the point where I'm almost getting angry listening to it).
I think you have a problem grasping posts in general.
I did not quote any setlist, therefore I was not commenting on any setlist.
Try a little harder next time.
You have what 90,000 fans in such a venue? 4 members of the band. And how many setlist watchers in interference?
They all want to hear and see different songs. There will be no setlist that pleases some of you, period.
I probably would. That's a great part. That and Shine Like Stars really improve the song.